Tuesday, August 15, 2017

GOOGLE A GAGGLE OF LOONY LEFTIES


GOOGLE A GAGGLE OF LOONY LEFTIES


Most of the big, multi billion dollar tech corporations around today were started by geeks in America a few years ago. There was nothing special about these geeks except what they had between their ears. Few of them started off particularly wealthy. For the most part, they simply began fiddling with computers and electronics in their parents’ garages.

Most of these geeks were white males. To my knowledge, none of them received any special assistance from the Department of White Privilege or the Patriarchy.

Back in the eighties, fiddling with computers was all screwdrivers and coding. I knew a few geeks. They were all intelligent white males. Socially awkward perhaps, but smart. There were probably some girls somewhere who loved fiddling with computers but I never met one.

There are many things which girls like to do and do very well. There are many things which girls do much better than boys. Computer coding is apparently not one of them. It appears that African Americans and Hispanics are not big on computer coding either.

Women, African Americans and Hispanics are still markedly under-represented in the ranks of computer geeks in Silicon Valley today. The white male geeks who run the big tech companies are concerned about this.

Rather than worrying about making profits or providing a great service, they are devoting efforts to hiring fewer white males. They have teams of “Diversity Officers” who are working on ways to reduce the number of white males that the corporations employ.

The East Asians have been a great boon to these Diversity Officers. East Asians have a higher average IQ than whites. They have a particularly high mathematical IQ. Not surprisingly, they are greatly over-represented as computer programmers compared to their percentage in the population. Nobody is worried about this.

Blacks and Hispanics, who have lower average IQs than whites are under-represented as computer programmers. No-one can seem to figure out why this would be. The big companies are convinced that there is some “institutional racism and sexism” which is stopping Blacks, Hispanics and women from filling these prestigious roles (apparently, being a geek is prestigious these days).

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but the word “diversity” seems to have changed its meaning. It used to mean “increased difference” but in the context of race or gender, these days it just means fewer white males.

If a big tech corporation had a division which was entirely African American, would the Diversity Officer encourage them to replace some of the Black workers with White men to increase diversity? Of course not.

If the number of Hispanics in a corporation increased at the expense of women, would the company report an increase in diversity? Of course not. Diversity today, means less white heterosexual men.

I think I have mentioned this before; words are important. When people start changing the definition of words, you should be afraid. Be very afraid.

Corporations are now fully on board the diversity bandwagon. They have bought into the idea that more diversity means bigger profits. No-one has ever proved this. They seem to think however that if they keep repeating it, then eventually it is sure to come true.

Dogma may be great but it doesn’t make a search engine work or make an algorithm do whatever it is that algorithms do.

Geeks are logical people. Sooner or later they were bound to notice the illogical nature of this situation. Recently, a geek at Google looked up from his computer screen and did notice. He didn’t have much choice really.

Like everyone else at Google, he was being dragged from Diversity Training to more Diversity Training. Diversity Officers were sticking their noses into his coding and generally trying to make him feel guilty for keeping a transgender Congolese dwarf out of a high paying and prestigious job.

James Damore wasn’t originally a computer coder. He was hired after winning a coding competition convincingly. As far as I know, Google didn’t ask him his colour or gender before hiring him. He was purely hired on merit.

When he decided to question Google on their diversity programs, he did it extremely tactfully. He wrote a memo which was very logically laid out. All of his facts were referenced. All of his statements were carefully qualified. His conclusion was that Google might possibly have an unconscious bias and should consider at least listening to diverse opinions.

Google did listen to his opinion. They considered his advice carefully and then promptly proved him right by sacking him.

Despite my sympathy for the unfortunate Mr Damore, I actually see this as a positive. It highlights the left wing, anti-white, anti-male bias in large American corporations. These corporations have always been assumed by the left, to be bastions of the Right-wing, White Patriarchy.

This incident exposes the hypocrisy of these insidious programs and reveals their agenda. James Damon’s colour and gender weren’t the keys to privilege. They were more like a bomb chained round his neck, ready to be detonated any time he opened his mouth.

 

The greatest irony of this incident lies in the background of Sergey Brin (Sergey is Google’s co-founder and the current CEO of Google’s parent company, Alphabet Inc.

Brin was born in the Soviet Union. His father and grandfather were mathematics geniuses. They fled the Soviet Union because, as Jews, they were greatly restricted in what they were allowed to study.

According to Brin’s father, "the Communist Party heads barred Jews from upper professional ranks by denying them entry to universities, Jews were excluded from the physics department, in particular, at the prestigious Moscow State University, because Soviet leaders did not trust them with nuclear rocket research."

In stark contrast, America opened its arms to the Brin family. They were given citizenship and complete freedom. Sergey was able to study at Stanford, one of America’s most prestigious Universities.

He was also able to start a business and to become one of the wealthiest and most powerful people in the world. I don’t think Americans expected gratitude from Brin. I’m pretty sure however, that they wouldn’t have expected him to turn on them this way.

Sergey Brin should understand what discrimination is. His family fled from it. If he thinks that white Christian people have some kind of unfair advantage, some special kind of “White Privilege” then how does he explain his own “rags to riches” story.

The Brin family were from the Soviet Union, America’s number one enemy at the time. They were Jewish, they were “other.” Despite this, Sergey powered from the bottom of the ladder to the very top in just a few years.

Yet now he is there, he seems to believe that America is a nation plagued with discrimination? Sergey is determined to stamp out the barriers to migrant success which did so little to limit his own meteoric rise.

This decision looks particularly odious in light of the recent decision by Google subsidiary, YouTube, to partner with the ADL (formerly known as “the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith). to censor hate speech (read “opinions they don’t like”). We all know what they mean by “hate speech.” It will be anything to the right of Noam Chomsky.

The ADL is an advocacy and lobbying organisation for a particular ethnic and religious group. Whilst they may not be burning crosses on people’s lawns, they have a commitment to free speech like Miley Cyrus has a commitment to modesty.

Google has become the world’s information gateway. For Sergey Brin to be installing the head of an ethnic advocacy group as gatekeeper to the world’s information is entirely inappropriate.

The people I feel particularly sorry for are the ordinary Jews of the Western World. I know that this situation will set people off. Once again, there will be a cry going up that “the Jews” are all to blame.

I won’t be blaming “the Jews” for the actions of Sergey Brin any more than I expect people to blame me for the actions of Sarah Hanson-young. Let me tell you, “the Christians” are not much better. I posted this memo on facebook and a Catholic friend told me she was glad that this poor guy lost his job.

I have worked with a number of Jewish people who are fighting for an end to mass third world immigration and ridiculous political correctness.

There are some extremely high-profile Jews such as Avi Yemeni, Ben Shapiro and Milo Yianopolis who are very active against these crazy policies. I was recently invited on to the excellent “Nothing Left” Jewish internet radio channel in Melbourne which, as the name suggests, is totally opposed to the leftist agenda.

I believe however, that Brin and his corporation are involved in appalling discrimination and stifling of dissent. They are also becoming steadily more active in the destruction of free speech and of ideological freedom worldwide. I believe that what they are doing is evil and that silence is consent

Harry Richardson


Harry Richardson is a long-time student of Islam and author of best seller, "the Story Of Mohammed - Islam Unveiled', http://thestoryofmohammed.blogspot.com.au

 

Monday, August 14, 2017

Kerry B. Collison Asia News: "Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi" ‘When ...

Kerry B. Collison Asia News: "Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi" ‘When ...: "Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi" ‘When Indonesia and Australia Again Go to War’ Author: Kerry B. Collison   ...

"Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi" ‘When Indonesia and Australia Again Go to War’


"Rockefeller and the Demise of Ibu Pertiwi" ‘When Indonesia and Australia Again Go to War’

Author: Kerry B. Collison

 

ISBN-10:1-921030-98-4

ISBN-13:978-1-921030-98-7

RRP $24.95

Release Date 9th October 2017

 

Sid Harta Publishers Melbourne Australia

Distributed by Dennis Jones & Associates

 

 

In 1961 and one month following the disappearance of Michael C. Rockefeller off the southern coast of what was then known as Dutch Western New Guinea, Indonesia invaded, annexed and commenced the systematic slaughter of indigenous Papuans, to pave the way for a massive wave of transmigrated Javanese.

 

With the meteoric rise of the new powerhouses China and India, Indonesian-occupied West Papua’s wealth of oil, gas and minerals precipitates an international power-play for control over the vast, untapped natural resources.

 

Decades have passed since the twenty-three-year-old Rockefeller disappeared – long presumed dead, when sightings of the heir are widely reported.

 

Demands for West Papuan independence gains momentum and Australia is again drawn into military conflict with the Indonesian Motherland, “Ibu Pertiwi”.

 


 

The book can be ordered through any bookstore by mentioning Dennis Jones & Associates, Bayswater as the distributors.

Copies will also be available online and eBook platforms.

 


Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Indonesia awaits US report on slain corruption wit...

Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Indonesia awaits US report on slain corruption wit...: Indonesia awaits US report on slain corruption witness – is this the long arm of Indonesia’s BIN secret service in play here? Busines...

Indonesia awaits US report on slain corruption witness – is this the long arm of Indonesia’s BIN secret service in play here?


Indonesia awaits US report on slain corruption witness – is this the long arm of Indonesia’s BIN secret service in play here?

Businessman killed in Los Angeles had been due to give evidence against politicians in graft case

Anti-corruption investigators are waiting to hear from U.S. police about the death of a key witness. Businessman Johannes Marliem was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday.

He was a witness in a multi-million-dollar corruption case involving senior politicians, including Parliamentary Speaker Setya Novanto, who also leads Indonesia's second-biggest political party Golkar.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir told Anadolu Agency that it was waiting for police in California to deliver information about Marliem’s death.

“The party that has the right to decide is the U.S. police,” he said. “We are waiting for information from them.”

Saut Situmorang, deputy head of the Corruption Eradication Commission, said Marliem’s ​​death was important “because he has something to do with the case we are dealing with.”

Marliem was the director of Biomorf, a U.S.-based biometrics company, that was awarded the contract to supply an automated fingerprint system for a national electronic ID card program launched in 2011.

According to investigators, around half of the project’s 5.8 trillion Indonesian rupiah ($434 million) budget was divided between 37 suspects, including Novanto and 23 other members of the House of Representatives.

 

 Fear for life

The scam is said to have cost the state around $190 million in losses.

Novanto was described by U.S. President Donald Trump as “one of the powerful men and a great man” during a news conference at Trump Tower during his presidential campaign.

He was temporarily forced to step down over corruption allegations in 2015 after he was heard seeking a $4 billion payment from a U.S. mining company.

Prosecutors have revealed that Marliem paid a $200,000 as a bribe to Sugiharto, a former senior Home Ministry official who has been jailed for five years in the case.

Alongside Novanto, two former high-ranking members of the then ruling Democratic Party, Anas Urbaningrum and Muhammad Nazaruddin, have also been named as key suspects in the case. It is believed they may have influenced lawmakers to pass the project’s budget.

Days before his death, Marliem had told the Kontan newspaper that he feared for his life. “I do not want to be published as a witness,” he said. “It could be my life is now threatened.”

In the interview, Marliem also denied having given bribes to Sugiharto.

In its 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, Transparency International ranked Indonesia 88 out of 168 countries. President Joko Widodo has stressed his commitment to eradicating corruption.

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Unending Punishment: Political Repression in Vietn...

Kerry B. Collison Asia News: Unending Punishment: Political Repression in Vietn...: Unending Punishment: Political Repression in Vietnam This is what life is like as a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam: Isolation. Wit...

Unending Punishment: Political Repression in Vietnam


Unending Punishment: Political Repression in Vietnam

This is what life is like as a prisoner of conscience in Vietnam: Isolation. Withholding of newspapers and letters from family, denial of menstruation supplies, visits from lawyers, medical treatment and even light. “Prisons within prisons,” an Amnesty International report calls it.

It is brutal before the arrest. The harassment. The intimidation. The black-clothed thugs lingering around your house, stealing your cameras, beating you up, and beating up your friends as well.

It is brutal during the court proceedings. The frustration of a one-day show trial. The lack of impartial news coverage. The outrageous sentences.

It is perhaps most brutal during the three or 10 or even 16 years in prison, serving a sentence under severe conditions, with only rare contact with family and none with friends.

And it is even brutal upon release. There is forced exile, family separation and restrictions on movement. And there is nearly constant surveillance.

Every aspect of the pre-arrest, arrest, detention, trial, and even release of Vietnam’s political dissidents is designed to minimize their contact with the outside world. The Communist regime wants them forgotten. It wants other malcontents to take heed.

The international press lit up when Chinese authorities released Nobel Peace Prize medalist Liu Xiaobo days before his death from cancer. Properly it condemned the tactics Beijing employed against Liu and his wife, Liu Xia, who remains under house arrest. Liu was famous, but not unique. In China and in Vietnam there are hundreds more Lius.

On July 30, 2012, Dang Thi Kim Lieng self-immolated at a Vietnamese government building in a desperate, defiant protest as her daughter awaited trial.  Lieng had not seen her daughter, political blogger Ta Phong Tan, since the previous September.

 

 “[M]y sister’s detention and charges affected her deeply,” Ta Minh Tu, Tan’s sister, told Radio Free Asia in a 2012 interview. She also added that: “[The authorities] followed us all the time. Whenever I would go to [Ho Chi Minh City], someone would immediately begin tailing me.”

Many believe that the pressure of the charges against Tan, along with continuous surveillance and threats against the family’s home, drove Lieng to suicide. Tan was sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment that September under Article 88 of Vietnam’s criminal code for her blogging.

When prisoners of conscience are arrested, it is their families that must travel hundreds of miles to bring supplies and news. It is often the families that launch far-reaching international campaigns to free their loved ones, as in the case of Tran Huynh Duy Thuc. Thuc, who blogged on economic and social issues, was convicted in 2010 with three others of ties to an underground political party that the Hanoi regime insists is a terrorist organization. Thuc refused to cop a plea and is now shackled to a 16-year sentence. Though in poor health, Thuc’s father, Tran Van Huynh, continues to campaign tirelessly for Thuc’s release.

The families of Vietnam’s political prisoners must take care of children and elderly relatives orphaned by a long sentence. Young mother Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, who blogged as Mẹ Nấm (Mushroom’s Mom)  was sentenced to 10 years in prison on June 29 because Hanoi deemed her to be spreading “propaganda against the State” under Article 88 of its Penal Code for blogging on topics such as the Formosa environmental disaster and police brutality.  Vietnam slammed another mother of two, blogger Tran Thi Nga, with nine years’ imprisonment on July 25 for creating online content related to her advocacy for migrants and victims of land grabs.

Their children may well be adults by the time these mothers are free. While serving time, prisoners miss out on major life milestones. Their parents die and their children grow up while they are the guests of the state. Lawyer Nguyen Van Dai, a civil rights campaigner, was arrested in December 2015. When his father neared death in June, Dai was forbidden to see his father.

Can Thi Theu is a land rights activist. She was arrested September 2016 and is now serving 20 months in prison. In a letter smuggled out to friends, Theu explains the pressures that incarceration in Vietnam’s prisons places on individuals and families alike:

“At 9:00 am on 11 December 2016, I was escorted by the police from the Detention Center No.1, Hoa Lo prison, Hanoi to Noi Bai International Airport. At 11:30am, the plane took off. Looking out the window I saw my hometown, my village gradually fading away. I knew this was the vile revenge of the communist regime against me. They exiled me to a place that is far away from my hometown to traumatize me and to make it difficult and costly for my family to visit me.”

The authorities aim to limit family interaction. They often do not notify families of transfers from prison to prison. Sometimes they are transferred to facilities in remote, hard-to-reach areas. If family members at last arrive to meet their imprisoned loved ones, they may be turned away. They may be required to speak through a monitored phone.

Even after release from prison, life may never return to normal. Le Quoc Quan served 30 months on fabricated charges of tax evasion. Released in 2015, Quan was threatened by thugs at his private home just last month. Their message was grim: “You should focus on your family and try to protect your growing daughters; otherwise we will cause harm to them.”

Pham Minh Hoang, a mathematics professor and occasional blogger, wasn’t tried and jailed. Instead he was stripped of his Vietnamese citizenship and exiled to France. Now, his family is split up; his wife and disabled brother-in-law are trapped in Vietnam and Hoang in France with his daughter.

Exile is a relatively new tactic employed by the authorities. Catholic activist Dang Xuan Dieu has also been exiled to France, and prominent blogger Nguyen Van Hai (Dieu Cay) was exiled to the United States in 2014 as well. Tan, Ms. Lieng’s daughter, was released early from prison in September 2015 on condition that she leave Vietnam for the United States.

Conversely, countless Vietnamese activists and former political prisoners have been denied travel rights at cost to their professional and family lives. In January, former political prisoner Pham Thanh Nghien was prevented from travelling to Cambodia, where her father was receiving medical treatment. And in June, Do Ngoc Xuan Tram was barred from leaving Vietnam to visit family as well, due to alleged national security concerns. She is the sister of labor activist and former political prisoner Do Thi Minh Hanh.

All of this separation, humiliation, and pain comes back to a blog post. Or to video clips. Or to a social organization, a land protest, a labor union, or a religious demonstration. It all comes back to people speaking up, exercising their human rights. But despite all of the suffering that ensues from the repression of dissent in Vietnam and elsewhere, many activists continue to fight for the causes that impassion them. And their families? They continue to fight, too.

Can Thi Theu, the land rights activist who wrote the letter introduced above, acknowledges this proudly. Her letter from late 2016 continues on to say:

“But the revenge has completely failed. Just three days after I arrived at Gia Trung prison, my family and landless farmers from Duong Noi flew from Hanoi to visit me. Ms. Tan, Dieu Cay’s ex-wife, also traveled from Saigon to visit me. My family and chi Tan also brought me letters from Father Pham Trung Thanh, from Duong Noi’s landless farmers, and many loving messages from friends near and far, at home and abroad. I am deeply touched and feel so warm in this remote highlands area. Although I am imprisoned, I am not alone, because outside there are thousands and millions of hearts that are compassionate towards the victims of land confiscation like me.

“I know that all of you, Fathers, farmers, and communities, at home and abroad, have given me the confidence and determination to walk the next step on the path that I chose. We are determined to fight together to reclaim the land, the right to life, and the human rights of which the communist regime has deprived my family and those in similar situations.”

For Vietnam’s political prisoners and their families, life is incredibly difficult but hope remains. July 30 is the fifth anniversary of Dang Thi Kim Lieng’s self-immolation. On this date we remember and honor her fiery sacrifice, and continue to work to free prisoners of conscience and to improve the lives of activists everywhere.

Kaylee Dolen is Content Manager for the 88 Project, a blog that “shares the stories of Vietnamese activists who are persecuted because of their peaceful dissent.”