“I don’t speak because I have the power to speak; I speak because I don’t have the power to remain silent.” Rav Kook z"l

Sunday, November 27, 2022

Elon Musk proves the woke left wrong again as hate speech is DOWN and new user signups were at an all-time high averaging over 2 million per day

 

Elon Musk has shared slides from his talk with Twitter workers saying hate speech is down since his $44billion takeover.

The slides, posted to on his Twitter page, show between October 17 and November 13 hate speech impressions are lower.

The CEO also reported new user signups were at an all time high, averaging over two million per day in the past week.

These new figures counter reports early last month which claimed an uptick in the amount of hateful language being tweeted in the wake of Musk taking the helm.

Musk's $44 billion acquisition of Twitter last month fanned widespread concern that purveyors of lies and misinformation would be allowed to flourish on the site. 

The ban lifted on former U.S. President Donald Trump's twitter, along with the Twitter Blue fiasco that allowed anyone to be verified, has seen Musk in firing line.

But Musk maintains that user numbers remain at an all time high, tweeting on Saturday that user sign up was at an all time high. 

Alyssa Milano Mocked by Social Media, after trading in her Tesla for a Volkswagen: 'Founded by Nazis'


Actress Alyssa Milano was blasted on Twitter, including by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, after saying that she "gave back" her Tesla and replaced it with a Volkswagen. 

"I gave back my Tesla," Milano, a prominent supporter of Democrats on Twitter, posted Saturday. "I bought the VW ev. I love it. I’m not sure how advertisers can buy space on Twitter. Publicly traded company’s products being pushed in alignment with hate and white supremacy doesn’t seem to be a winning business model."

Twitter users, many of them conservative, criticized Milano over the tweet with many pointing out Volkswagen’s ties to the Nazi Party during the early days of its inception.

"Volkswagen was literally founded by the Nazi’s and Hitler," conservative political commentators The Hodge Twins posted which earned a crying laughing emoji and a "100" emoji from Tesla CEO Elon Musk who recently purchased Twitter.

"Lulz," the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire tweeted along with references to Volkswagen’s beginnings as a state sponsored automotive company during Hitler’s reign in Germany.

Clinton’s ‘false’ claims about ‘stolen’ 2016 election censored by YouTube

 

A video in which Democrat Hillary Clinton unleashed a wide range of unsupported claims that the 2016 presidential race, won by Donald Trump, was “stolen,” has been censored by YouTube.

And it appears it’s at least partly because those claims were “false.”

The report said the video was created by YouTuber Matt Orfalea, who doesn’t align himself with either Democrat or Republican parties.

The project included comments from both Clinton and President Donald Trump about the 2016 and 2020 elections, respectively, being stolen.

His work previously has collected hundreds of thousands of views, even millions in some cases.

Orfalea’s work largely is “crisply edited mash-ups of politicians and corporate media figures making complete fools of themselves — without any commentary from Orfalea himself.”

Previously he’s addressed politicians and media figures claiming the Wuhan lab leak theory for the COVID-19 pandemic is baseless, despite the evidence contradicting that conclusion.

Hunter Biden’s laptop, and the hypocrisy exhibited by the legacy media, also has been addressed.

As a result, YouTube has demonetized several, claiming they are “hostile to the establishment-backed narrative,” the report said.

Now he’s offending people again, apparently.

“In September, Orfalea published a montage of Democrat politicians and media figures questioning the results of the 2016 election and characterizing it as ‘illegitimate,’ ‘rigged,’ and ‘hacked.”

IRS Going After the "little guy" With a Vengeance!

 

The Internal Revenue Service is reminding tax filers to prepare to report transactions of at least $600 that are made through so-called “third-party” facilitators such as Venmo and PayPal.

The agency on Tuesday posted an explainer warning American business owners earning $600 or more per year on payments that are received through apps such as Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, and PayPal to file a tax form known as Form 1099-K.

The IRS is interested in transactions involving part-time work, side gigs, and selling goods, according to the agency.

The rule does not apply to noncommercial payments like reimbursing someone for food or rent or other one-off transactions such as selling an old piece of furniture, according to accountants.

Before this year, the threshold for filing a Form 1099-K report was at least 200 transactions totaling an aggregate of at least $20,000.

When Congress passed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, it included a provision that reduced the reporting threshold to a single transaction over $600.

The Biden administration hopes that by reducing the threshold, the measure will crack down on Americans evading taxes by not reporting the full extent of their gross income.

The proposal was offered as a way to help pay for a $3.5 trillion social spending bill that would invest in climate programs, child care and education.

Tommy Lucas, an Orlando, Fla.-based certified financial planner, told CNBC that filers must include any sum that is reported on Form 1099-K as part of their business income.

Saturday, November 26, 2022

One quarter of hiring managers in the US less likely to hire Jews, poll finds

 

A new survey found that one in 4 hiring managers discriminate against Jewish applicants, according to an American job recruitment firm.

The top reason listed in the ResumeBuilder survey is the antisemitic trope that Jews have too much “power and control.”

The survey also found that 1 out of 6 hiring managers said that executives instructed them not to hire Jewish employees.

One-third of those surveyed agreed that antisemitism was commonplace at their company, with 29 percent agreeing that antisemitism was “acceptable” where they worked.

Industries where higher levels of antisemitism were reported included finance and technology.

The ResumeBuilder survey asked 1,131 hiring managers and recruiters for their answers about antisemitism.

“Antisemitism in the workplace starts at the hiring process with individuals who do not want to higher Jews because of bigoted stereotypes, but that is not where it ends,” executive recruiter Stacie Haller told ResumeBuilder in a statement by the firm detailing the results of the survey.

“In this era of fighting for equality in hiring, Jewish individuals have largely been left out of the conversation, and the issue of antisemitism has for the most part gone unaddressed,” Haller added.

Elon Musk Says He Will Create His Own Smartphone If Apple and Google Ban Twitter From Their App Stores

 

Musk announced his plan in a tweet on Friday.

Podcaster and former OAN host Liz Wheeler had tweeted, 

“if Apple & Google boot Twitter from their app stores, @elonmusk should produce his own smartphone. Half the country would happily ditch the biased, snooping iPhone & Android. The man builds rockets to Mars, a silly little smartphone should be easy, right?”

Musk responded that he would if that is what it came down to.

UOHC will “immediately open a full and impartial investigation on Harav Hagoen Chaim Halperin

 

We have been writing about this sexual pervert since Dec 2012.
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A rabbi accused of sexually abusing a woman when she went to him for counselling is to be investigated by the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations, the umbrella body for London’s Charedi communities.

The action follows a TV broadcast on Israel’s Channel 12 last week in which the 21-year-old woman claimed Rabbi Chaim Halpern, head of the Divrei Chaim Synagogue in London’s Golders Green, groped her when she met him for rabbinical guidance.

The woman told the program Rabbi Halpern had touched “private parts” of her body at the counselling session in London and had repeatedly tried to see her during a recent visit to Israel, where she lives.

In reported telephone conversations apparently between the pair, the rabbi said he loved her, told her she was beautiful and asked if she wanted him to “come with you in bed”.

The Union broke its silence on the claims on Thursday by releasing a statement saying it took the allegations “with utmost seriousness” and is opening “a full and impartial investigation”.

It advised the public “to take necessary precautions and to take these allegations seriously”.

'Throw those bums out' : Ambassador Friedman to Trump

 

Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman responded to former US President Donald Trump's meeting with white nationalist Nick Fuentes and rapper Kanye West.

Fuentes and West were seen dining with Trump at Mar-a-Lago.

"To my friend Donald Trump, you are better than this," Friedman wrote. "Even a social visit from an antisemite like Kanye West and human scum like Nick Fuentes is unacceptable. I urge you to throw those bums out, disavow them and relegate them to the dustbin of history where they belong."

"I condemned Barak Obama associating with Louis Farrakhan and Jeremiah Wright." the former Ambassador added. "This is no different. Antisemites deserve no quarter among American leaders, right or left."

Friday, November 25, 2022

Tehran Jewish community swould rather side with regime amid Iran protests than make Aliyah

 

The small Jewish community in Tehran on Thursday condemned the ongoing anti-regime protests in Iran, which broke out over the death of a young woman held for allegedly violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code.

In a letter, the Tehran Central Jewish Committee said it was standing by the Iranian regime amid a deadly crackdown on protesters.

“This is a condemnation of the recent unrest in the country that led to the death and injury of several people in our country, as well as many financial losses to the country,” the letter said.

“The community declares that it has always obeyed the position of the supreme leader,” it added.

Prominent figures in the Jewish community of Iran intermittently issue anti-Israel statements that match the regime’s agenda. Iran is openly sworn to Israel’s destruction and financially supports terrorist groups, like Hezbollah and Hamas, that are also committed to this aim.

Since the death of Mahsa Amini while in the custody of the morality police in Tehran in September, the protests have spread across the country. Authorities have responded with a crackdown that Oslo-based group Iran Human Rights says has left around 400 people dead, half a dozen sentenced to death, and more than 15,000 arrested.

“The community declares that the enemies of the system are creating insecurity by targeting the unity of the people. In recent days, unfortunate events and incidents have occurred in our beloved country, which has hurt the hearts of those loyal to Iran and the holy Islamic system,” the letter said.

“The community asks all members of our dear country to avoid polarizing the country and to discuss things. We hope that in the near future we will see unity, peace, security, and happiness in our beloved country,” it added.

In September, during the first weeks of the protests, the committee issued a letter warning members to avoid synagogues during the violence.

Prior to the Islamic Revolution in 1979, there were some 100,000 Jews in Iran; by 2016, according to an Iranian census, that number had fallen to below 10,000.

The Jewish community in Iran has previously taken other precautionary measures to protect members, with the country’s chief rabbi saying last year that he condemned the US killing of top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani in 2020 amid fears Jews could be physically attacked by some Muslim neighbors.

Amini, a 22-year-old of Kurdish origin, died on September 16, three days after her arrest in Tehran by the notorious morality police for allegedly breaching the Islamic dress code for women.

The rallies have been led by young women who burned their headscarves and confronted security forces in the biggest wave of unrest to rock Iran for years.

In October, the United States placed over a dozen Iranian officials on its sanctions blacklist for the crackdown on the protests.

Zera Shimshon Parshas Toldois