Friday, May 31, 2019

34 Ways To Stay Healthy That Cost Next To Nothing


  1. Sleep: Trying to get 8 hours of uninterrupted sleep may be frustrating. Modern humans are going to sleep two hours later than the daylight-darkness cycle.  Prior to electric lighting, people slept for about 6 hours, awoke for about two hours, and then went back for a second sleepBlue light emitted from electronic devices, even smart phones, or computer monitors fouls up melatonin secretion, the sleep hormone.  Be aware.  Blue light filters are available for computer monitors and eyeglass lenses.  However, no one is mentioning that blue light filtering in the AM is counter-productive and impairs the dissipation of melatonin and could theoretically induce daytime sleepiness.  Best to get some direct sunlight early in the AM to awaken fully refreshed and alert. The focusing lens of the eyes loses about 1% of its transparency every year.  By age 80 maybe 20% of ambient or artificial light reaches the retina and this alters the light/dark cycle and affects melatonin levels.  Replacement of the cloudy natural lens with a clear plastic lens implant is recently reported to help restore the natural sleep-wake cycle.
  1. Sun: there are vitamin D pills that can make up for the lack of sunlight in winter months; but a few minutes of full-body sun exposure is superior. I say this because studies show it is vitamin D produced by direct exposure of the skin to the breast that prevents breast cancer.  I advise women to find a private place and sun for a few minutes with skin exposed.
    I supplement my diet with 25 milligrams of beta carotene so I won’t develop sun burn, or sun-induced wrinkles.  Beta carotene converts to vitamin A in the liver, but excess beta carotene is shuttled to the skin where it protects from blistering sun rays.  Same goes for high-dose lutein and astaxanthin.  (I developed a multivitamin that provides 25 mg/beta carotene + 10 mg lutein.)
  2. Water: Clean water is the foundation for any healthy human population. Water in the U.S. is chlorinated.  Chlorine is a very toxic chemical.  Yet it has eradicated typhoid, dysentery and cholera.  However, lifetime consumption of chlorinated water is associated with colon cancer.  Furthermore, tap water is also fluoridated.  This is a sedating mineral that breeds passivity.  The IQ declines the more fluoride people consume.  Various bottled waters are available that are not rich in natural fluorides.  Bottled waters are often free of  chlorine and fluoride but present a problem with their plastic bottles that contain phthalates and bisphenol A as a plasticizer.  These are gender-bending molecules.  Best to buy bottled water in glass bottles.  Fiji water is an exception (no bisphenol A). It took till 2017 for bottled water to become the most consumed beverage over coffee, tea or soda in the US.  I buy water in glass bottles. Gerolsteiner is my preferred brand due to its magnesium bicarbonate content.
  3. Sore throat: I actually have people email me to ask what they should do now that they woke up in the morning with a sore throat. They are clueless as to what to do. Home remedies have been completely forgotten.  Gargle with salt water.  The reason for its morning occurrence is likely consumption of sugary foods the night before.  The involved bacterium is Streptococcus, an acid secreting bacterium that causes dental decay by virtue of its acid erosion of tooth enamel.  Sugar indirectly causes cavities.  But let’s get back to that sore throat.  Sodium is alkaline.  It counters Strep.  So, gargle with some salt water and most sore throats vanish within minutes.  Watch out for eating candies and sugary snacks right before bedtime.  Strep loves sugar.  Sugar restriction reduces the count of Strep bacteria in the oral cavity.
  4. Teeth: dental enamel is hardened by vitamin D. Cavities develop in the winter when your dental enamel is soft due to lack of sun exposure combined with eating sweets.  You won’t hear of a single dentist who recommends vitamin D for his patients.  Water fluoridation is reported to reduce the number of decayed teeth by 35%.  But that is of modest effect.  Kids are still getting plenty of cavities over time.  Direct topical application of fluoride appears to be more effective.
    Magnesium deficiency is associated with poor dental health.  For already eroded teeth, you might think of brushing your teeth with magnesium.  One thing your dentist may not tell you (he/she is probably clueless about this) is that without magnesium, only soft enamel can be formed.  Magnesium may even heal already decayed teeth.  Liquid magnesium chloride (preferred form of mag) is available to apply to a toothbrush.
  5. High blood pressure: think zinc. A recent report reveals zinc deficiency promotes reabsorption of salt in the kidneys which then results in retained water and elevated blood pressure.  Diuretics remedy this but don’t address the cause and threaten loss of electrolyte minerals (potassium, magnesium) that the heart requires.  Modern medicine has to throw this discovery under the rug.  There goes $23 billion (projected 2023) of anti-hypertension drugs up in smoke.
  6. Frequent cure-all: if someone emailed me and asked what dietary supplement does the published science suggest for a migraine headache I would probably reply: magnesium. For high blood pressure: magnesium.  For anxiety: magnesium.  For back pain: magnesium.  For diabetes: magnesium; after cardiac stent: magnesium; for tension headache (feels like band around head): magnesium; for pre-menstrual syndrome: magnesium; bipolar (up and down mood): magnesium; for Alzheimer’s: magnesium; for mental depression: magnesium; Infant with constipation: try magnesium; hope you are getting the idea here.  Magnesium malate and taurate are superior to magnesium oxide or citrate.
  7. Wrinkles: Have you got more wrinkles than you deserve? You may have been a smoker or drank too much alcohol at one point in your life.   Or just too much sun.  Regardless, you can do something about this short of taking a trip to the plastic surgeon.  The water-holding molecule in the body is hyaluronic acid (HA). It is a gel-like molecule that serves as a space filler. If you consume oral HA supplements your fibroblast cells will make youthful levels of HA again.  Oral HA supplements are available at vitamin shops.  Taken with quercetin to inhibit the enzyme (hyaluronidase) that breaks down HA is superior.
    Also, if you consume 25 mg beta carotene you will not only not sunburn, this will protect from wrinkles.  Lutein and astaxanthin do the same.  No, mega-dose beta carotene will not produce excess vitamin A and develop into liver toxicity.  Excess beta carotene is shuttled to the skin to provide internal sun protection.  Some avid beta carotene users may develop the beta-carotene-tan.  Their skin looks orange.  Your doctor will mistakenly think you are jaundiced.  Why look old?
  8. Sun glasses: I’ve worn UV-blue-blocking sun goggles for decades now. When I went to the eye doctor recently I had no cholesterol-like deposits (called drusen) in the back of my eyes; 91% of adults in my age group have undesirable drusen deposits.  I’ve also taken lutein supplements since they were first introduced in the early 1990s.  Except for a little astigmatism (droopy corneas), I have no eye pathology.  No cataract formation either.  I like sun goggles because they fit over Rx eyeglasses and you don’t need prescription sun glasses.  Furthermore, the wrap-around feature reduces squinting In the bright sun which fatigues the eyes.
  9. Toenail fungus – countless numbers of people have called or written over the years about yellow toenails. You’ve got a fungus underneath the nail.  Check you shower stall and spray with an anti-fungal or it will return after eradication.  Internally, zinc and resveratrol help to clear out fungi.  Externally, cut the toenail back as far as possible and apply a fresh cut garlic clove to the area.
  10. Candida overgrowth: eat refined sugars and you will be a sugar craver by virtue of overgrowth of a sugar-craving fungus called Candida. Taking antibiotics can also lead to candida overgrowth.  Alcohol, oral contraceptives, diabetes, stress, all contribute to the problem.  Symptoms are fatigue, urinary tract infections, digestive problems, sinus infections, nail infections, joint pain.  Oil of oregano is strongest antidote.  Beats back Candida demonstrably without germ resistance.
  11. Shoes: as we age we need more cushioning. We lose hyaluronic acid that cushions our feet.  Think of taking oral HA supplements.  Our feet spread out so you may be crowding your foot if you size a shoe for what you wore when you were younger.  Try a half-size larger.  Forget about telling women they shouldn’t be wearing high-heel shoes.  They like it.  It’s their world.  The pressure on the toes induces bunions.  Podiatrists make a good living off stilettos.
  12. Mattress: a sagging old mattress is responsible for a lot of back problems. Did you ever notice a back problem arises as soon as you travel and sleep on a hotel mattress?  Some people with back problems sleep on the floor and find their back problem vanishes.  I’ve had to do that at various hotels.  You need a firm mattress that is cushioned on top.
  13. Don’t reach for acetaminophen (Tylenol): this seemingly innocuous pain remedy is one of the worst liver toxins.  Its chronic use induces liver failure and organ transplant surgery.  Acetaminophen use during pregnancy or after vaccination is associated with autism.  There are lots of reasons to avoid aspirin and acetaminophen.  If acetaminophen is in your medicine cabinet, best to throw it away.  Try resveratrol and ginger capsules for pain.
  14. Pain: nerve pain (sciatica, leg pain) : resveratrol; orthopedic (joint) pain: resveratrol. Resveratrol may be the best pain reliever, ever.
  15. Addiction, compulsive behavior (skin picking, nail biting, drug addiction or withdrawal; even gambling): N acetyl cysteine 500 mg is the antidote.
  16. Former smoker alert: Smokers often exhibit small-to-large bulges in their arteries called aneurysms. These aneurysms may rupture and result in death.  Smokers have a 5-fold, former smokers a 2-fold increased risk for aneurysms.   70-80% of people with aneurysms are or were smokers.  Small aneurysms may rupture in the brain of smokers.  Tobacco depletes vitamin C which in turns weakens connective tissue.  All current and former smokers should presume they have undetected aneurysms and supplement with vitamin C.
  17. Aversion to acidic foods accompanied by gastric reflux (stomach acid backs up into esophagus resulting in heartburn). In some cases of hiatal hernia the stomach pushes up into esophagus, resulting in chronic heartburn.  These patients have been found to be vitamin C-deficient.  Correction with alkaline-buffered vitamin C may be beneficial over time.
  18. Calcium: calcium supplements are NOT appropriate for post-menopausal women as they have a hormone deficiency, not a mineral deficiency. Activation of a single gene, Sirtuin1,  prevents bone loss (osteoporosis).  Replace estrogen.  Or use a surrogate molecule: resveratrol.  Combined with Pueraria, an herbal source of estrogen, improves bone mineral density (kept solid bones from becoming honey combed in lab animals).
  19. Bronchitis– you wake up in the morning and find you have a cough and are continually having to clear your throat. You may have phlegm and mucus stuck on the side of your bronchus, the hose between your throat and lung.  In that case, turn on the hottest water in the shower and, without letting the hot water touch your skin, deep breathe in the steam. A few minutes after your breathing treatment, you will cough up that mucus.
  20. Sleepy during the day? If you find you are sleepy during the day this may be caused by a dry eye condition.  The eyes become dryer throughout the day until they are so dry we have to fight to keep them open and by the end of the day we close our eyelids and go to sleep. If a person has a dry eye condition they are often forced to take naps throughout the day.  If your eyes are red, itchy, burning or even watery (compensates for dryness), you may have dry eyes.  Best to try borage oil orally to provide oil to the glands in your eyelids that prevents evaporation of your tear film.  Dry eyes are often accompanied by cracked fingernails and dry skin.
  21. Zinc before vaccination: if you or your children are undergoing vaccination, take zinc supplements which will invigorate your thymus gland to produce memory T-cells. These are the white-blood cells that develop long-lasting antibody response to new incoming viruses and bacteria humans are exposed to.  A major reason why booster shots are needed is because an adequate immune response was not generated upon initial inoculation.  Vitamins C, D and selenium should be used prior to vaccination also.  For further information visit beyondvaccines.com
  22. Angina: Anginal chest pain may occur at inconvenient times when you can’t easily run to the emergency room. Often chest pains are nothing more than indigestion caused by a backup of bile into the esophagus (aka heartburn).  But if true angina, caused by reduced blood flow to the heart, and let’s say you are on vacation or this symptom occurs in the middle of the night, what can you reach for?  Aspirin (not a baby aspirin) would break up a blood clot in a coronary artery, but that is not always the problem.  What’s needed is to widen (dilate) the coronary arteries.  Oh, for the want of a nitroglycerin pill! However, in a pinch, cayenne pepper is a potent vasodilator.  If you are a truck driver and you experience angina, stop at a roadside diner and ask for the hot sauce.  Or go to a 24-hour market and purchase some cayenne pepper from the spice rack.  There was a guy, Dick Quinn, who experienced recurrent angina and his doctors told him there was nothing they could do for him.  A neighbor lady brought him some cayenne pepper pills.  He wrote a book about it entitled Left For Dead.  It’s an old ignored book written in 1991 and is available at Amazon as a used book, if you want to read it.
  23. Grumpy lately? The woman in your life is not in the mood these days?  Slip some vitamin C in her coffee cup.  A study of young adults who took 3000 mg/day of vitamin C resulted in more frequent penile-vaginal intercourse, in particular in women, as well as improved mood J.  The anti-vitamin news media never told you about this, did they?  Viagra is only half the story.  Men, you need to get your partner in the mood.  The mechanism is believed to be greater release of oxytocin, the cuddling hormone.  Laughter also helps secrete more oxytocin.  Watch a comedy before you go to bed or take your spouse on a date to see a humorous flick.  Let oxytocin set the stage.
  24. Cloves for dental pain: you have a tooth abscess. It is the middle of the night. Go to the kitchen spice rack and see if you have some cloves or clove powder.  Cloves were used for dental anesthesia before the era of the caine topical anesthetics.  Cloves are also a strong germ-killer and antioxidant.
  25. Salt craver?: sign of zinc deficiency
  26. Gut bacteria and the mind: we hear more and more about gut bacteria. Not only does gut bacteria influence our health, but “bad” bacteria can also induce mental issues like anxietyProbiotics were recently found to alleviate mental depression.  What are the psychiatric drug makers going to do when they find out it isn’t “all in the mind” but rather the gut?
  27. Want to reduce effects of pesticides? Lactobacillus acid-forming bacteria, used in production of sauerkraut and pickles, degrade pesticides.  Detox with sauerkraut (fermented cabbage), a good source of friendly bacteria.
  28. Antibiotic resistance: antibiotics may sterilize your digestive tract but leave the nastiest of all pathogens behind, Clostridium difficile, a deadly bacterium that kills older adults. Co-use of oil of oregano (main ingredient carvacrol) may halt bacterial virulence without inhibiting normal bacteria or inducing germ resistance.  Keep handy.
  29. Auto-immune disorders: A major university study says baking soda cure for auto-immune disorders should be tried. Auto-immune disorders include: rheumatoid arthritis (stiff joints in AM), lupus, psoriasis, type I diabetes (usually child onset), Graves disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, Sjogren’s’ syndrome.  Full list.  Baking soda cure link.
  30. Diabetes: the end game of diabetes is blindness, heart and kidney failure and nerve destruction in the legs (retinopathy, cardiomyopathy, nephropathy, neuropathy). A single vitamin halts all four – – > vitamin B1.  Your diabetologist won’t likely prescribe it.  You just learned about it.  Benfotiamine is the recommended fat-soluble form of vitamin B1 (thiamin).
  31. Brainspan: How long is your brain going to last?  Answer: only as long as your dopamine.  Monoamine oxidase (MAO) is an enzyme secreted in the brain that gets too frisky as we age.  MAO is normally secreted to keep a lid on brain chemicals, particularly dopamine.  But excessive breakdown of dopamine can lead to memory loss, slowed speech, slow movement, inability to focus, mental depression, muscle cramps, anxiety, low sex drive, and poor memory.  Up to about age 40 dopamine levels remain fairly stable, then decline about 13% per decade due to iron accumulation.   When dopamine levels decline to ~10% of normal, death is imminent.  When you run out of dopamine you run out of life. With advancing age, MAO enzyme inhibition is called for.  Natural MAO inhibitors such as quercetin, resveratrol and rice bran IP6, by virtue of their ability to chelate (attach to) iron and copper, serve to maintain more youthful levels of dopamine.  Vitamin D also protects dopamine-secreting cells.
  32. Diarrhea: From time to time I receive inquiries about what to do for recurrent diarrhea.  This would be expulsive diarrhea, not loose stool.  First, if it is generated by food poisoning, then you need Pepto Bismol which will keep the bacterium from sticking to your gut wall.  Keep Pepto Bismol handy at all times in the household medicine chest.  Don’t forget Pepto-Bismol when traveling overseas as ~35% of vacationers come down with diarrhea.  Second, a deficiency of vitamin B1 can induce loose stool, which can be induced by excessive use of alcohol, sugar, or even polyphenols in tea and coffee, that impede absorption of vitamin B1.  You need fat-soluble B1 (benfotiamine) to solve the problem.  Zinc supplements also quell chronic diarrhea, especially in children.
  33. Bowel movements: Here is a short course on constipation, an often neglected but prevalent topic of dry humor among older adults. The following information may be of acute interest to those individuals who take care of their elderly feeble loved ones.  There is help for incontinence beyond adult diapers.
    An often-quoted study shows that “normal” stool frequency ranges from 3 times a week to 3 times per day.  How such a wide range is considered healthy is beyond comprehension.  Normal is not necessarily healthy.  People eating plant-based diets have bowel movements 2-3 times a day.
    Almost everyone experiences constipation at some point in their life.  About a third of senior Americans report this chronic problem.  The Medicare-age crowd is on so many drugs that may make things worse.  And younger adults taking OxyContin pain reliever are often constipated as well.
    Dietary supplements can also produce constipation.  For example, iron pills and calcium pills.  Magnesium (like in milk of magnesia) or magnesium citrate supplements serve to loosen stool and counter the binding of calcium.  Magnesium chloride helps to eliminate the odor of decomposing stool. The longer that stool remains in the digestive tract the more water is absorbed away and stool hardens.  Some elderly patients develop impactions that require a doctor to literally dig them out by hand, or a stone-hard mass of stool called a fecalith may get lodged in the colon that has to be surgically removed in an emergency operation.
    Laxatives may or may not be helpful.  This is because humans teach their brain to evacuate stool as the signal to poop is trainable.  For example, when driving a car we suppress the urge to urinate and defecate.
    The old semi-reliable advice is to add more fiber to the diet, but that doesn’t necessarily mean psyllium.  Bran is worth trying and is often overlooked.  Prunes also soften stool.  In a crisis, polyethylene glycol (Miralax) can be taken.  But we don’t want to become over-reliant on a drug.  The brain control may be lost.
    Bran also often remedies irritable bowel where both constipation and watery diarrhea occur.  Also refer to topic #33 in this report about vitamin B1 as a remedy for chronic loose stool (diarrhea is forceful expulsion of stool due to infection whereas loose stool is just loss of control).  Individuals who consume B1 blockers such as refined sugar, alcohol, tea or coffee, may develop loose stool and have no clue as to why.  Vitamin B1 taken in its fat-soluble form as benfotiamine will correct the problem.   Be aware, B1 supplementation requires adequate magnesium intake to be effective.  Don’t take B1 supplements at the same time you drink coffee, tea, alcohol or sugary food.
    Coffee, independent of its caffeine content, spurs on contraction of the small bowel and therefore movement of stool.
    Supplementation with probiotics (Bifidobacter) often improves bowel frequency.  Probiotics also improve stool consistency among patients with chronic constipation
    Another interesting finding is the relationship between infection and constipation.  Only recently investigated is the relationship between Helicobacter pylori, an undesirable bacterium that commonly infects the stomach of a third of the American population, and bowel frequency. This bacterium can induce gastric ulcers and shut off acid secretion that is required for nutrient absorption.  Stomach acid also kills pathogenic bacteria that enters with meals as humans don’t consume sterile food.  Eradication of H. pylori allays chronic constipation but requires problematic antibiotics. Daily supplementation with zinc carnosine (Polaprezinc) helps reduce inflammation and naturally kills off H. Pylori.
    Pay attention to constipation. Stool that sits in the colon too long may develop putrefaction, a toxic effect.
    Methinks a lot of nursing homes would benefit from the above information.

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Monday, May 27, 2019

Sweden and Muslim Immigration



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FBI TAPES REVEAL '40 MLK AFFAIRS' 'LAUGHED' AS FRIEND RAPED PARISHIONER

The MLK tapes: Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman, having 40 extramarital affairs - and they are under lock in a U.S. archive, claims author

  • The shocking unearthed tapes have been analyzed by biographer David Garrow
  • Material shows the scale of King's philandering and claims he fathered a child
  • It also show how King looked on while Logan Kearse raped a parishioner
  • Revelations could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the civil rights hero
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Secret FBI tapes that accuse Martin Luther King Jr of having extramarital affairs with '40 to 45 women' and even claim he 'looked on and laughed' as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed.

The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the 'International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters' on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow - a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK.

Writing in British magazine Standpoint, Garrow says that the shocking files could lead to a 'painful historical reckoning' for the man who is celebrated across the world for his campaign against racial injustice.

Along with many US civil rights figures, King was subject to an FBI campaign of surveillance ordered by Director J Edgar Hoover in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party.

The FBI surveillance tapes detailing his indiscretions are being held in a vault at the U.S. National Archives and are not due for release until 2027.

But David Garrow, a biographer of King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 book Bearing the Cross about the Baptist minister, has unearthed the FBI summaries of the various incidents.

In an article to be published in Standpoint, Garrow tells how the FBI planted transmitters in two lamps in hotel rooms booked by King in January 1964, according to The Sunday Times.

FBI director J Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance of King in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party.

The intelligence service carried out surveillance on a number of civil rights figures and suspected communists and they had an interest in smearing their reputation.

The recording from the Willard Hotel near the White House shows how King was accompanied his friend Logan Kearse, the pastor of Baltimore's Cornerstone Baptist church who died in 1991, along with several female parishioners of his church.

In King's hotel room, the files claim they then 'discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts'.

The FBI document says: 'When one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister immediately and forcefully raped her' as King watched.

He is alleged to have 'looked on, laugh and offered advice' during the encounter.

FBI agents were in the room next door but did not intervene.

The following day, King and a dozen others allegedly participated in a 'sex orgy' engaging in 'acts of degeneracy and depravity'.

When one woman showed reluctance, King was allegedly heard saying that performing the act 'would help your soul'.

Senior FBI officials later sent King a copy of the incriminating tape and called him an 'evil abnormal beast' and his sexual exploits would be 'on record for all time'.

The letter also suggested he should commit suicide before his wrongs were revealed to the world.

King's philandering has long been suspected, however Garrow, who spent several months digging through the archive material, said he had no idea of the scale or the ugliness of it and his apparent indifference to rape until he saw the files.

He said: 'It poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.'

Among the revelations is a claim by a prostitute who said she was involved in a threesome with King, which she described as the worst orgy she had ever experienced.

His wife Coretta often complained he was hardly with her and even said he would spend less than 10 hours a month at home.

According to one FBI report, King even said: 'She should go out and have some sexual affairs of her own.'

There is even a suggestion in the files that King fathered a daughter with a secret girlfriend in Los Angeles.

Both the mother and child are alive but refused to talk to Garrow.

King was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray but many conspiracy theories suggest that the government was involved.

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Saturday, May 25, 2019

UN Migration Pact part of the plan to extinguish Canadian identity



In the last few weeks, I’ve had serious conversations with colleagues about whether the federal government is going to allow me to continue using the term “illegal migrants” in reference to the influx of people at Roxboro Road. I’m not kidding.

That’s because the new United Nations Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration — which Canada is expected to sign in Marrakech, Morocco on Dec. 10-11 — has a section about media re-education in how we talk about all migrants, including those who break the rules to come to our country.

Objective 17 of the pact commits the government to “promote independent, objective and quality reporting of media outlets, including internet-based information, including by sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology, investing in ethical reporting standards and advertising and stopping allocation of public funding or material support to media outlets that systematically promote intolerance, xenophobia, racism and other forms of discrimination towards migrants, in full respect for the freedom of the media.”

I love the way they throw that last part in — “in full respect for the freedom of the media” — as if the entire paragraph preceding it didn’t just negate the notion of press freedom.

But it took Western University professor Salim Mansur to piece it all together for me. It was coincidental that the day I spoke to Mansur was the day former U.S. president George H.W. Bush was being laid to rest because it was Bush Sr. who first declared the New World Order after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. I don’t know what he meant by the term when he first said it, but it is becoming increasingly clear how the bureaucrats at the United Nations see it, along with sycophantic world leaders like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who crave international validation.

When, just after getting elected, Trudeau declared, “We’re back,” I wasn’t sure what he meant, nor did I know what he was up to when he told the New York Times that Canada was “the first post-national state.” But I never thought it would mean extinguishing the Canadian identity.

Mansur connected the dots. I thought it odd when Trudeau used the term “irregular migrants” when the illegal crossings began. There are experts who say nothing illegal is going on and that it is not illegal for someone to enter Canada for the purpose of making an asylum claim at any point along the Canada-U.S. border. I call them illegal crossings because those who enter our country via Roxboro Road have to walk past a sign that says it is illegal to cross the border. The reason they don’t go to a proper border crossing is because they could be turned away under our Safe Third Country Agreement.

After reading the UN pact, I’m beginning to realize that Trudeau’s ill-considered “Welcome to Canada” tweet to the world was likely deliberate, as well as the language he uses to normalize illegal crossings. The pact seeks to make migration — for any reason — a recognized right. As for the rights of the receiving nation to object to having their borders overrun? Well, now you’re just being racist.

M-103 — the non-binding motion that condemns Islamophobia — has been in the works for years under the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, which have a disproportionate influence at the UN. Last week, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan said there needs to be an international convention to ban speech that is insulting to Muslims. Looks like that is part of the migration pact, too. There’s more.

Bill C-69, the bill that will make it impossible to build pipelines, and Bill C-48, the bill that bans tanker traffic off the northern B.C. coast, are also deliberate. Landlocking Alberta oil and crushing our energy industry flows from the unrealistic commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions committed to in the Paris Accord, which is also referenced in the migration pact.

According to Mansur, the $600-million media bailout is the last piece of the strategy to ensure compliance by financially punishing those outlets that don’t play along with the new speech and thought code.

I suppose one way to look at it is there is no reason to worry when Trudeau signs the pact next week because he’s already implemented the key provisions of it. The other way of looking at it is this: when did we give our prime minister the unilateral authority to sign away our sovereignty?

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7 Immigrants that Destroyed Hollywood


6 Jewish Companies by 7 Jewish Immigrants:

  • Warner Bros: Harry Warner - Jew from Poland. [Source]
  • MGM: Samuel Goldwyn - Jew from Warsaw. [Source]
  • MGM: Louie B. Mayer - Jew from Belarus. [Source]
  • Universal Pictures: Carl Laemmle - Jew from Germany. [Source]
  • Paramount Pictures: Adolph Zukor - Jew from Hungary. [Source]
  • 20th Century Fox: William Fox - Jew from Hungary. [Source]
  • Columbia Pictures: Harry Cohn - Jew. Parents from Germany/Russia.[Source]

Hays Code:

Concerned about the cultural influence Jewish studio executives would have on America, the MPPDA had to ban Jewish degeneracy via "Hays Code". [Source]
Hays Code banned positive portrayals of:
  • under-age sex
  • sedition
  • destruction of the flag
  • anti-Nazism [Source]
  • sexual affairs & perversion
  • ridicule of religion
  • drug trafficking

Pre-Code Hollywood:

Hays Code was introduced in 1930 but not enforced until 1934. During these four years, major Hollywood executives exercised little moral restraint. [Source]
E.g. In the film Baby Face (1933), a fourteen-year-old is pimped by her father, moves to New York and prostitutes herself at least twice. Produced by the Jewish founder of Warner Bros, Jack Warner. [Source]

Otto Preminger:

Preminger, an immigrant Jewish director, [Source] promoted rape, homosexuality and drug addiction - all taboo to the average American family of the 1940s.
He was protested [Source] and deemed an assault on American and Christian culture:
I unite with all who protest against them as a grave menace to youth, to home life, to country and to religion. I condemn absolutely those salacious motion pictures which, with other degrading agencies, are corrupting public morals and promoting a sex mania in our land. ... Considering these evils, I hereby promise to remain away from all motion pictures except those which do not offend decency and Christian morality. [Source]

Blacklisted Jewish Communists:

1947: House of Representatives had to blacklist ten notable Hollywood screenwriters for conspiring to brainwash and convert the American public to communism. Six of the ten were Jews. [Source]
The four goyim were sycophantic to Jewish communism. E.g. Ring Lardner Jr. had a Jewish and communist wife. [Source]. Larder was also referred to as "goy" by his Jewish boss and studio head, Samuel Goldwyn. [Source]

Post-Code Era

1960s: Over 90% of households now had television sets. Motion Picture Rating System replaced Hays Code. Once forbidden immorality became standard practice:
  • Jewish Norman Lear first promoted social issues like infidelity, women's liberation, abortion, impotence, homosexuality and racism in All In the Family (1971) and Maude (1972). [Source] He created People For the American Way, a self-described anti-Christian and anti-morality activist group. [Source] Formerly presided by Tony Podesta.
  • Vice President Dan Quayle condemned Murphy Brown (1988) for promoting single motherhood. [Source]
  • Terry Rakolta protested Married With Children (1987) promoting homosexuality. [Source]

Consequences

  • Gallup poll: 87% of polled Americans approve of miscegenation vs. 4% in 1958. [Source]
  • Joe Biden attributed same-sex marriage legalization to Jewish creation Will & Grace (1998) [Source] and the Jews in general [Source].
  • In Brazil, over three decades, soap operas have caused family size reduction, birth rate reduction by 3 million and divorce rate increase. Soap opera character names became most popular names in Brazil. [Source] No doubt, America has been similarly influenced.
The deadliest consequence has been America's conversion to communism. Jewish Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto explained how the subversion of morality and religion abolishes nations to establish communism:
“Undoubtedly,” it will be said, “religious, moral, philosophical, and juridical ideas have been modified in the course of historical development. But religion, morality, philosophy, political science, and law, constantly survived this change.”
“There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, Justice, etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience.”
What does this accusation reduce itself to? The history of all past society has consisted in the development of class antagonisms, antagonisms that assumed different forms at different epochs.
But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the other. No wonder, then, that the social consciousness of past ages, despite all the multiplicity and variety it displays, moves within certain common forms, or general ideas, which cannot completely vanish except with the total disappearance of class antagonisms. [Source]
Identity politics, social justice, liberalism and progressivism are all communism:
When we get ready to take the United States, we will not take it under the label of communism; we will not take it under the label of socialism. These labels are unpleasant to the American people and have been speared too much. We will take the United States under labels we have made very loveable; we will take it under liberalism, under progressivism, under democracy. But, take it, we will. [Alexander Trachtenberg, Madison Square Garden, 1944. Source: Bella Dodd.]
These four consequences (miscegenation, homosexuality, lowered births and communism) each equate to white genocide, the communist meat-grinder, historically, being the most efficient force by far.

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Friday, May 24, 2019

Conservative Google Engineer: Company Dominated by ‘Outrage Mobs and Witch Hunts’

Google has become a company where outrage mobs and witch hunts dominate its culture. These outrage mobs and witch hunts have become an existential threat not only to Google’s culture internally, but to Google’s trust and credibility externally.
Google has long claimed to be a nonpartisan company, yet like many other tech companies, they also maintain many policies against “hate speech”. How do we reconcile these two apparently conflicting goals? While this statement came from a spokesperson for Facebook, it could just as easily apply to Google, Twitter, and many other tech companies.
We’ve always banned individuals or organizations that promote or engage in violence and hate, regardless of ideology.
An astute reader will notice that this response does not actually answer the question; it merely shifts it from one point to another. Instead of asking, “Is Google a nonpartisan company?” we instead ask, “Does Google apply a nonpartisan definition of hate speech?”¹
(As for Facebook, we now know that they have a list of “hate agents” that includes Candace Owens.)
So what exactly is the definition of hate speech? Well, let’s just ask the outrage mobs at Google that succeeded. One outrage mob formed when Google sponsored CPAC, and they created an internal petition titled, “Google, Don’t Sponsor Hate.” Another outrage mob formed when Kay Coles James, President of the Heritage Foundation, was appointed to an AI ethics panel, and they created an external petition from a Medium account called “Googlers Against Transphobia and Hate.”
But don’t worry, these outrage mobs are not opposed to all conservatives. They are only opposed to the “hateful” conservatives.

These outrage mobs against “hate” have become honeypots for toxic, hostile, and uncivil discourse. While some of their rhetoric is so outlandish that you have no choice but to laugh it, the psychological effects that these outrage mobs have on their targets is nothing to laugh about. Just read this excerpt from Kay Coles James about her own experience with Google’s outrage mob:
In 1961, at age 12, I was one of two-dozen black children who integrated an all-white junior high school in Richmond. White parents jeered me outside the school, and inside, their kids stuck me with pins, shoved me in the halls and pushed me down the stairs. So when the group of Google employees resorted to calling names and making false accusations because they didn’t want a conservative voice advising the company, the hostility was reminiscent of what I felt back then — that same intolerance for someone who was different from them.
I won’t lie, that was a tough part to read. But if you ask the outrage mob, that wasn’t the real problem. The real question was this:
So the real question to this is whether or not we think there’s value in having the Grand Wizard of the KKK on this board.
What sort of alternate universe do you have to live in to think this sort of rhetoric is OK? And what sort of alternative universe do you have to live in where you would turn a blind eye to that rhetoric?

As I explained in a previous post, these outrage mobs and witch hunts don’t just target outsiders like CPAC and Kay Coles James. They also target insiders and Google’s own employees. But whether the target is external or internal, the goal of these outrage mobs and witch hunts is the same: to control who belongs at Google.
More importantly, if you can control who belongs at Google, then you can also control what content belongs on Google.
If the people who work at Google — or who feel psychologically safe expressing their opinions at Google — are only the ones who think that CPAC and Kay Coles Jame are hateful, then don’t be surprised if, one day in the future, hate speech is used as a pretext to censor CPAC or Kay Coles James and remove their content from Google’s platforms.

In terms of controlling who belongs at Google, these outrage mobs and witch hunts have another tool at their disposal when they target an employee of Google: HR complaints. Few organizations have as much as power to control who belongs at Google as HR does, and if that power is abused, the consequences will be disastrous.
Standing up to an outrage mob or a witch hunt is hard enough when HR doesn’t get involved. It gets even harder when you start worrying about whether HR will discipline you, or even worse, when they actually do discipline you. A few months ago, the Lincoln Network released their 2019 Viewpoint Inclusion Survey Report, and one of the pull quotes from that survey directly captures this experience:
CONSERVATIVE — Employees will interpret your words in the most offensive way possible, then report you to HR based on that interpretation. It’s one big offendedness sweepstakes. When people get in trouble, it’s often based not on what they said, but on how others interpreted their words, regardless of how unreasonable that interpretation is. And there is some evidence HR does have a political agenda. I’ve even seen someone get reported to HR for sharing a National Review article.
One Google employee, who gave me permission to share his story, was once hauled into a meeting with management and HR over some of his writings on company message boards. He was not directly punished in that meeting, but the meeting did carry a strong implied threat of future punishment. Here was one of the issues that was mentioned to him in writing after that meeting:
One Googler raised a concern that you that you appeared to be promoting and defending Jordan Peterson’s comments about transgender pronouns, and this made them feel unsafe at work.
Allegedly, Google is a company that supports a freedom of expression, but Google is also a company where you can get in trouble with HR for defending Jordan Peterson’s stance that the government cannot compel speech, including compelling the usage of preferred pronouns.

I have heard other stories like this one, but for obvious reasons, most people don’t want to share these stories. Thus, the time has finally come for me to step forward and share my own story, especially on behalf of those who have stories of their own but do not yet feel ready to share them.
At Google, I have been the owner and the creator of the republicans@ mailing list. When I first created that mailing list back in October 2016, my humble ambition was to create a community for Republicans at Google and help make the company a little more friendlier for Republicans. It would suffice to say that my actual experience has thrust me into a much larger role than I could ever have imagined (a topic which I could spend an entire post on).
My role as the republicans@ owner has also made me a prime target for the outrage mobs and witch hunts. On March 6, 2019, I was pulled into a meeting of my own with my management and HR. During that meeting, I received a final written warning, and I received a verbal offer of 8 weeks of severance pay if I left the company. That verbal offer of severance was an implied threat of termination. While they never said it explicitly, it was clear that if I didn’t take that offer, they would invent some pretext to fire me shortly thereafter.
(Due to an unexpected series of events, this process was put on hold, but that would only delay the inevitable.)

So how do you deal with these outrage mobs and witch hunts?
I seem to be quite deft at navigating that sort of environment, and I seem to know more than most about these sorts of situation. In my senior year of college at Cornell University, I even played a leading role in successfully pushing back against an outrage mob that came dangerously close to kicking a Christian fellowship group off campus.² Yet even with all that expertise and experience, I must admit there are so many answers that I still don’t have.
Trivial or fabricated charges are a dime a dozen. You can definitively refute one charge,³ and you can modify your behavior to avoid another charge, but then a new trivial and fabricated charge will arise to take the place of the old one. On top of that, it is very easy to write these charges in a way where they will look credible to a neutral outsider who has no additional context, even though they would quickly crumble once you were provided the full context.
Thus, I’m not going to rebut every single charge that has been presented against me, but I will highlight a couple of allegations in depth, in order to expose this kangaroo court for the true monster that it is. The intent is not just to rebut individual charges, though I will do that as well. The intent is to demonstrate how the process for producing such charges is so fundamentally flawed and untrustworthy that it compromises the entire process.

So, let’s look at the first allegation that I will unveil:
2/9/2019, You received feedback on industry-info@ that your comments were “rude, disrespectful, and intellectually dishonest”
Now first of all, let me state with the utmost confidence that I believe Google HR has consistently enforced their standards against rude, disrespectful, and intellectually dishonest comments against everyone who has taken part in these various outrage mobs.
(In case you couldn’t tell, that was sarcasm.)
What’s really disturbing here is that HR (and my management) has completely abandoned any pretense of enforcing any sort of objective and impartial standard. What matters is not whether I was objectively disrespectful or not; what matters is that someone accused me of being disrespectful by their own subjective standards. Given the crazy subjective standards that some of these activists have, that’s a pretty damn scary reality.
So, you may ask, which activist did this accusation come from? Was it one of the activists who thought that CPAC was hateful? Was it one of the activists who thought that Kay Coles James was hateful? That definitely would be relevant context here, context that was conveniently omitted here.
In this particular case, that accusation came from the person who called Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) a terrorist: Blake Lemoine.⁴ On top of that, in the exact same thread where he called me “rude, disrespectful, and intellectually dishonest,” he also doubled down on his comments about Sen. Blackburn.
If someone calls a sitting Republican legislator a terrorist, it probably is not a good idea to treat that person as a credible accuser in disciplinary action against the owner of the republicans@ mailing list.

The other allegation I will (partially) unveil has a similar format:
1/22/2019: You wrote in the activists-us@ group: “The definition of ‘Google’s values’ that matters is the one used by Google’s activists, who could only be described as ‘nonpartisan’ in the same sense that the Women’s March could be described as inclusive towards pro-life Jewish women.“ Other members of the group responded that your statement was percieved [sic] as hateful/incendiary/inflammatory. [redacted]
Now normally, I leave the activists-us@ group alone, but in this circumstance, a member of Google’s US public policy team responded to their hate-thread about CPAC, confirming that Google would not be a sponsor of CPAC this year. In my tenure as the republicans@ owner, few things have alienated conservatives at the company as much as the CPAC debate, so in this instance, I decided to go to bat for my fellow Republicans. Thus, I decided to write a response to that member of the US public policy team, even if it meant wading into the activists-us@ group. Here was the full email I wrote:
This decision is a travesty. Few things have alienated conservatives at Google as much as the CPAC debate, and the US public policy team’s decision here will only further that alienation. It’s clear that the demands of the dominant activist tribe matter more than principled pluralism at this company.
With all this talk of respect at Google, I can’t help but come back to the wise words of John Stuart Mill in On Liberty. In a paragraph on the topic of intemperate discussion, Mill writes, “The worst offence of this kind which can be committed by a polemic, is to stigmatize those who hold the contrary opinion as bad and immoral men.” When the anti­-CPAC petition promoted by activists­-us@ is literally titled, “Google, Don’t Sponsor Hate,” it’s clear that this dark art of polemics is well and alive at Google. The clear undertone of this debate has been that conservatives are both hateful and evil. I’ve had this running joke that Google is full of social justice activists who are dedicated to ridding the world of the evils of Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and John Kasich. That joke takes on a new life of its own when the anti­-CPAC petition lumps Marion Maréchal­-Le Pen and the NRA into the same overly broad, hopelessly vague category of “hate”.
Google CEO Sundar Pichai has insisted time and time again that Google is a nonpartisan company, but more and more those words seem like empty words: all talk, no action. Both internally and externally, a narrative has begun to emerge that liberal political activists are calling the shots at Google. It’s really hard to refute that narrative when the US public policy team engages with activists­-us@ “in the spirit of communication and good faith” to inform them that Google has caved to their demands, and that Google will not be sponsoring CPAC this year. Somewhere, a document exists that explicitly defines Google’s values, and perhaps those values could be described as non­partisan, but that definition does not seem to be the one that matters. The definition of “Google’s values” that matters is the one used by Google’s activists, who could only be described as “nonpartisan” in the same sense that the Women’s March could be described as inclusive towards pro-­life Jewish women. Or, to quote a rather prescient headline from David French of The National Review, “In Outrage Campaigns, It’s the Internal Mob that Matters.”
Given all the hateful, incendiary, and inflammatory rhetoric that was deployed by the outrage mob against CPAC, it is beyond belief that this email was the one that got punished. For example, the person who accused me of being incendiary was also the same person who compared black conservatives who spoke at CPAC to Jews who spoke at a Holocaust denial conference.
But on the bright side, at least we now know the definition of “hate speech” that Google HR uses: anything that Google’s activists perceive as hateful. And to explain just how insane that standard is, at one point, I asked one of these activists if I had correctly summarized their views: “So to be clear, Google can’t fund groups that espouse pro-­life views, and if Google does, then ‘How do we expect women to work here?’” Their response: “Correct.” (There was one non-activist who pushed back against that claim, but none of the activists pushed back against it or even seemed to be remotely bothered by it.)
Now that doesn’t mean you can’t espouse pro-life views at Google. You are still free to espouse pro-life views so long as activists don’t perceive those views to be hateful, incendiary, or inflammatory. Just remember that some of these activists also think that women can’t be expected to work at Google if it donates to groups that espouse pro-life views.
(As for the second part I redacted, debunking that part would require additional context and would require me to publish many more emails as relevant context. While publishing those emails would certainly be advantageous to my position, here I have opted to redact that second part instead of debunking it. I think I’ve already made my point by now.)

As I said before, I’m not going to cover every trivial or fabricated allegation made against me, but it should be pretty clear by now that this final written warning is a political witch hunt.
Surely, my management and HR will try to claim that problems with how I conduct myself in the course of the work as a software engineer also factored into this final written warning, but if that was the real problem, then why would they even have brought my political viewpoints into this matter in the first place? That’s what their real problem with me is here.
The manager who took part in this final written warning also once told me that my “Googleyness” was more important for my career than the actual work I did. Now, I can finally confirm what he meant by that…
I have long suspected that political bias has impaired their judgment of my work — that I have been judged for who I am, not for what I do — but up until this point, there has been a lot of smoke, but no smoking gun. Now, I have that smoking gun, though to be honest, I am a little surprised that they delivered it to me in writing and on a silver platter.

Now that we have several examples of what Google HR considers to be policy violations, let me also provide an example of what is not considered to be a policy violation.
After the outrage mob against Kay Coles James had succeeded, a Google employee posted the op-ed that Kay Coles James wrote for the Washington Post on Google’s industryinfo@ mailing list. You can imagine what the reaction was like from most of the employees who participated in that thread.
I myself didn’t want to get drawn into an extensive debate on that topic, but I did want to state my views and express support for Kay Coles James. Thus, I decided to write this simple post:
To be clear, had the council still existed with Kay Coles James on it, James should have felt welcome during council meetings to express the views she expressed in her tweets, including her views about the Equality Act.
https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108768455141007360
https://www.heritage.org/gender/heritage-explains/the-equality-act
https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1108365238779498497
https://twitter.com/KayColesJames/status/1100488434500685824
As usual, Blake Lemoine replied in a thoughtful and respectful manner:
Yes. Everyone is clearly aware of your opinion that Google should be open to discussing whether trans women are actually women. Everyone is aware that you think that the viewpoint that trans women are actually men invading womens’ spaces is one which should be open for discussion.
Everyone is aware of your tolerance for bigotry.
Oh, and yeah. My comment was essentially a restatement of one of James’ tweets and the document to which it linked. She believes and clearly stated that she believes trans women are men invading womens’ spaces. She said many other things too. Some of which were reasonable. But when you say that you believe that ideas she expressed in those tweets should be welcome at Google then you are literally saying that womanhood of your trans female coworkers is a topic which should be a topic for debate on Google’s ethics council.
At this point, another Google employee made a heartfelt plea that we should be more respectful towards religious minorities at Google. Of course, Blake Lemoine only doubled down after that:
Bigotry is not a religion. This is despite the fact that bigots have regularly tried to wrap their bigotry in holy robes.
As for whether everyone is entitled to their own “understanding” of who is a man, who is a woman and who is a person, sure. Understand things whatever way you want. I have no problems with what people believe in their heart of hearts. That’s not what this conversation is about though. This conversation is explicitly about which ideas are welcome in a Google ethics committee for the purpose of shaping company policy.
If someone wants to influence Google’s policy with their ideas that their trans co-workers are really men invading womens’ spaces then they aren’t welcome here. If anyone personally believes that then that’s their perogative. I’m sure that supporters of a white ethnostate can be quite effective at building server infrastructure. I don’t think their beliefs should impact their employment here one way or another. It’s when they start trying to effect change within the company on the basis of those beliefs that I think they should be shown the door.
If you think black people aren’t people you can either keep it to yourself or GTFO.
If you think that trans women aren’t women then you can either keep it to yourself or GTFO.
Google’s corporate policies are crystal clear on that.

At this point, I was extremely tempted to report Blake for being “rude, disrespectful, and intellectually dishonest,” but I didn’t do that.
Nowadays, I normally don’t like to report anything to HR.⁵ I certainly don’t want to be part of the problem when it comes to frivolous HR complaints. In this instance, though, Blake crossed another line that is objective, clear, and viewpoint-neutral: he started making employment threats, not just against me, but against entire classes of Google employees. I did report him for that.
And of course, HR determined that Blake had not violated any of Google’s policies. For obvious reasons, I pushed back against that, but even an HR manager would not budge. I was honestly shocked at how HR tried to rationalize his clearly unacceptable behavior.

If left unchecked, these outrage mobs will hunt down any conservative, any Christian, and any independent free thinker at Google who does not bow down to their agenda. Anyone who stands up to them will be hounded until they either shut the fuck up or they “get the fuck out”. Furthermore, Google HR has clearly shown that they function as an accessory to these witch hunts.
As I said before, once you control who belongs at Google, you can control what content belongs on Google.

[1] Even the part about violence poses potential problems. While most everyone would agree that actual violence is bad, the definition of violence itself has been subject to concept creep. More and more, we’ve heard claims that speech is violence, and the outrage mob against Kay Coles James was no exception to that trend. Thus, it’s important that your definition of violence doesn’t endorse this notion that speech is violence.
[2] But back then, in theory I was nothing more than the conservative columnist for The Cornell Daily Sun, though in practice my role was much more than that. Today, in theory I am nothing more than the owner of a social mailing list [republicans@] at Google, though in practice my role is much more than that. It’s an eerie parallel that I have definitely noticed.
[3] On one occasion, through some clever cross-examination, I was able to catch my management in a lie. Here, HR did not respond by directly acknowledging that lie. Instead, they responded by saying they would capture my feedback and questions in an addendum. This tactic appears to be a fairly common one. In other words, they won’t act on a lie, but they will allow you to write an addendum to create the perception that they acted on a lie.
[4] At the time she was called a terrorist, Marsha Blackburn was serving in the House of Representatives. She would later be elected to the Senate.
[5] Believe it or not, when I first arrived at Google, I tended to blindly trust Google HR in a way that was extremely naive and for which I rightly deserved to be criticized. It suffices to say that I’ve since abandoned that naivety.


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