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BIPARTISAN BILLS
TO BREAK UP BIG TECH

Four bills were introduced aimed at reining in the power of tech giants,
even to break them up as they did AT&T's phone monopoly.

Such measures includes banning tech giants from owning/making subsidiaries to compete against other businesses on their platforms. Such actions would be akin to Amazon finding a gaming platform making money on their service and then creating their own take over the market.  Other measures also make it illegal in most cases to give preferential treatment, halt mergers unless it can show the merger doesn't harm competition, and allow users to end service and transfer their data elsewhere if desired, including to the competition.

"From Amazon and Facebook to Google and Apple. It is clear that these unregulated tech giants have become too big to care," said U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal, a Washington state Democrat and sponsor of this measure.

Representative David Cicilline, the Democratic chair of the antitrust panel, is an original co-sponsor of the bills, as is the top Republican, Ken Buck. The chair of the Judiciary Committee, Jerrold Nadler, also sponsored the bills.

  IT'S ABOUT FREAKIN' TIME!!!

Half of pandemic unemployment money
may have been stolen: report

Fraudsters may have plundered as much as half of the unemployment benefits
that the US pumped out in a hurry during the pandemic.

According to the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, at least 70 percent of the Covid relief money ended up outside of the United States, much ending up in the hands of criminal syndicates in China, Nigeria and  Russia among other places.

State unemployment systems were ill-prepared for the demands of the pandemic. It was widely assumed that some of the hundreds of billions doled out would slip through the cracks, but many politicians said it was critical to get the money out as quickly as possible.

 As much as some state governments fight against ID checks, no kidding...

Report reveals: U.S. Park Police Cleared Protesters
to Install Fencing, Not for Trump Visit

U.S. Park Police cleared protesters from a park in front of the White House last June
to install new fencing, not for former President Donald Trump's visit to take photos

As we have said all along, and it was backed up in today's highly detailed and professionally written report, our fine Park Police made the decision to clear the park to allow a contractor to safely install antiscale fencing to protect from Antifa rioters, radical BLM protestors, and other violent demonstrators who are causing chaos and death to our cities. In this instance, they tried burning down the church the day before the clearing. Fortunately, we were there to stop the fire from spreading beyond the basement—and it was our great honor and privilege to do so. Again, thank you to the Inspector General!

 Of course CNN's Jim Acosta, an outspoken critic of Trump, calls it a whitewash. But this is the same Acosta that lied about Trump's immigration speech in May 2019, about Trump visiting injured Steve Scalice after he was shot in 2017, and even lied why his press pass was suspended.

Senator blasts Fauci after doc lashes out at critics

Sen. John Kennedy warned White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci
to “cut the crap” after Fauci described criticism of him as "attacks on science"

Kennedy took issue with Fauci’s contention, noting that “Dr. Fauci gave a lot of US taxpayer money to the Wuhan lab for Chinese scientists to research bat coronaviruses. Neither Dr. Fauci nor any of his people can guarantee us that the Chinese scientists didn’t use that money to do gain-of-function research and turn a normal virus into a supercharged virus. They weren’t monitored, Dr. Fauci and his people didn’t monitor the lab, and it’s not like it hasn’t happened before.”

  Only last month, Fauci admitted funding Wuhan over Covid Research by way of NIH, but denied it was 'Gain of Function', even though he was a proponent of it and argued for it in 2012.