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‘Meta’: Facebook’s New Name Mocked Online, Means ‘Dead’ In Hebrew

Earlier this week, Facebook announced that it would be changing its company name to “Meta.” The social media giant was quickly mocked online after it was pointed out that the new name sounds like the Hebrew word for “dead.”

Specifically, Meta is pronounced like the feminine form of the Hebrew word for “dead.”

Some even used the hashtag, “FacebookDead,” on Twitter.

According to the BBC, “The emergency rescue volunteers Zaka even got involved, telling their followers on Twitter: ‘Don’t worry, we’re on it.’”

As the BBC noted, this isn’t the first time a company has faced ridicule over a rebranding choice. 

In the 1980s, KFC’s “finger-lickin’ good” translated to Mandarin as “eat your fingers off.” Rolls-Royce had to change the name of its “Silver Mist” model, as “mist” translates to “excrement” in German. And Nokia’s “Lumia” phone is also a synonym for “prostitute” in Spanish.

“Announcing [Meta] — the Facebook company’s new name,” Facebook announced on Twitter. “Meta is helping to build the metaverse, a place where we’ll play and connect in 3D. Welcome to the next chapter of social connection.”

The name change was formally announced by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company’s virtual reality and augmented reality conference, Facebook Connect. 

“I’ve been thinking a lot about our identity as we begin this next chapter. Facebook is one of the most used products in the history of the world,” Zuckerberg said, according to CNN. “It is an iconic social media brand, but increasingly it just doesn’t encompass everything that we do.

“Today we’re seen as a social media company,” he added, “but in our DNA, we are a company that builds technology to connect people. And the metaverse is the next frontier just like social networking was when we got started.”

“I know that some people will say that this isn’t a time to focus on the future, and I want to acknowledge that there are important issues to work on in the present. There always will be,” Zuckerberg said. “So for many people, I’m just not sure there ever will be a good time to focus on the future. But I also know that there are a lot of you who feel the same way that I do.”

“We live for what we’re building,” Zuckerberg added. “And while we make mistakes, we keep learning and building and moving forward.”

“Your devices won’t be the focal point of your attention anymore,” he said. “We’re starting to see a lot of these technologies coming together in the next five or 10 years. A lot of this is going to be mainstream and a lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one, on a daily basis.”

In September, in a blog post titled, “Building the Metaverse Responsibly,” Facebook announced a “$50 million investment in global research and program partners to ensure these products are developed responsibly.”

VP Kamala Harris Less Popular than Predecessors Pence, Biden, Cheney, and Gore

An analysis from a Los Angeles Times project to track national opinion surveys on the popularity of Vice President Kamala Harris reveals she is less popular than President Joe Biden and her last four predecessors.

The Los Angeles Times reported:

As of Oct. 26, 42 percent of registered voters had a favorable opinion of Harris and 51 percent had an unfavorable opinion — a net rating of -9 percentage points, according to a Times average. 

And Harris is more unpopular after less than a year in office than four of her predecessors — Mike Pence, Biden, Dick Cheney, and Al Gore.

In the Times’ latest average, Biden’s favorable rating is 46 percent, and his unfavorable rating is 51 percent — “a positive net of about -5 percentage points.”

“That puts Harris’s rating under Biden’s by -4 percentage points,” according to the Times.

The Times tries to blame others for the decline, including an interview with NBC’s Lester Holt where Harris was pressed about not visiting the border where hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens have come over the U.S. southern border with Mexico since the 2020 election.

The Times also tries to tie Harris’s low numbers to sexism by claiming, like other female politicians, she is the target of online abuse.

“As Harris’ stature has increased, so has the volume of sexist, violent and misogynistic attacks against her on social media, with researchers finding hundreds of thousands of examples,” the Times reported.

Legendary Rapper Ice Cube Quits Sony Film Over Covid Vaccine Mandate

Top hip-hop artist Ice Cube is prepared to sacrifice a $9 million payday over his refusal to take an experimental Covid-19 vaccine.

After the producers of a Sony comedy titled Oh Nell No announced requirements for all cast to be vaccinated, the rapper decided to resign from the project.

Sources told The Hollywood Reporter film production has been pushed back as the studio looks to find a replacement for Ice Cube, whose real name is O’Shea Jackson.

Jackson was set to co-star with Jack Black, who is also one of the film’s producers.

The pair were going to start filming in Hawaii this winter.

Ice Cube, who previously promoted wearing masks, has yet to comment on his decision to exit the comedy or on his stance on Covid vaccines.

1/6 Defense Attorney To Subpoena FBI Over Ray Epps, Instigators Caught On Video

January 6 defense attorney Jonathan Moseley wants answers from the FBI about Ray Epps and Sean McHugh

Jonathan Moseley, defense attorney for Philadelphia Proud Boys chapter president Zach Rehl, expressed determination to confront the FBI with a subpoena in response to National File’s report that a second man – Sean Michael McHugh – was caught on camera trying to incite demonstrators to storm the Capitol Building.

That report followed a comprehensive article by Revolver News breaking down considerable evidence that Ray Epps was acting as an FBI informant when he repeatedly urged Pro-Trump rally-goers to enter the Capitol.

Neither McHugh nor Epps have been charged with conspiracy. Moseley’s client Zach Rehl, however, is set to stand trial on conspiracy charges, despite the fact that federal prosecutors do not allege that Rehl stormed the Capitol, committed violence or destroyed property.

Moseley explained that the federal government also has not provided any evidence that Rehl ever encouraged others to behave violently on January 6. The government’s case against Rehl even acknowledges that he was only ever “armed” with a walkie-talkie.

“I plan to start with a subpoena to get all information about these incidents,” Moseley told National File. “I believe that the government knew that their allegations against my client were false, because they knew who actually was responsible for inciting an attack on the Capitol,” Moseley charged.

Moseley also elaborated on why Epps’ monologues were so suspicious. “[Epps] talks about nothing but crossing the line to committing a crime,” said Moseley. “The only thing he is focused on is getting people to go to the Capitol and enter the building. He shows no interest in why or any message to be sent. He is only focused on getting people to break the law.”

Moseley explained that, in the various videos of Ray Epps, “he plants the idea of getting arrested, to encourage the crowd to break the law.” Moseley told National File that “It certainly looks to me that these provocateurs were working for or acting for the government in some capacity.”

Federal prosecutors have indicted many of the hundreds of 1/6 defendants including Rehl – the vast majority of whom were not even accused of perpetrating violence – on a new and creative interpretation of Title 18 U.S. Code § 1512(c). The statute prescribes a maximum sentence of 20 years for anyone who “corruptly” “otherwise obstructs, influences or impedes any official proceeding, or attempts to do so”.

Authorities have conceded that the law was originally written to combat crimes like destruction of evidence in actual court cases in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2005 exoneration of Arthur Anderson LLP, but insist that anyone whose otherwise-lawful political demonstration inconveniences a Congressional proceeding for a motive the Justice Department deems “corrupt” can be convicted of a federal felony and imprisoned for two decades.

D.C. Courts have yet to issue decisive rulings on the question of whether this charge is appropriate for anyone charged in connection with 1/6.

Moseley views these recent revelations with optimism, hoping it will further encourage fellow 1/6 defense attorneys to share exculpatory information and stand strong against any attempt to intimidate their clients into issuing false confessions out of desperation.

“Attorneys defending those arrested from the January 6 demonstrations are increasingly talking to each other,” Moseley told National File. “At least half a dozen attorneys are very concerned about videos of the 2 or 3 provocateurs filmed on January 5 and 6 inciting the crowds to ‘storm’ and enter the U.S. Capitol.”

Moseley explained that “this is important because most of the January 6 defendants are accused of conspiring, planning, and organizing an attack on the Capitol to stop the counting of Electoral College votes.” He said, “But there is no evidence of them planning anything other than a peaceful trip to D.C. and a peaceful protest at the Ellipse and Washington Monument. ”

“There are 2 or 3 and probably more people caught on tape actually doing what our clients are  falsely accused of. It’s almost like the Proud Boys are being falsely accused to distract from the provocateurs. So we will be taking steps in the court cases.”

Zachary Rehl, who missed the birth of his daughter while jailed over January 6, is a former Marine and the son and grandson of Philadelphia police officers. His young wife gave birth alone to their first child during his lengthy pre-trial incarceration, which is expected to last for over 14 months total. He faces more than 30 years in jail if convicted.

Rehl is raising money for his defense, which Moseley says will cost at least $75,000, and to provide for his wife and daughter while he remains jailed by the Biden regime. Those wishing to donate can contribute on their OurFreedomFunding page.

Judge Blocks Biden Administration from Firing Unvaccinated Civilian and Military Employees

Federal workers who are fighting President Joe Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate on the grounds of religion have won a round in court.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District of Columbia on Thursday issued a temporary restraining order that protects military and civilian employees from being fired while their requests for religious exemptions to Biden’s vaccine mandate are being heard, according to Fox News.

“None of the civilian employee plaintiffs will be subject to discipline while his or her request for a religious exception is pending,” Kollar-Kotelly ordered.

The judge also ruled that “active duty military plaintiffs, whose religious exception requests have been denied, will not be disciplined or separated during the pendency of their appeals,” according to Fox News.

The court further ordered that Biden and the top administration officials named in the lawsuit file a notice Friday to indicate whether they will agree that no plaintiff will be disciplined or terminated until there is a final ruling on the question of religious exemptions.

Twenty people had sued Biden and his top officials over the executive order that mandated vaccinations for all federal workers, civilian and military alike.

“The Biden administration has shown an unprecedented, cavalier attitude toward the rule of law and an utter ineptitude at basic constitutional contours,” attorney Michael Yoder, who represented those suing the administration, said in a statement.

“This combination is dangerous to American liberty,” Yoder said “Thankfully, our Constitution protects and secures the right to remain free from religious persecution and coercion.”

“With this order, we are one step closer to putting the Biden administration back in its place by limiting government to its enumerated powers. It’s time citizens and courts said no to tyranny. The Constitution does not need to be rewritten, it needs to be reread,” he said.

The complaint Yoder filed indicated that those filing it, and others, would face termination on Nov. 22.

“Contemporaneous with the commencement of this action Plaintiffs have filed an Application for a Temporary Restraining Order (‘TRO’) and Preliminary Injunction to maintain the status quo of our federal governmental operations and to put an end to this involuntary game of Monty Hall millions of Americans have been compelled to involuntary play,” the complaint said.

“And while the currency of this game is not exclusively money but also the rights to life, liberty, and property, it would be imprudent to not address the magnitude of the economic impact of this case,” it said.

The complaint said the stakes were high for those suing and the nation as a whole.

“Absent the injunctive relief Plaintiffs request herein, Plaintiffs will suffer irreparable harm as their fundamental rights are trampled and they lose their jobs for no reason beyond their sincerely held religious beliefs,” the complaint said.

“If Defendants are not enjoined from enforcing the Vaccine Mandates, hundreds of thousands of federal workers and military personnel will be forcibly removed from our government and Armed Forces, thrusting our nation into a state more vulnerable than the United States has experienced in a quarter of a millennium,” it said.

The complaint noted that abortion was central to the religious objections offered by those suing the Biden administration.

“Because all three of the currently available COVID-19 vaccines are developed and produced from, tested with, researched on, or otherwise connected with the aborted fetal cell lines HEK-293 and PER.C6, Plaintiffs’ sincerely held religious beliefs compel them to abstain from obtaining or injecting any of these products into their body, regardless of the perceived benefit or rationale,” the complaint said.

Americans must get school boards under control if the US is to have any future worth saving

“I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.” — Gandalf

The apology we just got from the National School Boards Association for calling parents who push back on radical race and gender curriculums “domestic terrorists” is, quite frankly, a modern-day political and moral miracle.

After all, we live in a world where a middle-aged dude named Rachel was just, ahem, honored as the first “female” to be classified as a four-star admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. Now, that’s the progressive Spirit of the Age cult for ya. Always on the march, destroying reality itself at every turn and daring you to stop it, lest you be called a bigot.

Except …

There’s this little thing coming up at the beginning of November called an election. And whereas I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve been told in the past that the presidential election du jour was the most important election of our lifetimes, I’m actually inclined to consider the school board elections before us a far more consequential referendum on the state of our national will.

Because one of the greatest tricks the progressive cult ever pulled is to take the average American citizen’s eye off the ball at the local level and idolatrously steer all of its gaze toward the federal level. We became addicted to a soap opera hardly any of us have the power to directly control, while right there in front of us the very education of our children was being ransacked by neighbors.

The lie that school board elections aren’t political time and time and time again convinced people to swallow Kool-Aid that they knew was rancid. Tolerance. Diversity. Equity. Everyone waved those bloody pom-poms for years in their local school districts, because “being nice” was much more in style than questioning the ever-growing god complex of many of our nation’s teachers. It was a masterful victory for brainwashing and propagandizing an entire nation. Maybe, just maybe, though, America is showing signs of waking up from its trance.

This isn’t because of any one thing. Teachers’ unions played a key role in keeping schools shut down and kids forever masked during the last 20 months of our Covidstan saga. This happens to be the first election of any consequence after the steal of 2020. The vaccine wars are begging to create a new class of second-class citizenry. The absence of real journalism makes it nearly impossible for objectivity, honesty, and accountability to take root.

Many are promoting an actual national divorce between blue and red states. Critical race theory and mental illness have replaced tolerance, diversity, and equity with “you will worship us or else you are a domestic terrorist,” per the directive of the attorney general of the United States. And on and on.

Our lives feel very much out of control. Worse still, we see our children’s future, and it looks pretty bleak unless something changes. That’s why school board meetings across the country have been filling up. At long last, the notion of just how badly we are failing our next generation seems to have kicked in, and instead of waiting for some “expert” somewhere to do something, more and more of We the People are taking matters into our own hands.

Which takes us back to the NSBA apology. Such autonomy from We the People simply won’t do for the progressive cult. Thus, the puppet masters are truly scared for once and not simply gaming the system. They would rather lose the presidency than the schools if it came right down to it. The schools are where the lies now destroying us are planted and fertilized. They have literally turned our schools into Satan’s youth ministry. If that ends in enough places, so ultimately ends their woke harvest.

Better do something while we still have elections. Better do something right damn now. For this isn’t about whether you think we should have public schools or not, or whether you send your own kids there or to private school. It’s about power, who has it, where it belongs, and what you are prepared to do to make the world make sense again.

No more experimenting on our children. No more forsaking their birthright. For the love of God, no more. Take your schools back. Take your country back.

28 Million Young Vaccine Guinea Pigs, and Counting

This week, a U.S. Food and Drug Administration panel unanimously (with one abstention) approved Pfizer’s COVID vaccine to be given to 5- to 11-year-old children.

In doing so, the FDA betrayed the expanded mission Congress gave it in the early 1960s after the morning sickness drug thalidomide caused thousands of birth defects in newborn infants in over 40 foreign countries (though exactly how thalidomide caused these defects was not fully understood until just a few years ago).

In 1962, because of thalidomide’s devastating impact, Congress added what were known as the “Kefauver Amendments” to the original bill which created the FDA in 1938. In laymen’s terms, the agency’s fundamental focus became (Page 3 at link) “better extremely safe than sorry.” Those amendments’ most critical elements (Page 5 at link) “authorized the FDA to deny a new drug application (NDA) if there was not substantial evidence that the drug would have its claimed effect.”

The FDA panel’s decision completely and indefensibly abandoned the agency’s posture during the past 60 years by approving the use of the vaccine for 28 million children in the 5-11 age group despite the clear lack of legally required “substantial evidence” of safety, or even efficacy.

The current uncertainty surrounding the use of the vaccine on young children is so severe that one panelist, Dr. Eric Ruben, clearly determined to skip the complete set of clinical trials and other steps ordinarily involved in NDAs for vaccines, asserted that “We’re never gonna learn about how safe the vaccine is until we start giving it. That’s the way it goes.”

They’re also apparently not done. In June, a Cleveland TV station reported (as seen in the final seconds of the video at the link, but not in its transcript) that the “next steps” are “looking at 2- to 5-year-olds, and also the 6 months to two-year-olds.” Pfizer’s own “Clinical Trials in Children” page confirms that the company has been conducting trials on children as young as 6 months old.

We are being led down a dangerous path, as Kaylee McGhee White explained at the Washington Examiner on Wednesday. In her article titled “FDA wants to use children as guinea pigs for COVID-19 vaccines,” she wrote:

It’s one thing to expect grown adults capable of making responsible decisions to get the shot; it’s another to ask minors to become test subjects for a vaccine, especially when the virus this vaccine combats is not a threat to children’s health in the first place.

Families who want to get their children vaccinated against COVID-19 should be free to do so. That’s their choice. The problem, however, is that it’s only a matter of time before they lose that choice and vaccination becomes mandatory.

In California, it’s not even a matter of time. Governor Gavin Newsom has already mandated that all schoolchildren get the shot when it becomes available. This mandate ignores the reality that “approximately double … (the number) of children have died of pneumonia” than have died from COVID since the virus appeared in the U.S. early last year. Absent public pushback, Newsom’s move will surely be followed by similar measures in other blue states governed by control freaks.

In an October 23 letter to the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganó, former Apostolic Nuncio to the USA, wrote:

How Joe Biden, who also defines himself as “Catholic,” could impose vaccination on 28 million children aged 5 to 11, is absolutely inconceivable, if only for the fact that there is practically zero risk of them developing the SARS-CoV-2 disease. The Holy See and the Bishops’ Conferences have the duty to express a firm condemnation in this regard, and also in relation to the very serious side effects that can result for children who are inoculated with the experimental gene serum.

When will Catholics, people of other faiths, and other Americans from all walks of life wake up, see what’s happening in plain sight, and scream, “STOP!”? Time is running short.

Two new polls show GOP’s Glenn Youngkin pulling ahead of Democrat Terry McAuliffe

This is the first time since the race began that has Youngkin outside the margin of error.

For the first time in the Virginia gubernatorial race, two new polls show Republican Glenn Youngkin with a lead outside of the margin of error.

According to a poll from Fox News, Youngkin is ahead of Democrat Terry McAuliffe by 53 to 45 percent among likely voters.

An internal poll obtained by Just the News from Youngkin’s campaign has the race a little closer, giving Youngkin a four percentage point lead over McAulliffe with 47% supporting Youngkin and 43% supporting McAuliffe. 

The poll also shows 5% of likely voters are still undecided, which could throw the race in either direction.

Because of these polls, Real Clear Politics’s average has Youngkin pulling ahead of McAuliffe by almost a percentage point.

The Virginia gubernatorial election is on Nov. 2.

AT&T’s ‘Racial Re-Education Program’ Asserts “White People, You Are the Problem”

Demands employees promote trans activism, defund the police movements.

Details of AT&T Corporation’s ‘racial re-education program’ have leaked in which the company asserts “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and announces, “white people, you’re the problem.”

The documents were obtained by investigator and Critical Race Theory exposer-in-chief Christopher Rufo.

“CEO John Stankey launched the program last year and, subsequently, has told employees that private corporations such as AT&T have an “obligation to engage on this issue of racial injustice” and push for “systemic reforms in police departments across the country,” writes Rufo.

Predictably, the re-education program was launched in response to the police killing of career criminal, drug addict and arrest-resistor George Floyd.

“According to a senior employee, who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, managers at AT&T are now assessed annually on diversity issues, with mandatory participation in programs such as discussion groups, book clubs, mentorship programs, and race reeducation exercises.”

White employees are mandated to confess their “systemic racism” and enjoyment of “white privilege” or face penalties (they’re so “privileged,” they get to enjoy one of America’s biggest corporations openly discriminating against them for their skin color).

White staffers are also asked to sign a loyalty pledge indicating their submission to the brainwashing while also vowing to ‘challenge others’ if they hear ‘hateful language’. 

“If you don’t do it,” the senior employee says, “you’re [considered] a racist.”

On the first page of AT&T’s Listen Understand Act internal portal, the company encourages employees to study a resource called “White America, if you want to know who’s responsible for racism, look in the mirror.” The article claims that the United States is a “racist society” and lays out its thesis plainly: “White people, you are the problem. Regardless of how much you say you detest racism, you are the sole reason it has flourished for centuries.” The author, Dahleen Glanton, writes that “American racism is a uniquely white trait” and that “Black people cannot be racist.” White women, she claims, “have been telling lies on black men since they were first brought to America in chains,” and, along with their white male counterparts, “enjoy the opportunities and privileges that white supremacy affords [them].”

Employees are also forced to take a ’21-Day Racial Equity Habit Challenge’ during which they have to perform yet more self-hating white guilt trips while also “promoting fashionable left-wing causes, including “reparations,” “defund police,” and “trans activism,” with further instruction to “follow, quote, repost, and retweet” organizations including the Transgender Training Institute and the National Center for Transgender Equality.”

This is yet another example of how institutionalized racism lives on, only its exclusive target is now white people.

It’s not only acceptable but openly encouraged, in the media, government, academia and within the corporate world, to discriminate against white people, particularly white men, because of their skin color.

As we highlighted yesterday, a sign that this may be starting to change is the fact that an executive who was fired for being a white male and replaced by two women, one of whom was black, was awarded a $10 million dollar discrimination payout.

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