Facebook should not have the power to ban Donald Trump says … Elizabeth Warren

May 10, 2021

The Facebook oversight board’s ruling this week upholding the social media platform’s decision to kick President Donald Trump off his Facebook and Instagram accounts elicited cheers from anti-Trump voices across the U.S. — especially the former president’s left-wing critics.

But one notorious Trump-hating leftist wasn’t so thrilled about the media giant’s move: Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Instead, Warren ripped the company for its move — despite the fact that she is glad the former president is no longer on Facebook and considers him to be a “real danger.”

What did she say?

The woman Trump loved to taunt with the moniker “Pocahontas” appeared on Cheddar News following the Wednesday announcement and told the outlet that it was not OK for the platform to ban Trump and that the move was just one more example that Facebook has too much power.

“I’m glad that he’s not on Facebook,” Warren said. “I think that he poses a real danger. But I don’t think that Facebook ought to have this kind of power.”

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China’s Emissions Exceeded Those Of All Other Developed Nations Combined

May 10, 2021

A new report released late week found that communist China’s greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 were higher than the rest of the developed world combined.

The report was published by the Rhodium Group, a leading independent research provider that specializes in matters involving China, energy & climate, India, and economics.

“Using our newly updated global emissions data through 2019, we estimate that in 2019, for the first time since national greenhouse gas emissions have been measured, China’s annual emissions exceeded those of all developed countries combined,” the report said. “China’s emissions were less than a quarter of developed country emissions in 1990, but over the past three decades have more than tripled, reaching over 14 gigatons of CO2-equivalent in 2019.”

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Former NFL player says bringing God into schools is the only way to solve racism, economic division

May 10, 2021

Former NFL player Jack Brewer says that God needs to get back in the classroom in order to solve racial and economic divisions in the United States.

What are the details?

In an interview with the Daily Wire, Brewer — an outspoken conservative and founder of the Jack Brewer Foundation — said that educating children early will help prevent the spread of racism and more.

“Back in 2016, when [Colin] Kaepernick started kneeling, I said, ‘There is something we gotta do to bring law enforcement and community and sports to be that vehicle,'” he said. “And so we started that program and partnered with a number of police athletic leagues around the country to kind of bridge that gap. And I served for a couple years as the spokesperson for the police athletic league.”

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Ben Shapiro and Piers Morgan Revisit Their Viral Gun Control Debate

May 10, 2021

Why France is losing one religious building every two weeks

May 10, 2021

(CNA) One religious building is disappearing in France every two weeks.

That is the conclusion of Edouard de Lamaze, president of the Observatoire du patrimoine religieux (Observatory of Religious Heritage) in Paris.

He is raising the alarm in the French media about the gradual disappearance of religious edifices in a country known as the “eldest daughter of the Church” because the Frankish King Clovis I embraced Catholicism in 496.

Lamaze’s appeal for increased awareness came after a fire destroyed the 16th-century Church of Saint-Pierre in Romilly-la-Puthenaye, Normandy, northern France. The fire, deemed accidental, took place on April 15, exactly two years after the blaze that devastated Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

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Milton Friedman Speaks – Is Capitalism Humane?

May 10, 2021

Chinese document discussing weaponizing coronaviruses provides ‘chilling’ information

May 10, 2021

Ron DeSantis is SAVAGING the Left Even More Than You Think

May 10, 2021

Facebook Oversight Board Criticizes Indefinite Trump Suspension

May 10, 2021

A member of Facebook’s Oversight Board criticized Facebook’s move to indefinitely suspend President Donald Trump’s account, saying the company’s rules are problematic.

The Oversight Board ruled last week that it would keep a ban on the former commander-in-chief’s account due to his comments on Jan. 6.

“We gave them a certain amount of time to get their house in order,” board member Michael McConnell, a former federal judge, told Fox News. “They needed some time because their rules are a shambles. They are not transparent. They are unclear. They are internally inconsistent. So we made a series of recommendations about how to make their rules clearer and more consistent.”

Adding that Facebook “exercises too much power,” McConnell said Trump is “subject to the same rules on Facebook as everyone else.”

“The Oversight Board held that this was in fact a violation and thus Facebook was justified in taking them down,” McConnell said Sunday. “What we did say, though, was that they were not justified in taking him down indefinitely, that they did not provide any reasons for that, that is not a provision in their rules. That was wrong.”

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CDC Changes Rules for Counting Breakthrough Cases, as More Fully Vaccinated People Test Positive

May 10, 2021

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will report only those breakthrough cases resulting in hospitalization or death. The agency also lowered the testing threshold, but only for the fully vaccinated.

As more reports surface of breakthrough COVID cases, in and outside the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today said it will change how breakthrough cases are reported, effective May 14.

According to a statement on the CDC’s website, the agency said to help “maximize the quality of the data collected on cases of greatest clinical and public health importance” it will stop reporting weekly COVID breakthrough infections unless they result in hospitalization or death.

The news followed another change, announced late last month, in how PCR tests should be administered to the fully vaccinated.

Both changes will result in lower overall numbers of reports of breakthrough cases in the U.S.

A breakthrough case is recorded if a person tests positive for SARS-Cov-2 two weeks after receiving the single-dose Johnson & Johnson (J&J) shot or completing the two-dose Moderna or Pfizer vaccination.

Why the changes matter

In April, the CDC issued new guidance to laboratories recommending reducing the RT-PCR CT value to 28 cycles — but only for those fully vaccinated individuals being tested for COVID.

In an RT-PCR test — the gold standard for detecting SARS-CoV-2 — RNA is extracted from the swab collected from the patient. It is then converted into DNA, which is then amplified.

CT, or cycle threshold, is a value that emerges during RT-PCR tests. A CT value refers to the number of cycles needed to amplify viral RNA to reach a detectable level.

According to the Indian Council of Medical Research, a patient is considered positive for COVID if the CT value is below 35. In other words, if the virus is detectable after 35 cycles or earlier, then the patient is considered positive.

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