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The Telegraph- Major banks’ privacy policies allow them to monitor customers’ social media accounts

The country’s biggest banks have quietly introduced the right to monitor customers’ social media into their privacy policies, The Telegraph can disclose.
Despite public denials that they carry out checks on sites such as Facebook and Twitter, the four biggest high street lenders and several others have buried in the small print of their privacy policies that they may obtain information from social media accounts.

The Facebook Files

Jonathan Turley;

Months ago, I testified before Congress on censorship after Elon Musk’s release of internal Twitter communications, also known as the Twitter Files. I warned that the government was engaging in “censorship by surrogate,” using corporate allies to do indirectly what it is legally prevented from doing directly.

Facebook had refused to open its own files on government censorship efforts. That came to an end when the House Judiciary Committee finally moved to hold Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in contempt of Congress.

The resulting Facebook Files confirmed what many of us have suspected for years. Indeed, the emails proved to be a mirror image of what had occurred at Twitter — a massive effort by the government to pressure the company to censor its critics and other dissenting voices. […]

In an April 2021 email, Nick Clegg, Facebook’s president for global affairs, wrote to colleagues that Andy Slavitt, a senior adviser to Biden who was steering COVID-19 policy, “was outraged — not too strong a word to describe his reaction — that [Facebook] did not remove this post.”

The post was actually a humorous meme shared by a user named Timothy McComas. It featured actor Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from the film “Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood,” pointing at a TV with a beer and cigarette in hand. The caption read: “10 years from now, you will be watching TV and hear…. ‘Did you or a loved one take the COVID vaccine? You may be entitled…’”

Slavitt was not amused. More importantly, he was irate that others were amused. Hundreds of thousands of others.

Surplus value

If you are wondering what factors have contributed to economic dislocations, business failures and rising prices since the Covid pandemic began, part of the answer lies in governments splurging on items for which there is little, if any, consumer demand. That splurging eats up capital that cannot be deployed for production of goods that consumers actually have a use for.

The federal government is sitting on a stockpile of 39 million extra rapid tests for COVID-19 and is struggling to get rid of them without chucking them in the trash, an internal Health Canada memo shows.

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Canada has spent roughly $5 billion on rapid tests.

 

We Don’t Need No Flaming Sparky Cars

Toronto Sun;

Ford Motor Co.’s is throttling back on plans to ramp-up electric vehicle production, pointing the finger at a price war for battery-powered vehicles.

The automaker on Thursday said it would need another year to meet a year-end target to reach an annual production rate of 600,000 EVs, which it now expects to reach in 2024. Ford also abandoned plans to be making 2 million EVs a year by the end of 2026.

It now expects to see losses from EVs hit $4.5 billion this year, up from an earlier estimate of $3 billion. That’s more than double the $2.1 billion the company lost on EVs last year.

Saturday On Turtle Island

Biden’s America:  Black conservatives fold to Kamala’s outrage.  A Senate nursing home.  The Bidens wanted billions not millions.  Your morning meme.

Trudeau’s Canada:  And just where is Justin going to get the money for this?  First Nations child welfare deal (CBC).  Life in Comrade Chow’s Toronto.  A transgender Canadian seeking euthanasia.  Former NDP candidate accuses Singh of being Trudeau’s lapdog.  Joe Rogan trashes Trudeau again.  Today Dear Leader burns jet fuel to Prince Edward Island, so he can prance in the gay sex parade. (UPDATED)

Everyone Is Going To Die News:  Expect climate alarmism to heat up in California.  The Greta Show returns to London.

Britain:  Another history lesson with Neil Oliver.   Today In Islam:  In France support for immigration has plummeted (JW).

We’re all gonna die!!

We used to be bombarded with the message that global “boiling” was not quite here yet, but it was nonetheless imminent. That didn’t seem to generate the requisite hysteria, so the message has been amped up. Apparently, “boiling” has now arrived. Who knew?

Tommy Douglas, Not Rich Enough

The Marda Loop Medical Clinic owner, Dr. Sally Talbot-Jones, came under fire this week after the CBC reported she started a membership model at her clinic, one that charges $4,800 per year for two parents and two children, and $2,200 per year for an individual adult membership.

Ironically, Talbot-Jones appears a fully blown NDP supporter, given she has a history of pro-NDP and anti-UCP tweets. She’s tweeted support of the NDP and opposition to the UCP multiple times since 2020.

TC Energy is dumping Keystone Pipeline in spinoff

Keystone XL pipe, in 2011, that was never used. Photo by Brian Zinchuk

 

TC Energy, which I still think of as TranCanada, from back when I built pipelines for them, is spinning off its oil pipelines, which is principally the Keystone system.

I was searching for the best metaphor. “Like hot garbage,” kept coming to mind. I settled on dumping an ex-wife. My column on this: TC Energy dumping Keystone Pipeline like a despised, soon-to-be-ex-wife. The Keystone name is so verboten, it is barely mentioned in the press release or slide deck.

This is entirely because the anti-pipeline, anti-oil movement won on Keystone XL and Energy East. Can’tada and BANANAS USA won, and this is the result. (Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone, Seriously, U Stup1d A@#$#@#)

Friday On Turtle Island

Trudeau’s Canada:  Winnipeg Police HQ vandalized.  Don’t make fun of Comrade Chow.  Today Trudeau burns jet fuel to Quebec, for some sort of photo op.

Biden’s America:  Kamala Harris calls Florida officials extremists.  The Jason Aldean saga.  Evidence of trantifa violence.  Go Go Mexico.  Jill Biden’s ex-husband slams Biden crime family.  This week in really big lies.  Your morning meme.

Today In Islam:  Life is good for Muslim migrants in Holland (JW).  The link between Islam and leftists.

Global Warming Scam News:  Ford keeps making electric cars.   China looks to flood the market.

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