Yarden Tzemach and a group of survivors are determined to rebuild their beloved home, where 101 residents were brutally murdered, including his brother.
Vice PresidentKamala Harriswas caught on camera telling the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) that she supports reparations.
Harris admitted during the NABJ interview in Philadelphia that she supports stealing taxpayer dollars from white Americans who were never slaveowners to give to black Americans who were never slaves.
When asked whether she would support using the power of the presidency to create a commission to study reparations, Harris expressed support for the idea.
“Do you have a position on whether that [reparations] should happen — this [reparations] commission should happen through executive order or via Congress?” Politico reporter Eugene Daniels asked the Democrat nominee.
Harris responded with another one of her signature word salads, noting that Congress should be the branch that deals with reparations while confirming that she would not discount “the importance of any executive action.”
“I think Congress ultimately will have the ability to do this work,” the Democrat nominee said. “I’m not discounting the importance of any executive action, but, ultimately, Congress because if you’re going to talk about it in any substantial way, there will be hearings, there will be a level of public education and dialog that — and I think that was part of the spirit behind the congressional action thus far — to ensure that everyone can participate in this conversation in a way that elevates knowledge about history and the reference points that have, that are the impetus of this conversation, especially, again, when people are trying to deny history, when people are, you know, so-called leaders are saying that enslaved people benefited from slavery. I mean, let’s talk about the delta here in terms of the work that needs to be done. It’s profound.”
This is far from the first time that Harris expressed support for reparations, despite the fact that a 2022 Pew Research poll found that 68% of Americans oppose reparations.
During her 2020 Democrat primary campaign, Harris vowed to force taxpayers to fund reparations — telling race grifter and MSNBC host Al Sharpton that she would sign a reparations bill if she became president.
Sharpton asked, “In the area of reparations for descendants of Africans enslaved: If you’re elected president, would you sign that bill [Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act proposed by Representative Shelia Jackson Lee] if it came across your desk?”
“When I am elected president, I will sign that bill,” Harris responded.
Tech giant Apple agreed to pay out a $95 million settlement. They aren’t admitting a thing but it’s costing their customers a fortune to keep the controversial secrets. They were accused of allowing the devices to listen in on people’s conversations without permission.
Apple pays for secrecy
Tech pioneer Apple started off the new year by paying their way out of a tricky lawsuit. Their lawyers are breathing a heavy sigh of relief because the outcome might have been much worse.
All they have to do is write a check for $95,000,000 to the plaintiffs. Plus legal fees and costs. That’s nothing to the company. They’ll simply add it to the price of their products and pass it along to the consumer.
The important part for Apple is that they don’t have to admit, deny or confirm any of the scandalous allegations. Their built in virtual assistant Siri apparently has a nasty habit of eavesdropping on customers.
Another thing they don’t want the public to know about is the way they allegedly sold voice recordings to advertisers.
Maybe they did and maybe they didn’t but the public won’t find out for sure now. Some say that answers the question conclusively. That may be true but you can’t take anyone to court over the issue ever again.
Apple customers should assume that the devices are listening to everything the microphone can pick up. Whether it’s in the range of human hearing or not.
$20 per device
In a preliminary statement issued by Apple, they emphasize that they’re not admitting any wrongdoing. They specifically deny claims that they “recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete, conversations recorded as the result of a Siri activation” without consent.
That’s a weasel worded statement because they’re accused of doing that with information obtained without Siri being activated. “Claimants say the tech firm recorded people who activated the virtual assistant unintentionally – without using the phrase ‘Hey, Siri‘ to wake it.”
The lawyers promise that they’ll personally confirm the company really has “permanently deleted individual Siri audio recordings collected by Apple prior to October 2019.”
They aren’t saying what will happen to ones later than that date. There’s a tentative date set for February 14 to hold an approval hearing in Oakland, California.
In class action suits, a small number of plaintiffs file on behalf of all those who might be affected. The $95 million settlement pot gets split between all the players.
In this suit against Apple, each U.S. based claimant “could be paid up to $20 per Siri-enabled device they owned between 2014 and 2019.” The only big winners are the lawyers. “In this case, the lawyers could take 30% of the fee plus expenses – which comes to just under $30 million.“
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