Lady Gaga wears latex, lace and metal masks in new ‘911’ music video
Lady Gaga’s new “911” music video, which dropped Friday morning, is a lot of things. Directed by “The Fall” and “The Cell” filmmaker Tarsem Singh, it’s an ode of sorts to her experience with antipsychotic medication, an homage to the 1969 Soviet art film “The Color of Pomegranates” and a mini movie, with a shocking third-act twist we won’t spoil here.
Check out the symbolism in this new one..
CDC makes another change on testing, says those in close contact with COVID should get tested
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday reversed coronavirus guidance on testing – now saying anybody having come in close contact with an infected person should get tested. The federal agency said last month that people who didn’t feel sick didn’t need to get tested, sparking criticism as the second outbreak of the virus was underway. With the announced clarification Friday, the CDC essentially returned to its previous testing guidance. The CDC now says anybody having come within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes should get a test. In a statement, the agency called the changes a “clarification” that was needed “due to the significance of asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic transmission,” according to the Associated Press.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/cdc-makes-another-change-testing-says-those-close-contact-covid-should
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https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/testing-overview.html
CDC drops controversial testing advice that caused backlash
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Sen. John Thune Delaying Trump FCC Nominee Critical to Tackling Big Tech Bias
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), an establishment Republican who once urged Donald Trump to drop out of the 2016 presidential race, is slow-walking a Trump nominee to the FCC whose confirmation is critical to tackling Big Tech censorship.
A petition currently before the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) asks the committee to narrow the bounds of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a bill that allows tech companies to censor their users with little risk of legal blowback. The petition is a crucial element of President Trump’s executive order on social media censorship, which aims to combat Big Tech’s well-documented viewpoint discrimination. But the FCC, which has five members including Chairman Ajit Pai, is currently down one commissioner. Obama-appointed commissioner Michael O’Rielly was up for renomination, but President Trump wisely declined to renominate him after O’Rielly — nominally a Republican — suggested that he would oppose the president’s executive order, saying tech monopolies are still “First Amendment protected entities.” O’Rielly may or may not be right about that, but the First Amendment does not entitle corporations to the protections of Section 230, a law that grants tech platforms specific legal protections that no other type of company enjoys. After O’Rielly’s comments, President Trump withdrew his nomination, instead choosing to nominate Nathan Simington, currently an adviser in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
But Sen. Thune, the Senate Majority Whip and chairman of the Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, is demanding Trump renominate O’Rielly, who has said he will protect Big Tech’s “First Amendment” right to censor the internet. Bringing O’Rielly back “would be the simplest thing to do,” Thune recently told a reporter. “Hopefully … they’ll come to that realization.” Thune said he will “move forward” with Simington as the FCC nominee if that remains Trump’s wish, “but I think [the White House will] have to deal with the reality that it’s unlikely that we can get through this process before” the election. There is, in fact, enough time for Simington to be approved by the Senate before the election. But Thune’s comments imply that he intends to slow-walk the process of confirming a commissioner who might actually use his power to rein in Big Tech bias. If Biden wins, O’Rielly can be renominated and the tech companies will not have to deal with the risk of a hostile FCC. Much will depend on the actions of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. Should Sen. Wicker fail to use next week to schedule a hearing, he will effectively delay the confirmation until after the election. In a comment to Breitbart News, Chairman Wicker said, “the President has underscored the importance of this nomination, and I hope the Committee will move expeditiously.” Sen. Thune’s office did not provide a comment for this article but did indicate that Sen. Thune recognizes the FCC commissioner is a critical role. Sen. Thune was one of the most anti-Trump establishment Republicans in 2015 and 2016. Alongside Justin Amash and other establishment Republicans, he urged the president to drop out of the race in October 2016, after the release of the Access Hollywood tape.
Despite chairing the Senate’s influential subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, Sen. Thune let Democrats lead the way in 2018, when he agreed to a joint congressional hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg over the “scandal” of Trump campaign contractors accessing Facebook data in 2016, even though the Obama campaign had been given access to far more data in 2012 with very little outcry. At that hearing, instead of asking Zuckerberg why Facebook hasn’t turned over decisions on filtering constitutionally protected content to their users (like Google’s “safe search” button), Sen. Thune publicly conceded to Zuckerberg that there was a “line between legitimate political discourse and hate speech,” that could be “hard to identify.”
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/09/18/sen-john-thune-delaying-trump-fcc-nominee-critical-to-tackling-big-tech-bias/