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Midday Rant ™

By: Bill White
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  • Midday Rant ™ sees the return of Bill White's 'OfficialRant' podcast, which he established in 2001 when he founded OfficialWire, the predecessor of WireNews. Back in 2001, before vlogs were a thing, Bill would simply upload a daily 'rant' to OfficialWire, which was widely received. After the sale of OfficialWire, Bill busied himself with other projects, and his daily take on what was catching his attention slipped to the wayside. ### Mayside TV ™ is owned by WireNews Limited, which is owned by Mayside Partners Limited, a leading venture capital firm, based in Scotland that partners with entrepreneurs to transform their ideas into world-changing products. For more information about Mayside TV visit https://mayside.tv.

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Episodes
  • Where’s the Bottom to This?
    Jun 3 2022

    by Bill White

    [Transcript]

    You may have already noticed, but June is the month during which all of the major companies, obviously social media giants like Google, Twitter, government agencies and the like have scheduled to bombard you with their campaign to normalise behaviour that is antithetical to the Torah and for that matter, every idolatry practiced by billions of people, in fact, a considerable majority of the worldwide population.

    Let’s get the disclaimer out of the way. My comments here and elsewhere are not ‘hateful conduct’ and my opinion is not intended to “promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.”

    On the contrary, this month-long deluge of behaviour that is antithetical to the Torah is targeting religious affiliation and should be prevented by companies who claim to police the Internet. But their social ‘justice’ is selective.

    These companies and agencies have an agenda, which is to force you to accept behaviour that is contrary to the teaching of [your] religion. It’s sort of like forcing a bakery to make a cake but on a global scale. And if you don’t submit, if you don’t accept, if don’t demonstrate a deep pleasure or satisfaction for that behavior, they will punish you. They will deny you your free speech rights, in favour of the “rights” of those whose behaviour they seek to promote.

    Today, Twitter suspended my personal account for 12 hours because of my reply to an offending Tweet by Elad Strohmayer (https://twitter.com/EladStr) that included the Foreign Ministry for Israel (https://twitter.com/IsraelMFA), in which I asked a simple question. I asked: “Is there no bottom to this…?” And I’m leaving out one five-letter word from that question, a five-letter word which is not recognised by anyone, anywhere as being obscene. But a five-letter word that Twitter claims turned my simple question into “Hateful Conduct”. To confirm, there was no threat. There was no individual person targeted by my Tweet. It would be like asking the question, “is there no bottom to the Left’s lying?”. Go ahead and run through your own list of five-letter words, and you decide.

    But I have another question. Why is Twitter, Google and all of the promoters of this behaviour entitled to ignore my faith, no, not ignore my beliefs, why are they entitled to debase my religious beliefs and the beliefs of billions of people around the world, in favour of any other group’s private activities, or at least what should be private activities?

    To be clear, I don’t care what anyone does in the privacy of their consensual relationships with other people. The personal challenge and test these people are living will be judged by G-D, whether or not they believe in G-D. It’s not for me to decide. But if you’re Jewish and you’re encouraging other Jews to violate Halakha, or Jewish Law, then, it is my obligation to point that out.

    But Twitter, Google, and the others, will force us to endure a month-long assault and their attempts to normalise behaviour that is contrary to our religious beliefs and worse, we’re not allowed to politely express an objecting opinion. They’re violating their own “police powers” by allowing, no, encouraging people to post content that seeks to debase my religious beliefs. Who gives these companies the right to do that?

    Where’s the Bottom to This?

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  • It’s Always About Racism for the Racists
    Jun 1 2022

    by Bill White

    [Transcript]

    The racists are at it again. Truth is, they never actually stopped.

    Tim Wise, who peddles himself as an ‘Anti-racist educator’, argued on MSNBC’s The ReidOut that the Second Amendment was included in the Bill of Rights to stop slave rebellions rather than protect individual gun rights.

    Before I begin, just a quick detour on the subject of Wise being an ‘Anti-racist’… or an Anti-racist educator, whatever, I have the same yardstick for anyone who describes themselves as not being ‘Antisemitic’. If you have to tell me that you’re not, then you are. The evidence of you not being an antisemite or a racist is your actions not what you’re saying. So, if you need to tell me you’re Anti-racist, you’re probably one of their leaders.

    Anyway, it was just one year ago that Carol Anderson, who is a professional racist currently drawing a salary as “professor” of African American Studies at Emory University, was touting her book, The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, in which Anderson argued poorly that the “well-regulated Militia” found in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution was created to provide states with a mechanism to quell potential slave uprisings.

    It’s only a week after the Uvalde Texas school shooting, but these racists are drudging up this false narrative once again. The fact that a majority of the citizens of Uvalde are Hispanic, as were most of the murdered students, AND the nutcase shooter… this obvious inconsistency in their philosophy does not seem to register with these idiots.

    In an op-ed for The Washington Post in 2014, Anderson argued that the unrest following the 2014 Ferguson shooting was a manifestation of "white rage", or white backlash against African American advancement. Her resulting book, White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide, expanded on this ridiculous theory.

    People like Anderson and those who peddle this narrative again, like Tim Wise, in the wake of the mass shooting at Uvalde are the true racists. Even a cursory inspection of the historical documents exposes the foolishness of Anderson’s theory and likewise anyone who repeats her nonsense.

    James Madison certainly gets credit, in June 1789, for the words “The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed,” and “A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country,” against a tyrannical government.

    But Samuel Adams had made the same sentiments a year prior during the Massachusetts ratifying convention, where he proclaimed “the said Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press or the rights of conscience; or to prevent the people of The United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms…”

    Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay collectively wrote eighty-five essays, known as the Federalist Papers, to persuade people, from those in politics to the average citizen, that the new Constitution would be an aid in the growth of the young nation.

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    5 mins
  • ESG
    May 29 2022

    by Bill White

    [Transcript]

    Maybe you’ve heard the term “ESG” and perhaps you’re thinking that it has something to do with the environment or so-called “global warming” and you could be forgiven for thinking that because people like Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates and their ilk want you to think that. But you’d be wrong. So, what is ESG? What does it mean? And what is it really?

    Well, the initials stand for “Environmental, social, and corporate governance”, but they left out the “C”, which according to the official description is the most important part of what they’re doing… because officially, ESG ‘…is an approach to evaluating the extent to which a corporation works on behalf of social goals that go beyond the role of a corporation to maximize profits on behalf of the corporation's shareholders’. That’s what it says on the can. But what are these Communists really doing?

    And I say Communists because for example, out of 435 ESG stakeholder proposals in 2021, just 22 were conservative. By the way, ESG is where we began hearing the term “stakeholder”, which according to ESG proponents, is everyone on the planet, but I digress. A March 2021 article published by Reuters entitled “Right-wing activists pose challenge to ESG crusade” went on to warn people that Conservatives were the problem. This means that Democrats and Leftists generally, you know, the neo-Communists, are the ones behind the ESG movement or what Reuters describes as a crusade.

    When you have a minute, go to Google or any other search engine and type in the name of your bank or mobile/cellphone provider or any other large company; it doesn’t matter and the letters “ESG” and you will be shown a page dedicated to literally bragging about what that company is doing to increase its ESG Rating.

    The most widely referenced ESG rating has an upper rank of Triple-A, dropping down to Double-A, companies in these top two levels are Leaders. Then moving down there is A, and Triple B, companies here are just Average. Then it gets a little fuzzy but moving down still further you find companies ranked as Double B, B, and Triple-C, and companies in the last two rankings are described as Laggards. There are corresponding numerical scores for the ABC ranking from zero at the very bottom to 10.00 at the top and I think this numerical rating system is the best part of their movement.

    Let’s get back to what this crusade is trying to do. ESG, really, has very little to do with the environment, or global warming, or climate change, or whatever these nuts are calling it now, and you know this because if it was really in aid of the environment, then, they, the proponents of ESG, would be the first reduce their own carbon footprint. They would be the first to get rid of their private jets or jet-pool… what we call commercial air travel because after all, they’re megalomaniacs, not hypocrites, right?

    ESG is being sold to you as having something to do with the environment because most people are easily conned into thinking that CO2, you know, the gas that every breathing creature on the earth exhales, is the real problem and that this “poison”, the thing that’s gonna kill is all, that every green plant on the earth depends on to survive, has to be reduced… because, well, not to put too fine a point on it, the people behind ESG know that most people are basically stupid.

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