Facebook flags The Babylon Bee for "false information" over pregnant Ken doll satire
Not the Bee, satirical publication Babylon Bee's sister website, is reporting that Facebook has yet again gone after the latter by censoring one of its videos titled, "Mattel Introduces Pregnant Ken Doll."
Babylon Bee is a counterpart to the likes of the less popular site The Onion, but because of its conservative slant often not only gets censored and downranked, but is not considered a proper satirical site by tech giants, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
And not recognizing it as such allows Big Tech social media companies not to treat its content as comedy.
In the case of the "pregnant Ken," the issue is clearly that Babylon Bee stirred up a hornets' nest of the feverish and aggressive debate over transgenderism and what can and can't be said about it.
The short clip that is still available on Rumble and Odysee features a narrator "explaining" that Mattel has moved to introduce a much needed makeover for Barbie's boyfriend along the lines of greater inclusiveness - with a bearded Ken toy sporting a large baby bump.
The first is supposed to let people know this is a man, and the second that he is pregnant, the voiceover continues.
"Men can get pregnant just like women - in fact there is no definition of women. We literally have no idea what a woman is," the video continues. It also shows Barbie expressing some misgivings, though, calling Ken "just a woman on hormones" - to which he responds by physically assaulting her.
Another trigger point mentioned is the issue of abortion, when viewers are reminded that women should not be the only ones to experience that. Then, Facebook "fact-checkers" got involved. Babylon Bee received a notice saying that it had shared "false information" on its page, resulting in the flagging of the post to reflect that decision. 1 This remarkable piece of "fact-checking" is the work of one of Facebook's contracted third-parties, called Cotejo.info.
The threat of reduced distribution and monetization of posts is also made in the notice, in case the publication continues with satirical posts that "fact-checkers" frown upon. 1 Bee CEO Seth Dillon reacted to this by saying on Twitter that he was unsure how their distribution even could be further reduced at this point. 1 TikTok is another social platform that issued an account warning over the same video before the entire account was banned.
Who started the Central Bank of Central Banks.
Whereas the Powers signatory to the Hague Agreement of January, 1930, have adopted a Plan which contemplates the founding by the central banks of Belgium, France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy and Japan and by a financial institution of the United States of America of an International Bank to be called the Bank for International Settlements;
And whereas the said central banks and a banking group including Messrs. J. P. Morgan & Company of New York, the First National Bank of New York, New York, and the First National Bank of Chicago, have undertaken to found the said Bank and have guaranteed or arranged for the guarantee of the subscription of its authorised capital amounting to five hundred million Swiss francs equal to 145,161,290.32 grammes fine gold, divided into 200,000 shares;
And whereas the Swiss Federal Government has entered into a treaty with the Governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy and Japan met in Baden-Baden from 3rd October to 13th November 1929 under the chairmanship of Mr. Jackson E. Reynolds.
It was composed as follows:
Members designated by the central banks: Belgium.: Mr. Louis Franck, Mr. Delacroix and later Mr. Paul van Zeeland; France: Mr. Clement Moret, Mr. Pierre Quesnay; Germany: Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Dr. Wilhelm Vocke; Italy: Prof. Alberto Beneduce, Dr. V. Azzolini; Japan: Mr. T. Tanaka, Mr. S. Sonoda; United Kingdom: Sir Charles Addis, Sir Walter T. Layton. Co-opted members: United States: Mr. Jackson E. Reynolds, Mr. Melvin A. Traylor.
After the conclusion of the Hague Agreements and the signing, on 27th February 1930 in Rome, of the instrument by virtue of which the BIS was constituted,the mem- bers of the Board of Directors held two unofficial meetings in Basle on 22nd and 23rd April 1930. At these meetings note was taken of the Swiss law promulgating the Convention concerning the Bank for International Settlements and of the instrument signed in Rome.
The Bank having thus been duly constituted, the first official meeting of the Board took place on 12th May 1930.
The original members of the BoardofDirectorswere: Mr.Gates W. McGarrah, United States, Chairman; Sir Charles Addis, United Kingdom, Dr. Carl Melchior, Germany, Vice-Chairmen; Dr. V. Azzolini, Italy; Prof. Alberto Beneduce, Italy; Baron Brincard, France; Mr. Louis Franck, Belgium; Mr. Emile Francqui, Belgium; Mr. Leon Fraser, United States; Mr. Hans Luther, Germany; Mr. Clement Moret, France; Mr. D. Nohara, Japan; Mr. Montagu Collet Norman, United Kingdom; Mr. Paul Reusch, Germany; Mr. T. Tanaka, Japan; the Marquis de Vogiie, France. Alternates: Mr. Charles Farnier,France; Mr. H. A. Siepmann,United Kingdom; Mr. Pasquale Troise,Italy; Dr.Wilhelm Vocke, Germany; Mr. Paulvan Zeeland, Belgium.
The following Members were elected to the Board in May 1931: Mr. G. Bachmann, Switzerland; Mr. Ivar Rooth, Sweden; Mr. L. J. A. Trip, Netherlands.
Mr. Leon Fraser was the Alternate of the President; Mr. Pierre Quesnay, General Manager; Mr. Ernst Hulse, Assistant General Manager; Mr. Francis R. Rodd (later Mr. R. H. Porters), Manager; Mr. R. Pilotti, Secretary General; Mr. Marcel van Zeeland, Manager.
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ESSAYS IN INTERNATIONAL FINANCE -No:-22, May 1955 THE BANK FOR INTERNATIONAL SETTLEMENTS, 1930-1955 ROGER AUBOIN
Constituent Charter of the Bank for International Settlements (of 20th January 1930)
Google keeps alerting that my apps wont work. After disabling their spyware. Google Play services app.
Apps working fine.
Not only spies.
Theyre liars.
DRINK THE WINE DAMMIT. The original for this is HERE.
"Imagine we were living in medieval times…. and you’d been invited to a royal banquet. 👑 🍷 🍲
The ones in charge were extremely keen to get you to drink the wine. They were very insistent. 👀
You’d probably assume the wine was poisoned.
“Drink this wonderful wine.”
“No thank you.”
“Be a good guest! Drink the wine. We uncorked it especially. It’s a beautiful and rare vintage.”
“No thank you. I appreciate the offer though.”
“Drink the wine. It’s very expensive but you can have a glass for free, and we’ll give you an extra plate of supper.”
“No I’m fine as I am.”
“Drink the wine and we’ll feed your entire village for a week and reduce your taxes.”
“Wow all that for wine? What’s in it? Still, no thank you.”
“We’ll make you a Duke.”
“Very generous but no thanks I’m content in my home.”
“You are not anti-wine are you????”
“No I just don’t feel like drinking this wine this evening.”
“Drink the damn wine or we’ll stop you working.”
“Eh?”
You notice they’re getting desperate now.
“We’ll ban you from markets.”
“Wow your tone has changed.”
“Now you need to drink 3 glasses or we’ll stop you riding your horse or seeing your family for the next year.”
“Wait, what? 3 glasses? Can’t see my family?”
“Did we say 3 glasses? We meant 3 bottles.”
“3 bottles?”
“Yes…every few months we want you to drink 3 bottles of this particular wine we’ve prepared indefinitely for the next years.”
“Years??”
Yes, or we’ll try you for treason.”
“Ok what is IN this damn wine that you are trying SO HARD to get everyone to drink it?”
“We can’t tell you. Trade secret.”
“It’s poisoned isn’t it?”
“No..it’s…ummm…it’s just really really good for you. It’s um, special healing wine.”
“Then why all the threats?”
“We just need you to… I mean we strongly encourage you to drink the wine so you don’t miss out.”
“But the Earl drank a glass and collapsed.”
“Unrelated.”
“No…like he was fine then had a glass then keeled over…he’s still on the floor writhing. Look at him! His face is blue and he’s clawing at his chest.”
“Coincidence. Guards…please escort the Earl to his chambers. He’s had too much wine.”
“I knew it was the wine! What about the rest of the court? Half of them also collapsed after the wine.”
“Those guests got ill from something else. Probably the chicken.”
“All at the same time?”
“You sure do ask a lot of questions! Guards! Guards… get this man his wine.”
“I don’t want it. What if something happens to me after drinking it?”
“We’re not liable for that.”
“Not liable for the wine you produce? I definitely don’t want it.”
“Drink your wine so everyone else doesn’t get a hangover.”
“Huh? That makes no sense. Maybe if they didn’t keep DRINKING they wouldn’t get HUNGOVER in the first place?”
“Look at these paintings of people drinking wine all over the gallery. Look how happy they look.”
“Paintings? Look, I don’t drink wine. I don’t want the wine. Even the idea of drinking this wine leaves a bad taste in my mouth.”
“Ah no matter if you don’t want to drink it.”
“Ok good. Let’s drop the subject now”
“You don’t have to drink it. We can pump it directly into your veins. You won’t even have to taste it”
“Wait, into my veins? Are you serious? I don’t want your damn wine!”
“TAKE THE DAMN WINE NOW! WE’VE ALREADY PAID FOR A WHOLE CRATE FOR EACH MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY! WE’VE SIGNED AN ONGOING CONTRACT WITH THE DISTILLARY! ANYONE WHO TALKS BADLY ABOUT THIS WINE WILL HAVE THEIR TONGUES CUT OUT! PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW DRUNK ON THE LAST BATCH WILL BE RECLASSIFIED AS SOBER AND MUST DRINK THE NEW BATCH! AND WE WANT YOUR KIDS TO DRINK THE WINE TOO! EVEN YOUR BABY. SWAP HER MILK BOTTLE FOR WINE! SHE’S OLD ENOUGH FOR WINE NOW! AND YOUR PREGNANT WIFE! SHE NEEDS IT TO KEEP HER HEALTHY! EVERYONE DRINK THE WINE!”
THIS is how absurd the conversation is getting now.