Stanford students walk out of Sundar Pichai’s commencement speech... "According to Al Jazeera, the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus was signed between Google, Amazon and Israel in 2021. It aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, A.I. and other technological services to the Israeli government and military.​"

MSN story by Owen Scott

6/15/2026 

Around 200 students walked out of the CEO of Google’s commencement speech at Stanford University, according to reports. ​

Other attendees could be seen blowing whistles and waving Palestinian flags, amid Project Nimbus, a scheme under which Google and Amazon provide the Israeli government with technological services. 

In footage obtained by an SFGATE reporter, students can be heard chanting “free, free Palestine,” as they left CEO Sundar Pichai’s speech.

“I must warn you all, this is only the second commencement speech I have ever given,” Pichai says in the video. “The first was literally in my backyard.”

​According to that same reporter, Pichai did not mention artificial intelligence in his speech. The topic had been mentioned in several commencement speeches by speakers throughout the year, leading to viral moments in which they were booed by the crowd... READ MORE  

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/general/stanford-students-walk-out-of-sundar-pichai-s-commencement-speech/ar-AA25G2aN

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Students who walked out of Pichai’s speech held their own “People’s Commencement,” featuring activist Mahmoud Khalil as the keynote speaker, according to SFGATE. 

Khalil had been detained for more than 100 days by Immigration and Customs Enforcement over his pro-Palestinian activism on Columbia University’s campus in 2024. ​

According to Al Jazeera, the $1.2 billion Project Nimbus was signed between Google, Amazon and Israel in 2021. It aims to provide cloud computing infrastructure, A.I. and other technological services to the Israeli government and military.​

Amnesty International has released a list of global companies implicated in war crimes against Palestinians, providing Israel with technologies, equipment, or services that enable human rights violations. Despite international warnings, these corporations continue their activities, making them complicit in ongoing war crimes against civilians.

Amnesty International has released a list of global companies implicated in war crimes against Palestinians, providing Israel with technologies, equipment, or services that enable human rights violations. Despite international warnings, these corporations continue their activities, making them complicit in ongoing war crimes against civilians.

The Guardian: ‘Anticipatory obedience’: newspapers’ refusal to endorse shines light on billionaire owners’ motives

Jeff Bezos, one of the richest men in the world, now owns the Washington Post. Photograph: Gary Cameron/Reuters

 Lois Beckett in Los Angeles, California

Sat 26 Oct 2024 09.14 EDT

 

The Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post both declined to endorse a candidate – a sign of political media capture

 

When two American billionaires blocked the newspapers they own from endorsing Kamala Harris this month, they tried to frame the decision as an act of civic responsibility.

“I think my fear is, if we chose either one, that it would just add to the division,” Patrick Soon-Shiong, the biotech billionaire who owns the Los Angeles Times, said. He emphasised that though some might assume his family is “ultra-progressive”, he is a registered “independent”.

At the Washington Post, which reported that its billionaire owner, Jeff Bezos, was behind the decision, publisher William Lewis described the retreat from making presidential endorsements as “a statement in support of our readers’ ability to make up their own minds”.

Veteran journalists and media critics are using a very different phrase to describe Soon-Shiong’s and Bezos’s choice: they’re saying the two billionaires, among the richest men on the entire globe, are performing “anticipatory obedience” to Donald Trump.

Yes, “cowardice” has also been a popular way to describe the choice by the billionaire owners of two of the country’s major newspapers to not to risk angering Trump by allowing their papers to endorse his opponent.

But “anticipatory obedience” is more specific. The term comes from On Tyranny, the bestselling guide to authoritarianism by Timothy Snyder, a historian of eastern and central Europe. The phrase describes, in Snyder’s words, “the major lesson of the Nazi takeover, and what was supposed to be one of the major lessons of the twentieth century: don’t hand over the power you have before you have to. Don’t protect yourself too early.” It’s a way of describing what Europeans did wrong as totalitarians came to power: by “mentally and physically conceding, you’re already giving over your power to the aspiring authoritarian”, Snyder explains...  READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/26/anticipatory-obedience-newspapers-endorsement-refusal

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VERY CATCHY Theme song for THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING! ... please help pass the word [The film now out on iTunes and Amazon for rental/purchase]

Great theme song- is there a you-tube of the theme song- very catchy!

10/1, 8:30pm

Dean Obeidallah

Annie- we have a nice music video for the song http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il3wk1tpt0

You can rent or buy the film on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-muslims-are-coming!/id689131789 or Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FEBLFHW
 fb note from my friend 
Dean Obeidallah
(aka on twitter Deanofcomedy )  

Hope ur well. Was hoping you could help me out with a small favor. I co-directed a comedy documentary "The Muslims Are Coming!" which uses comedy to counter the Islamaphobes and to build bridges with other faiths.

It features some great people like The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Aasif Mandvi and more.

The film now out on iTunes and Amazon for rental/purchase.

We have a very limited promo budget and are trying to get the word out via friends this week. Any chance you can share the info about the film on FB, Twitter or emails? (Details below)

And if possible a nice review on iTunes and/or Amazon would also help a great deal. Thanks for any help you can offer- I sincerely appreciate it! Dean

Check out the very funny, award winning comedy documentary "The Muslims Are Coming!" featuring The Daily Show's Jon Stewart, Rachel Maddow, Russell Simmons, Lewis Black, plus other celebs together with hilarious Muslim comedians countering Islamaphobia with laughter. USA Today called the film: "Thoughtful and funny." The Chicago Tribune said the film, "packs a funny but trenchant punch." Seattle's The Stranger "...makes its point with charm."

Film's Website: http://themuslimsarecoming.com

You can rent or buy the film on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-muslims-are-coming!/id689131789 or Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FEBLFHW

THE MUSLIMS ARE COMING! follows a band of Muslim-American comedians as they visit big cities, small towns, rural villages, and everything in between to combat Islamophobia! These Muzzies not only perform standup at each tour stop but create ridiculous interventions in unsuspecting town squares, like the ol' classic, "Ask a Muslim Booth." [...]

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The Muslims are Coming! is a docu-comedy about a bunch of Muslim-American comedians who tour Middle America, do shows, meet peeps, and combat Islamophobia!

You can rent or buy the film on iTunes at https://itunes.apple.com/us/movie/the-muslims-are-coming!/id689131789 or Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FEBLFHW