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To protect democratic values, journalism must save itself
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists | September 5, 2024 | Sara Goudarzi

… half of adult Americans get their news from social media (Pew Research center 2023) often curated—that is, selected, organized, interpreted, and presented—by their family and friends.

“The editors are being replaced by just people posting whatever they want,

Heaven forbid!

so it’s loss of a professional standard about what counts,” explains Stephen Ansolabehere,

How is that pronounced?

a government professor at Harvard University.

An expert in government, or paid by the government?

“What is being lost is the idea that people trust an entity, like The [New York] Times, The [Washington] Post, or The Guardian, and instead, the trust relationship in terms of the veracity of the story or the quality of this content is [that] your aunt or your best friend sent it to you.”

But if an atomic scientist sends it to you, ask yourself why.

IMAO Is NOTHING if Not Informative!

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Here’s a map showing where Ebla is. Three dots signify a heap of rubble.

Egypt, apparently, does not merit honorable mention.

I always pictured the U.A.E. more to the north. Oh well. Not like I’m going to go visiting there.

The Caspian Sea has a James-Bond-like crosshair on it.

Heh: “Asia.” “Africa.” Nice labels.

Straight Line of the Day: How Russia’s “Nuclear War By Christmas” Might Affect Christmas: …

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Kamala Harris Vacations in Hawaii As Russia Threatens US with ‘Nuclear War by Christmas’
thegatewaypundit| 11/19/2024 | Cristina Laila

(I’ll bet she’s heard that Clapton song once or twice in her life.)

Kamala Harris on Tuesday traveled to Hawaii for a vacation as World War III looms.

Harris and woman beater Doug Emhoff departed from Los Angeles International Airport en route to Kalaoa, Hawaii Tuesday afternoon.

Earlier Tuesday, Russia threatened the US with ‘nuclear war by Christmas’ after Ukraine carried out its first strike inside Russian territory with US-made long-range missiles.

The first Ukrainian strike targeted the border region of Bryansk in Russia, and it comes just as President Vladimir Putin updated the nuclear doctrine greatly expanding the conditions for using atomic weapons.

Kamala Harris’s taxpayer-funded vacation to Hawaii also comes after she blew through $1 billion on her failed presidential campaign.

Harris’s campaign is reportedly $20 million in debt after overspending on celebrity endorsements and private flights for staffers.

Fox News reported on the Harris camp’s debt and outrageous spending:

Vice President Harris’ debt-ridden presidential campaign spent $2.6 million on private flights in the last few weeks of the election season, documents show.

The release of the findings comes as the debt-saddled campaign, which spent $1 billion on the trail, is being scrutinized for the financial decisions it made before losing the Nov. 5 election to President-elect Trump. The campaign is believed to be $20 million in debt.

The eyebrow-raising expenses were listed in a Federal Election Commission (FEC) filing obtained by Fox News Digital. According to the FEC filing, in the month of October alone, the Harris campaign spent $2,626,110 on private flights.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Powers, DamnCat is no longer available for interviews. Goodbye.”

I Totally Trust Them

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How Can We ‘Trust The Science’ When We Can’t Trust The Data?
Issues & Insights | 14 Nov, 2024 | I & I Editorial Board

… what happens if much of the vital data behind the climate-change threat are made up?

Turns out, quite a lot of it is. At least that’s what the Daily Sceptic, a British-based science watchdog, claims. It recently detailed the allegations made by an independent journalist showing that 103 of the 302 supposed “weather stations” that provide data for both the United Kingdom government’s and academic scientists’ climate change forecasts don’t exist or produce actual data.

That’s right. Instead of data, the government manufactures “estimates,” as journalist Ray Sanders found.

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Still, that’s just the UK, right? Wrong.

If you live in the U.S., you’ve been hectored by big-government leftists for years to “trust the science.” But the U.S. government has its own problems with our temperature data.

The United States Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) was set up to provide accurate temperature numbers to policymakers, meteorologists, and scientists.

Unfortunately, as in Britain, the U.S. is shutting down many of its weather stations, making apples-to-apples data comparisons statistically impossible. The data go back 100 years.

“They (weather stations) are physically gone — but still report data — like magic,” according to Lt. Col. John Shewchuk, a certified consulting meteorologist. “NOAA fabricates temperature data for more than 30% of the 1,218 USHCN reporting stations that no longer exist.”

mRNA

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Some guy on the internet raised three points, with which I agree.

“Do I think a shot that affects your genetic code may have some downsides? Sure.”

“Has enough time passed to see the fullness of the side-effects? No – on median, clinical trials take 9 years and more than half of all trials fail. We are three years into this unfounded clinical trial with the world as lab rats.”

“Do I believe the anecdotal evidence [of side effects] is too great to ignore? Yes.”

I’m sad that people were coerced to take this untested injection.

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Straight Line of the Day: If British Infrastructure Were To Collapse …

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Russian state television: “All it takes is three missiles and British civilization will collapse.”
beholdisraelchannel | 19 Nov 2024 | Amir Tsarfati Telegran

Russian state television showed the countries in Europe that will be hit by nuclear weapons if the war intensifies:

“All it takes is three missiles and British civilization will collapse.”