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According to the probabilistic Drake Equation (see below), advanced intelligent life has probably developed many times in the universe. For example, if the odds of an advanced civilization developing on a habitable planet are one in a trillion, then at least 10 billion such civilizations should have occurred.
We are left with a quandary. To restate the Fermi Paradox, where are they? Why have we not encountered them?
Researchers at NASA's JPL have written a paper (in the peer review process) that states that such civilizations have most likely been "filtered" out, the result of five factors: 1) Diseases/pandemics; 2) Wars (probably nuclear); 3) Depletion of resources/self-induced climate change; 4) Natural catastrophe, i.e., astroids or volcanoes; 5) Destruction by rogue Artificial Intelligence.
The researchers call this phenomenon the Great Filter, and claim that the odds of surviving long enough to communicate with others are astonishingly small. What's more, given the vastness of the cosmos, even if a civilization did survive the Great Filter, the likelihood of an encounter between us and them practically nil.
Please refer to the articles and the researchers' paper, below:
1) https://www.huffpost.com/entry/great-filter-theory-intelligent-life-extinction-nasa_n_636fee4ce4b0ca9acf253784
2) https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1350/are-we-alone-in-the-universe-revisiting-the-drake-equation/
3) https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2210/2210.10582.pdf
4) Here is a discussion about the Drake Equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation
5) N =R∗ ×fp ×ne ×fl ×fi ×fc ×L. (1)
• N is the number of currently active, communicative civilizations in our galaxy.
• R∗ is the rate at which stars form in our galaxy.
• fp is the fraction of stars with planets.
• ne is the number of planets that can potentially host life, per star that has planets.
• fl is the fraction of the above that actually do develop life of any kind.
• fi is the fraction of the above that develop intelligent life.
• fc is the fraction of the above that develop the capacity for interstellar communication.
• L is the length of time that such communicative civilizations are active.
Note that “fraction of the above” means that all the previous conditions have been satisfied. For example, when we consider fc we assume that intelligent life has already developed.
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Janet Yellen on Crypto
April 7, 2022 at American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation.
https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danrunkevicius/2022/04/15/national-security-yellen-let-slip-her-plan-to-regulate-crypto-as-the-price-of-bitcoin-ethereum-bnb-xrp-solana-cardano-and-dogecoin-sink/?sh=267b48e6ad75
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen gave her first speech about cryptocurrencies and their regulation. While her address had an unexpected pro-crypto undertone, Yellen called for a tougher regulatory stance.
"Proponents believe distributed ledger technology will transform other aspects of financial services like trading, borrowing, and lending. They point to capabilities, like smart contracts, which use computer code to automatically execute an agreement if certain prespecified conditions are met. To the extent that setup is more convenient, and costs are competitive with those required for traditional financial services, digital assets offer the potential to expand access."
“Consumers should be protected from fraud regardless of whether assets are stored on a balance sheet or distributed ledger…. Money-laundering and other illicit activity should be deemed illegal, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re using checks, wires or cryptocurrency,” she said.
The Digital Dollar
For much of the past century, the dollar enjoyed the benefits of the world’s reserve currency. And Yellen stressed that retaining this privilege should be regulators’ priority in their approach to digital assets.
Yellen believes, that while the government should push for financial innovation that ensures “competitiveness and growth,” it should also pursue its “national security interests.”
She suggested that a central bank-issued digital currency (CBDC) could fulfill the need for a digital currency while retaining America’s reserve currency privilege.
"... a CBDC could be the next evolution in our currency. A recent report by the Federal Reserve opened a public dialogue about CBDCs and the potential benefits and risks that could be associated with issuing one in the U.S."
Later she made an explicit remark that clarified her stance on the decentralized vs. centralized currency debate: "Sovereign money is the core of a well-functioning financial system," she said.
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https://www.mauiaccommodations.com/blog/15-things-not-maui/
Travel Lies are lies about living in different locations you can travel
to. This Maui Accomodations Guide contains such lies warning about
things NOT to do on Maui.
15 Things NOT To Do on Maui
To quote,
THINGS YOU SHOULDN’T DO ON MAUI
things you shouldn't do on Maui: stand up paddlers on the ocean
Photo Courtesy of Garrett Hacking, PhotographyG.com
1. Don’t rent a stand up paddle (SUP) board and blithely head out to sea. . . unless you are experienced with SUP. Or unless you want to make an unscheduled ocean excursion to Tahiti. By yourself. On just that little board. SUP is loads of fun, but get some training before hitting the waves. You’ll enjoy it more if you learn how to do it right, and you’ll be much safer with a little instruction under your belt (or swimsuit). When it comes to ocean sports like SUP, ignorance is not bliss. Ignorance is dangerous.
SUP boards are very easy in certain parts of Maui. The warning is to use them only in very calm areas including mornings. Maui has both very calm beaches and very rough ones.
2. Don’t leave opened food containers out. We share our island paradise with multitudes of insects and other critters who, like us, thrive in Maui’s warm, tropical climate. Ants, cockroaches, spiders, centipedes, rodents . . . they live here, just as we do, and are simply a fact of life in the tropics. Most homes and visitor accommodations exterminate the premises on a regular basis to keep unwanted creatures under control. But don’t tempt fate by leaving any opened food in your car, room, or on your lanai. That leftover piece of pineapple pizza or bowl of taro chips and guacamole is like ringing a dinner bell for our creepy, crawly neighbors and yelling, “Come and get it!”
things you shouldn't do on Maui: "falling coconuts" warning sign
3. Don’t stand (or sit or park or picnic or nap) directly under a coconut tree loaded with coconuts. Youch. Definitely one of those things you shouldn’t do on Maui. One of those babies can unexpectedly fall and dent your head—or your car—inflicting some serious damage. There are not always signs around to warn you, so pay attention to what is hovering over your head.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: coconuts overhead in a tree
Factually, people getting hit by falling coconuts is less likely than getting mauled by a shark. Almost unheard of. The right precaution is to look at the trees and make sure they are 'prunned' of coconuts if you are concerned...also they fall very directly down so you have to be very close to the tree.
4. Don’t call local residents “Hawaiians.” Those of us who live in Hawaii call ourselves “locals.” A “Hawaiian” is a person who is actually of Native Hawaiian ethnicity. So, for instance, I am a local—I live here. But I am not a Hawaiian. My husband (who is of Native Hawaiian ancestry) IS a Hawaiian—and he’s a local, too. And definitely don’t refer to local residents (or Hawaiians) as “natives.” Yikes. That’s sure to make the locals wince.
Visitors can call anybody anything, nobody really cares. Maui lives for vacationeers.
5. Don’t honk. On Maui, we don’t honk our horn at other drivers, unless we REALLY REALLY REALLY need to get their attention. We might send a friendly “toot” to a pal in a passing car, but we don’t hooooonk at people unless cars or lives are in imminent danger. Honking is sure to get you some “stink eye” (or worse), so don’t honk at other drivers unless you seriously need to get their attention for safety reasons.
Maui is so small people usually travel about 40 MPH on the highways. There are only about 180,000 people living on Maui. People rarely honk and also rarely use their signals. Use Waze to avoid construction delays and such.
things you shouldn't do on maui: a Maui beach
6. Don’t smoke on Maui beaches. Over the years, our beautiful beaches had become virtual ashtrays, littered with thousands of cigarette butts. Smoking is now prohibited on most Maui beaches, punishable by a fine up to $500.
This is pretty dated. Smoking is prohibited in lots of places, beaches included.
7. Don’t turn your back on the ocean. Keep your eyes on the surf. An unexpected wave can knock you down while you’re coming out of the water or stopping to adjust your flippers, injuring you or pulling you into the sea. Pay attention to the ocean so you are not caught off-guard. It’s more powerful than you are. Trust me on that.
Turning your back on the ocean is risky if you are on a rough beach. These are obvious. (i.e., 15 foot waves!).
things you shouldn't do on Maui: shark
8. Don’t swim in murky waters. After heavy rains, stay out of the ocean until the water clears. Avoid swimming near the mouths of rivers or streams or in any murky or brown water areas. These waters attract predators (pictured), and you don’t want to be mistaken for a fish or turtle when this guy is looking for a snack. Other Maui Beach Tips.
Maui is has the four highest shark attacks after three places in Florida. The murky (salt) water as much as a early mornings in a evenings during dusk. The attacks however are rarely fatal.
9. Don’t leave your windows open while you’re gone. Any windows. Whether it’s your car or accommodations. Maui is blessed with tropical weather that can change from moment to moment. So if you run into the grocery store on a sunny day and leave your car windows down (or even worse, leave the top down on your convertible rental car), you could very well come back 10 minutes later and discover that there was a downpour while you were gone and you can now swim in your back seat.
This isn't bad advice but you really do know if you are just leaving the car for five or ten minutes. Generally, everybody drives with their air conditioning on in the day because it is usually about 80 all year around during the day. Convertibles and open windows are rare.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: a loco moco plate
10. Don’t be afraid of “local” food. Yes, we have McDonalds, Burger King, and Starbucks. But why visit Maui and eat the same food you can get at home? There is such a rich variety of food here: tropical fruits and vegetables fresh from the farm; fish caught that morning and on your plate at lunchtime; local fast food eateries, food trucks, mom-and-pop cafes, ethnic foods, and cutting-edge fine dining restaurants with acclaimed chefs. Be adventurous and try some local foods you’ve never tasted before! For dining suggestions, see my Top 20 Favorite Restaurants.
eat where you see middle class locals eating... Never a bad idea.
11. Don’t scuba dive in the morning then head to the top of Mount Haleakala that afternoon. If you are a diver, wait 24 hours after scuba diving before driving up to Haleakala or doing any other high-altitude activity like a helicopter tour or mountainside zip line. Decompression sickness (aka “the bends”) is not a memory you want to take home from your Maui trip.
This is true and the warning is given by the National Park for Haleakala. What isn't given is that you should realize that the drive up and down that mountain has lots of places where you can drive off the road to your death. Drive slow and pull to the designated side areas to let local traffic pass you. The road up and down is more crowded than you might expect because many people work at the observatories and there are lots of visitors year around...and one road.
12. Don’t skimp on the sunscreen, but please use ONLY reef-safe sunscreen. Just keep slathering on the high-SPF sunscreen throughout the day when exploring the island. Due to our proximity to the Equator, Maui’s tropical sun can burn you fast, even more so when you are near the water, and even on a cloudy overcast day. Nothing can ruin a vacation faster than a painful sunburn! However, if you plan on going into the ocean, please be aware that many sunscreens have ingredients that can irreparably harm the coral reefs.
The safe suncreen is remarkably ineffective. You almost cannot find any zinc oxide which doesn't work well anyway. If you bring some old style which works well, you can use it but not on areas exposed to the ocean water.
On January 1, 2021, a new law took effect in Hawaii prohibiting the sale or distribution of sunscreens that contain oxybenzone or octinoxate, two chemicals that have been proven harmful to the marine ecosystems. Hawaii is the first place in the world to ban sunscreens with these chemicals. If you brought sunscreen with you that contains those chemicals, please do not use it here. Instead, choose mineral sunscreens with titanium oxide or zinc oxide, as they are reef-friendly choices.
things you shouldn't do on Maui: monk seal on beach
13. Don’t try to pet a Hawaiian monk seal or ride on the back of a green sea turtle. These are two of the many endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian islands, and they are protected from harm or harassment by very strict State and Federal laws. So if you are lucky enough to see these wild creatures, enjoy them from a distance, and “look, don’t touch.” This should top everyone’s list of things you shouldn’t do on Maui.
Seeing monk seals is not common at all. But you will see turtles.
And, speaking of wild ocean creatures, DON’T FEED THE FISH. It may sound charming to have a flurry of tropical fish gather ’round for a hand-feeding when you’re snorkeling, but remember this is not an animated Disney movie. There are dangers. First, it’s harmful to the fish and disrupts the natural environmental balance, even affecting the coral reefs, which rely on hungry fish to keep them from being choked by algae. And fish can become aggressive–you can lose a finger (or worse) in the process. Plus, you don’t want to be at the center of a feeding frenzy that draws the attention of the “big boys” (see shark photo above). Please don’t feed the fish.
Don't feed the fish is true. If you have to feed something there are lots of friendly birds that obviously make their living cleaning up after people.
14. Don’t call the continental U.S. “the states.” Hawaii IS one of the states. The 50th state, to be precise. In Hawaii, we refer to the continental U.S. states as “the mainland.” Never “the states.” So statements like “I just arrived from the states” or “They’re having bad weather back in the states” will earn you a look from locals.
This is true:
15. Be cautious about removing any natural items to take as souvenirs. Our island environment, both on land and in the sea, is precious and fragile. Please respect it. It is illegal to take sand (since 2013), dead coral, rocks and other “marine deposits” from the beach. The exceptions are driftwood, shells, beach glass, glass floats (pictured below), and seaweed. It is also illegal to take rocks or minerals from Haleakala National Park; and don’t even think about uprooting an endangered Haleakala Silversword plant to take home — they are protected by Federal law, and theft of a Silversword is a felony crime.
DO relax and enjoy. DON’T stress or rush. And check out my other Practical Do’s and Don’ts for Maui Visitors.
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"a hacker took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the social security number (SSN) of those specific educators." - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/14/1046124278/missouri-newspaper-security-flaws-hacking-investigation-gov-mike-parson
Video of Parson's press conference :
https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/parson-issues-legal-threat-against-post-dispatch-after-database-flaws-exposed/article_93f4d7d6-f792-5b1b-b556-00b5cac23af3.html
Ars Technica Article:
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson today threatened to prosecute and seek civil damages from a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist who identified a security flaw that exposed the Social Security numbers of teachers and other school employees, claiming that the journalist is a "hacker" and that the newspaper's reporting was nothing more than a "political vendetta" and "an attempt to embarrass the state and sell headlines for their news outlet." The Republican governor also vowed to hold the Post-Dispatch "accountable" for the supposed crime of helping the state find and fix a security vulnerability that could have harmed teachers.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/10/missouri-gov-calls-journalist-who-found-security-flaw-a-hacker-threatens-to-sue/ +
https://twitter.com/PaulCogan/status/1513190996300992514?s=20&t=__gfYi4XRolZa_2UZT_58w
This is a crafty misinformation attack with the purpose to
do an ad hominin attack on one person, the other, or both.
It compares two people who factually have little in common
but are both divisive people. The division for Rogan has been
established as what he does as an ultra right wing individual
commentator. The dision for Musk is that he is rich, a capitalist,
and therebfore must be evil. No matter what ansewr you have
to this, one or the other, or both are maligned.
If your biggest heroes are Elon Musk and Joe Rogan, you're either not very bright or perfectly propagandized or both.
12:23 PM · Apr 10, 2022·Twitter Web App
The evidence is the number of replies, retweets, likes and so forth
which is truly huge. People taking exception on all the combinations
or agreeing.
The deceit is that these two people can be compared. The motivation is
exactly to get what the author got. A divisive lie.
Even Senator Warnock.
Mitcheo
@MadMitcheo
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What did Elon Musk say that is false?
Anne
@AnnePoppy123
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Well, he tweeted that “kids are essentially immune from the virus,” which isn’t true, and he promised to make and deliver more than a thousand ventilators to hospitals, then actually purchased surplus sleep apnea machines from China instead. Among other things.
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Jeaia
@Jeaia
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I’m not a Rogan fan, I may have seen his show once? But, I am a fan of Elon Musk. I admire and appreciate what he’s doing to help the environment . He’s doing things people said couldn’t be done.
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I wonder how these conservatives would feel if we passed a law making it illegal to teach your kids about religion until they were adults.
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Charles Booker
@Booker4KY
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I can’t wait to defeat Rand Paul for you.
Good morning.
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Grooming
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Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock
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The price of crude oil continues to go down, but consumers aren't feeling it like they should at the pump.
We've got to reign in corporate greed.
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The framers feared 'the tyranny of the majority.'
Filibuster proponents often argue that the Constitution’s framers intended to
obstruct decisions by simple majorities. In defense of the filibuster, Lewis & Clark Law School professor
James Huffman wrote in the Hill that James Madison “would likely think it a brilliant innovation for
preventing majority tyranny.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) wrote in the New York
Times in 2019 that the filibuster is “central to the order the Constitution sets forth,” citing Madison’s view
that the Senate ought to function as an “additional impediment” and a “complicated check” on the House.
Ornstein says this is a lie. McConnell is lying.
But other than the explicit constitutional requirements for supermajorities,
such as to approve treaties, the framers were foursquare for majority votes.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22 that allowing minorities to overrule
the majority would cause “tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible
compromises of the public good.” Congressional Research Service scholar Walter J. Oleszek has noted:
“Overall, the Framers generally favored decision-making by simple majority vote.
This view is buttressed by the grant of a vote to the Vice President (Article I, section 3) in
those cases where the Senators are ‘equally divided.’”
This provision makes clear that the Constitution’s drafters expected
that most decisions would be made by majority vote. +
The framers feared 'the tyranny of the majority.'
Filibuster proponents often argue that the Constitution’s framers intended to
obstruct decisions by simple majorities. In defense of the filibuster, Lewis & Clark Law School professor
James Huffman wrote in the Hill that James Madison “would likely think it a brilliant innovation for
preventing majority tyranny.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) wrote in the New York
Times in 2019 that the filibuster is “central to the order the Constitution sets forth,” citing Madison’s view
that the Senate ought to function as an “additional impediment” and a “complicated check” on the House.
Ornstein says this is a lie. McConnell is lying.
But other than the explicit constitutional requirements for supermajorities,
such as to approve treaties, the framers were foursquare for majority votes.
Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist 22 that allowing minorities to overrule
the majority would cause “tedious delays; continual negotiation and intrigue; contemptible
compromises of the public good.” Congressional Research Service scholar Walter J. Oleszek has noted:
“Overall, the Framers generally favored decision-making by simple majority vote.
This view is buttressed by the grant of a vote to the Vice President (Article I, section 3) in
those cases where the Senators are ‘equally divided.’”
This provision makes clear that the Constitution’s drafters expected
that most decisions would be made by majority vote. +
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Discussion and Evidence
In a PBS interview with Judy Woodruff, Fauci stated recently that, “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”
While this may be technically true according to certain narrow definitions of “pandemic,” Covid-19 cases are still very present, and even rising, and the disease presents a dangerous threat to millions.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dr-fauci-on-why-the-u-s-is-out-of-the-pandemic-phase-2
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In The Hill, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus noted that while COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to decline, the world needed to welcome the decline “with some caution.”
“This makes us increasingly blind to patterns of transmission and evolution. But this virus won’t go away just because countries stop looking for it. It’s still spreading, it’s still changing, and it’s still killing,” Ghebreyesus said.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/3467372-who-chief-world-is-increasingly-blind-to-covid-transmission-evolution/
. . .
In a UN publication, Ghebreyesus said a recent summit was “a critical reminder that the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. We’re seeing 1.5 million new cases each day. Large outbreaks are spreading in Asia,” he continued, together with “a new wave sweeping across Europe.”
And some countries are reporting their highest death rates since the start of the pandemic.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115952
. . .
Readers Digest quotes an epidemiologist who answers the question: Is the COVID-19 pandemic over? “No,” says David Dowdy, MD, faculty expert and epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “I think it’s risky to declare the pandemic over when there is always a risk of another wave.”
https://www.rd.com/article/is-pandemic-over/ +
https://twitter.com/StandForBetter/status/1518732416315101186?s=20&t=0Gk5OvjsLnEwu1Q_nOX7fw
Numerous DIVISIVE LIES by Trump
- April 25, 2022 -
Statement by Donald J. Trump, 45th President of the
United States of America
Melania and I would like to congratulate Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter this
morning. Elon understands the MAGA agenda of free speech, and while he will be
a tough competitor to Devin Nunes and our far superior TRUTH Social, we wish him
well. Many people say Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey conspired with the radical left
maniacs to silence me on his platform while allowing Jimmy Kimmel,
Rosie O'Donnell, and other menopausal women who hate our great followers to stay
on Twitter. This sad action encouraged Nancy Pelosi, AOC, and other crazy
Democrats to steal the election. This tragedy is why many people, including
Marjorie Taylor Greene, saw that Mike Pence was weak and sent text messages to
Mark Meadows asking me to declare martial law. Meadows never passed these
messages to me; otherwise, I would have taken Greene and others' advice and
suspended the fraudulent election. Instead, in 2024 we will Save America by
sending Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi to the old folks' home where they can play
checkers and board games with AOC, the Unknown Resister clown, and other
radical Democrats who want to destroy our country. +
A group named "Vegan Friendly" has produced a humorous video Entitled "Hell of a Steak" claims that, if diners had to pay the "real" cost of a steak in a restaurant, it would be many, many times more expensive.
View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjaH3HW3jcg
The video claims that the actual cost of land, water and feed for one single cow far outstrips it value as food, and, more important, the practice of eating meat is devastating the environment. The implication is that, by eating a plant based diet, we are taking a big step to protect the environment. While this claim is generally true, it does not tell a complete story about other human activities that are also playing havoc on the environment. The video ends with the statement, "A plant based diet is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact and fight global warming."
A plant based diet may not be the biggest single step an individual can take to protect the environment. The newspaper, The Guardian, states:
The literature on the impact of reducing or cutting out meat from your diet varies. Some studies show that choosing vegetarian options would only reduce greenhouse gas emissions per person by 3%. Others show a reduction in emissions per person of 20-30% for halving meat consumption.
“Probably the most important thing to point out is that emissions are often viewed as the only metric of sustainability: they are not. Impacts of farming systems on carbon sequestration, soil acidification, water quality, and broader ecosystem services also need to be well considered,” said Matthew Harrison, systems modelling team leader at the Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/25/going-vegan-can-switching-to-a-plant-based-diet-really-save-the-planet
The BBC states that:
Switching to a plant-based diet can help fight climate change, UN experts have said.
A major report on land use and climate change says the West's high consumption of meat and dairy produce is fuelling global warming. But scientists and officials stopped short of explicitly calling on everyone to become vegan or vegetarian.
They said that more people could be fed using less land if individuals cut down on eating meat. The document, prepared by 107 scientists for the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), says that if land is used more effectively, it can store more of the carbon emitted by humans. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-49238749
Finally, the news service Vox states that:
A new study published in Science reveals just how important tackling food-related emissions is to mitigating the swiftly accelerating climate crisis. For the first time, the researchers isolated food system emissions and showed that these emissions alone will most likely put the Paris agreement climate targets out of reach. https://www.vox.com/21562639/climate-change-plant-based-diets-science-meat-dairy
In conclusion, a plant-based diet seems unequivocally very friendly to the environment. Adopting such a diet may well be an important step that an individual can take to help the cause. But it may not be the "single biggest thing."
While Putin stated that russia has claimed Ukrainien territory for ever Ukrainian forces have already retaking parts of that claimed territory.
This makes Putins statement factually untrue, because if it would be seen as true claiming land would be as easy as saying: "I once held that territory so that means it will always be mine". That is just not how it works.
And besides this the referenda that have been taken haven't been fair for the ukrainien people.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/05/ukraine-hails-good-news-from-the-front-lines-with-major-gains-in-counteroffensives-.html +
Meeting with Commissioner for Children's Rights Maria Lvova-Belova
This is a meeting after the world had started condemning Putin for killing children and mothers in UKraine. In a day of meetings with world leaders not internet Russian groups.
The lie is that this is propoganda to make Putin looks like he cares about children and mothers in Ukraine or Russia for that matter. +
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Rep. Scott Perry, Republican-PA, blasts the January 6 Committee ahead of a series of public hearings on the attack on the Capitol for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars for a "Soviet-style show trial" that is "an affront to our American republic, and to the order and the rule of law and to justice."
I contend that this not only partisan hyperbole but also and intentional mis-characterizion of the committee's purpose and process.
Perry is chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, a congressional caucus consisting of conservative Republican members of the United States House of Representatives. It is generally considered to be the most conservative bloc within the House Republican Conference. Its members hold socially and fiscally conservative views, and most are supportive of Donald Trump.
Perry was also specifically mentioned by Rep. Liz Cheney during the first hearing as being one of several House Republican lawmakers that contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021 to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn the presidential election results. He was supoenaed by the committee about to testify about his role in the insurrection which he defied.
A show trial is a public trial in which the judicial authorities have already determined the guilt or innocence of the defendant. The actual trial has as its only goal the presentation of both the accusation and the verdict to the public so they will serve as both an impressive example and a warning to other would-be dissidents or transgressors.
Show trials tend to be retributive rather than corrective and they are also conducted for propagandistic purposes. When aimed at individuals on the basis of protected classes or characteristics, such trials are examples of political persecution.
<a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_trial</a>
Was Benghazi a show trial?
June 28, 2016
The Benghazi Select Committee, a Republican-lead effort that cost about $7 million dollars and held 33 hearings over more than two years into a topic that had already been investigated by seven other Congressional committees. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton loomed large in the House Republican probe of the deaths of the U.S. ambassador to Libya in the Benghazi attack. Hauled before a GOP panel, she was grilled for eight hours. On Tuesday, an 800-page report landed and House Benghazi Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-SC, denied the probe was ever about Clinton.
In a Sept. 29 [2015]interview with Fox News Channel, House Majority Leader (and then-speaker-in-waiting) McCarthy was pressed by Sean Hannity to name an accomplishment in the Republican-led Congress. He finally said:
"Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special committee, a select committee. What are her numbers today? They're dropping."
John Oberlin
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When Spotify pays Joe Rogan $100 million dollars they aren't supporting him, they're sponsoring and subsidizing him, his politics, his disinformation and antivaxxers.
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Now that Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Barbra Streisand, Queen, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, Dave Grohl, Joni Mitchell, & Pearl Jam have joined Neil Young, how do you think Spotify feels about its decision to support Joe Rogan?
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Spotify takes the money from subscribers and pays Joe Rogan to spread misinformation that may harm and kill people. So, subscribers are sponsoring pain and death
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Spotify isn’t just hosting Joe Rogan. They signed a $100 million contract with him to host his content exclusively on their platform.
This isn’t about censorship. It’s about the misinformation that Spotify is financially SPONSORING.
https://twitter.com/raven_valkyrie/status/1487958722508996612?s=20&t=yzot7W-cGu77pGW_klULzw
google search confirming 100M pay to Rogan by Spotify that "depends on performance"
Spotify IS supporting him, even if they say they aren't and say they cannot tell him what to say. They had the option of not signing him if he was going to be evil. +
The bad working conditions and high heat have caused a lot of working migrants to die a by Qatar so called "natural death". UN studies have found that the high temperatures and pour working conditions have a significant impact on the high death rate under migrant workers.
As a tv personal Ronald de Boer supports Qatar and says that the numbers in the news and in particular 6500 workers that died is taken out of context. And supports Qatar in their work around the World Cup preparations.
I believe it is a bad lie to support a dictatorship like Qatar in the harm they do to hard working immigrants.
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/23/revealed-migrant-worker-deaths-qatar-fifa-world-cup-2022
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/08/qatar-failure-to-investigate-migrant-worker-deaths-leaves-families-in-despair/ +
This is a lot of people accusing lies about someone telling the truth with
some factual errors.
The question is what to take to court?
David Rothschild 🇺🇦@DavMicRot·Feb 26I owe a blanket
apology to all of my trolls for failing to properly
footnote every tweet, and I really appreciate them holding me
to account for that. I know how important detailed, technical accountability is for the right-wing/Russians
on social media.8870636
True Scotsman@truescotsman7·Feb 26
Ah yes, every person who calls you out on your misinformation and lies is “Russian.”
You have no shame.
35104David Rothschild 🇺🇦@DavMicRot·Feb 26Sorry,
should have said right-wing and/or Russian trolls ...
You guys are so good at catching technical details, thanks for keeping me on my toes! +
his article is absolutely packed with one after another unsupported
causation lies. It is a great example of propoganda that sounds like
history but the actual facts are not supported. In the first few sentences:
150 million people have left Russia since the 1990’s, and one-third of its area has been clipped off its map.
These people did not jump over a border wall — they formed their own countries and seceded.
One by one, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Latvia, Moldova, Tajikstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and (drum roll) Ukraine,
decided that they were not Russians after all. With these
150 million people went 2.6-million square miles of land (5-million sq. kms).
As the war goes on in Ukraine, highlighting the
incapacity of the Russian army,
there are signs that other territories are looking for their moment.
The disintegration of Russia has not stopped.
Far from uniting Russia, Putin’s war is driving it further apart.
At its core stands an impossible notion of Russia —
one that only an army of occupation could pave over.
Russia’s inability to form a nation is in fact long-seeded.
After WWI Large chunks of the empire broke off and established
independent nation-states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Finland,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Ukraine.
As Stalin’s power grew, only those around the Baltic Sea —
Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland — stayed out of Moscow’s
grasp; the rest were re-conquered.
This is all directly contradicted by an established historian, in the book
"Bloodlands" by Timothy Snyder (of Yale)
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodlands-Timothy-Snyder-audiobook/dp/B07JB4WQVF/r +
Vladimir Putin insisted recently that Russia “is not going to attack anyone.” Since Russia is obviously preparing to invade Ukraine, this is a lie. The evidence to the contrary is:
** CNN reports that Ukraine has warned that Russia has 'almost completed' build-up of invasion forces near its border: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/europe/ukraine-intelligence-russia-military-build-up-intl/index.html
** CNN reports that US intelligence indicates Russia preparing a false flag, agent provocateur operation to justify invasion of Ukraine: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/14/politics/us-intelligence-russia-false-flag/index.html
** The Hill reports that US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has recently stated that a Russian attack on Ukraine could be launched with 'very short notice’: https://thehill.com/policy/international/russia/590344-blinken-russian-attack-on-ukraine-could-be-launched-with-very
** The Hill reports that the White House says Russia could launch attack in Ukraine 'at any point’: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/590206-white-house-says-russia-could-launch-attack-in-ukraine-at-any-point
** The Hill reports that Russia has sent a large number of offensive troops to Belarus and massed them along its border with Ukraine, ostensibly to conduct “war games”: https://thehill.com/policy/defense/590270-russia-sends-troops-to-belarus-for-war-games +
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It just isn't the whole truth, one makes electric vehicles and the other produces oil
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-climate-change-almost-40-years-ago/
They knew about climate change 40 years ago
https://www.vox.com/22429551/climate-change-crisis-exxonmobil-harvard-study
our objective is to wrap yourself in the good phrases while sticking your opponents with the bad ones,” he wrote in 1986.
From the 1970s through the 1990s, most of the company’s PR efforts focused on casting doubt on the scientific consensus that burning fossil fuels was warming the planet. But by the mid-2000s, it was taking a more sophisticated, nuanced approach.
one of 20 companies responsible for one-third of energy-related global carbon emissions since 1965
The metrics and methods used are not reflecting logical thinking but weird rules. +
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