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Al Franken Comic Lie - Workflow + (Al Franken, are you worried your senate colleagues will not take you seriously because you're a comedian? This is proven to be not true because his colleagues are really clowns.)
Word Truth - Workflow + (Also the words by which truth is expressed … Also the words by which truth is expressed cannot be separated from their common usages. They cannot be defined nor redefined ad hoc to make truth mean anything you like. Each word must do its job properly or it has no meaning at all.This is not true. Words and word senses have no truth whatsoever. Only predications do.So if you use every word in a sentence correctly, the sentence can still be the truth or a liein different predication contexts. The proper use of a word sense in common usage has no bearingon whether the sentence is true or a lie and never will. Spoken language never gets truth perfect. Math can do it, and other pure deductions in a close system of assumed self-evident truths such as measurements in physics, can do it. Not spoken language. physics, can do it. Not spoken language.)
Aging Leaders Hurt America - Workflow + (America’s leadership class is increasingly … America’s leadership class is increasingly older, with many politicians seeking election well beyond the time that most retire. But what if the concern over a longtime politician’s age has less to do with fear that the candidate might die or become incapacitated — and more to do with whether trying to snag yet another term at an age when almost everyone else is retired is just plain arrogant and greedy?Iowa’s Senator Chuck Grassley makes a good test of that question — a test that merits attention from elected officials across this geriatric-run country..Unlike Senate colleagues such as California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, Grassley has never been trailed by reports that he’s losing his marbles. Unlike a whole slew of other senators — including much younger pols like 50-year-old New Mexico Democrat Ben Ray Luján, who suffered a stroke — he hasn’t missed significant chunks of time due to serious health issues. His ad touts his best-in-the-Senate attendance record.And yet a poll published this week that has shocked political pros in the state suggests voters have serious qualms about Grassley’s age. The survey, by the veteran Iowa polling firm Selzer & Co., reported that Grassley was running only 3 points ahead of his Democratic challenger, Mike Franken. Iowa’s Republican governor, meanwhile, was leading her race by 17 points, according to the survey, conducted with the Des Moines Register.Despite months of Grassley-the-pushup-pro messaging, some 60 percent of respondents, including more than a third of Republicans, told pollsters that they thought age was a concern.The question that ought to occupy the minds of people like the incumbent president of the United States (who turns 80 this fall), his most likely 2024 challenger (now 76), the Democratic triumvirate atop the House of Representatives (82, 83 and 82) and maybe the entire Senate (the oldest in American history) is: What kind of concern? If nobody is challenging the notion that Grassley is physically and mentally up to the job, shouldn’t everything be fine?Not for everybody.From NYT:https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/14/us/politics/youth-voters-midterms-polling.htmlAlexandra Chadwick went to the polls in 2020 with the single goal of ousting Donald J. Trump. A 22-year-old first-time voter, she saw Joseph R. Biden Jr. as more of a safeguard than an inspiring political figure, someone who could stave off threats to abortion access, gun control and climate policy.Two years later, as the Supreme Court has eroded federal protections on all three, Ms. Chadwick now sees President Biden and other Democratic leaders as lacking both the imagination and willpower to fight back. She points to a generational gap — one she once overlooked but now seems cavernous.“How are you going to accurately lead your country if your mind is still stuck 50, 60 or 70 years ago?” Ms. Chadwick, a customer service representative in Rialto, Calif., said of the many septuagenarian leaders at the helm of her party. “It’s not the same, and people aren’t the same, and your old ideas aren’t going to work as well anymore.”d ideas aren’t going to work as well anymore.”)
Turkey, Finland, Sweden and NATO - Workflow + (At a news conference on Monday, Mr Erdogan … At a news conference on Monday, Mr Erdogan said Turkey opposed the Finnish and the Swedish bids to join Nato, describing Sweden as a "hatchery" for terrorist organisations."Neither of these countries have a clear, open attitude towards terrorist organisation. How can we trust them?" the Turkish president said.Turkey accuses the two Nordic nations of harbouring members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group it views as a terrorist organisation, and followers of Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara accuses of orchestrating a 2016 coup attempt.All member states must agree that a new country can join Nato, therefore Sweden and Finland require Turkey's support in their bid to join the military alliance.Mr Erdogan said Swedish and Finnish delegations should not bother going to Ankara, Turkey's capital, to convince it to approve their Nato bid.His government has also pledged to block applications from countries that have imposed sanctions on it.In 2019, both Nordic nations slapped an arms embargo on Ankara after its incursion into Syria.Mr Erdogan is indeed doing a bit of arm-twisting in the hopes that Sweden ends its open support of PKK allies. On Monday, Sweden said it would send a delegation to Turkey for Nato-related talks.Even so, Mr Erdogan might also be looking for a more enticing offer. One possibility is that Ankara is hoping for military concessions from the US, such as re-entry into Washington’s F-35 fighter jet production process or F-16 sales, or a major financial commitment from Europe. a major financial commitment from Europe.)
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Farm-to-Table is Beneficial - Workflow + (CNN recently featured this headline: "Eat … CNN recently featured this headline: "Eat farm-to(-your-kitchen)-table because it’s good for you and the earth." “Farm-to-table” – a term that implies food--in America, at least--that is locally sourced and purchased by a restaurant or for your own kitchen table directly from a farmer or producer, has been trending, and its related cuisine has become increasingly popular among foodies who appreciate seasonal fare as well as those concerned with the health of the environment and the local economy. “It’s essentially a way of eating based around food that has been grown and harvested in a sustainable way,” said Kristy Del Coro, a registered dietitian and culinary nutritionist. The term is also used to describe the movement that promotes this way of eating. Farmers' Market shopping is a mainstay of the practice.While this seems to be on its face an obviously true statement, the truth is more nuanced. Yes, it's good to eat healthy food. But is farm-to-table mostly a marketing gimmick designed to make us feel good about an elitist practice?One of the supposed positive benefits to farm-to-table is that food sourced this way is more flavorful and more nutritious. Yes, produce and other foods that have been picked ripe and haven't been shipped thousands of miles probably do have a somewhat better flavor. But as for being more nutritious, even CNN's article admits that this claim hasn’t been scientifically proven. Yes, it would seem that these types of foods might be more nutritious, but the fact is, we just don't know.Another F-to-T claim is that the practice is more sustainable and better for the environment. I've been to farms that actually supply my local farmer's market, and I can tell you point blank that a good number of them (if not most) are water and fertilizer intensive and mimic agribusiness mega-farms, only on a smaller scale. To be sure, the distances that the crops are shipped is much less, so there is a substantial benefit in that regard. So it the practice better for the environment? Well, yes, but perhaps only marginally.F-toT is also seen as a way to democratize food consumption by bringing better foods to everyone. This is most likely not true. Farmers' Market food is much more expensive than its grocery-store counterparts. F-toT customers tend to be upscale whites, so in this regard F-toT is an elitist practice.Finally, F-toT is claimed to benefit the local economy by supporting local agriculture. I suppose this is true, since by definition a local farmer is part of the local economy. But how much of the money that we spend at the farmers' market stays in the local economy? Farmers are buying mostly the same products and services as everyone else, and almost none of these are in any sense of the word "local."hese are in any sense of the word "local.")
Climate Change Lie - Workflow + (Climate Change Is A Lie How and why labeli … Climate Change Is A LieHow and why labeling our crisis as “change” has cost us time.I would argue this title is not true. "Climate Change" is not a lie. It is literally, correctly, and for what it communicates, completely true and thereis no deception in fact or motivation by the people who use the phrase.I do not she is lying about lying, she is simply wrong.Here is her argument:Change is inevitable, this was not.I read the article and she makes the case, but it was extremely disappointing that she didn't actually offer a new phrase for "climate change". Just some descriptors (thundersnow? .. etc). I don't think she read the definitive book on the subject... The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After WarmingBy: David Wallace-WellsI really really wish she had not wasted my time without a good suggestion. Perhaps Earth Death?Earth Murder?Planet Death?Planet Murder?Climate Murder?Climate Poisoning?I dunno.Here is her case for saying ...Climate change, by that name is a lie.The now obvious global threat, was most often referred to as “The greenhouse effect” through the first half of the twentieth century.Although Svante Arrhenius discovered the phenomena in 1896, he variously called it “climate fluctuations, climate warming, greenhouse warming,” and even “dangerous warming.”By the time he was completing his body of work, Arrhenius had come to believe that the additional carbon dioxide in the atmosphere could very well be positive. Additional warming by adding the emissions could possibly avert the next ice age and mellow out the frozen north.Let’s not forget that Arrhenius lived in Sweden, and the multi-factorial details of slight changes making enormous challenges, feedback loops, and more, were little known. One would think that given the modest amount of warming by greenhouse gases prior to the 20th century might make a long, Scandinavian winter, and a more productive green summer, a welcome benefit.Time has shown that hoping for a milder climate is not the change we got.Power of influenceWhen Arrhenius won the Nobel prize in 1903, it was not for his all-important discovery of the carbon warming effect. Carbon dioxide? Who knew, why care?His awarded Nobel was for chemistry, and cross-over sciences of physics, which was more novel, studied, and widely influential in their own time.Nevertheless, carbon rise in the mid-century of the 1960’s and 1970’s alarmed many observers. Pollution wasn’t very welcome, dependency on fossil fuels for national security wasn’t welcome, and a whole host of voices arose decrying obvious greenhouse warming. Population size and consumption had grown considerably.It was about this time that fossil fuel giants, and their political allies, first began to realize they had better shape public opinion in their favor. They launched a disinformation campaign and spent billions on it.James Hansen testified to congress about Climate in 1988, and as the Bush years unrolled, so did new terminology which suggested, the phrase “climate change” should be used to “emphasize the scientific uncertainty” of the new research.This was notably the position of the Republicans at the time, who overwhelmingly were polled to discover that belief in “climate change” was much higher than “climate warming, or global warming,” and a whole lot less threatening, especially to lobbyists.“We lost decades of opportunity,” reported geophysicist Michael Mann. The last three decades, have indeed been crucial in stepping up to the challenges we see now.It was advisor Frank Luntz who notoriously warned that the new label should stick because on the topic of environmental concerns, and the prospect of global heating, the Bush administration was “most vulnerable in their stance.”The publication Grist declared that Luntz is a “founding father of climate denial.” is a “founding father of climate denial.”)
Hypocritical advertising - Workflow + (Coca Cola advertises their plastic bottles … Coca Cola advertises their plastic bottles as if they are helping the environment. But they are one of the biggest plastic polluters in the entire world. Besides this they say their bottles are 100% recycled plastic while the caps and the labels aren't.It is hypocritical to say they are helping the environment when they know the impact of their actions is zero to none.https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/globalbrandauditreport2020/https://www.cocacolanederland.nl/promoties-en-campagnes/campagnes/recycle-meromoties-en-campagnes/campagnes/recycle-me)
Biden and Covid - Workflow + (Corona virus cases have dropped, but the r … Corona virus cases have dropped, but the reason is probably not due to President Biden's policies. As the omicron variant runs its course, virtually every country in the world has recently experienced a steep decline in COVID-19 deaths. In fact, since the day of Biden’s inauguration, the seven-day rolling average of daily deaths per 100,000 residents worldwide has dropped 89.4%, which suggests Biden’s policy is not somehow unique. Experts say it is the disease, the emergence of variants, the rollout of vaccines and immunity gained from prior infection that are primarily responsible for the peaks and valleys in the number of deaths worldwide since COVID-19 emerged.Biden also launched this talking point during a lull in COVID-19 deaths, glossing over the fact that there have been two major waves of COVID-19 — from the highly transmissible delta and omicron variants — which caused large spikes in the number of deaths during Biden’s presidency.Upon taking office in January 2021, Biden initiated an effort to encourage Americans to get one of the newly authorized COVID-19 vaccines. He has promoted effective new treatments, and he has been a consistent advocate for masking in appropriate situations. Experts say those are all positive things, but Biden takes too much credit when he says his policies are responsible for a 90% drop in COVID-19 deaths, as he has done repeatedly.“My approach has brought down COVID deaths by 90%,” Biden boasted on Twitter on June 14.Biden repeated it in a speech the same day, saying the administration “brought down COVID deaths by 90%.”“The vaccines, treatments and other tools my administration has made widely available are protecting the American people from serious illness, keeping them out of the hospital, and bringing down daily deaths due to COVID-19 by 90%,” Biden said on June 17.o COVID-19 by 90%,” Biden said on June 17.)

Bull and Crow: Crow says Farmer Lies to Bull - Workflow + (Crow Says .Farmer Lies to Bull)

Pandemic Is Over - Workflow + (Discussion and Evidence In a PBS interview … Discussion and EvidenceIn 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…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/tps://www.rd.com/article/is-pandemic-over/)
Ginni Thomas Lie - Workflow + (Ginni Thomas, the controversial wife of Su … Ginni Thomas, the controversial wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, says her activities on behalf of Donald Trump and other conservative causes have no bearing on the work of her husband.https://www.npr.org/2022/03/14/1086535100/wife-of-justice-thomas-rebuts-claims-of-conflict-of-interestomas-rebuts-claims-of-conflict-of-interest)
Voter Fraud - Workflow + (Here are the partial truths and facts that … Here are the partial truths and facts that show how they are misleading.A machine-readable thumbprint can be easily forged using common software of scans of a thumbprint. Thumbprints of individuals are easily obtained particularly if they appear by the thousands on mailed in envelopes. Societies where thumbprints are used for voting lack access to such software and have moved to digital signatures based on national ID cards as they modernized.“Machine-readable” is a lie. Fingerprint / Thumbprint scanning for identity has long been known to be susceptible to failure to read by machine without high error rates. It is true that modern scanners can create “machine-readable” likenesses of fingerprints which are indistinguishable from the original fingerprint. But it is NOT TRUE that modern pattern recognition software can reliably read the fingerprint as proving who provided the fingerprint and how.This method provides an open opportunity for voter fraud by a knowledgeable elite wishing to manipulate vote counts. Years ago, when people did not have signatures or modern cell phones, and could not write, it made sense.This method does not eliminates many of the problems with ballot signature verification, witness signatures, and unscrupulous ballot harvesting. None of these is true. These are mail in ballot registrations.Note, significantly, that this policy ONLY APPLIES TO MAIL IN BALLOTS!It is horribly misleading to say “The state will encrypt the captured thumbprints as alphanumeric values with a one-way hash using a secure key.” Technically the way this works is that the thumbprint as a digital image can be viewed by anybody. It is not hidden from people wishing to have this person’s reputed thumbprint.A one-way hash using a secure key can mean any number of things depending on whether the hash is cryptographically secure or not and whether the secure key is a private key in a public-private key cryptographically secure key-pair. If not properly done, the security is a sham.Even then, the new thumbprint on the ballot will NOT have the same hash value as the one on the ballot application! The signatures for the fingerprint will not match. This is guaranteed to fail using any known techniques.Such shams are common in practice (see my book).The fact that the signed hash value can be represented as a long string of alphanumeric characters is immaterial. Any digital value, any picture, any information, can be represented this way. That requirement is intended to mislead people that such a string can be verified by a human in a meaningful way. It cannot. You can easily show a different fingerprint with the right hash.The fact that a law will be prohibited from sharing raw thumbprint data with any other government agency does not mean it will be prohibited from sharing with a company or any private individual. And how much can we trust a prohibition of sharing among government agencies in the first place. The major problem with a fingerprint is that it presumably does not change for the life of the person and once the fingerprint is known for a person by anyone, it is public knowledge.Add to that the fact that the error rate in proving a particular instance of a fingerprint is uniquely identifying one person, and this proposed system is not at all preserving security or privacy of votes in modern society.There are ways to do get the right assurances, but they are not being proposed. Why? Precisely because this method, while it may sound good, is even more susceptible to voter fraud by governmental and private entities than existing methods.nd private entities than existing methods.)
Hoax School Attack Lies - Workflow + (Hoax calls are lies typically using phone … Hoax calls are lies typically using phone or internet media thatthreaten violence. This is called swatting. The question is how to dissect such calls if indeed they do turn out of be lies. Here the motive appears to bein question. This article suggests a general motive.They are intended to set off a massive and immediate deployment of armed law enforcement to a specific target, including SWAT teams. The results can be quite dangerous, as they were in a fatal incident in 2017, when police swatted a man in Wichita, Kansas.A shift from bomb threats to false calls about active shooters may also reflect that bad actors understand how heavily school shootings have come to factor into communities' fears in the U.S."The underlying reason that it is effective as a disruption or as an emotional, psychological attack is because we know it could be real," said Amanda Klinger, director of operations for the Educator School Safety Network, a national nonprofit organization that does school safety for primarily K-12 educators. "Our fear of school shootings and school-based violence is being weaponized against us."The background is given on the NPR page.False calls about active school shooters are rising. Behind them is a strange patternOctober 7, 20229:49 AM ETOdette Yousef headshotODETTE YOUSEFIn response to a false call about an active shooter, police and emergency workers descended on Robert Anderson Middle School in Anderson, South Carolina, on Oct. 5. Parents rushed to pick up their children, causing a traffic jam in front of the school.Ken Ruinard/USA TODAY Network/ReutersWhen Emmi Conley first heard in September about a rash of hoax calls reporting active shooters in schools, she dismissed it. Conley, an extremism researcher who studies groups and people behind public displays of violence, said she found no indication that these calls were connected to fringe online spaces where these pranks often originate.But as the number of these reports swelled over time, Conley said she began to discern some very strange patterns — including the possibility that the calls may have come from overseas, and perhaps specifically from Africa."The scale and the timeline of the events is highly, highly unusual," she said. "The calls are consistent. They are coordinated. They are grouped state-by-state and district-by-district, and they're also sustained. So somebody is putting significant effort to keep these going."As Conley began digging further, more questions emerged. Elements of these calls were notably different than what she has typically seen in school-based threats. Nobody has taken credit for these calls, even as they stretched over several weeks, and the technological planning and research behind the calls betrayed a level of sophistication not typically seen.Sponsor MessageIn a statement, the FBI has said it is aware of the incidents, but has "no information to indicate a specific and credible threat."The agency said it is working with law enforcement at every level to investigate the cases. But some news reports, including in Minnesota and Louisiana, have cited local authorities who said the calls may be originating in Africa or, specifically, Ethiopia. The FBI would not comment on this detail.For Conley, particulars around these calls suggest that the people or person behind them are, indeed, overseas."Our big questions now are whose attention are they after?" she said. "Is it the public? Law enforcement? Media? Something else? And why they're after it?"Swatting as the new 'bomb threat'The hoaxes are called "swatting," a term that refers to calls that falsely report an act of violence in progress or about to occur. They are intended to set off a massive and immediate deployment of armed law enforcement to a specific target, including SWAT teams. The results can be quite dangerous, as they were in a fatal incident in 2017, when police swatted a man in Wichita, Kansas."It was popularized by extremely online communities with proclivities toward violence and perceived ideological enemies," said Conley. Those have included live-gaming communities and extremist groups, where perpetrators aim to harass specific individuals. The recent targeting of institutions, namely schools, appears to be a new development.NPR has found, primarily through local news reports, at least 113 instances of hoax calls across 19 states between Sept. 13 and Oct. 5. Louisiana, Minnesota and Virginia tallied the greatest number. This is likely an undercount, as many locations may not have garnered media attention. School safety experts worry that these hoaxes could inspire copycats, putting school communities and law enforcement officers at significant risk."You know, for decades, those of us in the school safety world have dealt with false bomb threats," said Mo Canady, executive director for the non-profit organization National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO). "If we get a call that someone is actively shooting, injuring, killing people, that's a whole different matter. That requires really an all-out response."Canady said swatting presents a higher set of risks than bomb threats. In Ohio, one father was reportedly detained for arriving at Licking Valley High School with a gun after hearing that there may be an active shooter at that location. That response from a parent is understandable, said Canady, particularly as the horror of a school massacre in Uvalde remains fresh in many parents' minds. But, he notes, it could lead to confusion and worse at the scene.A shift from bomb threats to false calls about active shooters may also reflect that bad actors understand how heavily school shootings have come to factor into communities' fears in the U.S."The underlying reason that it is effective as a disruption or as an emotional, psychological attack is because we know it could be real," said Amanda Klinger, director of operations for the Educator School Safety Network, a national nonprofit organization that does school safety for primarily K-12 educators. "Our fear of school shootings and school-based violence is being weaponized against us."'A connection to overseas'In audio obtained by NPR of some calls in Ohio and one call in Minnesota, the person reporting an active shooting breathes heavily and follows a nearly identical narrative. He identifies himself as a student at the school, although he sounds like an adult male. He also speaks with a heavy accent. NPR also requested call records from locations in other states, but many were denied on the basis that the incidents are under investigation.Drew Evans, superintendent at the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, said he has also heard audio of hoax calls that were placed in states other than Ohio and Minnesota. He said they sounded very similar."There was an accent here and it appeared to be a similar person or the same person in all the calls either heard or reported in to us," Evans said. The MBCA is investigating 17 swatting calls that occurred Sept. 21 in Minnesota.Evans said that the calls in his state were all made directly to schools or to non-emergency dispatch lines, rather than to 911. He said they appeared to be coming from Internet-based phone numbers, which either originated in or were routed through foreign countries through a VPN connection."There's indications that there's a connection to overseas," he said. "What we don't know is whether or not overseas could have been used as a mask."Conley said the possibility that the calls came from a foreign individual or entity may be bolstered by details that the caller provided that are atypical of school shootings in the U.S. For example, the particular model of gun the caller referenced as the weapon was often different from what is commonly used in school shootings."America has a very particular relationship with guns," she said. "The the cultural object of the mass shooting in the United States is the AR-15."But both Conley and Evans noted this campaign indicates a tremendous level of detailed local knowledge or research."Whoever is doing this has managed to make phone calls relating to specific schools, reach the correct dispatchers, and give specific information about local school districts and threats within them without being caught," Conley said. "You couldn't do that without some considerable effort and investigation into knowing where you're targeting, how you're targeting it and how you were avoiding detection."An earlier waveSome are considering the possibility that the person or group behind the calls is building on prior experience. In the spring, schools in several states reported receiving false calls about bomb threats. In Minnesota, the MBCA confirmed that nine schools were targeted. Evans said there were similarities between how those calls were placed, and the more recent wave of false active shooter reports."There [were similarities] in terms of the specificity in which they were calling in the particular threat, it appeared to be one individual that was making the calls, and they certainly seemed to be one individual that was a live person," he said. Evans said that those calls, as with the calls in September, were also made to non-emergency lines."Some of the schools believe there's a potential they could be connected," he said.NPR identified at least six states where schools received bomb threats starting in mid-March and mostly concentrated through April. Minnesota, North Carolina, Maine, Louisiana and Hawaii each saw multiple hoax calls on a single day.In Louisiana, where at least five schools received false calls about bomb threats on April 21, one local report said that investigators had linked the IP address of the caller to Ethiopia. More recently, a report from Minnesota cited Alexandria Police Chief Scott Kent saying that he believed the calls made in September to schools in his state were linked to an IP address in Ethiopia. Kent did not respond to interview requests.Evans said the investigation into the April calls to Minnesota schools remains open.The difficulty of discerning a motiveWhether the source of these hoaxes is domestic or foreign, one perplexing question remains the same: Why?"I would find myself wondering, especially if it's coming from another country, is someone potentially trying to test our systems to see how we respond to those types of events?" said Canady.NASRO recently issued guidance to schools on handling swatting calls. Chief among it, said Canady, is to continue to operate under the assumption that each call is a real threat."If we hesitate, it can cost lives," he said. "So unfortunately, we have to continue to proceed in an emergency manner... until we know for a fact that it's not a real incident."But there's also concern that if the dramatic uptick in swatting sustains or continues to rise, that emergency response itself can create trauma. Klinger said even hoaxes can create fearful situations that exact a psychological and emotional toll upon students, educators and parents. She said she would like to see more federal guidance on how to keep school communities safe, but still nurturing."If I continue to just shut down the schools, shut down the school, shut down the school... how does it end? How do you ever stop it?" she said.Without a clear ideological aim behind these calls, or any known organization, the effort may not clearly qualify as terrorism under the FBI's definition of the term. But many note that its effect may be the same."There's a significant amount of intentionality based on the information that's been reported," said Evans. "They were doing this with a purpose to cause fear in our communities."purpose to cause fear in our communities.")
CNN Collapse Lie - Workflow + (I think this was a lie. Indeed, it is a m … I think this was a lie. Indeed, it is a mix of lies and truth bythe way the opinion piece was written to back the truth of the title.The actual ratings in 2020 were the best ever while 2021 was lower and thesecond half still lower, but they fired the top producer Cuomo then. My suspicion was that Zucker...the guy who made Trump by giving him the "Apprentice"job, and who probably manipulated the 'attacks' on Trump in CNN (with Cuomo)was actually a Trumpist Their opinion was less credible and left Zucker as an anti-Trumpist and incompetent.https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/592969-cnns-collapse-is-now-completeThe actual ad ratings that fell 90% happened just recently but only for prime time (it is still the 3rd best cable channel .. and has been that solidly). And,they fired their top producer (by far) in the second half.The title in any even is a big lie. No matter what.https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2021-ratings-cnn-has-its-2nd-most-watched-year-ever-but-sees-sharp-declines-in-2nd-half/496930/https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/2020-ratings-cnn-averages-most-viewers-in-its-40-year-existence-and-ends-year-by-dominating-in-demo/466472/CNN will also close out 2021 as one of the five-most-watched networks in all of cable in all dayparts. In Total Day, the network ranks No. 3 in total day and No. 5 in primetime. CNN was also among the 10-most-watched cable networks in 2021 among adults 25-54, coming in at No. 5 in Total Day and No. 9 in primetime.Overall, CNN averaged 1,078,000 total viewers in prime time, 268,000 adults 25-54 in prime time, 773,000 total viewers across the 24-hour day and 185,000 adults 25-54 across the 24-hour in 2021.What do these figures look like compared to its final 2020 ratings? Well, CNN fell -40% in total prime time viewers, -48% in the prime time demo (adults 25-54), -32% in total viewers across the 24-hour day and -40% among adults 25-54 across the 24-hour day.TheHill.comCNN's collapse is now completeBY JOE CONCHA, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 02/06/22 11:00 AM EST 3,817THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY CONTRIBUTORS ARE THEIR OWN AND NOT THE VIEW OF THE HILL936Share to Facebook Share to Twitter Just In...US figure skater tests positive for COVID-19 at OlympicsINTERNATIONAL — 5M 33S AGO Frontier, Spirit Airlines merge in $6.6B dealBUSINESS & LOBBYING — 15M 42S AGO Investigation finds top Biden science adviser bullied subordinates: reportADMINISTRATION — 21M 5S AGO New Jersey governor ending school mask mandate: reportHEALTHCARE — 44M 4S AGOVIEW ALLIt all began 42 years ago — Ted Turner's creation of a 24/7 news network that would exist on something called cable TV. Few believed it could succeed. And, for its first decade, CNN largely chugged along but wasn't seen as a game-changer or a true competitor to big broadcast news entities based in New York in the form of CBS, NBC and ABC. That all changed when war broke out between the United States and Iraq in 1991. On the night war exploded over Baghdad, CNN was the only news organization that was able to broadcast from the city under siege as the U.S. onslaught began, all courtesy of the CNN team’s ability to convince the Iraqi government to grant them a line out of the city to broadcast, one that the competition could not secure."How CNN Won the War" was the glowing headline from The Washington Post on a story that perfectly chronicled the events that led to CNN officially becoming a major player. And off it went. Until 2002, CNN was No. 1 in the cable news race. But competition that hadn't existed before ended its dominance forever, primarily in the form of Fox News and, to a lesser extent, MSNBC. Despite the ratings results, CNN continued to carry itself as a credible, facts-first network of integrity that leaned heavily on solid reporting with a sprinkling of opinion and infotainment mixed in via programs such as "Larry King Live" and "Crossfire." In 2013, the network hired former NBC Universal President Jeff Zucker to take the reins as ratings continued to be below average at best. This gave Zucker a mandate to radically change the network from its journalistic roots of more than three decades — the months-long wall-to-wall coverage of a missing Malaysian airliner being an early example.But two years later, the move to insert heavy doses of partisan opinion into its news reports only accelerated when former President Trump — a Zucker hire at NBC for "The Apprentice" — jumped in to the 2016 presidential race. At first, CNN bear-hugged Trump's every move. (Hillary Clinton's giving a speech somewhere? Screw it. Let's show an empty Trump podium with chyrons stating "Trump to speak soon" instead.) The real estate mogul's 17 Republican challengers never had a shot; Trump blotted out the sun in terms of media coverage on his way to winning the nomination.At that point, Zucker and CNN began to worry. Because while it was a ratings boon for the network to make Trump the centerpiece, there was growing concern that the guy could actually beat Hillary and become the nation's 45th president. So Zucker unleashed the hounds, but it was too late. Trump would go on to shock the world in November 2016.Undeterred, CNN decided there would be no honeymoon period for the new president. Talk about Russian collusion handing Trump the White House began even before the inauguration. And after the nonstop Trump-bashing, Harvard University concluded that CNN led the way, along with Zucker's former home of NBC, in giving Trump 93 percent negative coverage in his first 100 days. For the next four years, CNN served as the leading media resistance to Trump, throwing objectivity out the window. And after President Biden got elected, the network cheered the new president as it had throughout the entire campaign while still making Trump a prime centerpiece for over-the-top negative coverage despite his being out of office. But as much as CNN tried to resurrect its lead character — who was banned from social media and largely off the grid for the year — his absence clearly showed the network was a one-trick partisan pony. Ratings fell 90 percent overall when comparing January 2021 to January 2022. That’s hard to do. Which brings us to the events of this week: Zucker released a statement saying he had to resign because of a consensual affair with an executive named Allison Gollust. WarnerMedia apparently has a rule against this, so Zucker — instead of a slap on the wrist for a benign offense — simply had to go abruptly. Nobody believed this excuse. Turns out they may have had plenty of reason to be skeptical. Per several reports, Zucker and Gollust allegedly advised then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) – the older brother of then-CNN anchor Chris Cuomo — on what to say during his COVID-19 daily briefings in the spring of 2020. They also reportedly told Cuomo how to respond to and how to criticize Trump, to make it more compelling TV. (Gollust is a former communications director for Andrew Cuomo.) Let's unpack all of this: In the spring of 2020, the country was in a horrific place. Businesses shut completely; people were scared. There were no COVID-19 therapeutics, no vaccines. Hospitals were overwhelmed, thousands were dying each day. If ever there was a time for news organizations to educate and inform the public, this was it. Instead, Zucker apparently believed it was the perfect time to exploit the situation for political gain and to help the network's ratings.Andrew Cuomo benefited from briefings that made him appear to be the adult in the room regarding COVID-19 and Trump appear to be the villain. Cuomo got a $5.1 million book deal as a result.Chris Cuomo and Zucker/Gollust/CNN benefited from marathon interviews with Cuomo's governor/brother, which didn't touch the governor's alleged nursing home scandal. Ratings soared.So, was Zucker's departure simply about a consensual relationship with a co-worker? One might be forgiven for questioning that.Moving forward, what's next for CNN when the company falls under the Discovery Channel umbrella later this year? Let's hear from its soon-to-be largest shareholder, John Malone of Liberty Media. "I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing," Malone said in an interview that recently aired on CNBC. Espresso's popularity is booming. Now is a great time to learn how to...Andrew Yang in now-deleted tweet: 'I don't think Joe Rogan is a...The collapse of CNN is now complete: 9 out of 10 viewers, gone. Its top-rated anchor, Chris Cuomo, gone. Its network president, gone. Its integrity in shambles.rk president, gone. Its integrity in shambles.)
The line is a future utopia, but are people going to live there - Workflow + (In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin S … In 2021, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman revealed the country's plans to build The Line, a smart linear city that will be constructed vertically, have no roads or cars and run purely on renewable energy. Now, the Saudi government has released image renders of what The Line could look like once it's done. The city was designed to only be 200 meters (656 feet) wide, but 500 meters (1,640 feet) tall and 170 kilometers (105 miles) long. It will house multiple communities encased in a glass facade running along the coast and will eventually be able to accommodate up to 9 million residents. A dutch design specialist says: "it won't be likely people in modern cities of this day and age will accept a big change like this and move into cities simaler to this futuristic concept"cities simaler to this futuristic concept")
Biden's Infrastructure Claim - Workflow + (In his State of The Union Address, Biden, … In his State of The Union Address, Biden, speaking about his Infrastructure Bill, said: “The single biggest investment in history was a bipartisan effort.”—The fact is, it wasn’t that historic. The bill was big, adding $550 billion in fresh spending on roads, bridges, and broadband Internet over five years. But measured as a proportion of the U.S. economy, it is slightly below the 1.36% of the nation’s gross domestic product that was spent on infrastructure, on average, during the first four years of the New Deal, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. It is even further below the roughly 2% spent on infrastructure in the late 1970s and early 1980s.https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ap-fact-check-bidens-claims-in-his-state-of-union-address—Whatever Biden’s or Buttigieg’s lip-service to climate goals, this money to DOTs is likely to go in large part to expanding capacity in ways that ramp up driving nationwide,” says Jeff Speck, author of the book Walkable City. It does not further climate goals.https://www.governing.com/now/the-infrastructure-bill-may-not-be-so-historic-after-all—Historians, economists and engineers interviewed by The Associated Press welcomed Biden’s efforts. But they stressed that $1 trillion was not nearly enough to overcome the government’s failure for decades to maintain and upgrade the country’s infrastructure. The politics essentially forced a trade-off in terms of potential impact not just on the climate but on the ability to outpace the rest of the world this century and remain the dominant economic power. https://fortune.com/2021/11/15/historians-economists-joe-biden-1-trillion-infrastructure-bill-big-deal-not-transformational/ucture-bill-big-deal-not-transformational/)
S&P 500 ESG describes Exxon as being more sustainable as Tesla - Workflow + (It just isn't the whole truth, one makes e … 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-studyour 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 1965The metrics and methods used are not reflecting logical thinking but weird rules.flecting logical thinking but weird rules.)
Janet Yellen misleads about cryptocurrency - Workflow + (Janet Yellen on Crypto April 7, 2022 at A … Janet Yellen on CryptoApril 7, 2022 at American University’s Kogod School of Business Center for Innovation.https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0706https://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=267b48e6ad75Treasury 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 DollarFor 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.l-functioning financial system," she said.)
Rogan Spotify AntiVax Lie - Workflow + (John Oberlin @OMGno2trump · 8h When Spotif … John Oberlin@OMGno2trump·8hWhen Spotify pays Joe Rogan $100 million dollars they aren't supporting him, they're sponsoring and subsidizing him, his politics, his disinformation and antivaxxers.Quote TweetPink Peonies 2014@PinkPeonies2014 · 14hNow 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?lieReplying to @NoLieWithBTCSpotify takes the money from subscribers and pays Joe Rogan to spread misinformation that may harm and kill people. So, subscribers are sponsoring pain and deathNo Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen@NoLieWithBTCSpotify 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_klULzwgoogle 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.ion of not signing him if he was going to be evil.)