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Right wing disinformation is starting to run wild and it’s very dangerous It’s bad and getting worse. And among the worst are Donald Trump and his misbegotten offspring: Within minutes of circulating the first images of the horrific Hamas-led terrorist attack on Israel, the Right Wing disinformation apparatus sprung into action. Right Wing accounts began spreading false information to score political points against President Biden and the Democrats. Donald Trump and the other Republican candidates are weaponizing the information as it spreads like wildfire across social media. Fast-moving, real-time events are the most fertile ground for disinformation and propaganda. The public is tuned in, the traditional media hasn’t yet had time to get all the facts, and people are sharing information without context or confirmation. The problem worsened after platforms conceded to wave the white flag against stopping disinformation. Elon Musk encouraged his 159 million followers to get their opinions from an account that has spread anti-Semitic disinformation.
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When Angus Deaton arrived in the US four decades ago, he imagined he had something to say about economic inequality and how to tackle it that Americans might want to hear. Instead, the great economic minds of the time told him to shut up … As Deaton describes in his unsparing new book, Economics in […]
“Bleaching” Black residents from S.C.’s 1st District Bishop William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign regularly invokes the fusion movement that allowed formerly enslaved citizens (men, anyway) joined by white allies to vote and win public office in the post-Civil War South. Nineteenth-century Supreme Court rulings backing white backlash to fusion politics set the stage, Politico Magazine reports, for “the American slide toward autocracy.” The backlash to Barack Obama’s 2008 election provided the jolt of momentum autocrats needed, particularly in the former Confederate states, for resurrecting the not-yet-cold corpse of Jim Crow. Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin recounts recent history with which Hullabaloo readers are already familiar, plus Alabama’s recent insistence on defying court rulings to preserve white dominance of the state’s congressional delegation: In 2022, a three-judge district court found that the state’s proposed redistricting map diluted minority votes, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.
U.S. sends carrier group to eastern Mediterranean Israel formally declared war on Hamas on Sunday after a surprise attack that killed over 700. The Israelis are massing troops for a ground invasion. The U.S. State Department said in a statement this morning that at least nine Americans died in the Hamas attack. NBC News: “This is Israel’s 9/11. Not since 1973 has there been such a catastrophic intelligence failure in Israel,” said Marc Polymeropoulos, who worked for 26 years for the CIA, where he specialized in counterterrorism, the Middle East and South Asia. Israel’s intelligence services have long been seen as some of the most capable in the world, with an array of human intelligence, eavesdropping and other technical means blanketing the West Bank and Gaza. “It is almost inconceivable how they missed this,” said Polymeropoulos. As with early reporting from any war zone, statistics and accounts will be revised. Be careful where you get your news and note reporters’ sources.
In today's BCTV Daily Dispatch: The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon, Fear TWD, Rick and Morty, Daredevil, Pibby, Doctor Who, Loki, and more!
Siân Berry, former Co-Leader of the Green Party, is hoping to be Caroline Lucas' successor as MP for Brighton Pavilion
We do not instruct our students well in the art of crafting papers, possibly because there are so many idiosyncratic elements. Editing or refereeing manuscripts teaches us what distinguishes a well-crafted paper from an ordinary one. We should take on these chores not only because they are public services but also because they are the […]
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New Noonday Underground (Simon Dine) album features a new song with Frank!
The Lever speaks with Nikhil Goyal, former senior advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, about his new book on the American education system.
The party has adopted a more centralised approach as it steps away from potential deals with other parties
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That appalling pun highlights a problem with economic modellers in general: the treatment of time as a discrete rather than a continuous phenomenon. Though there are (not enough!) exceptions, the habit amongst both Neoclassical and Post-Keynesians economists is to model an economic variable now as depending on other variables one year in the past (and … Continue reading "I’m not Discreet, and Neither is Time"
The Labour leader's labelling of those who disagree with him as 'unBritish' is a worrying sign of things to come, argues his former adviser Simon Fletcher
The time taken by investigators to look into serious allegations against police officers has tripled in recent years, Andrew Kersley reveals
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October 9th, 2023: I'm back from Iceland! Last Friday (October 6, 2023), the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released their latest labour market data – Employment Situation Summary – September 2023 – which showed payroll employment rising by 336,000 and the unemployment rate stable, after rising 0.3 points to 3.8 per cent in August. I posed the question last month when…
MELBOURNE artist Josh Hazelwood was in Coffs Harbour on Sunday 1 October with two big friends who he introduced to visitors at the Big Banana. Celebrated for his intricate and expansive sculptures, Josh is creating awareness around his appointment as Youngcare’s newest ambassador by driving two specially designed sculptures from Melbourne to their new home... The post Youngcare ambassador Josh Hazelwood on #TheBigDrive in Coffs Harbour appeared first on News Of The Area. ROTARY Club of Woolgoolga members have delighted in publicly recognising three local residents by presenting each of them with its prestigious Pride of Workmanship Awards. Pride of Workmanship is an approved Rotary project adopted by over 600 Rotary clubs worldwide. Advertise with News of The Area today. It’s worth it for your business. Message us.... The post Rotary Woolgoolga presents locals with Pride of Workmanship awards appeared first on News Of The Area. A CABINET of Curiosities is Coffs Harbour artist John Thiering’s new solo exhibition, showing at the National Cartoon Gallery at The Bunker with opening night on Friday 13 October. Featuring 30-40 works, most of them new, the exhibition provides the viewer with a treasure trove of stories filled with oddities and steeped in whimsy. Advertise... The post A Cabinet of Curiosities solo art show by John Thiering opens at The National Cartoon Gallery appeared first on News Of The Area. | ||