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The next UK General Election could see the perfect storm for political lying, the head of factchecking organisation Full Fact tells Byline Times
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Can I be vulnerable with you for a second? I always believed we’d get back together.
Smallpox thought I was nuts. He kept telling me, “You’re delusional, bro.”
Rinderpest was similarly down about it. “They literally eradicated you.” I’m like, maybe look in the mirror when you say shit like that? Because I might be down, but I am not out.
And every time I talked about my comeback, Dracunculiasis rolled her eyes at me. “They all but wiped you out, man. It was one of the great successes of twentieth-century medicine.”
That was hard to hear. But I held on. I believe in manifesting. And I know you: You’re always saying that you’re over stuff that you aren’t REALLY over. You revive every franchise, and you reboot all your television shows. You “quit” social media. Look at high-rise jeans. And also low-rise jeans. Pretty much every rise of jeans. You count them out, and then—bam—just when you’ve finally cleaned them out of your closet, they’re back in fashion again. That’s why, despite everything, I’ve stayed optimistic.
I saw this rather revealing tweet recently:
Andreessen, if you don’t know, made his money during the dot-com boom, at Mozilla. He then formed a venture capital firm, Andreessen-Horowitz.
Now what’s interesting about this tweet is the word “guilt.”
Andreessen doesn’t want to feel guilt. He doesn’t like the idea that one should run society to try and do the most good for the most people.
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Om man i en demokrati skall överlåta viktiga beslut till experter bör detta bygga på att det faktiskt existerar en någorlunda säkerställd kunskap hos den kår av experter som skall fatta besluten. När det gäller penningpolitiken visar den omfattande debatten inom ekonomkåren att så inte är fallet. Man kan jämföra det rådande kunskapsläget inom penningpolitiken […]
Some 580 asylum seekers are housed at RAF Wethersfield where radiological contamination and unexploded ordnance has been found
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Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent. “In nearly twenty years as a journalist, this was one of the most extraordinary moments I have witnessed.” That’s how veteran CNN journalist Clarissa Ward described her foray into a Syrian prison on December 12, where she promptly claimed to have rescued a forgotten inmate after three months […] The post Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene first appeared on The Grayzone. The post Scandal deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward staging Syria prison scene appeared first on The Grayzone. Last Thursday (November 12, 2024), the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the latest – Labour Force, Australia – for November 2024. I was unable to get the data in time due to where I was when it was released so I held over my. usual report until today. The latest data release shows that employment…
Don’t say they weren’t warned. Honolulu Civil Beat reports: A former member of a secretive Hawaiʻi religious sect is warning members of Congress about the potential dangers of confirming Tulsi Gabbard as President-elect Donald Trump’s next director of national intelligence. Anita van Duyn says she spent 15 years inside the Science of Identity Foundation, a fringe offshoot of Hare Krishna that was formed in the 1970s and has been described by defectors as a cult. She has sent the letters only to Democrats so far, so I don’t know how effective that will be. And as the article acknowledges, Senators are loathe to criticize anyone for their religious beliefs(well, unless the person is a Democrat in which all bets are off.) Most DC types seem to think they should really go near this issue. But Gabbard hasn’t been nominated to be the head of Housing and Urban Development she’s been tapped to be the head of all the Intelligence Agencies and she’s a lifelong member of a cult!
We start the week with Prime Minister Albanese setting the record on Peter Dutton and nuclear power (and more) from Launceston. At the UN, the double standards for Gaza send a chilling message to the Global South, while in Gaza people follow the planes for the food drop and a young amputee adjusts to his Continue reading »
Like many roads that cut through Wyoming, the highway into the town of Rawlins is a long, winding one surrounded by rolling hills, barbed wire fences, and cattle ranches. I’d traveled this stretch of Wyoming many times. Once during a dangerous blizzard, another time during a car-rattling thunderstorm, the rain so heavy my windshield wipers couldn’t keep pace with the deluge. The weather might be wild and unpredictable in Wyoming’s outback, but the people are friendly and welcoming as long as you don’t talk politics or mention that you live in a place like California. One late summer afternoon on a trip at the height of the Covid pandemic, I stopped off in Rawlins for lunch. There wasn’t a mask... Read more Source: Murdering Eagles to Save the Climate? appeared first on TomDispatch.com. Once again, many, many thanks to those of you who’ve contributed this year. I am so grateful, There are so many options out there for people to subscribe to good writing and great analysis so it really warms my heart to see that some of you are choosing to support the work we do here. I’ll never have a paywall — I want people who have limited ability to pay to be able to read us too — and I don’t want to go back to featuring ads, so I really appreciate those of you who have the means and the desire to donate. I don’t know how many of us have the stomach to be dissidents. I certainly don’t know what I will do if I’m forced to ask myself that question. But it’s probably something we should all think about at least a little bit ahead of time. With people like Tom Hohman saying they plan to arrest people who “harbor” undocumented workers and Trump and his henchmen threatening to jail everyone in sight, it’s not completely out of the question that we might be confronted with some unpleasant choices before too long.
Australia’s part-time Opposition leader, Peter Dutton, has threatened Australia’s press to leave him alone over the festive season, and only contact him when it is time to start the annual whinge fest that is how to celebrate Australia Day. ”I’ve... Read More ›
Yum. I hope he doesn’t want to ban antibiotics too or we’ll be in worse trouble than we already are. By the way: Recall this? Nov. 10, 2010 — An effort by Pennsylvania schools to get students to eat healthier is coming under fire from Sarah Palin. The proposed new guidelines would limit the amount of sweets in classroom parties and reduce the number of holiday and birthday celebrations. On the proposed regulations, Palin called Pennsylvania a “nanny state run amok.” In protest, she brought 200 sugar cookies to a Bucks County school fundraiser Tuesday. “I had to shake it up a little bit because I heard there is a debate going on in Pennsylvania over whether most schools condemn sweets, cakes, cookies, that type of thing,” Palin said. “I brought dozens and dozens of cookies to these students.” Instead, parents would be encouraged to serve healthy snacks, such as fruits or vegetables. But hey, the two Sarahs never said you shouldn’t serve raw meat, raw egg yolks and raw milk to kids, amirite? Perfectly legit.
Week-end Wrap – Political Economy – December 15, 2024 By Tony Wikrent
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