This dissonance on climate issues seems to be the rule rather than the exception. Major cable news networks mentioned climate change a whopping two times during their coverage of the historically deadly 2017 hurricane season, and frequently devoted more airtime to pressing issues like Roseanne Barr’s tweets. MSNBC host Chris Hayes once noted that climate change is a “palpable ratings killer.” This may or may not be true, but if outlets actually took their duty of public accountability seriously, they would empower journalists and television producers to incorporate climate change into stories that warrant it.
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ERIC ZUESSE—The cancer had spread to the culture’s brain. Growth, backed by “Greed is good” economics, became practically the American religion, viewed as patriotic, and not merely as the nation’s economic model (which was bad enough, with its increasingly imperialistic thrust — such as 2003 Iraq, 2011 Libya, 2012- Syria, 2014 Ukraine, 2016- Yemen, and maybe now Iran).
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The Saudis are coming to realise there is no milutary victory possible in Yemen, while MBS remains now bogged down in his own murderus incompetence over the Khashoggi assassination, not nlamed on bin Salman even by the CIA (for their own vile reasons).
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Slandering China: The Social Credit dark propaganda campaign
23 minutes readIn a recent speech US Vice President Pence even mentioned Social Credit as a violation of human rights right alongside internet censorship, religious persecution and mass detentions in Xinjiang, calling it “an Orwellian system premised on controlling virtually every facet of human life.” Wow!
The thing is that over the last year I’ve spent a good amount of time looking at China’s social credit systems, writing articles and translating lots of relevant legal authority, and the reality of social credit that I found through that research, and by living in China, just isn’t that exciting. It’s pretty mundane regulatory law with only a few new wrinkles.
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PHILIP A. FARRUGGIO—If you stand up and speak out against the tide, they label you unpatriotic and being against our military. Well, there is a way out of this conundrum. We should show remorse for the dead and wounded and deformed for life young military personnel, but only adding our feeling that They had NO business being sent to those places to do what they did to others and, ultimately, themselves!