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The Associated Press (AP) has partnered with Chinese government “news” agencies in order to operate within China.
Now a committee of the U.S. Congress is investigating. “We need to be certain that this MOU [memorandum of understanding between AP and Chinese “news”] is not an IOU,” [Congressman Brad] Sherman [D.-Ca.] told [Josh Rogin of the Washington Post]. “Xinhua uses its bureaus in the U.S. to collect intelligence for Beijing, so it’s common sense that a cooperation agreement with it and the AP should be scrutinized. We need full transparency.”
Of course every investigation into “mainstream news” sources has always found that many reporters are secretly paid by U.S. government officials and agencies.
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The director of a TV station critical of President Daniel Ortega was accused Saturday of inciting terrorism after authorities raided and shut down the station’s office.
Nongovernmental media are increasingly threatened under the socialist regime.
The news director “appeared in court in the morning wearing a blue prisoner’s uniform and was formally accused of ‘provocation, proposition and conspiracy to commit terrorist acts,’ according to a court document.”
At least 325 people have been killed in recent protests, and the Nicaragua Center for Human Rights says some 565 people have been jailed. Thousands more have fled the country in self-imposed exile.
Those who love the environment should care when overfishing causes depletion in fish stocks (and fish-hunting birds).
But the government-owned British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) recently published a report claiming that a decline in South African penguins was due to rising oceans caused by manmade climate change.
Alert skeptics immediately smelled something fishy when they heard the initial report. They knew that oceans and “tides” have not been rising (to any abnormal extent) from climate change.
The BBC was shamed into admitting its error. See here.
Nearly 2,000 people have been sentenced to life in prison in Turkey since the July 2016.
The claim is that they are loyal to exiled Turkish figure Fethullah Gulen (who now lives in the United States).
Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan claims that anyone loyal to Gulen is a national security threat, and that they are all conspiring to overthrow the Turkish government.
In recent weeks, there have been multiple police raids across the country against individuals suspected of links to the Gulen movement, especially in the armed forces. The arrests of over 50,000 people and the sacking of tens of thousands of public sector employees since July 2016 has raised alarm in the West and among rights activists.
It has
been one year since the Trump Administration’s FCC overturned the Obama
Administration’s FCC program known as “net neutrality.”
The concept of “net neutrality” was based on the tired, worn-out idea that government must control and regulate all industries. In all essence, ‘net neutrality’ was a government takeover of the internet. The Orwellian idea was that a massive new government bureaucracy was needed to make the internet “free”by regulating and licensing internet providers and speeds. Government trusters claimed it was needed to stop evil corporations from charging the poor more than the rich, or something.
When Trump’s FCC outvoted Obama’s FCC and gutted the two-year-old regulatory system, many voices predicted disaster. The front page of CNN.com called the FCC’s vote “The end of the internet as we know it.” But CNN.com is still there. The New York Times’ website declared that repealing net neutrality would be the “final pillow in [the internet’s] face.”
Like almost every other government claim ever, these predictions were bunk. “Internet speeds have increased by 40 percent during 2018, according to a recent report by Recode.”
TO BE FAIR, 2018 has seen some efforts by large internet-using companies to censor their own content. For example, pro-Democratic Party sites such as Facebook, Google, and YouTube began “shadow banning” some ‘conservative’content prior to the 2018 election, and outright banned some anti-government content such as Alex Jones’ Infowars (the most popular channel on Youtube at one time). But those decisions will almost certainly harm Facebook, Google and YouTube in the months to come.
Bloomberg has analyzed 20017 Census data and found that the top 3 highest-taxing cities–New York City, Las Angeles and Chicago–EACH lose over 100 people each day who migrate to other states. High-tax Chicago loses nearly 156 people each day.
These economic refugees are fleeing to lower-tax, lower-regulation states such as Texas, Arizona, Florida and Nevada. Dallas, Texas leads all U.S. cities as the largest net gainer with 246 people arriving daily.
After Dallas, Sun Belt beacons Phoenix, Tampa, Atlanta and Orlando round out the top five. Seattle, at number six with a gain of 116 people daily, is the only cold-weather destination in the top 10.
Professor Cliff Mass is one of the most respected faculty members in the University of Washington Atmospheric Sciences Department. Since 1982, his research has focused on the role of topography in the evolution of weather systems, and on the weather of the Pacific Northwest. In addition to his research publications, Cliff Mass has published a popular book entitled ‘Weather of the Pacific Northwest.’
He has 13,000 twitter followers. Mass also has a weekly radio show with 400,000 weekly listeners (!)
But Professor Mass has recently come under fire after opposing Washington State’s recent “climate change tax” ballot initiative and publicly saying that California’s recent wildfires were not caused by “manmade global warming.”
The chair of the UW’s Atmospheric Sciences Department recently held a Department-wide meeting aimed at marginalizing and smearing Mass as a “climate denier” and “racist.” (Mass had authored an editorial with an image of pigs at a trough–a traditional depiction of well-connected privileged elites feeding off of the body-politick–in which Mass had described how the State ballot initiative was designed to funnel millions of dollars to special interests such as Indian tribes and “pollution and health action areas” of minority and “vulnerable populations.”)
Dr. Judith Curry–herself a former professor driven from academia by relentless smears after she came out as a ‘climate skeptic’–has authored a detailed report.
Pat Buchanan: former Nixon speech writer, presidential candidate, and prolific author
The ever insightful Patrick Buchanan is out with a column in which he surveys the international landscape:
“Capitals,”
according to Buchanan, “– Washington, London, Paris, Berlin – seem ever more
distant from the countries they rule.”
Two years
ago 52 % of Brits voted to leave the European Union. (Their government had made them a part of
another country without asking their permission!) Yet Britain’s government can not agree on the
specifics of the “Brexit.” Without a government
“plan” for the Brexit, according to Buchanan, “The possibility exists that
Britain could simply crash out of the EU, causing severe economic damage to
both.” (Note the same dire predictions
were made immediately before the Brexit vote in 2016 but the British economy
has been outperforming expectations since.)
In France,
“[t]he political collapse of [President] Macron has been extraordinary.” “In 2017, he won almost two-thirds of the
national vote.” He was thought to be the
next recognized leader of the EU. “Today, one poll puts Macron’s approval at 21
percent.”
Just weeks ago the U.S. government released its 1,700-page 2018 US National Climate Assessment, which claimed that failure to eliminate fossil fuels will send global temperatures soaring 15 degrees F by 2100! Chaos and food shortages will ensue!
Tederos Kocienzski III, Roger Roots, John Lamb, and Kocienzski’s son at a restaurant in St. Paul, Minnesota, October 2018
In the wake of these predictions, Dr. Roger Roots, founder and president of Lysander Spooner University, proposed a bet: U.S. major crop yields will NOT decline from global warming in the next ten (10) years.
Roots’ bet was immediately accepted by a friend: Ted Kocienzski III of St. Paul, Minnesota. If, in ten years (thus by the end of harvest 2028), any major U.S. commodity crop has declined from its yields this year (in 2018), Roots will buy Kocienzski dinner and a bottle of wine.
If, on the other hand, all major U.S. commodity crop yields are no lower than they are in 2018, Kocienzski will buy Roots dinner and a bottle of wine.
The safest job in the world is that of a pro-government reporter; the most dangerous job in the world is that of an anti-government reporter.
Dozens of courageous journalists have faced violent threats and attacks in the past year as they have reported on life under the repressive government.
One journalist who has reported on Nicaraguan protests was detained by police six times in one week. At one point, police placed a bag over his head and warned him that if his reporting continued to be critical of the police, he and his family would be killed.
In Nicaragua, many TV and radio stations are owned by family members of ruling officials. Those outside this ownership network are described by the government as right wing terrorist media.
“Every independent journalist has received death threats,” says Gerall Chávez, a reporter with VosTV, whose house was vandalised in August.
