This can't go on:
We used to spend 4% of global GDP on energy
Now, we spend 14%
Current energy crisis costs us 10% or $10 trillion each year
(caused both by war in Ukraine and bad, climate-focused policies)
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The Biden admin and the federal law enforcement and intel bureaucracies are deep in the business of managing media content. Not really sure when we voted for that...
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1. THREAD: THE FACEBOOK FILES
Twitter is not the only social media site to face pressure to censor content. I obtained emails showing that the CDC had significant influence over covid moderation at Facebook and Instagram. Here’s what I found.
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This article by “Revolt of the Public” author about the big-picture view of the #TwitterFiles is incisive, thoughtful, and in some places — as in his ruminations on possible counterattacks — scary: discoursemagazine.com/culture-and-so
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Elites ignore the Twitter Files, saying they reveal nothing, but the public disagrees, strongly supporting an investigation. Now, shows how the authoritarian Woke mob threatens our freedom, and why we must stand up to it.
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The federal government "has been acting the part of grand inquisitor and pushing content decisions on its 'private sector partners'"
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First came the mass conversion of the elites. Next came the establishment of the Church of Identity. Then came Twitter Files...
My latest at Discourse.
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Updated Capsule Summaries of all Twitter Files Threads to Date, With Links and a Glossary
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Wonder what Bill seems to be daydreaming about…
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So @HillaryClinton, a former Senator, supports blocking the oversight powers of congress based on what we’ve shown in the #TwitterFiles were fantasies about Russian collusion. She needs to answer questions about the role her campaign played in manufacturing a public panic. twitter.com/KelFitton/stat…
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Congressman, I’m an American citizen, I love my country, and accusing me of repeating “Kremlin talking points” when I report something you find inconvenient is beyond reprehensible. You and your sleazy red-baiting pals in congress should be ashamed.
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What @mtaibbi leaves out is that the article he cites explains DOJ dropped the two cases because discovery would give the Russians information they could weaponize. @mtaibbi now wants you to doubt the DOJ’s case against 12 Russian agents. He’s spewing Kremlin talking points. twitter.com/mtaibbi/status…
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Except this has probably happened a thousand times before and was never an issue until they tried to nail Trump to that cross…
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US President Joe Biden is under investigation by his own Justice Department to determine whether his serial mishandling of classified information -- including Top Secret documents about Iran and Ukraine -- violated multiple federal criminal laws and should be prosecuted.
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Now is the time to turn our attention to technology and other areas of Chinese influence on American society.
I discussed the threats from the Chinese Communist Party on this week.
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Today| @WeifengZhong of @mercatus on the new House select committee aimed at assessing threats from the Chinese Communist Party
"[Policymakers] had hoped that China would become a more open society by joining the WTO … it turned out to [become] more authoritarian"
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Last month Michael Shellenberger and I were among the journalists who reported on the Twitter Files. In this video I made for Public, Michael explains what the Twitter Files revealed about the Hunter Biden laptop scandal, and why we need a new Church Committee to rein in the FBI.
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Fake news is news that is ‘wanted’ to be shared; falseness is its secondary trait. Not every lie is shareable...
When the significance of the message is validated by dissemination, the scale of dissemination is the message.
#Postjournalism
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It reminds us just how strongly our media lenses shape our understanding of global events and how little they cover so much of the world.
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As we reflect on how American media covers the world, it is worth asking why a terrorist attack in Istanbul that killed 6 and injured 81 could receive just 9 mentions on MSNBC, 16 on Fox and 31 on CNN.
blog.gdeltproject.org/how-the-novemb
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Facebook's harshest anti-extreme politics tweak filtered out CNN and the NYT...
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If the war and associated events engulf the European delusion, it will likewise impact the ideology that sustained it. A long period of upheaval lies ahead, not just the war but everything else.
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It wasn't just Europe that deluded itself: the whole liberal, one world project did,
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I say this because there is a whiff of 1938 about Europe's political stasis today. In a recent piece for @wsj I called it a "crisis of disbelief" -- the unwillingness to accept that for three decades the West deluded itself. So, my advice (take it for what it's worth): 5/
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Please do not misgender the church arsonist
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Great book, Ken…
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Replying to @petersgoodman
Looks great - just ordered. I’m reading The Road to Somewhere right now. What is taken as a battle of left vs right is really more a schism between rooted “somewheres” vs deracinated, globalist “anywheres.” The elites are facing a Revolt of the Public (H/T @mgurri )
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How interesting that this is coming out now. Will the Washington Post address the countless stories they wrote hyping Russian influence on the 2016 race? The Pulitzer they won for such coverage?
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The Cybersecurity 202: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
Via @timstarks @aaronjschaffer
washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/
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Interesting series at Discourse. Polling data on youth optimism - is that an outlier?
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More than 70% of all refugees come from just 5 countries. Except for Venezuela they have or recently had destructive wars.
Syrian Arab Republic6.8 million
Venezuela5.6 million
Ukraine5.4 million
Afghanistan2.8 million
South Sudan2.4 million
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Online networks can extend help to localities with sites for governance reforms. In return, a share of land rents in these areas of institutional innovation can flow to the networks that helped them launch. See is.gd/NewHanseaticLe
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life comes at you fast
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If there were a Nobel for clear thinking, would win it. My take: conflict between institutions & networks will end when one adopt the other for institutional purposes...
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Cold kills much more than heat on every continent
US+Canada: 20K heat but 171K cold (8x more)
Europe 179K vs 657K cold (4x)
Africa 1.2m cold deaths
Asia 2.4m cold deaths
Yet, most reporting focus on heat deaths, because it fits the climate narrative
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Cold kills much more than heat on every continent
US+Canada: 20K heat but 171K cold (8x more)
Europe 179K vs 657K cold (4x)
Africa 1.2m cold deaths
Asia 2.4m cold deaths
Yet, most reporting focus on heat deaths, because it fits the climate narrative
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This program met vital needs in Brazil & will again. But if plan in part is to rehire Cuban MDs, there is irony in celebrated union leader President contracting MINSAP whose public employees can't independently negotiate labor conditions w their employer.
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I'm wondering why almost nobody is paying attention to this...
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Somehow I missed this from Sahil Handa. Brilliant as always. (But a geezer like me is allowed to ask what the dif is between "identity fluidity" and "identity crisis)...
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Science is in bad shape.
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60 Minutes extinction story has brought the usual right-wing out in force. If I'm always wrong so is science, since my work is always peer-reviewed, including the POPULATION BOMB and I've gotten virtually every scientific honor. Sure I've made some mistakes, but no basic ones
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Recommended, this was fun…
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Delighted to share my conversation with @mgurri who well understands the contemporary moment.
Our core question: How to embrace a culture of humility, listening, and accompaniment, while resisting nihilism and sclerosis?
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mar
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