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Thirty Countries Use 'Armies of Opinion Shapers' To Manipulate Democracy (theguardian.com)
The governments of 30 countries around the globe are using armies of so called opinion shapers to meddle in elections, advance anti-democratic agendas and repress their citizens, a new report shows. From a report on The Guardian: Unlike widely reported Russian attempts to influence foreign elections, most of the offending countries use the internet to manipulate opinion domestically, says US NGO Freedom House. "Manipulation and disinformation tactics played an important role in elections in at least 17 other countries over the past year, damaging citizens' ability to choose their leaders based on factual news and authentic debate," the US government-funded charity said. "Although some governments sought to support their interests and expand their influence abroad, as with Russia's disinformation campaigns in the United States and Europe, in most cases they used these methods inside their own borders to maintain their hold on power."
And then there are the people who actually THINK about this stuff..
Come on, Global Warming science has some serious questions which it hasn't answered, chief of which is "what does this actually mean?"
We hear a lot of dire predictions about how bad things will be, but here-to-fore nobody has actually advanced a model that seems to be right. 20 years ago, Al Gore was playing fast and loose with the science and making some pretty outlandish claims, the majority of which have not happened on his given time table. But his claims have ONE thing in common with today's provayers of global doom via Global Warming/Climante Change (or what ever your name of the day happens to be.)
What is that one thing? Outlandish alarmist claims that grab headlines and make news.
I'm growing weary of the trumped up "the sky is falling" ("the temperature is going up") global Armageddon coming from the press and the obvious confirmation bias by the likes of you who claim "the science is settled" on this. No it's not, Actually the jury is still out on the big question on this whole thing and that is "What does this mean?" What's going to happen because of this? Apparently Al Gore got it wrong some 20 years ago, so what makes you think we have it right now? Are we somehow working with better models or data? Have the theories changed any? Nope, same data, generally the same models and the theories are the same. Al was wrong, why do you now think we understand this better now?
Then you bring politics into this? LOL... Yea, that's shilling for sure... The left OBVIOUSLY has a corner on intellect in this world (NOT!). Pssst! (I think you are about as wrong as you can be on this, and your politics are too.)
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One hurricane season in 13. Excellent work pointing the the exception as if it is the rule.
You AGW deniers are so predictable.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/ClimateStorms/page2.php
It is a trend, not just one year. You could find that out yourself if you cared to look.
"What the American public doesn't know is what makes them the American public." -Ray Zalinsky (Tommy Boy)