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The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025
The Bulletin: May 29-June 4, 2025 This past week’s articles of interest… If you’re new to my writing, check out this overview. Forests, Water, and Climate: Time for Re-Conceptualization A Dead World, Plastic-Wrapped to Preserve Freshness – resilience Modern Civilization is Proving to be a Very Fragile Thing The Reductionist Delusion: How We Got Climate […]
June 29, 2024 Readings
Attempting a new format (that I will probably fiddle with for a week or so) for sharing articles of interest. Below you will find a number of links to those articles. Note that I may add a few before the day ends so check back. Hope this works for everyone… First-Responder Trauma: A New Framework […]
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior”
EU Commission VP: “We Believe Our Fact-Checking Is Already Influencing User Behavior” If you’re tired of censorship and surveillance, join Reclaim The Net. The European Parliament (EP) elections are taking place next month and, considering that the president of the European Commission (effectively, “the EU government”) and all its commissioners are confirmed by the EP, no […]
Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and “Bringing Discredit” on the Entire Industry
Fact Checkers Caught Looking the Other Way (Again!) As Pfizer Nabbed Spreading Vaccine Misinformation and “Bringing Discredit” on the Entire Industry Pfizer’s COVID vaccine corruption adds further evidence that fact checkers are the pharmaceutical industry’s partners in crime. A UK pharmaceutical body has accused Pfizer of “bringing discredit” on their entire industry after Pfizer’s senior executives promoted […]
Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails
Snopes Changed Fact-Check After Pressure From Biden Administration: Emails A ’tough letter’ preceded the change. The fact-checking website Snopes changed one of its ratings after pressure from President Joe Biden’s administration, newly disclosed emails show. Snopes on Jan. 10, 2023, said that there was some truth to a claim that President Biden’s administration was planning […]
Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is.
Social Media Fact Checkers Claim Their Work Isn’t Censorship. Here’s Why It Is. “Fact-checking” isn’t just labeling. It tanks the visibility of posts. There’s good news, and bad: first, the fact that “fact-checkers” masquerading as unbiased and accurate moderators of content – while actually unreliable and bias-prone tools of censorship – are now recognized widely […]
‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it
‘We live in an Orwellian hell-scape’: Facebook fact-checks top economist for stating America IS in a recession after Biden refused to admit it Phillip Magness, the research and education director at the American Institute for Economic Research, believes the U.S. is in a recession Economists usually say it is a recession when two successive quarters […]
Digital Brownshirts and Their Masters
Digital Brownshirts and Their Masters We are under siege. A nihilistic fanaticism is running free among us thanks to the emergence of a journalistic “ethos” that establishes an almost complete equivalence between the “truth” and those utterances that support the strategic goals of the great economic and digital powers of our time. A few months […]
Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson
Sharyl Attkisson, a five-time Emmy Award winning investigative journalist and host of “Full Measure,” in Leesburg, Virginia, on Jan. 14, 2022. (York Du/The Epoch Times) Fact-Checkers Are Used to Confuse the Public: Sharyl Attkisson Five-time Emmy award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson said she has seen an increased effort to manipulate the public to appreciate censorship and […]
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI
Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVI On Narrative Control and ‘Fact Checking’ One of the areas of interest for me as I weaved my way through my ten years of formal post-secondary education (yes, I spent the entire decade of the 1980s pursuing four degrees at several different universities; some of it part-time as I waffled […]
