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Questions Reporters Might Ask Liberals If They Didn’t Suck

Poor writing you say? Which party sucks reporters or liberals? Ha! Both, written perfectly.

Good tweets on the status of journalism at the moment

A warning on the limitations of computer modelling

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Modelling is only as good as the input data and built-in model assumptions. Experience with geotechnical computer programs for slope stability, liquefaction, and other hazard modelling indicates that a wide range of potential results are possible all within the envelope of reasonable expectation. Experience, judgement and site specific data are critical and must be applied to any model results. This has important implications for climate change, where predictions of global temperature rise and associated secondary effects are based on limited data and imprecise, inaccurate models. Graph from Elon Musk based on actual data available here:

CA COVID-19 Data

Illinois Governor Pritzker can’t explain why his wife is exempt from quarantine orders

https://twitter.com/telling_news/status/1255605716011843585

Rules are for the little people. Can you guess party affiliation?

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Shock Poll: Majorities Still Believe Debunked Fake News About Trump And Russia

Mollie Hemingway:

“…It’s nothing short of a scandal that 53 percent of Americans believe that this completely discredited document ‘was real in its findings of Trump colluding with the Russians.’

The media’s approval and credibility ratings may be low, but they still have a tremendous amount of political power. Whether they are attempting to destroy the life and reputation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, working overtime to protect the reputation of Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden, pushing the impeachment of a sitting president, attempting to control the outcomes of elections, or spending years peddling a false tale of treasonous collusion with Russia to steal the 2016 election, they get significant results despite failure to report accurately.

Evidence of that power and how irresponsibly it is used is found in a recent Harvard-Harris poll for April 2020. A majority of Americans, 53 percent, believe the Christopher Steele dossier “was real in its findings of Trump colluding with the Russians.” Only 47 percent of Americans chose the factually correct option that it was Clinton-funded campaign oppo fueled by disinformation.

The Steele dossier, and its central and elaborate theory that Trump was a secret agent of the Russian government who had betrayed his country to steal the 2016 election, has been completely discredited by multiple government investigations. The limitless special counsel probe, ostensibly led by Robert Mueller, could find no evidence that Trump had colluded with Russia. In fact, the Mueller team could find no evidence that any American had colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election…”

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James Comey, crooked cop

Comey on twitter yesterday

Jonathon Turley Yesterday

Here is James Comey lying under oath to the senate and the American people, watch

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He has destroyed the credibility of the FBI. He has disgraced himself.

YouTube Removing All Videos That Don’t Begin With The Chinese National Anthem

SAN BRUNO, CA—In light of the ongoing fight to halt the spread of dangerous or yucky opinions, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has announced new changes to Google’s video-sharing platform. Starting next week, any video that does not begin with the glorious strains of China’s uplifting national anthem will be immediately deleted from the platform.

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Newsom shows his true colors

DR. FAUCI BACKED CONTROVERSIAL WUHAN LAB WITH MILLIONS OF U.S. DOLLARS FOR RISKY CORONAVIRUS RESEARCH

FRED GUTERL:

“…But just last year, the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the organization led by Dr. Fauci, funded scientists at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and other institutions for work on gain-of-function research on bat coronaviruses.

In 2019, with the backing of NIAID, the National Institutes of Health committed $3.7 million over six years for research that included some gain-of-function work. The program followed another $3.7 million, 5-year project for collecting and studying bat coronaviruses, which ended in 2019, bringing the total to $7.4 million.

Many scientists have criticized gain of function research, which involves manipulating viruses in the lab to explore their potential for infecting humans, because it creates a risk of starting a pandemic from accidental release.

SARS-CoV-2 , the virus now causing a global pandemic, is believed to have originated in bats. U.S. intelligence, after originally asserting that the coronavirus had occurred naturally, conceded last month that the pandemic may have originated in a leak from the Wuhan lab. (At this point most scientists say it’s possible—but not likely—that the pandemic virus was engineered or manipulated.)…”

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