Posted on 08/20/2019 7:27:46 AM PDT by Red Badger
On Monday night, national radio host Mark Levin read from a frightening article by Tyler O'Neil at PJ Media headlined "AOC-Aligned Climate Group Demands Media Silence 'Climate Deniers'." A group called The Climate Mobilization which advocates for a dramatic "World War II-scale" takeover of the economy to fight global warming, condemned the media for pursuing "objectivity" by giving air time to "climate deniers."
"Some media outlets are sacrificing the future of our planet for the sake of appearing objective," Margaret Klein Salamon, founder and executive director of The Climate Mobilization, said in a news release Saturday.
"This idea of equating climate deniers with scientific experts is a dangerous practice which frames the threat to our planet, our existence as an ongoing debate," Klein Salamon added. "I don’t think sacrificing the future of our planet in exchange for a look of 'objectivity' is an even exchange. It’s one the coming generation will judge us on, if we don’t move with the urgency necessary to fight back against global warming and win."
What makes this more amusing is Klein Salamon is a psychologist, not a climatologist. Her co-founder Ezra Silk has a Bachelor's Degree in History. Her advisory board includes the "former executive vice president of The Cheesecake Factory," a minister who's president of the Hip Hop Caucus and Adam McKay, the movie director who recently made the Cheney-trashing movie Vice.
The Left warns that democracy is dying in darkness.....and then insists the planet is too important for a democratic debate on the climate. To prevent planetary death, one side has to...die in darkness. They warn of Trump's authoritarian tendencies....and then display them in their media analysis.
Klein Salamon's group was touting a study from Nature.com that Newsweek was pushing. "The U.S. media gives climate change deniers too much prominence by placing people with little understanding of the complexities involved in the same league as top scientists, a study has found."
"It's time to stop giving these people visibility, which can be easily spun into false authority," University of California Merced Professor Alex Petersen said in a statement. Peterson was one of three scientists who traced the digital footprints of climate deniers and scientists across 100,000 media articles for a study in Nature Communications. They discovered about half of mainstream outlets actively seek out climate change denying experts for coverage.
"It's not just false balance; the numbers show that the media are 'balancing' experts—who represent the overwhelming majority of reputable scientists—with the views of a relative handful of non-experts," study author Professor LeRoy Westerling said in a statement. "Most of the contrarians are not scientists, and the ones who are have very thin credentials. They are not in the same league with top scientists. They aren't even in the league of the average career climate scientist."
These professors cited a 2016 New York Times story as one example of a story they reviewed, starring then-Congressman Lamar Smith. So...Republican committee chairmen demanding documents from the climate alarmists shouldn't be a news story, since Smith was not a scientist? These authoritarians don't even want a legislative debate on their Green New Deal "solutions."
They noted journalists often quote skeptics just to knock them down -- but even this is unacceptable! Censors have to censor:
Research shows that journalists often quote contrarians either to infuse objectivity or to dismiss their position outright. Yet, these approaches also detract attention from the relevant CC [climate change] narrative and provide the counterproductive impression that there is something substantial in contrarian arguments to be debated.
Psychologist, climatologist, snake oil salesman - there's no difference. Hustlers all.
(for an encore, they burn people)
You will be absorbed.
This is a bit long but nails this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpxAIYrtGLw
also, just go to the Tony Heller youtube channel. He eviscerates the whole thing from a different angle every day or three.
Now, that is a true mark of confidence in your opinion.
Vapid c*** wants the first and second amendments squashed. Didn’t she sign something that said she would defend them. Can she be booted out of Congress for that? Perhaps when the Congress goes back to the republicans next year?
These people seem to be singularly unaware of the fact that they have become the “new bullies”.
The First Amendment exists for a reason. As does the Second Amendment.
An Open Invitation to Tyranny
paulcraigroberts.org ^ | 8/7/19 | Paul Craig Roberts
Posted on 8/13/2019, 9:44:04 AM by LibWhacker
The FBI has published a document that concludes that “conspiracy theories” can motivate believers to commit crimes.
https://www.scribd.com/document/420379775/FBI-Conspiracy-Theory-Redacted#download
Considering the growing acceptance of pre-emptive arrest, that is, arresting someone before they can commit a crime that they are suspected of planning to commit, challenging official explanations, such as those offered for the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King or the official explanation for 9/11, can now result in monitoring by authorities with a view to finding a reason for pre-emptive arrest.
Presidents George W. Bush and Obama created the police state precedents of suspension of habeas corpus and assassination of citizens on suspicion alone without due process. If Americans can be preemptively detained indefinitely and preemptively assassinated, Americans can expect to be preemptively imprisoned for crimes that they did not commit.
As Lawrence Stratton and I explained in our book, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, the historic achievement of forging law into a shield of the people is being reversed in our time as law is being reforged into a weapon in the hands of the government.
The FBI document says that conspiracy theories “are usually at odds with official or prevailing explanations of events.” Note the use of “official” and “prevailing.” Official explanations are explanations provided by governments. Prevailing explanations are the explanations that the media repeats.
Examples of official and prevailing explanations are: Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction, Assad’s use of chemical weapons, Iranian nukes, Russian invasion of Ukraine, and the official explanation by the US government for the destruction of Libya. If a person doubts official explanations such as these, that person is a “conspiracy theorist.”
Official and prevailing explanations do not have to be consistent with facts. It is enough that they are official and prevailing. Whether or not they are true is irrelevant. Therefore, a person who stands up for the truth can be labeled a conspiracy theorist, monitored, and perhaps pre-emptively arrested.
Consider 9/11. No forensic investigation of 9/11 was ever officially conducted. Instead the destruction of the buildings was blamed on Osama bin Laden, and scenarios and simulations were created to support the allegation, not to find the truth. Architects, engineers, scientists, pilots, and first responders on site cannot reconcile the official prevailing explanation with the facts.
The scientific and testimonial evidence that they have produced is dismissed as “conspiracy theory.” It is those experts who stand on the evidence who are defined as conspiracy theorists, not those who created the story of Osama bin Laden’s 9/11 conspiracy.
Consider Russiagate. Here we have an alleged conspiracy between Trump and Russia that was the official prevailing explanation. Yet, to believe in the Russiagate conspiracy did not make one a conspiracy theorist as this conspiracy was the official prevailing explanation. But to doubt the Russiagate conspiracy did make one a conspiracy theorist.
What the FBI report does, intentionally or unintentionally, is to define a conspiracist as a person who doubts official explanations. In other words, it is a way of preventing any accountability of government. Whatever the government says, no matter how obvious a lie, will have to be accepted as fact or we will be put on a list to be monitored for preemptive arrest.
In effect, the FBI’s document reduces the First Amendment, that is, free speech, to the right to repeat official and prevailing explanations. Any other speech is a conspiratorial belief that can lead to the commission of a crime.
Every American should be greatly concerned that the government in Washington does not see this FBI document as an open invitation to tyranny, repudiate it, and demand its recall.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3771425/pos
AOC: The stupid leading the blind.
AOC is scared to Death of Debating ,LOL
Google already beat her to it.
FRiend, if they booted our of Congress everyone that violated the oath they took, There would be no one in Congress. Ditto State Capitols, City Halls. County Office Buildings. or Law Enforcement Posts. Sad, isn’t it?
Anti FA
Shows us exactly what they’ll do if they should get in power.
Inside every liberal is a ruthless dictator trying to get control...................
They really are FASCISTS.
They just accuse others....................
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