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CRAZY: CBS Blames Climate Change for Strengthened Taliban, After Blaming Opium in 2015
NewsBusters ^ | 8/23/2021 | Joseph Vazquez

Posted on 08/23/2021 8:32:24 AM PDT by JV3MRC

CBS News just proved how far down the whirlpool of nonsense it’s willing to go. The outlet actually blamed climate change for Afghanistan’s terrorism outbreak following President Joe Biden’s massive foreign policy failure.

CBS News climate and energy reporter Cara Korte wrote an absurd story headlined: “How climate change helped strengthen the Taliban.” She decried that “Rural Afghanistan has been rocked by climate change,” before making the wild connection that “the Taliban — likely without knowing climate change was the cause — has taken advantage of that pain.” But CBS News was singing a different tune 6 years ago when it blamed “opium profits” — not climate change — for strengthening the Taliban in a 2015 story headlined: “Taliban set to double opium profits this year?” CBS News said in 2015 that the Taliban derived 40 percent of its funding from the illicit opium trade, which “fuel[ed] their insurgency.” Climate change wasn’t even mentioned in the 2015 story. Talk about a whopping narrative shift.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: afghanistan; cbsnews; climatechange; gestapogreta; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; taliban
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1 posted on 08/23/2021 8:32:24 AM PDT by JV3MRC
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To: JV3MRC

I knew it was only a matter of time until they blamed it on Climate Change.


2 posted on 08/23/2021 8:33:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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“Climate Change!”

How magical. There is NOTHING that cannot be blamed on it!


3 posted on 08/23/2021 8:33:31 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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To: JV3MRC

It’s just amazing the power of our exhalations........./s


4 posted on 08/23/2021 8:34:31 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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5 posted on 08/23/2021 8:35:32 AM PDT by PROCON (Our rights do not come from government, therefore they cannot take them away.)
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I believe the Jan 6 trespassers were driven inside the Capital because of climate change!!!!


6 posted on 08/23/2021 8:35:56 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: JV3MRC

I think somebody should sit down with members of our press and ask them to draw a picture of the world they live in.

I’m betting you’d see all kinds of crazy stuff.


7 posted on 08/23/2021 8:37:06 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: JV3MRC

The endless global warming mandates are next.
It’s for the good of planet..you do want to save the planet don’t you?


8 posted on 08/23/2021 8:37:07 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: JV3MRC

I’m so glad they figured it out.


9 posted on 08/23/2021 8:38:59 AM PDT by webheart (I thought I was helping by getting vaccinated but they say I didn’t help at all. )
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CBS News climate and energy reporter Cara Korte

CBS also as a climate specialist and meteorologist who was explaining that the French hurricane Henri was problematic because of climate change and went on to expound on climate change and gave no reports on the hurricane itself - totally worthless reporters.

10 posted on 08/23/2021 8:40:37 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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Remember when the MSM used to add the words “without evidence” to every story reporting something President Trump said?


11 posted on 08/23/2021 8:51:41 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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We’ve only got about 9 years to live!
Unless the unvaxxed kill us before then.


12 posted on 08/23/2021 8:52:39 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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Sadly, the Propaganda Media believes their own lies.

Other than themselves, who listens to ABCCBSCNNFOXNBCNPRPBSNYTWAPO anymore? especially about Globull Warming?

13 posted on 08/23/2021 8:58:36 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: 1Old Pro

Weather Channel reporter was talking about approach of Henri in full panic mode saying how the upper atmosphere throughout the world is so radically altered now that we can’t make accurate predictions He didn’t say the words climate change but that is what I believe he was referring to. And of course the on air panel nodded their heads in solemn agreement.


14 posted on 08/23/2021 9:11:50 AM PDT by freefdny
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To: JV3MRC

They just make things up.


15 posted on 08/23/2021 9:14:42 AM PDT by glimmerman70
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Whirlpool of nonsense indeed it appears it’s a requirement to be in the news media industry.


16 posted on 08/23/2021 9:29:48 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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These people are so predictable.


17 posted on 08/23/2021 9:31:10 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: JV3MRC

These 7th. century savages have no idea what the word ‘’climate’’ even means.


18 posted on 08/23/2021 9:33:49 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: blueunicorn6
> I think somebody should sit down with members of our press and ask them to draw a picture of the world they live in. I’m betting you’d see all kinds of crazy stuff.

That's like asking a person who's tripping on too much acid to draw a picture of what they're hallucinating -- not only can't they get their sh!t together long enough to draw what they see, but what they see changes from minute to minute. Distortion, shifting images, forgetfulness, wild/wacky ideas, the whole gamut.

Seriously. Viewing the world through the liberal/democrat/media lens is very much like heavy tripping.

19 posted on 08/23/2021 9:51:38 AM PDT by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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Then film it and let everyone see what their brains are like.


20 posted on 08/23/2021 9:56:12 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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