Month: January 2023

Who To Believe? The BBC Or Your Lyin’ Eyes?

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By Paul Homewood

Gaslighting is defined as manipulating someone so as to make them question their own reality:

German police have denied being “extras for Greta Thunberg” after false claims that her detainment at a protest in western Germany was staged.

A viral post falsely claimed the climate activist being held by police was “all set up for the cameras”.

Ms Thunberg and other activists were seeking to stop the abandoned village of Lützerath from being demolished for the expansion of a coal mine.

The video of her being removed by police has gained millions of views.

“We would never give ourselves to make such recordings,” a spokesperson for local police told the BBC, denying allegations that Ms Thunberg’s detainment was fake.

But it is important that the police enable reporting and guarantee the protection of media workers, they added.

The viral video shows the climate campaigner flanked by police officers on either side.

Meanwhile a few photographers can be seen snapping photos and moving around her, as Ms Thunberg smiles.

Several other police officers who were also standing nearby appear to be waiting with her before walking her away from the scene.

Some online have jumped onto these moments of officers and Ms Thunberg waiting around, to falsely claim that it is part of a staged photo opportunity.

However the interior ministry of the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia told the BBC that the police officers and Ms Thunberg were waiting for logistical reasons.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64321652

Who do you believe? The BBC or your own lying eyes?

This is the video the BBC actually showed in their original story the day before:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64309628

For some reason they left out all of the bits that they did not want you to see:

Instead of gaslighting, why does not the BBC actually publish the full video, and let people decide for themselves?

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January 20, 2023 at 04:09PM

January 1906 Heatwave

21 Jan 1906, 1 – New-York Tribune at Newspapers.com 08 Jan 1906 – THE HEAT WAVE – Trove 08 Jan 1906 – EXTENSIVE HEAT WAVE. – Trove A tornado on March 2, 1906 was reported to have killed more than … Continue reading →

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January 20, 2023 at 03:22PM

Backlash: BlackRock CEO says attacks on ESG investing are getting ugly and personal

By Jo Nova

Two wins. BlackRock has agreed to Ron deSantis’ demands that Florida’s state pension funds can’t be used for eco-activism fantasy quests. Now they have to be used to make profits for the people those funds belong too. That’s not much of a win you might think, since that’s just a return to “the world we thought we were living in”, but in the World of Absurd it’s popping a very important bubble. Possibly “the” most important bubble — the loose money driving the trainwreck of stupid investments and sabotage-like-boycotts.

Secondly — Larry Fink feels hurt. The glitter-wheels are falling off the climate fund-wagon. The CEO of BlackRock was running around the world acting like the third largest nation on Earth. He was waving ten trillion dollars of other people’s money and bossing people into joining his cult. That party is coming undone.

BlackRock are the financial Climate Police disguised as a Monster Investment Fund but the anti-woke movement is gaining ground:

By Rachel Koning Beals, MorningStar

Larry Fink — who called climate change the investing opportunity of his lifetime — tells Davos gathering he’s working to change the narrative, such as Elon Musk saying ESG’s ‘S’ stands for ‘satanic’

That’s fund giant BlackRock Inc.’s(BLK) Chief Executive Larry Fink’s answer when asked this week at the glitzy Switzerland gathering of executives, economists and politicians about the “anti-woke” pushback against Wall Streeters who see investment opportunity in fighting climate change.

Fink said… “”Let’s be clear, the narrative is ugly, the narrative is creating this huge polarization.”

It couldn’t happen to a nicer guy.

John Carney, Breitbart News

Larry Fink said that criticism of ESG investing has become personal and accused critics of trying to “demonize” an investment strategy he has championed for the past several years.

“I’m taking this very seriously,” the BlackRock chief said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday. “We are trying to address the misconceptions. It’s hard because it’s not business any more, they’re doing it in a personal way. And for the first time in my professional career, attacks are now personal. They’re trying to demonize the issues.”

Karma. When did Larry Fink say anything about the rampant demonization and personal attacks on climate skeptics?

Florida hasn’t taken much money back from Fink (in the big scheme), but they have shown the way, and Fink must be worried that if word spreads, BlackRock could become an empty shell. There is a long way to go, but the legal process used by US State governments against BlackRock can cut the heads off the funding hydra that takes trillions of dollars from citizens and uses it against them.

It’s a breach of anti-trust law in the US and works just like a giant financial cartel.

There are already 19 US States fighting back against BlackRock. They may be our best hope of clawing back power from the dark money bubble threatening democracies.

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January 20, 2023 at 02:18PM

No, New England winters are not warming at an alarming rate

Here’s my takedown of the latest climate hoax in today’s Boston Globe. Here is the key claim: Now if you look at the past 50 years of winter temperature, significant warming does seem to be occurring at a rate of 0.8°F per decade. But, of course, New England didn’t start having temperatures in 1973. Here … Continue reading No, New England winters are not warming at an alarming rate

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January 20, 2023 at 01:26PM