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More people are avoiding the news, and trusting it less, report says


News24
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:01 UTC
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© Tolga Akmen/AFP via Getty ImagesYounger audiences are increasingly accessing the news via platforms such as TikTok.
A growing number of people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the coronavirus pandemic, Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a report released on Tuesday.

While the majority of people surveyed consume news regularly, 38% said they often or sometimes avoid the news - up from 29% in 2017 - the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism said in its annual Digital News Report. Around 36% - particularly those under 35 - say that the news lowers their mood.

Trust in news is also declining, and is lowest in the United States. On average, 42% of people said they trust most news most of the time; that figure has fallen in almost half the countries in the report and risen in seven.

Comment: Given the number of high-profile scandals involving news outlets of late, is it any wonder people are no longer trusting the news. More and more people are waking up to the fact that most news outlets are nothing more than the propaganda arm of the official narrative.

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Syringe

South Korea: 90% elderly vaccination rate, large spike in excess mortality

Noah Carl
The Daily Sceptic
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 09:51 UTC
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Excess mortality data from Europe, Israel, Singapore and Australia suggest that vaccine effectiveness against death has been overestimated. In Europe and Israel, post-vaccination waves were sometimes as or more deadly than pre-vaccination waves. And countries like Singapore and Australia saw sizeable upticks in excess mortality even after vaccinating a very large percentage of the population.

So while the vaccines do offer protection against serious illness and death, their effectiveness is unlikely to be as high as 90%.

Another interesting country to look at in this regard is South Korea. After containing the virus for the first two years of the pandemic, the country experienced a major outbreak in February of this year. By that point, Korea had double vaccinated 86% of its population, and around 90% of over 80s.

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Stock Down

The engineered stagflationary collapse is here: What happens next?

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:35 UTC
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In my 16 years as an alternative economist and political writer I have spent around half that time warning that the ultimate outcome of the Federal Reserve's stimulus model would be a stagflationary collapse. Not a deflationary collapse, or an inflationary collapse, but a stagflationary collapse. The reasons for this were very specific - Mass debt creation was being countered with MORE debt creation while many central banks have been simultaneously devaluing their currencies through QE measures. On top of that, the US is in the unique position of relying on the world reserve status of the dollar and that status is diminishing.

It was only a matter of time before the to forces of deflation and inflation met in the middle to create stagflation. In my article 'Infrastructure Bills Do Not Lead To Recovery, Only Increased Federal Control', published in April of 2021, I stated that:
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NPC

Left wing America is destroying itself

Douglas Murray
The Telegraph
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:26 UTC
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America's cities are rotting. The Democrat-run cities in particular. And all of them are going wrong in the same way, suffused with the same problems of violence, drugs and homelessness.

In the nation's capital, the homelessness problem is visible from the moment you enter the city. Arriving into DC used to be a great pleasure, with the visitor immediately thrown into the centre of the grand capital. Today the lawns outside Union station that greet the traveller are covered with tents. It is just the first of the homeless encampments which visitors are now confronted with throughout the city. Almost every green space in DC is now covered with tents, a constant reminder that America seems to be rotting from the centre outwards.

Though DC may be the most painful example, the ground zero of this experiment in urban degeneration has been San Francisco.

There was a time when San Francisco could be counted among the most beautiful cities in the world - blessed by its position on the bay and its glorious weather. But as Michael Shellenberger chronicled last year in his book San Fransicko, the city was run into the ground by a succession of appalling policies. Left-wing policies, in particular, destroyed this nirvana.
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Most Americans oppose trans athletes in female sports, poll finds

Tara Bahrampour, Scott Clement and Emily Guskin
The Washington Post
Tue, 14 Jun 2022 07:00 UTC
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© Scott Utterback/Louisville Courier-Journal/APIn Frankfort, Ky., Fischer Wells, right, testifies on Feb. 10 against a bill would bar transgender girls from participating in school sports that match their gender identity. Wells's mother, Jenifer Alonzo, listens at left.
Even as an increasing share of Americans report familiarity with and tolerance for transgender people, most oppose allowing transgender female athletes to compete against other women at the professional, college and high school level, according to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll.

The poll, conducted May 4 through 17 among 1,503 people across the United States, finds 55 percent of Americans opposed to allowing transgender women and girls to compete with other women and girls in high school sports and 58 percent opposed to it for college and professional sports. About 3 in 10 Americans said transgender women and girls should be allowed to compete at each of those levels, while an additional 15 percent have no opinion.

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Bizarro Earth

Most Democrats, Republicans say US 'democracy' won't last, nearly 50% of those polled expect civil war to occur in their lifetime

Callie Patteson
New York Post
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 13:59 UTC
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FILE PHOTO: George Floyd protests :The poll found that nearly half of Republicans, Democrats and independents believe there will be a civil war in the US in their lifetime.
More than half of self-identified Democrats and Republicans believe the US will no longer be a "democracy" at some point in the future, according to a new poll.

The striking findings were reported in a Yahoo News/YouGov survey which found 55% of Democrats and 53% of Republicans said it was "likely" the US will "cease to be a democracy in the future."

It was unclear how the poll defined "democracy." The US is officially a constitutional federal republic where states run direct elections for most high offices — though not, most notably, for president.

When independents and the non-affiliated were factored in, the depressing notion was shared by 49% of all respondents — while only 25% said they consider the end of democracy to be "unlikely," while another 25% said they were unsure.
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China surpasses US in the eyes of young Africans as having 'most positive influence' - poll


Bloomberg
Mon, 13 Jun 2022 05:52 UTC
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China has overtaken the US as the foreign power seen as having the biggest positive influence in Africa by young people, according to a survey released on Monday.

A survey conducted by the Ichikowitz Family Foundation found that 76% of 4,507 young Africans across 15 countries named China as a foreign power with a positive influence on their lives, compared with 72% for the US. In 2020, when the inaugural study of 18-to-24-year-olds was conducted, 83% of respondents saw the US's influence as positive while the figure for China was 79%.

The results are further evidence that China is winning the battle against geopolitical rivals such as the US and the European Union for the hearts and minds of Africans. Beijing has plowed money into African infrastructure over the past two decades and supplies the continent with affordable consumer goods ranging from mobile phones and solar panels to shovels and plastics.
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J.K. Rowling consents to use of 'killing curse' on Ukrainian missiles


RT
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 11:26 UTC
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© AFP / Tolga AkmenBritish author JK Rowling.
The Harry Potter author became another high-profile victim of Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus.

J.K. Rowling has given her permission for a killing curse from Harry Potter to be inscribed on Ukrainian missiles during a call with Russian pranksters Vovan and Lexus, who were pretending to be President Volodymyr Zelensky.

In the course of the conversation, which was published on Thursday, the fake Zelensky thanked Rowling for her decision to remove her books from sale in Russia.

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Propaganda

Top 'fact checker' USA Today forced to delete articles over fabricated sources

Paul Joseph Watson
Summit News
Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
USA Today
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Should have fact checked itself more rigorously.

USA Today, which is used as a 'fact checker' by social media platforms, was forced to delete 23 articles from its website after an investigation found one of its reporters had fabricated sources.

Well, this is awkward.

The news outlet has an entire section of its website dedicated to 'fact checking' and is used by Facebook to 'fact check' stories published by other outlets, downranking them in algorithms in a form of soft censorship.

However, it appears as though USA Today should have devoted more resources to fact checking itself before publishing articles by its own staff.

"USA Today's breaking news reporter Gabriela Miranda fabricated sources and misappropriated quotes for stories, the news outlet confirmed on Thursday. The outlet conducted an internal audit after receiving an "external correction request" on one of its published stories," reports Breitbart.
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Trudeau government says it's "transitioning" to new definition of "fully vaccinated"

Elie Cantin-Nantel
True North
Wed, 15 Jun 2022 00:00 UTC
Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos
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The government is in the process of coming up with a new definition for "fully vaccinated," Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos says.

Duclos said the government is "transitioning" to a new approach, though was scant on details about when a change will be coming.

Citing Canada's chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam, Duclos said that "although two doses still protects significantly well against severe disease and death, two doses are not enough now to protect against infection and transmission."

Cabinet ministers discussed their intentions to change the definition Tuesday while announcing the end of federal vaccine mandates for domestic and outbound fights, trains as well as for civil servants.

The controversial mandates that have been in place since Oct. 2021 will end Monday, Jun. 20.
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