#BabylonBee: Democratic Candidates Clash Over Most Effective Plan To Destroy Economy

ATLANTA, GA—In this week's #DemocraticDebate, a wide #gap emerged between the candidates as they laid out their competing visions to #cripple the country's #economy.

In a crowded field, the #Democratic candidates are scrambling to set themselves apart as the one with the most effective plan to crush our #economic #growth.

#ElizabethWarren claimed to have the most effective plan by far, citing the fact that she would cripple the economy with a $52 trillion #Medicare for all plan. #Buttigieg quickly fired back, saying he could destroy the nation's prosperous economic growth in half the time and also reminding everyone that he is a #gay man. Cory Booker shouted, "I AM SPARTACUS!" and seemed not to understand what the discussion was about, while #Biden argued with him and said that he's actually Spartacus, appearing to believe himself to be living in the Roman Empire in the First Century B.C.

#KamalaHarris had an innovative plan to set herself apart: arrest everybody in the country so nobody can work at all.

#AndrewYang said some stuff too but was bleeped out by network censors.

The runaway winner from the night appeared to be #BernieSanders, who seemed to have the firmest grasp of the best way to crash an economy, pointing to his lifelong study of Soviet-style #communism and other failed #socialist states all over the world.

"Sanders is a clear favorite, but let's not count out #Warren or Biden yet," said one #MSNBC commentator after the debate. "In a tight race like this, there are a number of candidates just insane and ignorant of basic economics enough that any one of them could bring this all crumbling to the ground."

The candidates were also distinguished from one another by exactly how much free stuff each person wanted to give away, with some candidates looking to give away as much free stuff as possible, and others planning to give away just a little bit less than that.

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En la historia, ¿cuantas veces nos habra mentido la TV con imagenes falsas?

Ahora se han podido descubrir varios casos, en donde la TV chilena ha cometido "falseamiento" de informacion.

El caso mas escandaloso sucedio cuando el canal Mega mostraba imagenes sobre una supuesta manifestacion en Valparaiso, que resulto ser absolutamente falsa. Gracias al aporte de una usuaria que mostraba imagenes en directo del lugar de los hechos, en donde solo se podia ver un ambiente completamente en tranquilidad.

Casi 6 horas despues, el canal de TV informo que las imagenes mostradas en su noticiario, se referian a una movilizacion anterior, de mas de un año de antiguedad. #FakeNews

Hace unos dias volvio a suceder. El canal TVN mostro imagenes de un supuesto gran incendio que se habria provocado en una filial de un banco. La manipilacion grafica de las imagenes fue tan burda, que las redes sociales le dedicaron cientos de mensajes burlescos.

Y recordemos que la TV ha sido una piedra fundamental para mostrar la realidad de las movilizaciones. Millones de personas marchan y las camaras se enfocan a unas cuantas decenas de desordenes, con una clara intencionalidad.

La prensa chilena ha perdido mucha confianza de sus "clientes", pero existe una infraestructura tan gigante e impuesta, que finalmente no hay posibilidades de romper con esta actitud, sin la entrada o modificacion radical de estas configuraciones.

Es urgente permitir mas participacion de los medios comunitarios en conjunto con permitir mayor control social y menor participacion de la empresa privada en la propiedad de los medios de comunicacion.

Finalmente hay que permitir la re-estructuracion de todos los medios, para impulsar una regionalizacion real, que se refleje en sus producciones: ¿Por que no permitir el nacimiento y fortalecimiento de medios regionales, que sean los responsables de generar los contenidos que se usen posteriormente en los canales nacionales? O sea, ir de lo local a lo nacional.

A study in fake news, by me:

fake news Reality
First, the #fakenews from #CNN: California's new normal: How the climate crisis is fueling wildfires and changing life in the Golden State Over here, the #reality: California’s government solely responsible for states forest management and wildfire debacle
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It's getting hotter and hotter - California's getting scorched again. Here's how these #fires compare to previous years. Hotter temperatures mean drier land. A parched atmosphere. It's that simple. In California, for instance, warm-season days have increased by 2.5 degrees since the early 1970s, according to a recent study published in the journal Earth's Future. "The clearest link between California #wildfire and #anthropogenic #climate #change thus far has been via warming-driven increases in atmospheric aridity, which works to dry fuels and promote summer #forest fire," the report said. "It is well established that warming promotes #wildfire throughout the western #USA, particularly in forested regions, by enhancing atmospheric moisture demand and reducing summer soil moisture as snowpack declines." The #inept #government, #political and #regulatory policies of California have clearly driven the present forest management #calamitous conditions with that failure leading to #disastrous wildfires throughout the state. Those government and political leaders that are responsible for this situation that has been decades in the making have tried to #conceal their #incompetence by making #scientifically #unsupported #propaganda claims that “climate change” caused this situation. These government driven #problems are clearly identified in two recent reports – one by #Cal Fire and the other by the California #Legislative #Analysts Office.

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Here's a very real summary and commentary:

There is simply too much fuel in our state parks, national forests, and private lands in the form of #trees and #underbrush. #California environmental regulations have made small #logging #operations #unprofitable, and brush clearance is a part of logging. It’s hard work clearing land and people won’t do it unless allowed to #profit from it. Anecdotally, friends have sunk $70,000 into permits and #erosion mitigation to log their several hundred acre hunting property and still haven’t been allowed to start. #Foresters confirm these costs and that they are insane since forests grow so quickly. The lack of logging and brush clearance is actually having a negative #environmental impact since the brush is getting too dense for trees to grow healthily and #diseases are spreading among the densely-packed oaks killing 20-30% of them and adding to the fuel. Without logging, the only other option is to gather brush and trees into big piles and burn it, but it’s tough to get burn permits which are managed by air quality management districts ( #AQMDs) that are independent of county governments. These AQMDs also #fine people burning wood in stoves.
In addition to the forest and underbrush growth, 95% of California #grasslands turn brown each season since the Spanish replaced native grasses with grass better-suited to feeding #grazing animals. There is little grazing anymore on our hillsides since sheep and goats have become #unprofitable for a variety of reasons, including that #mountain #lions will eat a herd in a matter of weeks. Voters approved a mountain lion hunting ban in the 1970s.
The state is aware of the #problems and #solutions since its two of its agencies – Cal Fire and the Legislative Analyst’s Office – prepared separate reports confirming the decades of brush buildup and the need to reduce it in tens of millions of acres and cut #firebreaks near dwellings. Gavin #Newsom, to his credit, actually #declared a state of #emergency to bypass some of the environmental #regulations preventing logging and brush clearance.

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Finally, anecdotally, I got the trees for my cabin for free in exchange for clearing the brush left over from logging (canadian: "falling") the trees. The land owner told me he was going to sell the trees to a logger, but the logger refused to be responsible for clearing the leftover brush. He ended up hiring a guy (and I paid him) to remove the stumps.

Fakten gegen Fake News

Gezielt falsche Behauptungen verbreiten sich in Zeiten des Internets besonders schnell. Wie diesen Mechanismen entgegengewirkt werden kann, damit beschäftigt sich der Journalist und Projektleiter des „ARD-Faktenfinders“ Patrick Gensing. Inforadio-Redakteur Christian Wildt hat mit ihm darüber gesprochen, was genau "Fake News" sind und wie man diese erkennen kann.

"Junge Menschen haben eine gesunde Skepsis gegenüber Inhalten aus sozialen Netzwerken"

Zahlreiche Profile, die falsche Nachrichten verbreiten, präsentierten sich bei Twitter so, dass sie nicht als Trolle zu erkennen sind, sagt Patrick Gensing. Die Accounts zeigen demnach oft Frauen, die politisch interessiert seien. Die Twitteraktivität zeige aber, dass sich die Accounts den ganzen Tag mit Politik beschäftigten "und zwar sehr genau in der Agenda der AfD", so Gensing.

#Infonauten #Wissen #Fakenews #Medienkompetenz #SozialeNetzwerke