News links for Sept 27, 2022

America’s open wound

The best journalists are persecuted and despised. From: Caitlin Johnstone. The best western journalists are overwhelmingly despised while the worst are acclaimed millionaires. Western civilization is built on lies, dependent on lies, powered by lies. Don't seek widespread approval. It's worthless.

Most Americans believe migrants should be transported to sanctuary cities. From: Zero Hedge. A new Rasmussen / RMG Research poll has found that a majority of Americans believe illegal immigrants should be sent to sanctuary cities instead of forcing border states to shoulder the burden. The poll comes as a record 2 million migrants have been arrested in just 11 months.

12 years to disaster? How climate activists distort the evidence. From: Reason. The data behind apocalypse 2030 is based on placing blame, not predicting the future.

The 10 races that could decide Senate control. From: Vox. Georgia, Nevada, and Wisconsin are some of the closest contests in the country.

Facebook ‘silencing’ activity related to FBI whistleblower Steve Friend. From: Miranda Devine/ NY Post. More evidence of how vindictive, obsessive, and downright sinister Facebook is, now it appears to be monitoring private messages and suppressing material related to the whistleblower complaint of hero FBI special agent Steve Friend.

Biden repeats false claims about AR-15 velocity in support of a ban. From: Jonathan Turley. As with Biden’s false claim that certain weapons were banned from private ownership at the ratification of the Second Amendment, the President continues to make the same false claim on velocity speed.

“Environmentalism” vs. conservationism. From: Eric Peters Autos. Before there was “environmentalism” there was conservationism. The latter being about not wasting stuff. That it was better to save than to spend – for the “environment” as well as your wallet. Conservationism lost out to “environmentalism” chiefly because there’s no money in the former as opposed to the latter.

👉 America’s open wound: the CIA is not your friend. From: Edward Snowden/Substack. From the year it was established, Presidents and their cadres have regularly directed the CIA to go beyond the law for reasons that cannot be justified, and therefore must be concealed — classified. The primary result of the classification system is not an increase in national security, but a decrease in transparency. Without meaningful transparency, there is no accountability, and without accountability, there is no learning.

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