The state of journalism and democracy interview of Ted Koppel https://youtu.be/L9XhsAP2gkI
Archive for August, 2020:
2020-08-20 Bannon Charged with Fraud, Money Laundering
All over the news: another Trump crony caught with his grubby hands in the till. Bannon pleaded not guilty and is out on bail. “Many of those in Trump’s top echelon facing charges.” — Jonatham Karl, ABC News In the news is the judge refused to restrain the NY AG from subpoenaing Trump’s tax records.
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2020-08-20 Biggest Battery In US
Bigger than Hornsdale. Is this really so disruptive of the baseload paradigm that it’s dynamite in disguise? https://www.greentechmedia.com/amp/article/ls-power-energizes-worlds-biggest-battery-near-san-diego-just-in-time-for-heatwave ***************************** Maybe a little BS? 😂👍 https://www.pv-magazine.com/2020/08/21/special-pv-plant-design-for-livestock-in-taiwan/
2020-08-20 Planet Of The Humans Horribly Wrong
There was widespread criticism of Michael Moore’s ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary movie when it debuted on YouTube. The complaints were so numerous that YouTube removed the movie. It got so many things wrong and out-of-date that it gave the opposite of what the facts are today. Here’s one viewer’s opinion. https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29042020/inside-clean-energy-michael-moore-planet-of-the-humans-review This YouTube video
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2020-08-19 Facebook Lets CoVID19 Misinformation Slip Through
It said they could trace 800 deaths to false CoVID19 information on Facebook https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/19/facebook-funnelling-readers-towards-covid-misinformation-study
2020-08-18 Tesla The Future
This YouTube video is a discussion between two Tesla fans. At one time the bald guy was a big Tesla skeptic. At the 30 minute point the other guy says, “Tesla’s goal is to grow at a rate of 50% compounded annually, a year, for the next decade. And I don’t see any reason why
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2020-08-17 Trump’s Image Under Google For Idiot
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is asked by congressperson Lofgren why Trumps image comes up when she does a Google search for idiot. https://youtu.be/o6zfp6lRw2E Google doesn’t have a built-in liberal bias. It just happens that there are a lot of netizens who are using the word idiot with a photo of Trump. ****************************** Trump said, “I
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2020-08-17 World Needs Nuclear Power; Peaker Plants
From: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2020/08/16/why-the-world-needs-more-nuclear-power/amp/ The point is that the Asia Pacific region is growing and renewables may not be able meet their need for more electric power. They may have to choose between building fossil fueled and nuclear power plants. Building fossil fueled plants is increasing their greenhouse gas emissions, so they have nuclear power as their
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2020-08-16 Presidential Emergency Action Documents
An article on CBS Sunday Morning, 2020 Aug 16, by Ted Koppel These PEADs were classified documents during the Cold War. Ted Koppel asked Prof. John Yoo, who worked at the Dept. Of Justice, about them and Yoo said he wasn’t allowed to say(!) These proclamations allow the president to declare an emergency, suspend constitutional
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2020-08-15 Facebook Fiber Optic Cable To Asia
From: https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2020/08/facebook-abandons-broken-drilling-equipment-under-oregon-coast-seafloor.html?outputType=amp
