when even Iowa Grassley objects, the nominee(s) have to be bad, and they are.
Radio preacher Rick Wiles, likewise, said Houston is underwater because it “boasted of its LGBT devotion.” And Ann Coulter — bless her — suggested it might have something to do with the city’s former mayor being a lesbian. “I don’t believe Hurricane Harvey is God’s punishment for Houston electing a lesbian mayor,” she tweeted. “But that is more credible than ‘climate change.’ ”
Do You Trust Snopes? You Won’t After Reading This.
The big players in the GMO and agrochemical industry – Monsanto, Bayer, Dow, Syngenta, DuPont – are engaging in an extensive public relations, advertising, lobbying and political campaigning to make sure that genetically engineered crops (GMOs), and the chemical pesticides they require, continue to proliferate in the U.S.
To improve their public image, they are attempting to manipulate everything we see and hear about GMO crops and pesticides in the media and on TV, the internet and print articles – using propaganda-laden commercials, “mommy-blogger” articles, farmer endorsements, hired operatives to change Wikipedia, and front group websites. The biotech industry is feeling threatened, and their profits hang in the balance. They are trying to silence the truth!
We now have evidence that the website Snopes.com is being manipulated by the industry too. But first, let’s examine what Snopes really is…
A lot of people trust the website Snopes.com and use it to fact-check things they hear on the internet. For no reason whatsoever, this mom-and-pop website has been put on a pedestal as if they are the be-all and end-all of truth on the internet.
Facebook recently teamed up with Snopes, allowing them become an arbitrator of fake news circulating on their network, essentially elevating them as an authoritative source of information. I find this development alarming on many levels:
While there is some fake news on the internet, this opens up the possibility that op-ed’s and independent journalism will get labeled as “fake news” if Snopes doesn’t agree with an opinion.
Articles can be deemed “false” if Snopes conducts sloppy fact checking. When it comes to the topic of food, it is imperative that everyone understands that this field is rampant with corrupt paid-off scientists and front groups that are working to protect profits of corporations at the expense of our health. You can not always trust information coming from self-proclaimed independent experts, and sources must be vetted extensively.
We all have the ability to use critical thinking skills while reading news on Facebook or any other online platform – and should determine for ourselves what is false and what is the truth – instead of relying on the work of websites like Snopes to do that for us.
Everyone should feel empowered to seek out the truth on their own. Especially when it comes to our health, we need to be our own advocates and investigate the food that we are eating.
This is treading too close to the line of censorship and can stifle our freedoms to express our ideas.
Is Snopes a credible and authoritative source of information?
Snopes is now 50% owned by an ad agency (Proper Media) and they make money by generating millions of views on the 3rd-party advertisements on their website. It simply makes sense for them to seek out articles that are viral to “debunk”, so that they can piggy-back on that traffic and generate more advertising revenue.
Snopes was founded by a husband and wife team who are now in the middle of a contentious divorce in which founder David Mikkelsen has been accused of embezzling $98,000 of company money to spend on “himself and pros utes”.
Snopes now has a hired team of suspect fact checkers who collaborate to debunk falsehoods that are trending on the internet.
These fact checkers reportedly have no editorial oversight and do not follow standard journalistic procedures such as interviewing the authors of articles they are trying to debunk to get all sides of the story.
Snopes doesn’t have a formal screening process for hiring fact checkers and for evaluating applicants for any potential conflicts of interest. Without such standards, it is very easy for them to be infiltrated by those who work with the industry and who have a hidden agenda.
The recent series of events below demonstrates how Snopes has been influenced by Monsanto into manipulating the public opinion about the dangers of their bestselling product, Roundup weedkiller (aka glyphosate).
Monsanto has made BILLIONS off of the weedkiller Roundup (aka glyphosate) along with their Roundup-Ready GMO seeds, but sales have been plummeting since the truth about this toxic product is coming out. They are doing everything they can to keep those profits coming in!
Food Democracy Now! and The Detox Project conducted a report showing how this popular weedkiller is present in many popular American foods and when my blog post went viral (Millions of views!), Snopes came out with an article claiming that it was a “MIXTURE” of truth and fiction.
Snopes suddenly changed their assessment to FALSE about 24 hours later:
Did the facts really change? Why would they call this information FALSE?
When you compare both versions of Snopes’ article, you see that they edited it to suit a narrative that fits Monsanto’s agenda – it’s outrageous!
It’s as if Monsanto edited it themselves and sent it off to Snopes for publication. Entire sentences and paragraphs were removed that were hurtful to Monsanto. Important data was removed entirely. The wording was changed to make the findings of an independent FDA-registered laboratory seem less scientific or credible…
The data about how Cheerios and Stacy’s Pita Chips were found to have MORE glyphosate than the level permitted by the U.S. government in drinking water (700 ppb) was completely removed! Apparently Snopes believes it’s not factual or important to mention that some foods were found to have more weedkiller in them than even our lax regulations allow…
In this first revision, Snopes makes a huge mistake in stating that the World Health Organization’s International Agency For Research on Cancer’s (IARC) finding that glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humans was “overturned in March 2016”, which is NOT TRUE…
IARC’s 2015 assessment has NOT been overturned, this is just what Monsanto dreams would happen. In reality, the team of international independent cancer scientists at IARC who made the finding that glyphosate “probably causes cancer in humans” are defending their decision, while being attacked by Monsanto with their lobbying group attempting to cut off IARC’s funding. The 17 independent scientists at IARC came to an unanimous decision that isn’t muddled by industry ties, and Monsanto is trying to shut them up.
The subsequent 2016 Joint FAO-WHO Meeting on Pesticide Residues (JMPR) is not reliable as the scientists on the panel have a giant conflict of interest in working with ILSI Europe, a group funded by Monsanto, CropLife, and big food companies, along with a board of trustees comprised of industry execs from Monsanto, Syngenta, DuPont, Nestle and others. Snopes is WRONG to say their finding is the “current consensus amongst the world’s regulatory agencies”. That’s the industry-funded view!
A large body of peer reviewed research links glyphosate to cancer, reproductive problems, liver, kidney and skin cell damage, antibiotic-resistance, and more – but Monsanto doesn’t want the world to know the truth. The industry has a long history of of concealing health risks about their products from the public.
“Historically, the same thing happened with tobacco, the same thing happened with asbestos, the same thing happened with arsenic. It’s not junk science.” ~ Aaron Blair, PhD, MPH, internationally renowned epidemiologist and the author of more than 450 scientific papers, who spent thirty years at the National Cancer Ins ute. Dr. Blair led the IARC panel.
After Snopes realized their mistake, they revised this section of their article YET AGAIN for a second time…
Which just goes to show they don’t properly research the facts before publishing stories!
Snopes completely removed their inquiry into the possibility that Monsanto has influence over the FDA and commentary about the potential harm of glyphosate to humans…
Monsanto has a long and sordid history of infiltrating the government and our regulatory agencies such as the FDA and EPA.
The FDA has been caught having closed-door meetings with industry representatives several times in the past. There is evidence that Monsanto met with the FDA specifically to discuss glyphosate residues in food in 2016:
“In April of this year, Monsanto’s international regulatory affairs manager Amelia Jackson-Gheissari emailed FDA asking to set up a time to talk about “enforcement of residue levels in the USA, particularly glyphosate.” ~ Huffington Post, September 2016
lots more here...https://foodbabe.com/2017/02/24/do-you-trust-snopes-you-wont-after-reading-how-they-work-with-monsanto-operatives/
Pretty nice sized list tbh
Conspiracy Chris is on the case
poor Trump
You actually have to do some good stuff to get good media coverage.
Should be labeled: Fox coverage and everyone else coverage.
illegal immigrants gave him cardiac arrest
lol foodbabe.com
lol big bad monsanto
lol chris just discovered that lobbying exists
What are you getting at here? Come out and say it.
Rahm Emanuel Declares Chicago A 'Trump-Free City'
Having solved all of Chicago's other problems, the mayor is banishing the president.
Good luck with that Mr. Mayor.Chicago's mayor, Rahm Emanuel, has declared the city a "Trump-free zone," announcing on late night television that he intends to prevent the president from even stepping foot within the city's boundaries.
Speaking to Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert," the mayor said that he's even given the city a new le. "Our motto: A city he'll never sleep in. We don't want him," Emanuel said.
"Look, Donald Trump is driving forward looking through the rearview mirror, and I'm not going that way because I want my city going that way and I want it to be a Trump-free zone," he continued.
The metaphor only makes sense if you believe Emanuel is driving backward while looking in the rear-view mirror — an image Emanuel probably did not want to present, but one that is, nonetheless, accurate.
Emanuel is currently presiding over a city that is losing population faster than any other urban area in the country. Chicago has sky-high taxes, but such poor management that it can't pay its debts. City services and schools are bankrupt. Chicago's debt burden is in the tens of billions of dollars. It's credit rating is nearing junk bond status, and, just a few short months ago, it looked as though Chicago might be the first major city to declare bankruptcy.
In 2017 alone, Chicago has had more than 600 homicides — so many, the head of the Chicago Police Union actually went to the White House to speak to President Trump's aides after Emanuel sloughed off the administration's offer of federal assistance.
Chicago's biggest worry is far from whether Donald Trump occasionally rents a couple of his own hotel rooms.
Yet Emanuel has routinely accused Donald Trump of attacking Chicago to distract from larger, national problems. That seems to be a bit of projection, as the city closes out another year of grim milestones.
Proof you guys have no sense of humor.
Proof 'you guys' are nothing but trolls. SAD!
Dude made a joke on Colbert and you and the Daily Wire yourselves. SAD!
Or Evangelical God punished him
You're nothing but a meme regurgitator with no original thoughts of your own, tbh.
Repub djohn.
‘They’re jumping off the cliff’: Prominent Republicans explain why ‘Trump is a symptom’ of the GOP’s demise
“For one thing, you said Chris, the president is sort of leading them off the cliff. No, they’re jumping off the cliff.”
“And it was the Republican National Committee that went into Alabama and
inexplicably put money into the race to help elect somebody who has been credibly accused of child molestation,” Edwards noted.
“And even before that, had said that his personal religious beliefs trumped the Cons ution.”
“So the party is doing it to itself and it’s more suicide,” Edwards explained. “Trump is not killing it, Trump is symptom. There’s a lot wrong in the party.”
“Well, it’s both,” Charen replied. “There are feedback mechanisms so that Trump is terrible and then he makes the existing problems worse.”
“But look, I can remember the days when you could take the Christian Coalition or the Moral Majority and know that they had legitimate points of view and
that they were really trying to stand up for character and integrity in public life,” Charen argued.
“And now they have covered themselves in disgrace.”
“To lose a seat in the reddest of red states in Alabama partly because of energized black turnout and
partly because Republicans did not show up.
They are discouraged and demoralized by that kind of a candidate, by that kind of politics,” Charen worried.
“And that should be sending chills down the spines of many Republicans in Congress.”
“It does not bode well for their fortunes in 2018 at all,” Charen concluded.
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/12/theyre-jumping-off-the-cliff-prominent-republicans-explain-why-trump-is-a-symptom-of-the-gops-demise/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaig n=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story%29
"his personal religious beliefs trumped the Cons ution.”
the oligarchy's $Bs to the out-of-control, lawless Repugs trumps the Cons ution
Can't wait to see how our resident Trump apologists try to spin this:
Ouch! A polling firm asked voters for the first word that comes to mind when they hear 'Trump'
Here are the top responses:
#1 — IDIOT
#2— LIAR
#3— INCOMPETENT
Given more than one word, the responses were not much better for the deeply unpopular Trump:
In the same open-ended question, allowing for any answer,
35 voters say “leader,” with
35 voters saying “strong,”
26 voters saying “a**hole,”
21 voters saying “great,”
19 voters saying “moron,”
18 voters saying “arrogant” and
17 voters saying “disgusting,”
the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University Poll finds.
Of the 48 words used by five or more voters, 30 words are negative.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkre
Just ing totally, amazingly awesome!
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