Broken and distrusting: why Americans are pulling away from the daily news

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  33 Comments  •  5 Likes  •  2 years ago

“A Reuters Institute survey found that a rising number of people are avoiding the news or just don't believe it”

Opinion isn't news.  IMO the problem is that people are being inundated with opinion and actually being provided less news.  Reporting the opinion of others is still an opinion piece and not news. Opinions are rather obviously biased.  So, the intrusion of opinion into news reporting only...

Kamala Harris caught in word salad when asked if Democrats failed to codify Roe v Wade

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  25 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just...”

Kamala Harris certainly cleared that up.  Since Harris is a Democrat then whatever she says must be gospel truth.  The political buttons have been scrambled so these Democrats don't know how to pander any longer.  It wasn't that long ago that Democrats were vigorously virtue signaling that...

Soaring demand for electricity and coal shows why we need nuclear energy

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  18 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

“If we are to have any hope of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we have to embrace the atom.”

Green energy policy has employed financial measures more appropriate for expanding the energy market and increasing consumption of energy.  Green energy policy has focused attention on creating markets for new (not yet mature) technology and increasing use of that technology.  Alternative energy...

Biden Approval Rating Plummets to New Low, Marking Year of High Disapproval

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  1 Comments  •  3 Likes  •  2 years ago

“The state of the economy has Americans in a foul mood.”

Yuppers!  It's Putin's fault.  It's Trump's fault.  It's Alito's fault.  It's oil companies' fault.  It's guns' fault.  We all know the litany of blame. The hell of it is we are in a full employment economy.  The labor participation rate hasn't quite recovered to pre-pandemic levels but it's...

Mitch McConnell Says Labor Shortage Will End When People Run Out of Stimulus Money

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  5 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“Lack of childcare and well-paid jobs might be driving the labor shortage. Mitch McConnell thinks March 2021 stimulus checks are to blame.”

Told ya so!  Democrats have blown off all their toes and both feet.  Democrats don't have a leg to stand on.  And Mitch McConnell feels compelled to pander to Mitt Romney political donors. McConnell's message is quite clear and succinct.  Bleed ordinary people dry so the rich can become richer....

Chip makers are refusing to build new semiconductor plants in the U.S. unless Congress unlocks $52 billion in funding

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  5 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“Taiwanese semiconductor firm GlobalWafers joins Intel and TSMC in urging Congress to fund U.S. development.”

Nationalizing (or collectivizing) risk while privatizing profit has become the business model for what has been loosely termed the Liberal World Order.  The World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization has established a global expectation of publicly subsidized monetary...

Cheney says January 6 committee could make multiple criminal referrals, including of Trump

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  28 Comments  •  1 Like  •  2 years ago

“While she refused to rule out a presidential bid of her own, she said her focus was currently elsewhere.”

Criminal referrals?  A political body has subjected the American people to weeks of political theater in an attempt to engender public outrage - and - now they claim they can't do anything about it?  The people's representatives are completely reliant upon an autocratic government agency...

One more blockbuster Supreme Court decision could still be coming even after Friday's abortion ruling

Via: Nerm_L  •  News Viners  •  16 Comments  •  2 Likes  •  2 years ago

“The Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade was a monumental moment in the history of the high court. But another major decision may still...”

The Fat Lady hasn't sung yet.  SCOTUS overturning Roe v. Wade may have been a seismic shift in enforcing the Constitutional intent of decentralized government.  But the SCOTUS decision in the West Virginia v. EPA case could be tectonic for enforcing the Constitutional intent of responsibility...

NATO calls Russia its 'most significant and direct threat'

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“"We're stepping up. We're proving that NATO is more needed now than it ever has been," said Biden”

No, Russia is not the 'most significant and direct threat' to NATO or Europe.  The Russian invasion of Ukraine has only allowed Europe to kick the can farther down the road. The greatest existential threat to NATO and Europe is division, dissent, and internal acrimony.  Russia has only provided...

Nancy Pelosi Calls to Eliminate Filibuster to Codify Roe , Kamala Harris Disagrees

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“everybody has something at risk”

Let the games begin.  The significance of the SCOTUS Dobbs decision is that the question of abortion has been returned to the states; abortion is not a Federal issue.  Make no mistake, the Dobbs decision is an existential threat to Democrats' efforts to strengthen autocratic (and undemocratic)...