What's hot in real world news? - Thread 14.0

[Kevin Pacey]

reuters.com/world/middle-east/Gaza truce talks still deadlocked, Netanyahu sets date for hoped-for-final-offensive:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...ss-2024-04-08/

[Kevin Pacey]

thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/4581421-trump-sues-ny-judge-overseeing-hush-money-case-in-effort-to-delay-trial:

https://thehill.com/regulation/court...o-delay-trial/

[Kevin Pacey]

nypost.com/2024/04/08/us-news/biden-mocks-trump-looking-at-2017-solar-eclipse-with-psa-dont-be-silly-folks:

https://nypost.com/2024/04/08/us-new...e-silly-folks/

nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-news/biden-tells-arizonans-elect-me-im-in-the-20th-century-in-latest-brutal-gaffe:

https://nypost.com/2024/04/10/us-new...-brutal-gaffe/

[Kevin Pacey]

msn.com/en-ca/news/politics/gunter-hypocritical-trudeau-feds-can-t-stop-trampling-the-constitution:

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/polit...vertelemetry=1

nationalpost.com/opinion/trudeau's-weird-habit-of-denouncing-his-own-government [According to Trudeau, immigration is too high, the government is a poor steward of public money, and the carbon tax is worsening affordability]:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/tru...own-government

nationalpost.com/opinion/ivison-new-liberal-defence-policys-in-no-hurry-to-face-dangerous-global-realities:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/new...obal-realities

nationalpost.com/news/trudeau-six-day-indo-pacific-trip-cost-2m-including-200k-in-catering:

https://nationalpost.com/news/trudea...0k-in-catering

[Kevin Pacey]

bbc/Ukraine war: UN body urges restraint after Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant hit:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-68757082

[Kevin Pacey]

sciencenews.org/article/Bird flu has infected a person after spreading to cows. Here’s what to know [The risk of H5N1 to people remains low, the CDC says]:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/...ammal-outbreak

[Kevin Pacey]

youtube.com/pbs/watch - solar eclipse 2024 today in North America:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Tu_Wj1aCBc

[Kevin Pacey]

abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/japanese-leader-visits-new-chip-factory-in-tiawan-stressing-ties:

https://abcnews.go.com/International...ties-108926937

[Kevin Pacey]

cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/Severe COVID leads to higher risk of pulmonary fibrosis: research [Condition is usually fairly mild but scarred lungs can increase severity, respirologist says]:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/briti...osis-1.7163650

independent.co.uk/news/science/long-covid-symptoms-blood-test [Scientists discover another tell-tale sign of long Covid {Researchers found that those with long Covid showed a pattern of immune system activation}]:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...-b2525226.html

[Kevin Pacey]

clips.substack.com/p/Why America's [or claims of the world's] record average temperature is so hard to take -- or believe [In 2008 I {Bill S.} wrote some columns about how weather stations being used to take America's average temperature were skewed higher because they were located in extra-hot places. They still are.]:

https://clips.substack.com/p/why-ame...ge-temperature

cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/typical alarmist story, CBC version - warmest-weather-on-record-december:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...mber-1.7062457

However:
An oldie but goodie (and shocker):
tnc.news/2019/09/27/Federal Liberals play fast and loose with climate data, fabricating past weather patterns [after deleting a century of cross-Canada weather data - from the article: In a video shared by her official Twitter account and then later deleted, Minister McKenna could be heard suggesting that by repeating a claim loudly enough, people will eventually believe it.]:

https://tnc.news/2019/09/27/liberals...ther-patterns/

wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_lie#Goebbels's_use_of_the_expression

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_li...the_expression