https://www.newsweek.com/congress-accused-using-tiktok-ban-silence-israel-criticism-1893405
X user @SirStevenKJ wrote, "The House passed the bill to control TikTok because it allows criticism of Israel and Ukraine. Literally what it's about.
In a statement over the weekend, a spokesperson for TikTok told Newsweek, "It is unfortunate that the House of Representatives is using the cover of important foreign and humanitarian assistance to once again jam through a ban bill that would trample the free speech rights of 170 million Americans, devastate 7 million businesses, and shutter a platform that contributes $24 billion to the U.S. economy, annually."
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We are being fed propaganda that TikTok is an evil Chinese brainwashing entity trying to destroy America.
So that's what they call free speech and the truth today )-:
Actually, we don't want them to intrude on the US franchise of brainwashing and propaganda of our own people. How dare they enlighten Americans with things other than what our government, powerful coalitions bribing government and biased media want us to know.
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https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary?cycle=All&ind=Q05&recipdetail=S
Congress should be ashamed
Started by metmike - April 22, 2024, 4:32 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/103404/
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Politicians don't take lobby money without knowing why that organization gave them the money (legal bribes) and without an understanding of what accepting it means..........looking out for that organizations interests. And knowing what they need to do in order to get more of that money!
Objective journalism is almost dead in this country.
The media has mostly become a tool for our government to brainwash us and the politicians in government are controlled by the massive money flows that influence them and politics in Washington.
A bunch of extreme activists (MEDIA) that work that job because it allows them to have a powerful influence on readers/viewers. Dwelling on things like a fake climate crisis(many are sincere but just misinformed with junk science).
Pushing crazy, impossible solutions that are WRECKING the planet for crony capitalism and political agenda because the ones really pulling the strings are powerful business interests and government.
Note that China, India and Russia are BUILDING MORE coal plants and have no intention of ever stopping the use of fossil fuels. Because THEY follow the authentic science. They don't want you to know about that either from TicTok.
Truth about fossil fuels:
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/102980/#103409
No, I don't side with China or Russia or Iran. Just the truth, authentic science and FREE SPEECH!
Iran responds to Israel's unprovoked attack
Started by metmike - April 13, 2024, 6:43 p.m.
By metmike - Oct. 12, 2023, 7:25 p.m.
This study shows NASA being dishonest. Reason below!
If you read the study, you'll note that they actually tell us that the greening isn't really from the increase in beneficial CO2 from its key role in photosynthesis.
“When the greening of the Earth was first observed, we thought it was due to a warmer, wetter climate and fertilization from the added carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, leading to more leaf growth in northern forests, for instance. Now, with the MODIS data that lets us understand the phenomenon at really small scales, we see that humans are also contributing.”
This was achieved through multiple cropping practices, where a field is replanted to produce another harvest several times a year. Production of grains, vegetables, fruits and more have increased by about 35-40% since 2000 to feed their large populations.
China’s outsized contribution to the global greening trend comes in large part (42%) from programs to conserve and expand forests. These were developed in an effort to reduce the effects of soil erosion, air pollution and climate change. Another 32% there – and 82% of the greening seen in India – comes from intensive cultivation of food crops.
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There is no doubt that China's tree planting has had an impact. However, it's the fact that increasing CO2 increases the growth of WOODY STEMMED plants by as much as 50%(double most plants) compared to over a century ago that is causing the tree planting to be especially effective!
Plants were experiencing CO2 starvation at only 290 ppm compared to the current, 420 ppm(+130 ppm) which is double the benefits to most plants. Trees are as woody of a plant that exists on the planet.
Here's the honest science:
https://e360.yale.edu/digest/carbon-dioxide-climate-change-bigger-trees
The chart above is based on CO2 going from 363 ppm to 405 ppm +42 ppm.
Multiply that X3 to get the full impact (+130 ppm) since CO2 started increasing from humans.
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Go to this site for many 1,000s of studies that include numerous ones for most plants/trees.
We see very large increases in most studies for Aspen/Birch, so the decrease above suggests something must have happened outside of the impact of CO2 that messed up the results for the study above.
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/plantgrowth.php
Letter A:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/dry_subject_a.php
I picked the species below with the largest number of studies.
Populus tremuloides Michx. [Quaking Aspen]
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/p/populustre.php
Statistics
| 300 ppm | 600 ppm | 900 ppm | |
| Number of Results | 36 | | |
| Arithmetic Mean | 58.1% | | |
| Standard Error | 9% |
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Letter B:
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/dry_subject_b.php
Betula pendula Roth [European White Birch]
http://www.co2science.org/data/plant_growth/dry/b/betulape.php
Statistics
| 300 ppm | 600 ppm | 900 ppm | |
| Number of Results | 33 | | |
| Arithmetic Mean | 36.8% | | |
| Standard Error | 6.4% |
By metmike - Nov. 16, 2023, 7:27 p.m.
China promised to strictly control coal then started 182 coal power plants instead
Mike Maguire
November 16, 2023 4:18 pm
China gets tons of flack for being run by the Communist party.
Here in the United States our economy/government uses markets based on free enterprise and capitalism. Businesses and services are free of government control.
Wanna bet???
Our Environmental Protection Agency ruled 14 years ago that CO2 was a pollutant in it’s endangerment finding, threatening the public health and welfare of current and future generations.
It has denied over a dozen petitions to try to overturn this anti science ruling since then.
Endangerment and Cause or Contribute Findings for Greenhouse Gases Under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act
In 2022 the Supreme Court restricted the EPAs ability to directly mandate carbon emissions but that didn’t stop the dishonest EPA/government.
They want to go around the Supreme Court and require coal and natural gas burning plants to have new technologies (that don’t exist now in some cases) that reduce planet greening, crop enriching CO2 emissions by 90%.
In other words, shut down all the coal plants.
EPA Proposes New Carbon Pollution Standards for Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants to Tackle the Climate Crisis and Protect Public Health
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-proposes-new-carbon-pollution-standards-fossil-fuel-fired-power-plants-tackle
Then you have the Biden administration using almost a trillion dollars of government force on the markets with fake green energy schemes, subsidies, tax credits, rebates, mandates and other NON free market schemes. States like California having insane, impossible to meet government requirements/mandates.
China on the other hand has a government that’s building new coal power plants.
Maybe this is just a matter of China having a smart government compared to our current dumb government when it comes to energy policies but make no mistake fake green energy in the United States is anything but a free market enterprise.
And most of the world understands this. The government’s support and crony capitalism will run their course and we’ll end up using mostly fossil fuels in a couple decades because of the laws of physics, science and economics……just having to learn some costly lessons in the short term.
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Energy transition is a hoax
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Started by metmike - April 15, 2023, 5:50 p.m.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/94557/
There Is No Energy Transition, Just Energy Addition
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They are making this up below! Compare it to the REAL world estimates from credible energy authorities above.
China, India and Russia are telling the truth about CO2 and energy, using authentic climate science. They want to cut Americans off from the truth to continue to brainwash us about the fake climate crisis that's greening up the planet during this current climate OPTIMUM for most life(which would prefer it to still be slightly warmer and closer to the optimal level of CO2 for life........double the current level.
I didn't just make that stuff up, man!
It sounds crazy because all we get here is the climate propaganda and junk science!
https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/net-zero-coalition
https://time.com/6952889/tiktok-ban-freedom-of-speech-essay/