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Newsweak sold for dollar on account they no good.
No good for bird cage either, pigons land and slide down on slick papers.
As are TIME, The National Post, The Glob & Snail, and pretty much every other news agency run by liberal f-knuckles. It’s like getting trolled by retards. Hey – whatever happened to that asteroid that was going to hit and wipe out all these old cud chewing dinosaurs? Other than the trough hogs at the CBC I can’t see how these morons stay in business…
Thanks for the heads-up. I probably would have seen this captioned photo myself a year or 2 from now in a waiting room at the dentist …
I totally agree. I cancelled my subscription to Newsweak and Time-wasted about 10-15 years ago.
Compound an almost total domination of the media by leftists with an an almost total leftist control of the educational system and you can understand why LIV friends and relatives voted for the likes of Trudeau and Wynne in Canada and for Obama in the US.
I go to the dentist just to read Macleans.
The current language policy in schools and for the past forty years is ‘as long as you got the meaning of what was being said, then it’s correct’. Punctuation and grammar are for the older generation that will soon be gone. We are heading back to grunting and hand signals even with smart phones.
Your smart phone does not make you smart. Neither does Newsweek.
I agree there’s some debatable logic in the math but the point is not incorrect. Your odds of dying in a terrorist attack are low, very low. As with all untimely deaths, your risk increases or decreases depending on some important factors. People living in Saskatchewan don’t get killed by hurricanes, for instance. Living in the suburbs and exurbs greatly reduces the chance of getting killed in a gang drive by shooting.
The extension of the argument by progressives is that because the odds are so low, there’s no problem with Muslim extremists so shut up about radical Islam you knuckle dragging morons (but they see Anglo Christians and Israeli Jews as a serious threat…truly bizarre reasoning) No, you can agree that odds of death by Allahu Akbar are extremely low and still be concerned about terrorism. The trend in western countries is most definitely up since 2000 and is increasing (by number of attacks). That’s a genuine concern. What to do about it is the important question. Like abortion, immigration/refugees and terrorism are difficult issues with lots of opinions and little agreement. It’s the “shut up, he explained” progressive style that pushes the right wingers’ buttons and causes them to seek out people who promise them radical solutions, IMO.
Another observation: it would be refreshing if progressives used the same rational calculations for the effectiveness of CO2 mitigation schemes (see Lomborg) but, no, their math and science skills conveniently fail them and are replaced with emotional preaching of apocalyptic doom
The world is actually safer than ever. And here’s the data to prove that
Over the last six months, the news has been dominated by an onslaught of depressing headlines.
Almost every week, stories about a scandal, a war, a disease, climate change, income inequality and a shaky economic recovery have dominated the news cycle, giving us all reasons to be terrified. But a new website, ourworldindata.org, provides a much needed analysis about the good news out there.
Max Roser, an economist at the Institute for New Economic Thinking at Oxford University, is the creator of the Our World In Data website. And while it may seem like the world has gotten worse over time, Roser’s data suggests that good things are happening, even if they take a bit of time.
“To really understand how the world is changing, you have to look at the big picture,” Roser says. “You have to zoom out from the current events to understand in which direction the world is changing.”
Roser says things skew towards the positive side when examining long term global trends on health, access to food and even violence.
“We live in a much more peaceful and inclusive world than our ancestors of the past,” he says. “The news is very much focused on singular events. All of these trends that I’m looking at are slow changes that happen over decades, or sometimes even centuries. These developments never have a ‘now’ moment that would make them interesting for news that is following current events.”
With wars raging in Syria, Iraq, Ukraine, South Sudan and elsewhere it’s hard to beleive that war deaths are actually declining at a rapid pace. Here’s a look at how far we’ve come since World War II:
Read more at: http://www.pri.org/stories/2014-10-23/world-actually-safer-ever-and-heres-data-prove
Nothing goes on forever. Our lives are filled with cycles. If we are at “safest ever” then it’s just a short time until we turn the corner and start heading for “most dangerous ever”. As those prophets The Grateful Dead once said: “when life looks like Easy Street, there is danger at your door.”.
Yes- Roser, Ridely, Lomborg, Pinker and many others have lots of data on improvements. Everyone thinks things are awful but they’re not. Worse, my kids pick up on the constant negativity. I find myself explaining why there’s never been a better time to be alive more often than I should have to. Our standard of living, war, violence, bigotry and, yes, the environment has never been better.
Except for intrusive governments. That’s getting worse. Forget microaggresions, it’s micromanagement that that’s the real problem. It reduces freedom in so many ways.
Under the category of ‘people who live in glass houses.’
There are many examples of borderline illiterate posters on this blog.
When it’s pointed out their message would have more impact if spelling and syntax are written in the Queen’s English, the inevitable name-calling defence is sometimes used.
“Terrorism has account for a tiny fraction of the deaths in America,”
Is that ok or just old news?
Newsweek was sold to Sidney Harman….That is the husband of the Harman that was dumped from the Democratic House intelligence committee for leaking secrets. The only decent “American” thing done by Pelosi.
That’s a thought.
The ‘New OK’ could easily find employment at Newspeak.
Progress ensures that life for most people in nearly every category improves over time. Unless radical greens get their way that won’t change.
The point remains, some things are not improving; like taking a ride on an airplane for example. Many have quietly quit putting themselves through the current indignities required to fly and are merely staying home or taking a vehicle or bus when travel is required.
A decade ago, Newsweek was waaaaaaay to the left, so much so that it was hard to imagine where they thought their readership was going to come from. There’s just not that many socialists in America. To their credit, they have moved towards the centre in their desperate fight to stay afloat.
I understand the chances of Americans dying in a Japanese military attack were considered very low on December 5th 1941.
While statistically life is good in the West, does anyone dispute the fact that as the percentage of Muslims in an otherwise non-Muslim society increases, there is a significant increase in Jihadi and Sharia compliant activities resulting in deaths, violence, sexual harassment and other forms of coercion, intimidation, censorship and general degradation of civil society (beyond what progressives are already responsible for)? How about the Islamic wastelands themselves? Does anyone think that importing or growing more Islam will result in a better situation than we now enjoy?
The so-called Right is increasingly engaged in this awareness-building for a reason beyond racism, xenophobia, and other progressive-described discourse evasions. It falls under the category of what kind of society do we want for the future. It involves discrimination by pronouncing rational judgement on human ideologies and activities. It’s called reason and it’s the antithesis of multicultural nihilism.