Global heating denialism has seeped into several public school textbooks in California.

We must suspect this reflects the influence of some rich denialist, such as Exxon or a Koch brother or the Heatland Institute.

Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society.

This is partly speculative, and I am not sure it is true, but it might be true.

Clinton wants more war against PISSI, never mind strategy.

She is also against fixing the problems in the US medical system which exist because of the compromises Obama made to insurance companies.

The French state has given itself the power to abolish any organization that does things that "might" prove useful to others that "endanger the public order" (for instance, criminals or protests). Organizations that promote encryption, or provide a place for people to meet and talk without being listed to, might be banned.

In addition, may be made a crime simply to look at a web site that the state calls "terrorist".

A state like this, systematically crushing freedom, does more harm over the long term than the terrorists it claims to be protecting people from — unless repression also fuels the terrorists, which is possible.

Trump demonstrates the power of the repeated lie, as his supporters too claim they saw the nonexistent TV broadcasts.

This wasn't the first time. Dubya succeeded in convincing many Americans that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction in 2003, even though US inspectors after the conquest said he didn't.