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After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News

2020-12-03T02:37:40.550Z

After Truth: Disinformation and the Cost of Fake News, investigates the ongoing threat caused by the phenomenon of “fake news” in the U.S., focusing on the real-life consequences that disinformation, conspiracy theories and false news stories have on the average citizen, both in an election cycle and for years to come.

RZA Breaks Down the Cost of Making Music

2019-12-11T23:03:45.857Z

Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1382 w/RZA and Donnell Rawlings

The Racist 'Daily Show' Interview That Cost A Local GOP Chair His Job

2013-10-27T01:12:24.705Z

A North Carolina county precinct GOP chair resigned on Thursday after an offensive interview that aired on "The Daily Show" Wednesday, in which he said "lazy black people" want "the government to give them everything."

"Yes, he has resigned," said Nathan West, a spokesman for the Buncombe County Republican Party. The party had asked for Don Yelton's resignation in direct response to the interview, West said.

The interview, conducted by correspondent Aasif Mandvi, was on the topic of North Carolina's new voter ID law, over which the Justice Department has sued the state. On "The Daily Show," Yelton argued that the law wasn't racist, though he added that he's "been called a bigot before."

He brushed off those suggestions, too, arguing that one of his best friends is black.

"Now you have a black person using the term, "N— this and n— that, and it's OK for them to do it," Yelton said at one point.

That prompted Mandvi to respond, "You know that we can hear you, right?"

The Buncombe County GOP said in a statement that Yelton was "recently reprimanded and removed from his position as a precinct chair." He was re-elected to the position at the 2013 convention by a margin of two votes — himself and his wife. The party also said that Yelton did not seek permission to give the interview.

"Mr. Yelton's comments are offensive, uniformed, and unacceptable of any member within the Republican Party," the statement read. "In no way are his comments representative of the local or state Republican Party."
(SFGate)

Rethink Afghanistan War (Part 3): Cost of War

2011-09-12T03:23:28.137Z

As we pay our tax bills, it seems an appropriate time to urge everyone to Rethink Afghanistan, a war that currently costs over $2 billion a month but hasn't made us any safer. Everyone has a friend or relative who just lost a job. Do we really want to spend over $1 trillion on another war? Everyone knows someone who has lost their home. Do we really want spend our tax dollars on a war that could last a decade or more? The Obama administration has taken some smart steps to counter this economic crisis with its budget request. Do we really want to see that effort wasted by expanding military demands?

Watch Pulitzer Prize-winning authors and journalists, military and foreign policy experts, leading economists, and many more explain just how much the war in Afghanistan will cost us over how many years.

We must urge Congress to raise key questions about this war at once. As FireDogLake blogger Siun recently wrote, "Once again we are planning a surge with no exit plan and a continued lack of concern for the most basic protection of the civilians in the land we claim to liberate."

http://rethinkafghanistan.com