I have written several articles the environment. A list of links have been provided at bottom of this article for your convenience. This article will, however address different aspects on the environment and the planet in general.

This article is a collection of why things aren’t what they seem. Also why you can’t compare apples to oranges. Finally you can’t always trust postings on Facebook. So, this is going to be an informative and hopefully fun article on many of the incongruous events and stories that have occurred in the last year. It has been a year of misinformation and biased media and social media. It is not whether or not the facts are true it is whether or not you can be convinced that they are true. Why is the left given a get out of jail card, while the right gets bitch slapped for the least infraction? We will try and figure this out too.

I am going to start with a recent posting on Facebook, that I fell for. Fracking vs lithium batteries. I am going to show the photos that were posted.

The second photo is an actual copper mine in Chile. The photos below are actually sites where lithium is mined. I will do an article on Fracking later, so we can cut through all the hub bub on the subject. This article is not the place for it. So I fell for the Facebook misinformation memes. It wasn’t the first time and it certainly won’t be the last time it happens. But I let people know that on FB, that when I re-post stuff, it is because I found it interesting, not necessarily accurate. God knows are politicians are experts on passing fake information as real. Just follow the story told by Kamala Harris and Lincoln. It will show how they take one fact and play fast and loose with the rest of the data. They do the same thing with speeches or rallies by President Trump.

Democrat Kamala Harris took heat during the vice presidential debate for what some said was misleading information about President Abraham Lincoln’s decision to wait until after the election to fill a Supreme Court vacancy. “I’m so glad we went through a little history lesson. Let’s do that a little more,” Harris said. “In 1864 … Abraham Lincoln was up for reelection. And it was 27 days before the election. And a seat became open on the United States Supreme Court. Abraham Lincoln’s party was in charge not only of the White House but the Senate. But Honest Abe said, ‘It’s not the right thing to do. The American people deserve to make the decision about who will be the next president of the United States, and then that person will be able to select who will serve on the highest court of the land.’”

The argument was called into question by Gillian Brockell of the Washington Post, who noted that Lincoln had other motivations for holding the seat open. “Harris is correct that a seat became available 27 days before the election,” Brockell wrote. “And that Lincoln didn’t nominate anyone until after he won. But there is no evidence he thought the seat should be filled by the winner of the election. In fact, he had other motives for the delay.” “If he had lost the election, there is no evidence he wouldn’t have filled the spot in the lame-duck session,” Brockell continued.

Harris also faced pushback on Twitter for the statement. “Kamala Harris’ use of Lincoln to justify not nominating a Supreme Court Justice was totally false,” former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said. “The Senate was not in session and the minute it came into session Lincoln nominated a Justice. She is either really ignorant or just lied.” The U.S. Senate’s historical record shows Congress was not in session at the time of Chief Justice Roger Taney’s death. Lincoln later nominated Salmon P. Chase to the seat the day Congress reconvened in December, and he was confirmed by the Senate that same day. Chase was one of Lincoln’s chief political rivals, having unsuccessfully battled Lincoln for the Republican nomination in 1860.

During the Trump and Biden Debate, Chris Wallace implied that President Trump never condemns the white supremacists. It since has been proven incorrect. He has repeatedly done so. Just sloppy work by Chris Wallace. It should never have been a question on the debate.

During the first presidential debate, Wallace challenged President Trump to condemn white supremacists. It was an astonishingly ill-informed — and inflammatory — challenge, and repeated a lie that Biden has told frequently in the campaign.

Trump has condemned white supremacists repeatedly.

As Breitbart News noted in a recent fact check:

ABC News fact-checked Biden, and noted — commendably — that Trump condemned white supremacists after the Charlottesville riots of August 2017, which Biden has also lied about, as well as on other occasions:

Two days after violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 — after first equating violence from white supremacists with those protesting — Trump said, “Racism is evil and those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the KKK, neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and other hate groups.”

A month later, the president signed a congressional resolution condemning white supremacy.

In 2019, following shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, Trump said, “In one voice, our nation must condemn racism, bigotry and white supremacy. ”

“These sinister ideologies must be defeated. Hate has no place in America. Hatred warps the mind, ravages the heart, and devours the soul,” he added.

Trump volunteered to condemn whatever group Wallace suggested. In the cross-talk, the name “Proud Boys” emerged, and Trump criticized them. Trump then noted — correctly — that the violence going on in the country is mostly left-wing.

In the last 10 months we have been immersed in A Coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to the hatred of President Trump by the Left and the Media, we have been barraged by a lot of false information. We supposed scientific experts on both sides spouting all kinds of “facts” and “data” to support their claims. I have discussed the virus in several articles already, so I won’t spend to much time discussing the subject again. Needless to say, most people are very confused. Confusion breeds uncertainty and fear. We don’t truly know how many people the virus has actually killed, but it is credited with killing over 210,00 people in the US alone.

The problem with the virus is that it likes to take people’s pre-existing medical problems and causes those issues to become exacerbated. If you have a respiratory past, it is going to hit your lungs hard, cardiac problems are going to be worsened. So not only are the numbers of deaths are being escalated, the importance of infections is also being exaggerated. The more people that get infected the more people that are now immune to the disease. The numbers of cases in the U.S. is being compared with other countries. First of all lets just touch base on one of he things that have learned about the virus. It seems to like fat cells, it gets its energy from these cells. If that is the case it could explain a lot. Like for instance why Americans seem to be targeted more than other countries.

In the world we have the largest number of obese people. According to State of Obesity: Better Policies for a Healthier America released Thursday by Trust for America’s Health, the U.S. adult obesity rate passed the 35 percent mark for the first time, standing at 36.7 percent, Furthermore, the national adult obesity rate has increased by 26 percent since 2008. Poverty and discrimination have also contributed to higher rates of obesity among certain racial and ethnic populations, according to the report. Black adults have the highest level of adult obesity nationally at 49.6 percent, which is driven in large part by an adult obesity rate among Black women of 56.9 percent. However, there are countries that have higher percentages of obesity, the overall populations are much smaller.

Sweden and countries of Thailand are often used for comparison. So lets look at the numbers. Sweden has 20.60% obesity, covid cases are 98, 451 and deaths 5,894, while in Thailand the percentage of obesity is 10% while 3,636 case and just 59 deaths. United States has 36.7% obesity and has 7,991,998 cases and 219,695 deaths. It seems that the numbers tend to support this premise. The life style of Sweden and Thailand are definitely different. They do a lot more walking and riding bicycles, so the population is in much better shape. So here comes comparing apples and oranges analogy.

Here are the 10 most obese countries by obesity rate:

1. American Samoa (74.60%)
2. Tokelau (74.40%)
3. Nauru (61.00%)
4. Cook Islands (55.90%)
5. Palau (55.30%)
6. Marshall Islands (52.90%)
7. Tuvalu (51.60%)
8. Niue (50.00%)
9. Tonga (48.20%)
10. Samoa (47.30%)

 CSV JSON

Country	Obesity Rate	BMI	Population 2020
American Samoa	74.60%	34.9	55,191
Tokelau	74.40%		1,357
Nauru	61.00%	32.5	10,824
Cook Islands	55.90%	33	17,564
Palau	55.30%	29.4	18,094
Marshall Islands	52.90%	29.2	59,190
Tuvalu	51.60%	29.3	11,792
Niue	50.00%		1,626
Tonga	48.20%	31.9	105,695
Samoa	47.30%	31.7	198,414
Kiribati	46.00%	29.6	119,449
Micronesia	45.80%	29.4	115,023
Aruba	38.20%		106,766
Kuwait	37.90%	30	4,270,571
Cayman Islands	36.60%		65,722
United States	36.20%	28.8	331,002,651
British Virgin Islands	35.50%		30,231
Jordan	35.50%	28.9	10,203,134
Saudi Arabia	35.40%	28.5	34,813,871
Qatar	35.10%	29.2	2,881,053
Bermuda	34.40%		62,278
Guam	34.30%		168,775
French Polynesia	33.10%		280,908
Curacao	33.00%		164,093
Puerto Rico	32.90%		2,860,853
United States Virgin Islands	32.50%		104,425
Libya	32.50%	27.7	6,871,292
Turkey	32.10%	27.8	84,339,067
Lebanon	32.00%	27.8	6,825,445
Egypt	32.00%	29.2	102,334,404
United Arab Emirates	31.70%	28.8	9,890,402
Bahamas	31.60%	28.4	393,244
New Caledonia	31.50%		285,498
New Zealand	30.80%	27.9	4,822,233
Iraq	30.40%	28	40,222,493
Fiji	30.20%	27.2	896,445
Macau	30.00%		649,335
Hong Kong	29.90%		7,496,981
Bahrain	29.80%	28.2	1,701,575
Canada	29.40%	27.2	37,742,154
Northern Mariana Islands	29.20%		57,559
Australia	29.00%	27.2	25,499,884
Malta	28.90%	27.2	441,543
Mexico	28.90%	28.1	128,932,753
Argentina	28.30%	27.7	45,195,774
South Africa	28.30%	27.3	59,308,690
Chile	28.00%	27.8	19,116,201
Dominica	27.90%	27	71,986
Uruguay	27.90%	26.8	3,473,730
Syria	27.80%	28.1	17,500,658
United Kingdom	27.80%	27.3	67,886,011
Dominican Republic	27.60%	26.7	10,847,910
Algeria	27.40%	26.2	43,851,044
Oman	27.00%	26.9	5,106,626
Tunisia	26.90%	26.8	11,818,619
Palestine	26.80%	27.6	5,101,414
Suriname	26.40%	27.4	586,632
Hungary	26.40%	26.3	9,660,351
Lithuania	26.30%	26.6	2,722,289
Israel	26.10%	26.3	8,655,535
Morocco	26.10%	25.6	36,910,560
Czech Republic	26.00%	26.9	10,708,981
Iran	25.80%	26.2	83,992,949
Costa Rica	25.70%	26.9	5,094,118
Andorra	25.60%	27.5	77,265
Venezuela	25.60%	27.2	28,435,940
Ireland	25.30%	27.5	4,937,786
Vanuatu	25.20%	26.2	307,145
Bulgaria	25.00%	26	6,948,445
Greece	24.90%	27.3	10,423,054
Jamaica	24.70%	27.4	2,961,167
El Salvador	24.60%	27.4	6,486,205
Cuba	24.60%	26.2	11,326,616
Belarus	24.50%	26.6	9,449,323
Croatia	24.40%	25.5	4,105,267
Belize	24.10%	28.9	397,628
Ukraine	24.10%	26	43,733,762
Gibraltar	24.00%	27.5	33,691
Spain	23.80%	26.7	46,754,778
Saint Vincent And The Grenadines	23.70%	27.3	110,940
Nicaragua	23.70%	26.9	6,624,554
Latvia	23.60%	25.8	1,886,198
Montenegro	23.30%	26	628,066
Barbados	23.10%	28.7	287,375
Norway	23.10%	26	5,421,241
Poland	23.10%	26.4	37,846,611
Russia	23.10%	26.5	145,934,462
Saint Kitts And Nevis	22.90%	29.7	53,199
Guadeloupe	22.90%		400,124
Panama	22.70%	27.1	4,314,767
Haiti	22.70%	24.1	11,402,528
Luxembourg	22.60%	26.5	625,978
Solomon Islands	22.50%	25.5	686,884
Romania	22.50%	25.3	19,237,691
Macedonia	22.40%	25.8	2,083,374
Colombia	22.30%	25.9	50,882,891
Germany	22.30%	26.3	83,783,942
Finland	22.20%	25.9	5,540,720
Belgium	22.10%	25.5	11,589,623
Brazil	22.10%	25.9	212,559,417
Greenland	22.00%		56,770
Taiwan	22.00%	24	23,816,775
Iceland	21.90%	25.9	341,243
Cyprus	21.80%	27	1,207,359
Albania	21.70%	26.1	2,877,797
Georgia	21.70%	27.2	3,989,167
France	21.60%	25.3	65,273,511
Serbia	21.50%	25.8	8,737,371
Honduras	21.40%	26.4	9,904,607
Grenada	21.30%	27	112,523
Papua New Guinea	21.30%	25.3	8,947,024
Estonia	21.20%	25.5	1,326,535
Guatemala	21.20%	26.5	17,915,568
Kazakhstan	21.00%	27.4	18,776,707
Portugal	20.80%	26.2	10,196,709
Mongolia	20.60%	26	3,278,290
Sweden	20.60%	25.8	10,099,265
Slovakia	20.50%	26.5	5,459,642
Netherlands	20.40%	25.4	17,134,872
Paraguay	20.30%	25.8	7,132,538
Guyana	20.20%	26.3	786,552
Slovenia	20.20%	26.9	2,078,938
Armenia	20.20%	26.7	2,963,243
Bolivia	20.20%	25.9	11,673,021
Austria	20.10%	25.4	9,006,398
Isle Of Man	20.00%		85,033
Azerbaijan	19.90%	27.4	10,139,177
Ecuador	19.90%	27	17,643,054
Italy	19.90%	26	60,461,826
Saint Lucia	19.70%	29.6	183,627
Denmark	19.70%	25.3	5,792,202
Peru	19.70%	26.3	32,971,854
Switzerland	19.50%	25.3	8,654,622
Antigua And Barbuda	18.90%	28.1	97,929
Botswana	18.90%	24.7	2,351,627
Moldova	18.90%	26.7	4,033,963
Trinidad And Tobago	18.60%	28.7	1,399,488
Turkmenistan	18.60%	26.4	6,031,200
French Guiana	17.90%		298,682
Bosnia And Herzegovina	17.90%	26.1	3,280,819
Namibia	17.20%	24.3	2,540,905
Yemen	17.10%	25.8	29,825,964
Lesotho	16.60%	24.9	2,142,249
Kyrgyzstan	16.60%	26.2	6,524,195
Uzbekistan	16.60%	26.1	33,469,203
Malaysia	15.60%	25.3	32,365,999
Zimbabwe	15.50%	23.4	14,862,924
Gabon	15.00%	25.5	2,225,734
Swaziland	14.80%		1,160,164
Tajikistan	14.20%	25.4	9,537,645
Brunei	14.10%	26.2	437,479
Seychelles	14.00%	26.8	98,347
Djibouti	13.50%	23.3	988,000
Mauritania	12.70%	24.8	4,649,658
Sao Tome And Principe	12.40%	24.8	219,159
Cape Verde	11.80%	24.7	555,987
Cameroon	11.40%	24.4	26,545,863
Ghana	10.90%	24.2	31,072,940
Mauritius	10.80%	25.6	1,271,768
Gambia	10.30%	24	2,416,668
Ivory Coast	10.30%	23.6	26,378,274
Thailand	10.00%	24.1	69,799,978
Liberia	9.90%	24	5,057,681
Republic Of The Congo	9.60%	23.3	5,518,087
Benin	9.60%	23.4	12,123,200
Guinea Bissau	9.50%	23.1	1,968,001
Nigeria	8.90%	23.4	206,139,589
Senegal	8.80%	23	16,743,927
Sierra Leone	8.70%	22.8	7,976,983
Maldives	8.60%	25.1	540,544
Mali	8.60%	22.8	20,250,833
Pakistan	8.60%	23.8	220,892,340
Togo	8.40%	23.2	8,278,724
Tanzania	8.40%	23.1	59,734,218
Somalia	8.30%	21.9	15,893,222
Angola	8.20%	24.1	32,866,272
Zambia	8.10%	22.6	18,383,955
Equatorial Guinea	8.00%	25.6	1,402,985
Comoros	7.80%	24.1	869,601
Guinea	7.70%	22.7	13,132,795
Central African Republic	7.50%	22.4	4,829,767
Martinique	7.20%		375,265
Mozambique	7.20%	22.3	31,255,435
Kenya	7.10%	23	53,771,296
Indonesia	6.90%	22.9	273,523,615
North Korea	6.80%	21.8	25,778,816
Dr Congo	6.70%	22.2	89,561,403
South Sudan	6.60%	25.2	11,193,725
Sudan	6.60%	25.2	43,849,260
Bhutan	6.40%	23.8	771,608
Philippines	6.40%	23.2	109,581,078
China	6.20%	23.9	1,439,323,776
Singapore	6.10%	23.7	5,850,342
Chad	6.10%	22.3	16,425,864
Rwanda	5.80%	22	12,952,218
Malawi	5.80%	22.8	19,129,952
Myanmar	5.80%	22.6	54,409,800
Burkina Faso	5.60%	22.1	20,903,273
Niger	5.50%	21.7	24,206,644
Afghanistan	5.50%	21.6	38,928,346
Burundi	5.40%	20.9	11,890,784
Laos	5.30%	22.6	7,275,560
Madagascar	5.30%	21.1	27,691,018
Uganda	5.30%	22	45,741,007
Sri Lanka	5.20%	23	21,413,249
Eritrea	5.00%	20.5	3,546,421
South Korea	4.70%	23.9	51,269,185
Ethiopia	4.50%	20.6	114,963,588
Japan	4.30%	22.6	126,476,461
Nepal	4.10%	22.2	29,136,808
Cambodia	3.90%	21.9	16,718,965
India	3.90%	21.9	1,380,004,385
Timor Leste	3.80%	21.2	1,318,445
Bangladesh	3.60%	21	164,689,383
Vietnam	2.10%	21.6	97,338,579

I have included numbers for obesity in the world. We are being compare to countries like Sweden, where the percentage for obesity is much lower like 20.60 and we are also being compared to countries in Africa, which typically have the lowest percentages of obesity. They

Country	Cases	Deaths	Region
United States	7,991,998	219,695	North America
India	7,119,300	109,184	Asia
Brazil	5,094,979	150,506	South America
Russia	1,298,718	22,597	Europe
Colombia	911,316	27,834	South America
Argentina	894,206	23,868	South America
Spain	890,367	32,929	Europe
Peru	849,371	33,305	South America
Mexico	817,503	83,781	North America
France	734,974	32,683	Europe
South Africa	692,471	17,780	Africa
United Kingdom	603,716	42,825	Europe
Iran	500,075	28,544	Asia
Chile	481,371	13,318	South America
Iraq	402,330	9,852	Asia
Bangladesh	378,266	5,524	Asia
Italy	354,950	36,166	Europe
Philippines	339,341	6,321	Asia
Saudi Arabia	339,267	5,043	Asia
Turkey	335,533	8,837	Asia
Indonesia	333,449	11,844	Asia
Germany	326,291	9,702	Europe
Pakistan	318,932	6,570	Asia
Israel	290,493	1,980	Asia
Ukraine	261,034	4,972	Europe
Canada	181,864	9,613	North America
Netherlands	174,653	6,584	Europe
Belgium	156,931	10,175	Europe
Romania	155,283	5,411	Europe
Morocco	152,404	2,605	Africa
Ecuador	147,033	12,191	South America
Bolivia	138,574	8,308	South America
Qatar	127,985	220	Asia
Poland	125,816	3,004	Europe
Panama	120,313	2,491	North America
Dominican Republic	118,477	2,173	North America
Czech Republic (Czechia)	117,110	987	Europe
Kuwait	111,116	658	Asia
Kazakhstan	108,757	1,746	Asia
Nepal	107,755	636	Asia
United Arab Emirates	106,229	445	Asia
Oman	105,890	1,038	Asia
Egypt	104,516	6,052	Africa
Sweden	98,451	5,894	Europe
Guatemala	97,715	3,384	North America
Japan (+Diamond Princess)	89,624	1,640	Asia
Costa Rica	87,439	1,076	North America
Portugal	86,664	2,080	Europe
China	85,578	4,634	Asia
Ethiopia	84,295	1,287	Africa
Belarus	83,534	896	Europe
Honduras	83,146	2,504	North America
Venezuela	83,137	697	South America
Bahrain	75,614	275	Asia
Moldova	62,151	1,461	Europe
Uzbekistan	61,098	505	Asia
Switzerland	60,368	2,088	Europe
Nigeria	60,266	1,115	Africa
Singapore	57,876	27	Asia
Armenia	56,451	1,020	Asia
Austria	55,319	851	Europe
Lebanon	53,568	459	Asia
Algeria	53,072	1,801	Africa
Paraguay	49,675	1,077	South America
Kyrgyzstan	49,230	1,085	Asia
Ghana	47,005	306	Africa
State of Palestine	44,299	381	Asia
Libya	42,712	631	Africa
Ireland	42,528	1,826	Europe
Azerbaijan	41,982	609	Asia
Kenya	41,546	766	Africa
Afghanistan	39,799	1,477	Asia
Hungary	37,664	954	Europe
Serbia	34,787	763	Europe
Tunisia	32,556	478	Africa
Denmark	32,422	669	Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina	30,647	928	Europe
El Salvador	30,196	890	North America
Myanmar	27,974	646	Asia
Australia	27,285	898	Australia/Oceania
Jordan	24,926	191	Asia
South Korea	24,703	433	Asia
Bulgaria	24,402	892	Europe
Greece	22,358	449	Europe
Cameroon	21,203	423	Africa
North Macedonia	20,937	792	Europe
Croatia	20,440	324	Europe
Côte d’Ivoire	20,154	120	Africa
Slovakia	19,851	61	Europe
Madagascar	16,718	237	Africa
Malaysia	15,657	157	Asia
Norway	15,524	275	Europe
Zambia	15,458	337	Africa
Albania	15,399	420	Europe
Senegal	15,268	314	Africa
Montenegro	13,869	202	Europe
Sudan	13,673	836	Africa
Finland	11,998	346	Europe
Namibia	11,936	128	Africa
Georgia	11,794	85	Asia
Guinea	11,022	69	Africa
Maldives	10,894	35	Asia
DR Congo	10,851	276	Africa
Tajikistan	10,222	79	Asia
French Guiana	10,144	69	South America
Mozambique	10,001	71	Africa
Uganda	9,801	93	Africa
Luxembourg	9,722	132	Europe
Haiti	8,882	230	North America
Gabon	8,835	54	Africa
Slovenia	8,663	167	Europe
Zimbabwe	8,011	230	Africa
Jamaica	7,718	139	North America
Mauritania	7,550	163	Africa
Cabo Verde	7,072	75	Africa
Guadeloupe	6,483	77	North America
Angola	6,366	218	Africa
Lithuania	6,122	103	Europe
Cuba	5,978	123	North America
Malawi	5,821	180	Africa
Eswatini	5,669	113	Africa
Djibouti	5,423	61	Africa
Nicaragua	5,264	153	North America
Hong Kong	5,183	105	Asia
Congo	5,118	90	Africa
Bahamas	5,078	107	North America
Equatorial Guinea	5,063	83	Africa
Suriname	5,051	107	South America
Trinidad and Tobago	5,043	90	North America
Rwanda	4,896	31	Africa
Central African Republic	4,854	62	Africa
Sri Lanka	4,752	13	Asia
Syria	4,718	224	Asia
Réunion	4,491	16	Africa
Aruba	4,194	33	North America
Mayotte	3,989	43	Africa
Estonia	3,865	68	Europe
Somalia	3,864	99	Africa
Malta	3,776	41	Europe
Thailand	3,636	59	Asia
Gambia	3,632	117	Africa
Iceland	3,526	10	Europe
Guyana	3,469	103	South America
Mali	3,286	132	Africa
Botswana	3,219	18	Africa
South Sudan	2,777	55	Africa
French Polynesia	2,754	10	Australia/Oceania
Andorra	2,696	55	Europe
Latvia	2,670	40	Europe
Belize	2,496	36	North America
Benin	2,411	41	Africa
Guinea-Bissau	2,385	40	Africa
Sierra Leone	2,306	72	Africa
Uruguay	2,294	50	South America
Burkina Faso	2,271	61	Africa
Yemen	2,052	595	Asia
Cyprus	2,006	25	Asia
Togo	1,940	49	Africa
New Zealand	1,871	25	Australia/Oceania
Martinique	1,851	22	North America
Lesotho	1,805	42	Africa
Liberia	1,363	82	Africa
Chad	1,304	92	Africa
Niger	1,201	69	Africa
Vietnam	1,109	35	Asia
Sao Tome & Principe	929	15	Africa
San Marino	741	42	Europe
Sint Maarten	707	22	North America
Channel Islands	699	48	Europe
Turks and Caicos	696	6	North America
Curaçao	583	1	North America
Papua New Guinea	554	7	Australia/Oceania
Taiwan	527	7	Asia
Burundi	524	1	Africa
Tanzania	509	21	Africa
Comoros	495	7	Africa
Gibraltar	485	0	Europe
Faeroe Islands	477	0	Europe
Saint Martin	466	8	North America
Eritrea	414	0	Africa
Mauritius	395	10	Africa
Isle of Man	346	24	Europe
Mongolia	316	0	Asia
Bhutan	306	0	Asia
Cambodia	283	0	Asia
Monaco	234	2	Europe
Cayman Islands	221	1	North America
Barbados	208	7	North America
Bermuda	184	9	North America
Caribbean Netherlands	148	2	North America
Seychelles	148	0	Africa
Brunei	146	3	Asia
Liechtenstein	144	1	Europe
Antigua and Barbuda	111	3	North America
British Virgin Islands	71	1	North America
Saint Barthelemy	65	0	North America
St. Vincent & Grenadines	64	0	North America
Macao	46	0	Asia
Fiji	32	2	Australia/Oceania
Dominica	32	0	North America
Saint Lucia	29	0	North America
Timor-Leste	28	0	Asia
New Caledonia	27	0	Australia/Oceania
Grenada	24	0	North America
Laos	23	0	Asia
Saint Kitts & Nevis	19	0	North America
Saint Pierre & Miquelon	16	0	North America
Greenland	16	0	North America
Montserrat	13	1	North America
Falkland Islands	13	0	South America
Holy See	12	0	Europe
Western Sahara	10	1	Africa
MS Zaandam	9	2
Anguilla	3	0	North America
Solomon Islands	2	0	Australia/Oceania

So lets poke the media bear. Before Trump announced his campaign for the Presidency, he was a media Darling. There are photos all over the internet with him posing with all the rich and famous righties and lefties. It didn’t matter what race they are, you can find him posing with someone of that nationality. It was part of the Hollywood world. He had a TV show, a magazine and he owned casinos. He donated money to major charities, the black population loved him. As soon as announced his Presidency, Oh My God, the shit hit the fan, he immediately became an anathema. He was reviled, vilified and castigated. The press immediately started posting negative articles. The news channels, MSNBC, CNN and the broadcast networks started with nonstop negative coverage. Thanks to Hiliary Clinton and President Obama rumors of Russian collusion started to creep into news cycles. Almost five years later it has only gotten stronger, and threatens to overpower President Trump. He may actually lose this election because of the non stop hate being rammed down the American throats.

Since the beginning of the impeachment inquiry on September 24, the coverage has somehow become even more hostile than before. As Newsbusters explains, “out of 684 evaluative comments included in these broadcasts, a whopping 96 percent have been negative, vs. a meager four percent that have been positive.”

During the six weeks since Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi announced the start of the inquiry (September 24 through November 5), the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts churned out 398 minutes of coverage to the Ukraine scandal, or more than three-fifths of all administration news during this period (645 minutes).

Amazingly, the mainstream media was even negative about President Trump’s role in the U.S. military operation that ended up taking out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

Out of nine evaluative statements about the President himself, two-thirds (67%) were negative. These focused on his refusal to brief congressional leaders, as well as his belittling description of the cruel ISIS leader’s last moments (“He died like a dog….He died like a coward….Whimpering, screaming and crying.”)

On the one hand, this is utterly amazing. On the other hand, it’s also as expected. After all, we on the right have been saying for years — if not decades — that the mainstream media and the Democratic Party are one and the same.

Anti-Republican media bias is nothing new. However, the mainstream media — and even some of their friends in the new media! — are taking it to levels we’ve never seen before.

Although this is good news for websites like PJMedia — it gives us the opportunity to be different — it’s still extremely troubling. After all, as Joseph Goebbels was fond of saying: if you repeat a lie enough, people will eventually believe it. In other words, if the mainstream media repeats their anti-Trump talking points time and again, their hatred will eventually stick and drive down his poll numbers and therefore his reelection chances.

Media coverage of Trump’s early days was far more negative overall than coverage of past administrations, according to the report published Monday by the Pew Research Center. During the first days of President Barack Obama’s administration, 42 percent of the stories were positive. President George W. Bush was covered 22 percent positively, and President Bill Clinton garnered 27 percent positive news coverage. But Trump is covered positively just five percent of the time. Four times as many offered a negative assessment, and about half were neither positive nor negative, according to Pew Research Center.

Anti-Trump Media: To say that the big networks haven’t exactly had a love affair with Donald Trump, as they plainly did with President Obama, is an understatement. A new survey shows that not only is coverage of Trump overwhelmingly negative, but the president’s biggest accomplishment — the roaring economy — gets almost no attention. What they found was, as Trump himself might say, sad: “Over the summer, the broadcast networks have continued to pound Donald Trump and his team with the most hostile coverage of a president in TV news history — 92% negative, vs. just 8% positive.”

Moreover, the very focus of what the media cover is highly selective. Some two-thirds of the Trump coverage came from five topics, including the Russia investigation, immigration, the Brett Kavanaugh nomination, North Korea, and U.S.-Russia relations.

Let’s see, what’s missing from that list? Oh yes, the one thing that’s overwhelmingly positive for President Trump: the economy.

What About The Economy?

Over the four months the MRC watched network TV for all of us, less than 1% of the coverage was on the economy. To be more precise, it was 0.7% of the entire coverage, or 14 minutes. We’re in the middle of an economic boom we were told by the very same media people was impossible, but now this miracle doesn’t warrant coverage.

Let’s just review a little, shall we? The third quarter saw 4.2% GDP growth, and Trump’s average is now 3%. Wages are rising, and real median household incomes are now at their highest level ever. As for September’s overall unemployment rate of 3.7%, it was the lowest in nearly half a century. Meanwhile, unemployment rates for African Americans, Hispanics and Asians are at or near all-time lows.

Look at the late Obama economy and the early Trump economy, and it’s like a light went on. Suddenly, businesses were starting up, creating jobs, raising pay, building, buying and selling at a fevered pace.

Tax Cuts And Deregulation

Even many economists on the left have grudgingly agreed that Trump’s tax cuts and deregulation set a fire under a stone-cold economy, with some 1.8 million new jobs created in just 21 months. Yet, as far as the network media are concerned, the recovery doesn’t really exist. Imagine all this good news happening under President Obama. We would hear the media’s hosannas on each and every nightly newscast.

Well, there was one economy-related issue that did pique the networks’ interest, and rightly so: Trump’s use of tariffs to get other countries to renegotiate unfair trade deals. It received 80 minutes of coverage but, again, not balanced at all: 88% was negative.

We say this because the media are in crisis as never before. They fixate on the president’s approval numbers, which are now over 40%, but apparently don’t look at their own. In a recent Gallup poll of Americans’ confidence in its main institutions, only 20% said they have a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in TV news. They’re even below newspapers, for which only 23% said they had confidence.

Media In Crisis

If the media want to feel good about themselves, there’s this: The bottom-dweller in the confidence poll was once again Congress, with only 11% claiming a “great deal/quite a lot” of confidence.

Unfortunately, the Fourth Estate seems eager to relinquish its claim to fairness, balance, evenhandedness and factual truth. Instead, it embraces the increasingly far-left politics of the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, which has recently veered into socialist territory by pushing Medicare for All, open borders, worker control of corporations, and a host of other crazy ideas that would bring ruin and falling living standards to America.

There was a time when the media at least made an attempt to be fair to both sides in the political debate. Sadly, that time is now dead and gone. And it shows in the contempt many American now have for the media. Even so, don’t shed a tear for the media’s seriously tarnished reputation: They’ve brought it on themselves.

So, do you get the point if President Trump said 2 + 2 = 4, the media would say he was wrong, He could part the Red Sea, and they would deny he did it. He has been nominated for at least 4 Nobel Peace prizes in his first 4 years as president. Teddy Roosevelt holds the record with 7 nominations. Who knows he might beat that record if he wins his second term. However the press barely mentioned his nominations. He has worked feverishly for peace in the Middle East, and as a result has made marked advances. Several Countries have signed peace documents. Again with little coverage. Pilosi basically went “poastal” when she her the news.

In case you have thought you missed the riots being waged all over this country, post The killing of George Floyd. Don’t worry the press and the democratic party have said they were inconsequential, because they were mostly peaceful protests. I guess all the buildings that have been razed to the ground, hundreds of vehicles destroyed, countless businesses looted and demolished are all a figment of our imagination. Hundreds of black people have been killed in our Northern Democratic run cities. Not a peep by the press, but lookout if one black man is killed in a justified shooting by the police, another riot ensues. Countless police officers have been shot and way too many have been killed by these rioters. Again no press coverage.

Democratic run cities have been locked down for months, including schools, businesses, churches, restaurants, and gyms remain closed. While Walmart, Large grocery store chains, Lowe’s and Home Depots and online stores like Amazon.com have reported record sales and profits. No wonder big business is donating so much money to democratic politicians running for office. The Democrats say the President Trump is pro big business, not so the Democratic party is the party of big business.

Finally, people from all over the world are flocking to this country, so why is our country so evil and systemically racist? It is not, this mantra is just a tool by the left to maintain and increase their power base. By continually beating down the poor and middle class, they weaken our core and therefore make it easier for a federal power grab. I have written numerous articles on how our country is being destroyed, please feel free to peruse these articles. I have posted over 200 article so far. I have done my best to make them as impartial and factual as possible. I firmly believe if you were to read all of them, you would almost have the equivalence of an associates degree in knowledge. Remember get out there and vote, not by mail but in person.

I promised to make this article fun, I guess I failed, but would you settle for scary instead?

If you vote for Biden, these women could be running our country. Think about that. I hope it causes you to have nightmares. Because it certainly gives me nightmares.

Resources:

washingtonexaminer.com, “Kamala Harris takes heat for misleading statement about Abraham Lincoln’s election year SCOTUS vacancy, By Michael Lee; breitbart.com, “Fact Check: Chris Wallace Falsely Implies Trump Never Condemned White Supremacists,” By Joel B. Pollak; mlive.com, ” U.S. adult obesity rate tops 42 percent, highest on record,” By Brandon Champion; worldpopulationreview.com, “Most Obese Countries 2020;” worldometers.info, “Countries where COVID-19 has spread;” pjmedia.com, “Media Bias: TV Networks Blast Trump with 96% Negative News,” By Michael Van Der Galien; newsweek.com, “The Media Really Does Hate Trump, Study Shows,” By Christianna Silva; investors.com, ” Media Trump Hatred Shows In 92% Negative Coverage Of His Presidency: Study;”

Environmental Postings
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/10/18/why-2-2-doesnt-4-and-an-apple-is-not-an-orange/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/10/17/forest-fires-and-other-natural-disasters-and-their-effect-on-the-environment/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/10/08/sharks-sharks-everywhere-oh-my/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/10/06/natural-selection-and-evolution/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/09/16/our-western-fires/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/09/12/the-creation-of-our-planet-is-a-miracle-and-should-be-cherished/
https://common-sense-in-america.com/2020/06/19/global-warming-and-other-environmental-issues/
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