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The Return of the Big Lie: Anti-Semitism Is Winning

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By now, December’s congressional hearing about anti-Semitism at universities, during which the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT all claimed that calls for the genocide of Jews would violate their university’s policies only “depending on the context,” is already a well-worn meme. Surely there is nothing left to say about this higher-education train wreck, after the fallout brought

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‘US detectives can lie’: Criminologist reveals how Netflix true crime series American Nightmare exposes controversial interrogation technique that can lead to false confessions

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A criminologist claims that police interrogation techniques portrayed in Netflix thriller American Nightmare could lead to wrongful convictions. 

American Nightmare is a three-part series that tells the story of Denise Huskins and Aaron Quinn who became known as the Gone Girl hoaxer couple in 2015 after the former was abducted from their home in Vallejo, California. 

For two days, the then-29-year-old was drugged and raped by her abductor before being set free, but investigators did not buy the remarkable story

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Rocky Mountain Lie | The Nation

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Hamas leaders claim Israel’s proof over who is to blame for Gaza hospital bombing is an ‘outrageous lie’ – despite IDF producing wiretapped call, video of ‘misfiring’ rocket and satellite photos to prove they didn’t launch missile

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Hamas has claimed that Israel’s ‘proof’ over who is to blame for the deadly Gaza hospital bombing is an ‘outrageous lie’ – despite the IDF producing a wiretapped call and video showing a ‘misfiring’ rocket to prove they didn’t cause the blast.

The terror group made the claim hours after Israel shared an audio clip in which two alleged Hamas terrorists can be heard discussing the explosion and confirming the rocket came from Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) – an independent

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They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie?

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The half-bearded behavioral economist Dan Ariely tends to preface discussions of his work—which has inquired into the mechanisms of pain, manipulation, and lies—with a reminder that he comes by both his eccentric facial hair and his academic interests honestly. He tells a version of the story in the introduction to his breezy first book, “Predictably Irrational,” a patchwork of marketing advice and cerebral self-help. One afternoon in Israel, Ariely—an “18-year-old military trainee,” according to the Times—was nearly incinerated. “An

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Bruce Lehrmann trial inquiry: Sunrise Host Natalie Barr’s very pointed comment about Lisa Wilkinson as top prosecutor Shane Drumgold’s lie about her Logies speech is exposed

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DPP staffer Mitchell Greig sent a copy of his notes of Shane Drumgold’s meeting with Lisa Wilkinson and her Ten lawyer five days after they met.

It revealed the TV host’s recap of the background to their coverage of Brittany Higgins’ allegations and how they came to do the story. 

But it does not include any mention of Mr Drumgold warning her of the legal implications of her upcoming speech at the Logies.

The notes were forwarded to Mr Drumgold

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The big eco lie: Solar panels produce five TIMES more carbon dioxide than previously thought, report claims

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Solar panels release five times more carbon dioxide than previously thought, according to a new report.

An Italian researcher made the claims after finding a database that world institutions use to calculate global carbon footprint projections omits emissions from China, which produces 80 percent of solar panels worldwide.

China is known to use coal-burning plants in manufacturing, which has dropped the price of technology for Americans and other Western countries.  

Without data from China, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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World-leading oncologist in bid to reopen three cancer centres that lie idle | UK | News

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Anger mounted yesterday over a refusal by health chiefs to use three mothballed cancer centres.

The units, set up by world-leading oncologist Professor Karol Sikora, are now in the hands of a private equity firm after going bust last year.

But experts claim tens of thousands of stricken patients could be diagnosed and treated if only the NHS agreed to negotiate rather than allow equipment to “gather dust” at a time cancer targets are routinely missed.

Prof Sikora, 75, called

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Judge dismisses Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ lawsuit against CNN

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In the lawsuit, Donald Trump’s team argued that CNN writers and television anchors’ use of the phrase the “Big Lie,” in five specific incidents, incited “readers and viewers to hate, contempt, distrust, ridicule, and even fear” him. | Ethan Miller/Getty Images

A federal judge late Friday dismissed Donald Trump’s $475 million defamation lawsuit against CNN, in which the former president argued that the cable network’s statements about his false 2020 election fraud claims likened him to Adolf Hitler.

In the

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Buchrezension: „To Name the Bigger Lie“ von Sarah Viren

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Um die größere Lüge zu nennen: Eine Erinnerung in zwei Geschichtenvon Sarah Viren

Ich wette, die meisten von uns haben diese Erfahrung im letzten Jahrzehnt gemacht: das schleichende Gefühl, dass es keine gemeinsame Wahrheit mehr gibt. Wo einst Fakten waren, herrscht jetzt Streit. Wo einst ein Amerika war, gibt es jetzt zwei. (Zumindest.) Wo es einst einheitliche Narrative gab, gibt es heute konkurrierende Geschichten, Unwahrheiten und Täuschungen.

Die Schriftstellerin Sarah Viren wurde als Opfer einer falschen Erzählung bekannt, als

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