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NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week

TU Curmudgeon

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CLAIM: People who have received COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are at a greater risk of dying from the virus.
THE FACTS: Research shows the opposite – booster shots ...​

CLAIM: Gas prices are skyrocketing because oil production has been “shut down” in the United States.​
THE FACTS: Oil production has not been “shut down” in the U.S., and gas prices are rising for several reasons, including higher demand after the easing of pandemic restrictions, multiple experts told the AP. But as prices at the pump hit a record high on Tuesday, social media users shared a graphic made on Gasbuddy.com, which tracks gas prices nationally, to falsely claim the increases are the result of a shutdown in U.S. oil production by President Joe Biden. “BIDEN SHUT DOWN OUR PRODUCTION SO NOW WE DEPEND ON OTHERS,” said one Facebook post, sharing the graphic which tracked the average retail price of gasoline over an 18 month period ending in February 2022. It shows prices increasing from the end of November 2020, the month Biden was elected president, through the end of February 2022. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said the graphic was not created by his company, although the numbers used are accurate. He and other experts say the reasons behind rising gas prices are being misrepresented. First, there has not been a shutdown of oil production. The U.S. was producing 11.185 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2021, compared with an average of 11.283 million barrels per day in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The latest data shows that for the week of March 4, 2022, the U.S. is producing 11.6 million barrels per day. ...​
(emphasis added)​

CLAIM: Photo shows a gas station charging $9 per gallon in California.
THE FACTS: Customers were not charged that price. A store manager at the Arco gas station — which is located in Stockton, California — said dollar amounts over $9 were briefly displayed on its sign on March 3 after a new pricing device was installed. ...​

CLAIM: Wisconsin is on the verge of decertifying the results of the 2020 presidential election based on the findings of a former state Supreme Court justice’s interim report to state lawmakers.
THE FACTS: Wisconsin isn’t about to do any such thing, and even top Republicans say it can’t happen. Still, ...​

CLAIM: Footage of a person moving under a “body bag” shows misleading news coverage of the war in Ukraine.
THE FACTS: The video shows protesters participating in a climate change-related demonstration in Austria in early February, and has no connection to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ...​

CLAIM: Olaplex, an American company whose products are designed to repair damaged hair, was banned in Europe because an ingredient it uses was linked to infertility.
THE FACTS: It’s true that an ingredient recently banned in Europe was previously found in an Olaplex product, but it’s not accurate to say the brand itself has been banned in Europe, nor to claim that ...​
 

CLAIM: People who have received COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are at a greater risk of dying from the virus.
THE FACTS: Research shows the opposite – booster shots ...

Here in the UK the Vaxxed are dying in huge numbers --Official UK figures .90% of all so called Covid deaths .

And unsurprisingly , the more killer shots you take , the greater your risks .Always was going to happen .

I am sure it is the same in the US but the CDC, NIH etc are used to fiddling the figures and I suspect that US Gullibles are gold medal contenders as scam victims .


P.S. CIA have been running AP and Reuters for 70 plus years . That was a founding consideration in 1947 --- media , pharma and education control equals a slave population . .
 
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Good try , pretending that you accidently missed the difference between a full stop and a decimal point .

Deflection from the fact that the vaxxed are dropping like flies .

No wonder that they only want you talk about Ukraine and an imagined lunatic who is about to launch against every NATO nation sometime next week .If not sooner .

Give it a few weeks and the Sheeple will find out about the Death Shots and vengeance will be horrific .
 

CLAIM: People who have received COVID-19 vaccine booster shots are at a greater risk of dying from the virus.
THE FACTS: Research shows the opposite – booster shots ...


CLAIM: Gas prices are skyrocketing because oil production has been “shut down” in the United States.​

THE FACTS: Oil production has not been “shut down” in the U.S., and gas prices are rising for several reasons, including higher demand after the easing of pandemic restrictions, multiple experts told the AP. But as prices at the pump hit a record high on Tuesday, social media users shared a graphic made on Gasbuddy.com, which tracks gas prices nationally, to falsely claim the increases are the result of a shutdown in U.S. oil production by President Joe Biden. “BIDEN SHUT DOWN OUR PRODUCTION SO NOW WE DEPEND ON OTHERS,” said one Facebook post, sharing the graphic which tracked the average retail price of gasoline over an 18 month period ending in February 2022. It shows prices increasing from the end of November 2020, the month Biden was elected president, through the end of February 2022. Patrick De Haan, head of petroleum analysis for GasBuddy, said the graphic was not created by his company, although the numbers used are accurate. He and other experts say the reasons behind rising gas prices are being misrepresented. First, there has not been a shutdown of oil production. The U.S. was producing 11.185 million barrels of crude oil per day in 2021, compared with an average of 11.283 million barrels per day in 2020, according to data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The latest data shows that for the week of March 4, 2022, the U.S. is producing 11.6 million barrels per day. ...​

(emphasis added)


CLAIM: Photo shows a gas station charging $9 per gallon in California.
THE FACTS: Customers were not charged that price. A store manager at the Arco gas station — which is located in Stockton, California — said dollar amounts over $9 were briefly displayed on its sign on March 3 after a new pricing device was installed. ...


CLAIM: Wisconsin is on the verge of decertifying the results of the 2020 presidential election based on the findings of a former state Supreme Court justice’s interim report to state lawmakers.
THE FACTS: Wisconsin isn’t about to do any such thing, and even top Republicans say it can’t happen. Still, ...


CLAIM: Footage of a person moving under a “body bag” shows misleading news coverage of the war in Ukraine.
THE FACTS: The video shows protesters participating in a climate change-related demonstration in Austria in early February, and has no connection to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. ...


CLAIM: Olaplex, an American company whose products are designed to repair damaged hair, was banned in Europe because an ingredient it uses was linked to infertility.
THE FACTS: It’s true that an ingredient recently banned in Europe was previously found in an Olaplex product, but it’s not accurate to say the brand itself has been banned in Europe, nor to claim that ...​

None of that is news.....real or imagined.
 
AP is not in the business of circulating News .

It is there to control matters through pre- set narratives for the Elite .
 
Good try , pretending that you accidently missed the difference between a full stop and a decimal point .

Deflection from the fact that the vaxxed are dropping like flies .

No wonder that they only want you talk about Ukraine and an imagined lunatic who is about to launch against every NATO nation sometime next week .If not sooner .

Give it a few weeks and the Sheeple will find out about the Death Shots and vengeance will be horrific .
You've quoted the wrong post.

Please share a link that backs up your numerical assertions.
 
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None of that is news.....real or imagined.
That's why it isn't posted in "Breaking News".

The question that those items raise is "Why are people deliberately spreading falsehoods?".

Possibly you have an answer to that question. (Well, other than "Because they are ignorant boobs who want to believe anything that even comes close to portraying what they want reality to be.", I mean.)
 
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