democracy, the kind where you participate. no, your job is to trust the experts and their conclusions and obey them. covid kind of blew that up. if there s one thing that we learned from that dis-sasser is that public policy experts often had no clue what they were talking about. your hippy aunt knew more about how to beat a flu virus than your virologist on cnn. exercise, sunlight, fresh air, stop eating junk food, turn off your computer, spend time with other people. be healthy. that advice worked. the experts by contrast made you get the vaccine and that did not work. so by march of 2021, people are starting to figure this out. anyone who was paying attention in america understood that the experts, many of them were full of it. it was exactly at that moment that the atlantic magazine in washington published a piece pushing back against a growing consensus. that story was called following your gut isn t the right way to go. hard to think of a funnier headline because it s s
somebody in power will say something true and is swiftly punished for it. can t have that. it s infuriating to watch, but it s also if you look at it right, fear him using. these are not sophisticated deceptions for this is not dwight eisenhower planning. this is your five -year-old telling you he never touch the birthday cake. if you re human, you will laugh cake? what cake. it s hilarious, the kid has no idea how he relates ticketless years. with that spirit in mind, we ar going to devote the next hour a a special presentation on lying in american politics for it we will stay are best to stay amused because that s much better than being angry. we re going to start with what could be the funniest lie of th year. vladimir putin blew up natural russia s natural gas line to europe. why would they do that? because he s evil pray t so evi he murdered his own country s economy for the thrill of doing it. that s evil, it takes a bad man to declare war against himself. next he will
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inside parliament sri lanka s lawmakers choose their new president. outside parliament the protests continue as controversial prime minister ranil wickremesinghe is selected. a window into the past newly discovered footage of mardi gras the oldest moving images of new orleans. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. joe biden used a visit to a former coal plant in massachusetts to issue the latest stark warning on the threat posed by climate change. the us president is using executive powers to usher in measures including offshore wind farms and expanded flood control. with a heat dome now affecting 28 states, the us is the latest country to swelter with high temperatures. more on that in a moment. meanwhile wildfires are still raging in europe in countries like spain, italy and greece. in france s south west president macron has been to see the devastation caused by a blaze that forced almost 40,000 people from their homes. 0ur correspondent lu
into the past. newly discovered footage of mardi gras the oldest moving images of new orleans. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. joe biden used a visit to a former coal plant in massachusetts to issue the latest stark warning on the threat posed by climate change. the us president is using executive powers to usher in measures, including offshore wind farms and expanded flood control. more on that in a moment. meanwhile, wildfires are still raging in europe. in south west france, president macron has been to see the devastation caused by a blaze that forced almost 40,000 people from their homes. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson was there and sent this report. fire chiefs are too cautious to talk about a turning point, but the fire here has stabilised enough for president macron to visit teste de buch today to congratulate the crews. translation: we know the - weaknesses in the management of this forest. we have to make it grow again, but with d