Concealment. Buys on. This Information Market was once regulated by gatekeepers by guardians of the threshold but usual which is to say journalists politicians academics and a whole series of people who were trusted to disseminate information in public spaces as opposed to just. The internet anyone can express their opinions to the world directly and thats good. But in the nixon era we were lucky that there were honest players within a society of the spectacle. This is it that this bit that was really in there members today there isnt even a spectacle today its a society of about a spectacle. Based soon you draw least when you have. Any journalist academic or writer who has tried to expose or criticize these things that any given moment down themselves immediately accused of being part of a conspiracy. When things go viral we really check the content against expert testimony before believing that. Our Cognitive Biases discourage us from investing the time and effort. By a lot of skill
Long as they are present in the hearings to be counted and members are responsible for your own microphone so please keep your microphones muted unless you are speaking. Finally, if they wish to submit documents for the record, please email them to the Committee Clerk whose email address was circulated prior to the hearing and thank you all for joining us. So good morning everyone and welcome to todays remote hearing on our support healthy air travel, to support healthy air travel in the covid19 era and beyond. I like to welcome our witnesses and thank you all for being here. Marshall air travel is an essential part of the fabric of our society and economy. It employs a Critical Role in business, commerce, education, travel and tourism. We take for granted that we can now easily travel vast distances by air and reach destinations that were once reserved for imagination. And just over a century, air travel moved from our imagination to a reality that has changed the way we interact with
Of. The following is neither a hoax nor a conspiracy do not adjust your computer telephone tablet or television we will be controlling all that you seen and hear and maybe even what you think so sit back relax and enjoy the world cup and to bias. In less than 20 years the internet revolution has had a deep impact on Human Behavior of an all of a media so that today it even affects the way we think. Imagined and invented stories and even outright lies have become prominent in our media landscape how could this be. What underpins that popularity. Why is it the. Ive come to doubt expert testimony. Could it be that our brains are predisposed towards compelling nonsense. When the World Wide Web was invented in the 1990 s. It was imagined as a democratic space that would provide everyone direct access to all of Human Knowledge yet today it seems knowledge is being eclipsed by conviction and we are all at risk of being dragged down into a democracy of the gullible. To put the usual grease ecc
Is thursday but those significant proceedings arent expected to begin until next week this is a difficult time for our country but there is precisely the kind of. For which the framers created this and im confident this body can rise above short termism and factional favor and serve the long term best interest of our nation earlier i spoke with a correspondent hydro caster on capitol hill she explained whats next in this historic impeachment trial. Embers of the leaders of both parties framing this in its Historical Context calling upon you know the framers of the constitution Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell the Top Republican in the senate calling for putting aside this factionalism well you know thats not even a word used nowadays in the u. S. To describe the partisanship weve been experiencing in d. C. But it is a word that you see used by the framers of the constitution historically and so both Mitch Mcconnell and nancy pelosi the top democrat in the house saying that this is the m
Police Security Forces theyve taken control of martyr square which is really the epicenter of the protest movement we saw the Security Forces use excessive amounts of tear gas as well as Water Cannons but the protesters the antiestablishment protesters were very defiant they were fighting back using fireworks. Throwing stones dozens of people have been injured on both sides the interior minister tweeting just a short while ago that it is unacceptable to assault the Security Forces that their rights and to protest as it is is in the constitution but assaulting the Security Forces damaging property of public property is not acceptable at all this is the 3rd night of violence since activists declared what they called a week of rage they wanted to revive the momentum of the protest movement which began in mid october majority of the lebanese people who are suffering from the dire Economic Conditions this movement is across sectarian movements people from different sects are behind what the