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    A fake interveiw was conducted with an executive in Exxon Mobil Keith McCoy, where he admits that Exon has aggressively opposed climate change using front organizations for decades. They have been lobbying senators Joe Manchin, Mark Kelly, Maggie Hassan, Chris Coons, Kyrsten Sinema, John Barrasso, John Cornyn, Steve Daines, Shelley Moore Capito, Marco Rubio, and Jon Tester. In total, they have given hundreds of thousands of dollars to their campaigns. They lobbied against infrastructure bills to make sure that there was only enough money for things like roads and bridges to be worked on instead of climate change and carbon emissions. Keith McCoy also admitted that Exxon Mobil only supports the carbon tax for pr and doesn't believe it will ever happen.      It's baffling how they will keep getting away with it by denying what was said and feigning ignorance. Exxon Mobil will likely never face legal action for the damage they have knowingly done...

       In this article from AZcentral published in 2016 governor, Doug Ducey established a plan for improving the quality and accessibility of Arizona's education. He talks about how important having some degree of higher education opens the door to more opportunities and leads to higher wages. I agree with him and this should be one of the biggest priorities of our local government. He sets out a goal for 60% of Arizonans to have a degree or certificate by 2030 and advocates for a community-wide effort to achieve this called Achieve60AZ. He says that a higher educated community will lead to higher wages, less poverty, more jobs, and increased state tax funding. These are all things that will greatly benefit Arizona residents and improve the quality of life here. Higher-income and lower poverty rates mean that there is more money for people in need. He has raised the education budget and given a call to action to Adults, employers, and politicians to help. They hope ...

     Recently in the news, there have been talks about Russian oligarchs and their offshore assets. On the internet, I've seen oligarchs compared with billionaires to promote distrust towards the ultra-wealthy. There are certainly reasons to hate certain billionaires but there are huge differences between them and Russian oligarchs. Oligarchs were put into power after the fall of the soviet union, they were handed control over different government industries through their connections to the newly established government. These corrupt businessmen held massive political power for a decade until Vladimir Putin was first elected.       Putin stripped the oligarchs of their political power to instate his control over the country. Putin then created a different type of oligarch that is indebted to him for their wealth. Nato is currently seizing the assets of these people with the hopes that they will pressure Putin to put an end to the war in U...

      In U.S. news it isn't hard to find examples of biased news sources and dodgy reporting. One of these articles I found with slanted reporting is "Can Donald Trump *actually* un-endorse someone?" published by CNN. The article starts with informing the reader that Donald Trump endorsed Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks In April last year but recently has retracted his endorsement. The article then makes assumptions about his character and why he retracted his endorsement speculating that it was because he is set to lose the election. The article says "But that's not really what's going on here. Remember the first rule of Trump: Always be a winner. And its corollary: Always associate yourself with winners."(Cillizza).  This is an example of bias because the author already has an opinion on Trump's character and is condemning his action because of it. Instead of reporting only the information present, the author added his own perspective which damages ...