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Fact Check: Pancho Villa ordered mass rapes in Namiquipa
# Conclusion The claim that "Pancho Villa ordered mass rapes in Namiquipa" is deemed **Partially True**. Evidence from various historical sources indicates that Villa's forces did engage in violent a...
Fact Check: Chinese Red Guards cannibalized people during the Cultural Revolution
# The Claim: "Chinese Red Guards cannibalized people during the Cultural Revolution" ## Introduction The assertion that Chinese Red Guards engaged in cannibalism during the Cultural Revolution is a d...
Fact Check: ISIS committed genocide against Shias, Christians, Yazidis, Kurds, and Turks
# ISIS Committed Genocide Against Shias, Christians, Yazidis, Kurds, and Turks ## Introduction The claim that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) committed genocide against various religious and e...
Fact Check: Democrats City's have more crime then Republicans City's
# Claim Analysis: "Democratic Cities Have More Crime Than Republican Cities" ## Introduction The claim that "Democratic cities have more crime than Republican cities" has gained traction in political...
Fact Check: Democrats City's have more crime then Republicans City's
# The Claim: "Democratic Cities Have More Crime Than Republican Cities" ## Introduction The assertion that cities governed by Democrats experience higher crime rates than those led by Republicans has...
Fact Check: columbus thought he landed in india until the day he died
# Did Columbus Think He Landed in India Until His Death? ## Introduction The claim that Christopher Columbus believed he had landed in India until the day he died is a widely circulated assertion in ...
Fact Check: How nuts is Mark Carney? Perhaps nuttier than you think. Have a read of this piece in the Financial Post, by Matthew Lau. "Having left his gig as UN Special Envoy for Climate and Finance to lead the federal Liberal government, Mark Carney is now in a position to focus his and Greta Thunberg’s global climate crusade squarely on Canada. The crusade, Carney boasted back in 2021 while in his previous role, is worth many trillions of dollars. As he told CBC News at that year’s UN climate conference, “We have banks, asset managers, pension funds, insurance companies from around the world — more than 45 countries — and their total resources, totalling US$130 trillion” dedicated to transitioning the world’s economy away from fossil fuels. That dollar figure is higher than global GDP. Last month, Carney laid out Canada’s required contribution to his climate ambitions: “Canada must invest $2 trillion by 2050 — about $80 billion per year — to become carbon competitive and achieve Net Zero. However, investments in decarbonisation currently run between $10–20 billion annually.” The implication is that another $60-70 billion a year will need to be wrung out of Canadian businesses and consumers, either through direct taxation and government spending or with regulatory browbeating to push Canadians’ savings and investments into global warming initiatives. Carney has made no effort to hide his agenda to browbeat businesses into joining his and Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade. In a 2021 interview he declared, “We need a sustainable economy, and is your business aligned with that? Are your hiring practices consistent with that? Are you developing people in a way that’s consistent with that? Ultimately, what’s being asked of businesses when it comes to climate is, do you have a plan for net-zero? Canada has a legislated objective for net zero alongside another 130 countries.” “A Swedish teenager,” Carney continued, referring to Thunberg, “can figure out the carbon budget and that we have less than 10 years and you have to get to net-zero to stabilize it and if you’re a company and you have purpose, well, what’s your plan? And all these plans need to come together.” This is utter insanity: under Justin Trudeau Canada suffered rapidly declining business investment and now his successor wants the country’s business leaders to take financial planning directives from Greta Thunberg. While the federal government barrels down the road to net-zero impoverishment for Canada, everyone else is looking for the exit ramp. In January, six of the largest U.S. banks — JPMorganChase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, and Morgan Stanley — quit the Carney-led net-zero banking alliance. Canada’s Big Six Banks — RBC, TD Bank, BMO, Scotiabank, CIBC and National Bank — have quit the initiative as well. Even Europe is beginning to back off on government piling climate obligations onto businesses in the name of fighting global warming. As the Wall Street Journal reports, the EU is watering down its climate accounting policies “amid pushback from member states and companies within the bloc over the new rules, which they say would have increased costs and reduced the competitiveness of their business.” Specifically, regulations previously scheduled for this year would have forced companies “to report in detail on their environmental, social and corporate-governance performance while making significant cuts to the emissions from within their supply chain.” The EU is now dropping, weakening or postponing many of these climate regulations, so that businesses will be able to better “grow, innovate, and create quality jobs.” This is effectively an admission that piling climate obligations and environmental reporting mandates onto businesses prevents them from growing, innovating and creating good jobs. Unfortunately, Mark Carney is all about climate obligations and reporting mandates. The road Canada is currently marching down for climate-related financial disclosures is based on a framework proposed by a task force Carney initiated in 2015. His aforementioned Thunberg-praising interview was not with an environmental journalist, but with Pivot Magazine, which is published by CPA Canada, the accounting industry’s national association. “We cannot get to net-zero without proper climate reporting,” he insisted, speaking of the need for “one core global standard” for climate accounting and reporting. A global climate reporting standard to help push trillions of dollars — yes, trillions with a “T” — from Canadian workers and taxpayers into Mark Carney and Greta Thunberg’s climate crusade? After a decade of Justin Trudeau’s ruinous policies weakening Canada from coast to coast, there could be little worse for the country and its economy than a Liberal government led by Mark Carney." The Financial Post
# Mark Carney and Climate Finance: An Analysis of Claims and Context ## Introduction The claim in question discusses Mark Carney, the former Governor of the Bank of Canada and the Bank of England, an...
Fact Check: The Dungan people and Chinese people are the same.
# The Dungan People and Chinese Identity: An Analysis of Claims ## Introduction The claim that "The Dungan people and Chinese people are the same" raises significant questions about ethnic identity, ...
Fact Check: black ppl are poor because of their culture not white privilege
# The Claim: "Black People Are Poor Because of Their Culture, Not White Privilege" ## Introduction The assertion that "black people are poor because of their culture, not white privilege" suggests a ...