When the NY times covered similar pushes to regulate ride-sharing apps as taxis, they noted that the majority of stranger rapes in London were committed by unlicensed taxi drivers. Letting ride-sharing apps knock licensed taxis out of business would create a safety problem.

Dick Cheney's response to Obama's civil liberties speech in May 2009 was notable for putting forth the same claim, that the Bush administration prevented any terrorist attacks after 9/11, also failing to mention the anthrax attacks, which probably did more to frighten people than the 9/11 attacks.

Some people would like the fact that a number of people were killed and congressional mail service disrupted for months by someone who has yet to be unidentified and who the FBI concluded used biological weapons from a US government research facility to disappear down the memory hole. The house judiciary committee, which oversees the justice dept. and thus the FBI, was highly skeptical of the FBI's claim that Bruce Ivins was the sole individual responsible. Check Grassley, a Republican, was openly skeptical that Ivins was even involved. (Ivins did work at a biological weapons lab, but he didn't have access to the strain that was used in the attacks.)

Remember, facts are now judged not only by their truth and relevance, but also by their political significance.

"In that case why does the disinformation machine sprout the line about scientists arguing for an imminent ice age in the 70s, rather than say the 40s?"

Because in the 70's, climate scientists pretty thoroughly established that if the patterns of the previous 36 ice ages still holds (and they are remarkably regular in their duration and frequency with an almost exactly 100,000 year cycle), then we have a thousand years or so to go on the current ice age. That's why there was all that speculation about sudden glaciation; they didn't know whether there could be cold surges when exiting an ice age. Their research held up, but the speculation was killed by more facts entering the debate. There was never a consensus about sudden glaciation, but our position in the ice age cycle is pretty well established by now. The consensus view is that we're too far from the peak cold to benefit from it and it will be at least a thousand years or so before natural warming starts to occur, and the current warming is human caused.

"It "works" in Sweden with a horrendous tax load on the working people of Sweden."

um, the "horrendous tax load" in Sweden includes their entire health care cost. If you add US health care costs (currently 15% of GDP) in to make a realistic comparison, the US has a higher load than Sweden.

"The US media is mostly liberal, not conservative and anyone acknowledges that if they are intellectually honest. "

bullshit. The US media is primarily corporate and the number of corporations has been shrinking fast. In the 80's, 98% of all US media was controlled by 37 corporations. Today it's 8. (For those of you with comprehension problems, that means 8 conservative billionaires control the bulk of US media.) Anti-corporate messages are simply not allowed on US media, and the "liberal" end of the US mainstream media market is only the left wing of the permissible corporate thought. Speakers or programs that attack corporatism as a concept are simply not mentioned. That's not liberal. The fact that you would treat support for Barack Obama, one of the most corporate Democrats, as a marker of liberalism shows how out of touch you are.

The US media is corporate, not liberal.