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Robert Walker's avatar

Sorry everyone lots of comments to answer here need to start a new post again and I'll do a session answering them soon.

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https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AitpGE3dJ/

This is about NPR, it seems like even with the big amound of donations from months ago, it's not enough. Worse still is that folks on Bluesky have no sympathy for NPR for quote "bending the knee." Even after last year, they don't comprehend the full picture. They'd rather point fingers than look in the mirror.

https://bsky.app/profile/npr.org/post/3m25ac4ff322c

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/rfk-jr-update-autism-study/85837458007/

Any debunks, I'm so afraid of what will happen

https://bsky.app/profile/mlhutchins.bsky.social/post/3lxdl7gknmk2d

And i’m afraid they will stop pregnant women from taking antidepressants

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Robert Walker's avatar

He will just be ignored. His new commission includes many people who just don't have the qualifications to sit on it

So Trump's new commission may come to a mistaken conclusion but if so it will just be rejected by all the mainstream doctors / health workers.

It is clear from extensive research already that kids are born with ADHD and autism.

I didn't know when I wrote this that RFK would make a commission of people not qualified to be on such a body.

BLOG: Trump's new commission's members will know on day 1: children are born with ADHD and autism

— 180 days just to demonstrate to Robert Kennedy and his followers

— but may help with public education too

You can read it here: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/trumps-new-commissions-members-will

This is my blog post about how neurodiversity enriches society

BLOG: Are you an orang utan or a chimpanzee? Common misunderstandings talking about doomsday fears with people who are autistic

— or very socially aware

— and how this diversity enriches society

You can read it here: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/are-you-an-orang-utan-or-a-chimpanzee

And this is about how they are just different. Neither is less or more than the other but it's hard at times for an autistic kid in a civilization geared more to the non autistic people.

I use the comparison of orang utans and chimpanzees which behave very differently.

If we were a civilization of orangutans which are rather like autistic people in how they relate to the world, and each other, non autistic kids would seem out of place and need to be helped to adapt to their civilization. E.g. because of their high need for socializing all the time and talking about things they are not even very interested in just to keep talking to everyone else and difficulty sometimes in just settling down to a task for hours on end.

Those are highly adaptive traits in our civilization but might be maladaptive in a civilization geared to function well for beings that are majority autistic.

Also it is clear that the few % of autistic people are a valuable part of our civilization or evolution would have evolved those genes away long ago.

So autistic people play a valuable role in our society.

Similarly a majority autistic civilization might function better with a few percent that are non autistic and socialize a lot more.

It will be interesting if we ever meet Extraterrestrials whether they have traits like autisim and non autistic beings.

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Should we be worried about the upcoming national guard?

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John C.'s avatar

Trump Calls For 'Fake News' Networks To Have Licenses Revoked by FCC - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-media-nbc-abc-fcc-license-revoked-fees-2118632

Good, NOW NO MEDIA WILL BE CRITICIZE TRUMP ANYMORE. AMERICAN DEMOCRACY IS DEAD.

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https://bsky.app/profile/rbreich.bsky.social/post/3lwyuoa2jmc2x

👀 NEWS: IRS documents show conservative propaganda machine PragerU spent $650,000 on a gala at Mar-A-Lago - and soon after Trump targeted PBS for elimination, setting up PragerU to fill the educational void in schools across the country America. https://www.levernews.com/prageru-is-moving-into-sesame-street/

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https://archive.is/QC7pU

The $6.2 billion deal that could reshape local TV across America

TV watchers could soon find more of their stations under the same ownership. The FCC appears poised to encourage the trend.

August 21, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. EDT WAPO

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John D's avatar

Hi could you go over the talk about a Mega Tsunami possible hitting the west coast of the USA in 50 years? Thanks

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Robert Walker's avatar

BLOG: We are NOT at risk from a megatsunami from the Canary Isles

— La Palma BBC documentary based on unpublished research soon shown to be mistaken

READ HERE: https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/We-are-NOT-at-risk-from-a-megatsunami-from-the-Canary-Isles-La-Palma-BBC-documentary-based-on-unpublished-research-soo

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Will there be anything on this spaceship?

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BMyYd8/

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Robert Walker's avatar

Oh it is likely AI generated nowadays. Though that could also be a simple fake done with animation tools. Remember anyone nowadays has access to animation tools that would require hours of computer time for film makers a decade or two ago and think how realistic spaceships seem in movies.

Him saying it is not AI generated is just a way of getting you to share the video.

Remember that any journalist e.g. from Associated Press can watch this video and it's not headline news. So it has to be fake. It looks fake to my eyes. It doesn't seem properly integrated into the clouds somehow. And where is that flash of light supposed to come from that flashes on both the supposed ship and the clouds?

Also see

BLOG: Why it makes sense for aliens to be kind

— and more so the more advanced their civilization

READ HERE: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/why-it-makes-sense-for-aliens-to

BLOG: UFO’s can’t be aliens

— may be misinformation to confuse spies

— or a new scientific phenomenon like “red sprites”

— if we have aliens must be far ahead of us

— likely watched Earth at least since mammoths

— couldn’t be captured

— likely wise / kind

READ HERE: https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/UFO-s-can-t-be-aliens-may-be-misinformation-to-confuse-spies-or-a-new-scientific-phenomenon-like-red-sprites-if

BLOG: Nothing to fear from an alien invasion

— if close enough to invade they likely know about us since before the ice ages and must be very careful not to harm us

READ HERE: https://doomsdaydebunked.miraheze.org/wiki/Nothing_to_fear_from_an_alien_invasion_-_if_close_enough_to_invade_they_likely_know_about_us_since_before_the_ice_ages_and_must_be_very_careful_not_to_harm_us

BLOG: Not remotely plausible that 3I / Atlas is a spaceship

— a spaceship would be interested in Earth or at least some planets and take less than 5,000 years to travel a light year

READ HERE: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/not-remotely-plausible-that-3i-atlas

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Robert Walker's avatar

The US has a different system from Ukraine. It has had two war-time presidential elections. The 1812 election was held during the 1812 war with Britian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1812_United_States_presidential_election

Then the 1864 election was remarkable - it was held during the US civil war. The Confederate states didn't vote as they had seceded. The territories between the West and East coast weren't eligible to vote. Abraham Lincoln was re-elected easily.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1864_United_States_presidential_election

The main change since then is the 22nd amendment which introduces term limits.

Trump doesn't have any Federal level martial law to declare. Trump can't declare war either.

That is by Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution. Only Congress can declare that the country is at war. That happened most recently in WW2. It didn't declare war for the Vietnam war. The other major wars were fought under Congressional authorizations of force or resolutions rather than formal declarations of war: Vietnam, Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

But when the US is at war, whether declared as war or not, the elections continue as normal.

Indeed the US is very different from most democracies. Though Congress can make small changes in the election date with new laws, the length of the election process means it can't be later than November and the only way to change the inauguration date is through a constitutional amendment which can be blocked by a majority vote in one chamber in just 13 states. So that won't happen.

The inauguration dates are regular like clockwork in the USA. Trump leaves office on midday 20th Jan 2029. He can't serve for a third term either and the term limit is set in the Constitution too.

BLOG: Trump has been elected twice

— he can't run for a third term

— Trump must leave office on 20th Jan 2029 for last time

— even Congress can't change this

— set in US Constitution

READ HERE: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/trump-must-leave-office-on-20th-jan

In Ukraine the president has the power to declare martial law, without consulting with parliament even.

During martial law it's not permitted to hold an election and even if Zelensky is killed or dies or resigns they still can't hold an election and the leader of parliament would then be acting president with limited powers, not a full president and they would have to lead with some kind of a coalition rather than a single president.

The earliest they can hold an election for practical reasons is at least 6 months after the end of martial law. Zelensky hasn't said if he will run again, he might want to serve as a single term president.

Ukraine can't change its constitution during war time either, the only way to do it is with a referendum (plus approval by Parliament and president of course) and a referendum can only be held in peace time after the end of martial law.

But the US doesn't have any neighbouring countries that could invade it, there's no practical possibility of Russia invading the US. So there isn't any way that an enemy could interfere in the election process in such a way as to make it impossible, so there isn't any need for the constitution to let the president or Congress postpone inauguration. And as we saw even during the civil war and the war with Britain when its territorial integrity was threatened - it still has to hold elections.

I go into some details of the Ukrainian system here

BLOG: Zelensky can't legally cede land to Russia

— could never pass into law

— but he CAN agree to an immediate ceasefire and MAY be able to recognize a new boundary between Ukraine and Russia "de facto"

— can recognize a new boundary if the Ukrainian people vote "yes" in a referendum

READ HERE: https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/zelensky-cant-legally-cede-land-to

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Robert Walker's avatar

I cover the red heifer here

BLOG: If a few Jews sacrifice a red heifer (young female red cow) on the Mount of Olives

— that’s all that happens

— Israel will NOT build a temple on the Temple Mount

— may lead to minor nuisance of more Jews trying and failing to pray there

READ HERE: https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/If-a-few-Jews-sacrifice-a-red-heifer-young-female-red-cow-on-the-Mount-of-Olives-that-s-all-that-happens-Israel-wi

I think they did sacrifice a red heifer but found some black hairs so it couldn't be used for making the ritual ashes, just a practice sacrifice.

Jesus was NOT born when the second temple was rebuilt. He just needed a quick google to find it was built over five centuries before he was born.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple

As I explain that debunk, they can't build the third temple. If they did, nothing would happen anyway. But they can't. Both the Muslims AND the Jews, the chief rabbis, are opposed to it.

The Jews say they don't know where to build it and they are opposed to Jews even praying anywhere on the Mount because they say they might be standing in the Holy of Holies when they pray as nobody knows for sure where it is.

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Hyphen's's avatar

Noted, there's also been a new one abt red heifers again, does all of this refute that aswell?

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Robert Walker's avatar

From the transcript of a longer video, his claim is that God told him that the rapture is in Sept 23-4 or whatever the date was.

That is very common. I don't know the percentaage but many of the false prophets I've debunked over the last decade say that God told them the date.

When the Bible says nobody knows the date, first he says that can't be true using the examples of Noah and Soddom and Gomorrah

Then he claims that "nobody knows the day or hour" refers to the feast of trumpets.

No that's not what Jesus meant.

Originally EVERY MONTH in the Hebrew calendar was decided by physical observation of the new moon.

So if that is what Jesus meant by "nobody knows the day or hour" then it refers to the start of every month in the Jewish lunar calendar which makes no sense.

Nowadays it no longer depends on physical observation and they just work out all the months in advance for centuries into the future like any other calendar.

So that is one of the excuses some false prophets use but it doesn't hold water.

There is nothing natural can do it.

A nuclear war would NOT end humanity, at most that's a few hundred million and the entire southern hemisphere would be spared as would be all countries except those involved.

So the book of Revelation is NOT predicting a nuclear war and there is no religious reason to expect one

Pope Francis said it can be wholly peaceful and that is his belief, once the work of the church is done.

I don't mean that Pope Francis had a prophetic vision. Rather, this is about how he says it could unfold according to his understanding of the Bible.

This is based on the passage in the Bible:

"The wolf will live with the lamb, the leopard will lie down with the goat, the calf and the lion and the yearling together; and a little child will lead them. The cow will feed with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. The infant will play near the hole of the cobra, and the young child put his hand into the viper's nest. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

"— Isaiah 11:6-9"

That is in the future. It obviously hasn't happened yet and Jews see this as the world after their Messiah arrives.

Christians have to interpret that passage too and Pope Frances sees that as our future too.

Pope Francis put it like this:

"God is preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth where justice will abide, and whose blessedness will answer and surpass all the longings for peace which spring up in the human heart."

"More than a place, it is a state of the soul where our deepest aspirations will be fulfilled with abundance."

He said "It's beautiful to think about this, isn't it, to think about heaven. All of us will be there, all of us. It's beautiful and gives us strength."...

[About questions about the end times]

No one knows the answer to those questions, the pope said Wednesday at his weekly general audience, but Catholics are convinced that the end of time will not bring the "annihilation of the cosmos and of everything around us."

God's plan, he said, is to renew everything in Christ and "bring everything to its fullness of being, truth and beauty."

So he also is describing a future of great peace not unlike the Jewish idea.

And also not about destroying things, but about bringing everything to its fullness of being, truth and beauty.

After all they have the same Bible as the basis for their beliefs so Christians need to try to find a way to interpret Isaiah 11:6-9 too.

I talk about that here:

BLOG: Why you can ignore all date setting prophecies based on the Bible - no dates in it

https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/Why-you-can-ignore-all-date-setting-prophecies-based-on-the-Bible-no-dates-in-it

So Pope Francis sees Jesus return as something wonderful not something to be scared of.

In the far future once the work of the church is done. Leading to a time of amazing peace.

Other Christians see it as not about time and that vision of the future as something you can glimpse right now and don't need to wait for. Or as something that already happened or as a kind of allegory or metaphor or image.

So there are many views and only a very small fraction of Christians globally see it as both literally true and near future.

Even in the Abrahamic religions, Judaism beliefs are in an future of endless peace not an end of the world for Jews that take those beliefs literally.

Many Jews don't take them literally and that also is true of Christianity, many Christians don't take the end times predictions in the Bible as about a literal future but have many other ways of interpreting them.

As for other religions, then though almost all religions have some form of world origin story, there are many religions that have no world ending story.

Most Indian religions have vast timescales not unlike our astronomical timescales over which worlds / universe end but as part of a cycle where new worlds or universes are born again.

BLOG: Many religious views about the world ending or not

READ HERE: https://debunkingdoomsday.quora.com/Many-religious-views-about-the-world-ending-or-not

There is no astronomical or scientific reason why our world would get uninhabitable for humans in less than hundreds of millions of years even then a civilization with technology can protect our world from heating up with sun shades and even move it or we might all be living in space colonies by then.

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The Trump administration is now seeking to replace PBS with “Prager University,” a far-right propaganda organization that isn’t actually a university. One of their “kids videos” has Christopher Columbus telling them that slavery was “no big deal” and “better than being killed.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTwitterAccounts/s/3qBMTjgZUP

https://x.com/NoLieWithBTC/status/1955652897800376620

Propaganda platform PragerU is primed to capitalize on Trump’s PBS cuts

https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/prageru-pbs-cuts-john-adams-video-trump-rcna219645

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Robert Walker's avatar

No that's jumbled up news. It is just about PragerU's Founders Museum which is AI generated founding fathers saying anachronistic things which you can hear if you do a tour of the White House. Put in place on June 25th this year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PragerU#Founders_Museum

Bluesky thread about it https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3lu3nwimmnc2h?ref=404media.co

You scan a QR code to hear each founding father https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/

It's surely not illegal, Trump has a lot of latitude in the White House but it's very low quality.

Reddit thread discussing it here, example comment:

QUOTE Summary: PragerU, a conservative nonprofit criticized for climate denial and slavery apologism, has partnered with the White House to create AI-generated videos of Revolutionary War figures that visitors can access via QR codes during White House tours. The clearly artificial videos feature historical figures like John Adams delivering anachronistic lines such as "facts don't care about our feelings" (a Ben Shapiro phrase).

https://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1m6fe4g/comment/n4j3l2b/

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UKRAINE ARE DOOMED. TAIWAN NEXT.

Ukraine prepared to cede territory held by Russia

Zelensky’s softened position comes ahead of Friday’s Trump-Putin peace summit in Alaska

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/08/11/ukraine-prepared-freeze-war-current-frontline-summit/

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It isn't really a change of position. It's just that it is reported in different ways. Ukraine has always been prepared to recognize a new boundary "de facto". Just recognizing that they can't get it back by force.

What it can't do without a referendum is to cede territory to Russia "de jure" i.e. as part of law.

That remains unchanged.

BLOG: Zelensky can't legally cede land to Russia

— could never pass into law

— but he CAN agree to an immediate ceasefire and MAY be able to recognize a new boundary between Ukraine and Russia "de facto"

— can recognize a new boundary if the Ukrainian people vote "yes" in a referendum

READ HERE:

https://robertinventor.substack.com/p/zelensky-cant-legally-cede-land-to

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