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  2. Steve included Solari in his list, but I could not find an original list on Harvard site. If you see a list on Harvard’s site, let me know. One article points to a list at google docs that seems a bit informal – but again it is not on Harvard site. So still looks like fake news to me!
    If you see an actual list that the Harvard Library has made and verified, please do post it!

    1. Apparently Harvard changed how it was referring to this list within its own guide on fake news later on after it first linked to the list.

      This is an excerpt from an article about this from an organization that’s located within Harvard:

      “When Harvard first published its research guide, it described Zimdars’ list as a ‘huge list of fake news sites.’ That’s been updated to ‘An informal list compiled by students for a class taught by Melissa Zimdars at Merrimack College.’”

      So apparently, as you’ve mentioned, Harvard linked to the list instead of including the names of the sites within its guide.

      Here’s the link to this article that I’ve just mentioned:

      http://www.niemanlab.org/2017/03/harvard-library-gets-slammed-for-its-earnest-fake-news-guide-updates-from-the-fake-news-world/

    1. Jim:

      From what I can tell, Harvard did not make up a list.

      In Steve Lendman’s article he has a list of sources he describes as reliable that he says in on Harvard’s list – however I can find no such list. The Harvard site has a section on “Fake News” – they link to the associate professor from Merrimack College who did make a list. However, that link takes you to a french text – so it is not working.

      A search for that list on the Internet produces this list https://docs.google.com/document/d/10eA5-mCZLSS4MQY5QGb5ewC3VAL6pLkT53V_81ZyitM/preview

      We were not on the associate professors original list. We are on this list and our type is categorized as “unknown” which is defined as:

      Unknown (tag unidentified): Sources that have not yet been analyzed (many of these were suggested by readers/users or are found on other lists and resources). Help us expand our resource by providing us information!

      So this gets back to “Fake News” – it looks to me like Harvard or the Harvard Library did not create a list of “fake news” websites and it is highly misleading to attach Harvards name to it – that is a very fake news thing to do.

      While I don’t know the associate professor at Merrimack. She is an associate professor of communications and media.

      http://www.merrimack.edu/live/profiles/586-melissa-mish-zimdars
      http://www.merrimack.edu/index.php

      Here is the project she works on:
      http://www.opensources.co

      Trolling that, Solari.com does not appear on either Credible or NotCredible lists.

      If you look at the associate professor’s bio, I think the chance that she or her associates are expert in the covert economy or financial system is small, so I am not sure why we are even thinking or discussing her lists.

      If you look at the Credible List it is media that has significant sovereign backing and/or financial resources. So it would appear that rich resources are what get you to credibility in their space. Lord knows resources do help produce a better publication.

      This means they are not focused on material omissions. Probably more focused on slip ups like Lendman implying that an official Harvard source made a list.

      What will decide all of this is views and subscriptions. Who gets the views and who gets the subscriptions.

      Which is why I give priority to NO MATERIAL OMISSIONS and why the good associate professor unknowingly supports so many media sources with investors who start wars and practice pedophilia and make far less typos than me.

    1. The current looks up to date and the latest is in the Library. Which one is not there? Make sure you have cleared your browser cache has this is often my problem.

      Specifics welcome!

      Catherine

      1. Thanks, Catherine. My cache has always updated automatically whenever checking Resources, but it wasn’t updating this time. So once I cleared the cache everything was fine. 🙂

  6. FYI, Catherine. Jess doesn’t deserve a medal…maybe handcuffs though. Because of his apparently corrupt actions, the taxpayers may be on the hook for damages for these cancer patients, because the EPA does not have clean hands. The patients should sue this guy personally. I’d like to see the US Atty investigate this guy and his supervisor.

    Chad

    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-03-14/court-docs-prove-monsanto-collusion-epa-kill-cancer-study-admits-cant-say-roundup-do

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-27/monsanto-cancer-suits-turn-to-alleged-whitewash-by-epa-official

  7. Catherine…I’m assuming that the May 6th lunch event in Pasadena now replaces the April 20th event that you were planning on having in Southern California? Is this correct?

    1. The speech is scheduled for May 11 and the lunch for May 6th. I am still waiting for the confirmation on the speech to notify you.

      1. OK, Catherine. Thanks. The venue for the lunch on May 6th is nice. I used to play golf there when I lived in L.A., and it’s set in the foothills of Pasadena, with no other commercial businesses nearby. The Rose Bowl is next door, but it’s likely that there will be no events scheduled there on that day.

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