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MUSICIANS NEIL YOUNG and Joni Mitchell have removed their music from Spotify over their concerns the streaming service is platforming Covid-19 misinformation via The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.
Young pulled his music from Spotify during the week after telling the service it had to choose between him and Rogan. He accused Spotify of “spreading fake information about vaccines — potentially causing death” by putting out Rogan’s podcast, which racks up millions of listens.
“Spotify has become the home of life threatening COVID misinformation,” he wrote. “Lies being sold for money.”
Following Young’s lead, Mitchell said: “Irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives. I stand in solidarity with Neil Young and the global scientific and medical communities on this issue.”
James Blunt has, tongue in cheek, threatened to release new music amid the controversy.
We want to know: Will you boycott Spotify over Covid-19 misinformation?
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Terribly Sad..RIP
Is it just me or are the last few paragraphs out of place. They seem to call Greece a “Nordic country” and then ramble about Finland and Norway. The AFP is a shambles and the journal are worse for reprinting them!
@Toomasu Sumitsu: I honestly think the author has mixed up Greece and Sweden. Like they legitimately think Greece is in Northern Europe and they use “Kronor” (Krona really).
@Toomasu Sumitsu: No. It’s quite clear.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: No. ‘Kronor’ is acceptable. Plural.
@Toomasu Sumitsu:
Smoke got in the eyes!
@Toomasu Sumitsu: Don’t you know that the Nordic countries are ablaze also? The Arctic is on fire on all sides. The author is just pointing this out. Really this is a very alarming summer and the big picture is not being reported widely.
@Toomasu Sumitsu: https://www.google.ie/amp/s/www.ecowatch.com/the-arctic-is-burning-2587826571.amp.html
How desperately tragic. The horror those poor people went through….May they rest in peace.
This heat seems out of control..scary!
@Lad: once 2 degrees Celsius is hit, it will indeed be completely out of our control
@Irish Political GIF: Things are really out of whack. In the very north of Norway last week, the temperature hundreds of miles inside the Arctic circle reached an all time record. “The temperature did not drop below 25.2°C (77.4°F) the night of July 18 – 19. This destroyed the world record of highest minimum temperature for the Arctic”.
@Paraic: So it’s warmer in the Arctic at night than most of our daytime heatwave temperatures. Scary.
@Kem Trayle: Yes, scary indeed. And the Arctic is also on fire.
https://www.ecowatch.com/the-arctic-is-burning-2587826571.html
Over 70 dead too in Canada and dozens in Japan. Most frighting of all are the temperatures in Arctic and FINLAND Lapland: 32.2°C (90.0°F) NORWAY Namsskogan: 32.6°C SWEDEN Kvikkjokk: 32.5°C This is runaway global warming that will consume the planet – yet world continues to invest heavily in fossil fuels that are fueling global warming – Trump hands 77.3 million acres in Gulf waters to Big Oil – G7 give $100bn a year to fossil fuels – CanadaTrudeau 4 billion to by KM pipeline – Europe 9.5 billion on Nord Stream 2 fossil pipeline from Russia to Europe – and $400-billion on gas pipeline Siberia to China.
@GO GREEN: Not sure I would class this as “Runaway Global Warming”; however, I think proper short term preventions for these issues encountered, not just limit fossil fuels, but actually put resources into forest fire prevention, ensuring elderly populations are adequately monitored in extreme heat etc.
I think you will win zero battles tackling the root cause of Climate Change, best to fight at the edges.
@GO GREEN: It was warmer and dryer in 1976. Don’t get me wrong. I believe that global warming exist only sometimes there is extreme weather and this has not always to do with global warming.
@Hans Vos: The amount of co2 in the atmosphere is at it highest in a million years and that has just happened in just over 200 years since the start of the industrial revolution. Stepehen Hawking was one of the smartest people ever born and he said we were heading towards another Venus here on Earth. 90% of the Earth’s extra heat from global warming is absorbed by the oceans, but the oceans are becoming more acidic and dying. Gulf Stream has already slowed by 15% and this will have a major impact on Ireland.
@Hans Vos: Seventeen of the 18 warmest years in the 136-year record all have occurred since 2001. The chances of this not being as the result of human-caused climate change — care as low as one in 650 million.
@Hans Vos: you are in dreamland. EDUCATE YOURSELF
@Bill: global warming is a myth
With the temperatures hitting up to 40 degrees families with children head to the beach to cool down. An unimaginable and horrific way to go. Parents and children found in the water…. RIP, hope there will be serious international aid and resources sent to Greece which is just trying to pick itself up after a massive crash.
Respect to the firefighters and emergency services and a heartfelt sadness to the community R.I.P.
Very sad and tragic!! Those poor people didn’t stand a chance. R.I.P
One would wonder if some of these fires were started with a criminal intent to facilitate robbery of premises.Maybe karma has caught up with some of the perpitrators.
@Jim Sullivan: There is no land registry in Greece (meaning there are no areas that are outrightly protected from private development) so deliberately starting fires in order to clear the land and purchase it on the cheap is a tactic that has been used in Greece.
If it were me I’d hope the smoke would get me first.
@Kem Trayle:
It usually does.
Not that that is any consolation.
This is just horrific . Poor , poor people and also all the animals . I hope there’s a solidarity fund one can contribute to soon and that international help can mobilise with urgency .
@Isabel Oliveira: it’s Greece, money will go into greedy pockets, sadly.
This is so sad…and to make it worse it could of been started on purpose…
Thought the blood moon was for Friday……
Can anyone explain to me how the cars are completely obliterated but the trees are still green and standing. Or parasols are intact on the beach and plastic chairs too but the ground is scorched. Or some houses are burnt right beside trees that are not touched? Study the photos and see for yourselves.
@Black Bird: fire can change direction extremely quickly and it didn’t help that they had 100kmph winds
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