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Near the end of the session someone in the audience asked why the center was publishing reports about climate change if it was a hoax?

From Salon

It’s unclear if he was ever paid to make a hoax call or had any clients.

On Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to escaping from HMP Wandsworth in September 2023, but denies charges contrary to the Official Secrets Act and Terrorism Act, and is accused of perpetrating a bomb hoax.

From BBC

These include collecting and communicating information useful to an enemy, namely Iran; collecting the names of Special Forces soldiers that would be useful for terrorism and perpetrating a bomb hoax at his army barracks.

From BBC

This is the overwhelming challenge facing humanity, and Trump’s gaslighting — dismissing it as “a hoax” — has been astonishingly effective in keeping it off the political stage.

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