copenlu/druid huggingface dataset:
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2024-05-17): Water restrictions and, to a lesser extent, water rationing, is frequently used in situations of temporary water scarcity, e.g. during droughts. They allow local or even regional and national administrations to cope with water crises, by reducing consumption. Whenever those temporary low-cost measures are not complemented by any behavioural change towards more conscious water use by people, water demand and use are expected to rise again and return to previous levels once restrictions are removed. [...] The Water Framework Directive (WFD) can orient competent administrations towards water saving in general. Art 9 (water pricing) of the WFD can be implemented in combination with water restrictions. Drought Management plans, which can also be subject to the WFD Program of Measures normally include restrictions and methods for rationing in the case of drought events. The practice to restrict water use in times of water scarcity or drought is included in many Member States' water allocation policies and in some Member States, restrictions are determined according to a hierarchy of water users. Abstraction rules are sometimes more stringent in areas suffering from chronic water shortage. A new EU regulation on minimum requirements for water reuse for agricultural irrigation has been released in 2020 (regulation (EU) 2020/741). Reused water is a relevant resource during times of water scarcity.
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2023-09-01): The Water, energy and food (WEF) nexus approach is cross-sectoral methodological approach for sustainable environmental management. [...] The demand for water, energy, and food resources increased in tandem with the world's population, industrialization, and urbanization. Anthropogenic sources of environmental pollutants degrade the water resources while population expansion contributes to rising demand for non-renewable energy resources which further enhances the greenhouse gas emissions. Also, maintaining the food security/-safety is another challenge which needs to be addressed for securing ‘planetary public health’. The sustainability programs, pragmatic studies, and strategies from regulatory/scientific institutions attempt to reduce the depletion of these resources and mitigate environmental challenges however, the individualistic approaches proves to be inadequate. Therefore, the present review emphasizes the use of Water-Energy-Food (WEF) Nexus as a tool to combat environmental degradation, address climate action, and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In this article, we investigate methodological paradigm and application of WEF Nexus in an inter-related framework through case studies on water resources, energy efficiency, urban food production, food waste reduction, cross-sectoral perspectives, and the circular economy. It has been widely observed that excessive exploitation of these resources influences the global food supply and demand, water availability, resilience in energy and socio-economic sector.
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2024-08-30): Proof of insurance must be provided to WEF by September 7, 2024, via email to ExpoInfo@wef.org or post to Exhibition Operations, Water Environment Federation, 601 Wythe Street, Alexandria, VA 22314. Faxed copies will not be accepted. [...] WEF is a partner in equipping water professionals, suppliers, and service providers with access to the platforms and information to do business more effectively. Though WEF offers a variety of memberships, active WEF Exhibitor Membership is required to receive the WEFTEC member booth rate. [...] WEF is committed to providing a professional, safe, and welcoming environment during its in-person and virtual events for all water professionals and their guests. WEF expects all attendees, exhibitors, speakers, sponsors, media, and other participants to uphold our commitment to diversity and inclusion by helping us provide a positive conference environment for everyone.
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2018-09-10): The World Economic Forum ranks the water crisis in the top 3 of global risks for the third consecutive year. Failing to respond effectively to these challenges will have devastating global effects.
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2023-04-20): "Both the Economic Forum and the U.N. have ordered world governments to prepare to ration people’s water supply as part of their great reset agenda for humanity." [...] We rate the claim that the World Economic Forum and the U.N. have "ordered world governments to ration people’s water supply" False. [...] The People’s Voice, "‘Water is Not a Human Right’: WEF Orders Govt’s To Begin Rationing Water Into Homes," (archived) April 12, 2023
Claim: WEF Orders Global Water Rationing System !! (Social Media Users, 2023-10-05)
Evidence (2014-02-11): WEF congratulates all individuals, teams, authors, programs, and scholarship recipients for their hard work and unyielding dedication to the world of water and the community surrounding it! [...] Learn MoreImagine life free of water challenges. What does that look like to you? Check out WEF’s new Strategic Plan to see how we’ll get there and then share your water story.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-09-15): This is an altered video. Tharindu criticises the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce and does not refer to sabotaging the operations of any future government.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2022-02-01): - To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government. Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it. After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule, is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it. Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?— in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable? Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience, then? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward. [...] - All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-04-12): On April 1, Rathee followed it up with another video titled "DICTATORSHIP confirmed?" in which he discussed the electoral bonds revelations, the incarceration of prominent opposition leaders including two Chief Ministers, raging issues of unemployment and inflation, and appealed to Indian citizens to raise their voices against an "undeclared emergency" to safeguard democracy. Despite the usual brickbats, the video has been viewed over 26 million times. Rathee, who was one of TIME’s 2023 Next Generation Leaders, has acquired a significant following over the past decade for his explainer videos on different subjects such as history, current affairs, and pop culture, among others. With days to go for voting in the 2024 Lok Sabha election with the first phase scheduled on April 19, India’s opposition parties are yet to find a narrative to counter the BJP’s giant propaganda machine fuelled by a largely subservient mainstream media. But many on social media feel Rathee’s recent videos have done more to expose the chinks in the Narendra Modi-led government’s armour than the opposition. In an email interview with Frontline, Rathee said that questioning the government is the "only way to ensure we keep improving as a country". Excerpts: [...] It is true that these values might align more closely with some political parties than others but no matter which party comes to power, I will always stand for these beliefs and values and I will certainly keep questioning the government when needed, as it’s the only way to ensure we keep improving as a country.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2003-01-01): 'You are ruling over us for our own good,' he said feebly. 'You believe that human beings are not fit to govern themselves, and therefore --' He started and almost cried out. A pang of pain had shot through his body. O'Brien had pushed the lever of the dial up to thirty-five. 'That was stupid, Winston, stupid!' he said. 'You should know better than to say a thing like that.' He pulled the lever back and continued: 'Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-04-02): sure to destroy him whenever he falls into their power.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2015-11-29): For government is an expedient by which men would fain succeed in letting one another alone; and, as has been said, when it is most expedient, the governed are most let alone by it. Trade and commerce, if they were not made of india-rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way; and, if one were to judge these men wholly by the effects of their actions and not partly by their intentions, they would deserve to be classed and punished with those mischievous persons who put obstructions on the railroads. [...] [5] All men recognize the right of revolution; that is, the right to refuse allegiance to, and to resist, the government, when its tyranny or its inefficiency are great and unendurable. But almost all say that such is not the case now. But such was the case, they think, in the Revolution Of '75. If one were to tell me that this was a bad government because it taxed certain foreign commodities brought to its ports, it is most probable that I should not make an ado about it, for I can do without them. All machines have their friction; and possibly this does enough good to counterbalance the evil. At any rate, it is a great evil to make a stir about it. But when the friction comes to have its machine, and oppression and robbery are organized, I say, let us not have such a machine any longer.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2022-08-12): Sect. 127. Thus mankind, notwithstanding all the privileges of the state of nature, being but in an ill condition, while they remain in it, are quickly driven into society. Hence it comes to pass, that we seldom find any number of men live any time together in this state. The inconveniencies that they are therein exposed to, by the irregular and uncertain exercise of the power every man has of punishing the transgressions of others, make them take sanctuary under the established laws of government, and therein seek the preservation of their property. It is this makes them so willingly give up every one his single power of punishing, to be exercised by such alone, as shall be appointed to it amongst them; and by such rules as the community, or those authorized by them to that purpose, shall agree on. And in this we have the original right and rise of both the legislative and executive power, as well as of the governments and societies themselves. [...] And so whoever has the legislative or supreme power of any commonwealth, is bound to govern by established standing laws, promulgated and known to the people, and not by extemporary decrees; by indifferent and upright judges, who are to decide controversies by those laws; and to employ the force of the community at home, only in the execution of such laws, or abroad to prevent or redress foreign injuries, and secure the community from inroads and invasion. And all this to be directed to no other end, but the peace, safety, and public good of the people.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2003-08-23): First, They are to govern by promulgated established laws, not to be varied in particular cases, but to have one rule for rich and poor, for the favourite at court, and the country man at plough. [...] And thus the community perpetually retains a supreme power of saving themselves from the attempts and designs of any body, even of their legislators, whenever they shall be so foolish, or so wicked, as to lay and carry on designs against the liberties and properties of the subject: for no man or society of men, having a power to deliver up their preservation, or consequently the means of it, to the absolute will and arbitrary dominion of another; when ever any one shall go about to bring them into such a slavish condition, they will always have a right to preserve, what they have not a power to part with; and to rid themselves of those, who invade this fundamental, sacred, and unalterable law of self-preservation, for which they entered into society. And thus the community may be said in this respect to be always the supreme power, but not as considered under any form of government, because this power of the people can never take place till the government be dissolved.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-09-12): In a bold and fiery statement, Mr. Tharindu Uduwaragedara of the Jana Aragala Sandhanaya declared at a recent presidential campaign rally in Minuwangoda that no matter who ascends to power, their plans are to "set everything on fire" and "finish" the current political system within the next decade. Addressing supporters at the rally, Uduwaragedara asserted, "Finish it. No matter who comes to power, we will not let you do this. We will not allow this. I say we will take power within the next ten years. We will finish this. Vasantha, Bope, Swastika, Lahiru are in politics. We are on fire in the next ten years. Finish you." His remarks were made in support of Nuwan Bopage, the presidential candidate for the Jana Aragala Sandhanaya. The statement reflects the Alliance’s dramatic and confrontational approach to the current political landscape, emphasizing their intent to disrupt and overhaul the system regardless of who wins the upcoming election.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-01-01): Fear not, my lord: that Power that made you king Hath power to keep you king in spite of all. The means that heaven yields must be embraced, And not neglected; else, if heaven would, And we will not, heaven's offer we refuse, The proffer'd means of succor and redress.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-09-20): - Wir haben uns über unser Dasein vor uns selbst zu verantworten; folglich wollen wir auch die wirklichen Steuermänner dieses Daseins abgeben und nicht zulassen, daß unsre Existenz einer gedankenlosen Zufälligkeit gleiche. [...] From which this conclusion: let them invite us as much as they want to dive in all confidence into Nietzscheism, to breathe deeply in his works the fresh air of proud individualism. We will not answer these appeals and, without fearing facile reproaches of narrowness and exclusivism, will reply with skepticism the way Nathaniel did in the gospel: "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?"
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-03-08): And therefore, whatever form the commonwealth is under, the ruling power ought to govern by declared and received laws, and not by extemporary dictates and undetermined resolutions: for then mankind will be in a far worse condition than in the state of nature, if they shall have armed one, or a few men with the joint power of a multitude, to force them to obey at pleasure the exorbitant and unlimited decrees of their sudden thoughts, or unrestrained, and till that moment unknown wills, without having any measures set down which may guide and justify their actions: for all the power the government has, being only for the good of the society, as it ought not to be arbitrary and at pleasure, so it ought to be exercised by established and promulgated laws; that both the people may know their duty, and be safe and secure within the limits of the law; and the rulers too kept within their bounds, and not be tempted, by the power they have in their hands, to employ it to such purposes, and by such measures, as they would not have known, and own not willingly.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2017-08-09): Power belongs to the people of India Ours is not a drive for power, but purely a non-violent fight for India’s independence. In a violent struggle, a successful general has been often known to effect a military coup and to set up a dictatorship. But under the Congress scheme of things, essentially non-violent as it is, there can be no room for dictatorship. A non-violent soldier of freedom will covet nothing for himself, he fights only for the freedom of his country. The Congress is unconcerned as to who will rule, when freedom is attained. The power, when it comes, will belong to the people of India, and it will be for them to decide to whom it placed in the entrusted. May be that the reins will be placed in the hands of the Parsis, for instance-as I would love to see happen-or they may be handed to some others whose names are not heard in the Congress today.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-09-15): A part of a speech by the journalist Tharindu Uduvaragedare went viral among netizens. In it, he claimed that no matter which party gets power, he will not allow the party to rule the country. In this video, Tharindu Uduvaragedare purportedly states, "They need to be stopped. No matter who comes to power, we will not let you do this. We would take over. We will be taking power in the next ten years. We would put a stop to this. Wasantha is in politics, Bope is in politics, Shastika is in politics, we are in politics. We would be firing within the next 10 years. We would put a stop to you all." [...] The edited version tries to imply that Tharindu Uduvaragedare stated that whoever comes to power will not be allowed to govern. However, when examining the entire video, it is clear that Tharindu has not mentioned such a statement.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2023-08-02): At an SLPP gathering in Bandarawela, Minister Shehan Semasinghe said that the SLPP should continue to support President Wickremesinghe. Speaking on the same occasion, Namal Rajapaksa assured the gathered faithful, "We will not sunder the confidence you have in President Mahinda Rajapaksa." At the SLPP’s district conference in Matara, Minister Kanchana Wijesekara said that the UNP and the SLPP will get together to form a government. Speaking at the same gathering, Rajapaksa nephew Nipuna Ranawaka said, "We will take care of who becomes presidential candidate and who becomes president. We will win the election, form a SLPP government and show..." [...] Inability to understand this has turned opposition shrill and government ham-fisted. The targeted and brutal arrest of award-winning journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara illustrates the latter fallacy. The point is not about Uduwaragedara’s profession or his professional ethics. No Lankan exercising his or her constitutional right to peaceful dissent, whatever his or her profession, should be treated that way. Nor is such intolerance of democratic dissent the path to greater electoral acceptance. It will merely enhance voter disenchantment and drive up that ‘none of the above’ column.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2024-10-08): A total of 45 petitions had been put forward by Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB), National People’s Power (NPP), journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara and many other parties, alleging that the relevant bill is in violation of the fundamental rights of freedom of speech and expression guaranteed by the Constitution.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2023-05-01): Freelance journalist Tharindu Uduwaragedara is pulled from an auto rickshaw by police while attending a trade union-led protest in Colombo. He is transferred to Borella Police Station, where he is assaulted in transit and on arrival. On July 29, he is admitted to the National Hospital where the Colombo Chief Magistrate, who examined him, grants him bail. Intelligence personnel question Tharindu’s mother while he is in hospital. Tharindu’s case has been called three times, with the next scheduled for June 15, 2024. During an April 2nd hearing, a Colombo Magistrate ordered police to register an official complaint, else he be released from the charges.
Claim: No matter who comes to power, we will not let them govern - Tharindu Uduvaragedare (Social Media Users, 2024-09-15)
Evidence (2022-06-26): In 2019, Sri Lanka was classified by the World Bank as an Upper Middle Income Country (MIC), making it ineligible for concessionary development loans, and forcing it to borrow from private capital markets at high interest rates. The new government that came to power cut taxes causing a significant loss of government revenue. The 2019 Easter bombings and policies undertaken during 2 years of militarized Covid-19 lockdowns and mass injections have triggered the current debt crisis leading to the staged default. [...] We consider that the peoples’ sovereignty and national policy autonomy is being undermined through non-transparent deals with politicians who are not democratically elected and have a history of amassing ‘odious debt’, the burden of which citizens are being forced to bear. Particularly notable on the accumulation of odious debt are the current odious, newly appointed Prime Minister, implicated in the country’s biggest financial fraud over the Central