Greenwashing

Fossil fuel companies convince governments to spend money on far-fetched "greenhouse gas reduction" programs that are unlikely to result in any real reduction.

They seem to be intended as distractions to relieve pressure for serious actions that could substantially reduce global heating.

Put that together with long sentences for the heroes that try to focus attention on the need to curb global heating for real, and the planet roasters have a clear shot to keep on roasting Earth until there's little left to burn.

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Urgent: solidarity with hotel workers

In the US: Pledge to stand in solidarity with hotel workers.

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Urgent: protect the constitution

US citizens: call on state legislators to protect the US constitution by rejecting any calls for an Article V constitutional convention.

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Urgent: Pass price gouging prevention act

US citizens: call on Congress to pass Senator Warren's Price Gouging Prevention Act.

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Suing over homeless people

DeMentis's new law to eliminate homelessness allows any fanatical hater to sue a city if a homeless encampment exists. But it gives cities no help in giving housing to the homeless people who are looking for a place to sleep.

Republicans used to condemn "unfunded mandates". This seems to be an unfunded mandate for cities to make homeless people disappear.

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Oliver Campbell conviction overturned

UK thugs bullied Oliver Campbell into a false confession by interrogating him over and over until they wore down his insistence on telling the truth. Now, 30 years later, his conviction has been overturned.

The surprisingly high frequency of false confessions is well established. Correcting these injustices one by one, years later, is better than letting them stand, but it is not good enough. The thugs' systematic methods of extracting false confessions from weak and vulnerable people should be prohibited.

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Kids need more play

Special preschools in China allow groups of children to organize their group play together, including making complex setups with construction toys.

I worry that Chairman Xi will find them threatening.

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Slowing mail-in ballots

The US Postal Service is already slowing down mail-in ballots to the point that they don't get counted.

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Genetic test discrimination

*Australia to ban life insurance companies from discriminating based on genetic testing results.*

This is so that people will not hesitate to get tested early for genetic predispositions that could be overcome by treatment.

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WHO pandemic agreement

Human Rights Watch: *World Health Organization (WHO) member countries negotiating a new international agreement to address pandemics need to ensure that the agreement reflects their domestic and international obligations to respect, protect, and fulfill all human rights.*

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Extinguish surveillance

*The Google antitrust remedy should extinguish surveillance, not [enable more snoopers to do it].*

*We don't [fix] the Google monopoly [problem] by creating competition in surveillance. The reason to get rid of Google's monopoly is to make it easier to end surveillance.*

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Imposing more poverty

Starmer is going ahead with plans to impose ever more poverty on Britons in the name of protecting rich people's riches.

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Food warning labels

Calling for medical warnings on food with an unhealthful level of salt, and a ban on their sponsoring sports events.

The importance that our society gives to these struggles over nothing is pure foolishness. I don't pay them any attention, and I would be glad to see less of a business built around them.

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The Guardian's analysis of Project 2025

An analysis of Project 2025, by a journalist that read the whole thing.

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Urgent: The tax scheme in Project 2025

US citizens: call on news networks to expose Project 2025's nightmare tax scheme.

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School bombed, many UNRWA aids die, ISR

Israel attacked a school in Gaza where thousands of refugees were staying. It killed six employees of UNRWA and 12 other people. Supposedly some of them were HAMAS fighters.

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Pressure for Gaza aid, UK, AUS

*[Australia's] foreign minister Penny Wong says she "welcomes" the British move [to cut off shipping some kinds of weapons to Israel], and Palestinian civilians "cannot pay the price" of defeating Hamas.*

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Overview on US aid to Israel

*Harris doesn’t need to impose a full embargo on Israel — but she can pledge to enforce US laws restricting arms transfers to human rights violators.*

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Border controls tightening in EU, DEU

Germany's government has panicked and totally suspended the Schengen area freedom of movement in an attempt to pre-empt parties that demand less immigration.

This will only make the government look weak.

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Europe's extreme right-wing party

Europe's extreme right-wing parties pretend to care about workers' well-being, but don't really do so.

This conclusion comes from analysis of how they vote when elected.

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