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Russian soldier charged in murder of two civilians
Ukrainian prosecutors have charged a specific Russian soldier with
joining in the murder of two civilians.
The soldiers talked with the civilians, then shot them in the back
as the latter were walking away. |
| 9:32p |
Staff positions unfilled at NHS
Tory strangulation of the National Health Service has left 10% of
staff positions unfilled.
Patients who have money are turning to private doctors.
When they have all given up on the NHS, plutocratist politicians will dare to
render the NHS totally ineffective; non-rich Britons will get little
medical care, and some will die, and Tories will be satisfied.
A government ready to spend more money on making life easier for
the non-rich would find it easy to fix this problem. Perhaps that
would call for taxing the rich, instead of "trickle down" economics. |
| 9:32p |
Deaths in Russia's fossil fuel industry
Russia's fossil fuel industry has been hit by a series of mysterious
deaths in the past few months.
I don't have proof that any of them was murdered, but it is
implausible that they were not. I am sure Russian repression agents,
as well as gangsters, remember the Defenestration of Prague, iteration
2, in which Soviet agents murdered Czech foreign minister Jan Masaryk. |
| 9:32p |
Amazon and Starbucks not negotiating with unionized employees
Amazon and Starbucks are refusing to negotiate with newly unionized
employees.
At the Starbucks at 874 Comm Ave in Boston, the company put in a new
manager who cut the hours of many of the staff so that they could no
longer make a living. Rather than give up, they went on strike.
The store has been entirely closed for many weeks. |
| 9:32p |
Ginni Thomas lobbied for overturn of 2020 election
*Ginni Thomas lobbied Wisconsin lawmakers to overturn 2020 election.* |
| 9:32p |
The corrupter's plans to pardon Capitol attack participants
*[The corrupter] says he plans to pardon US Capitol attack
participants if elected.*
Finally, one case in which he actually demonstrates loyalty to someone
who is not rich. |
| 9:32p |
Guatemalan corruption prosecutor held in jail
*Top [Guatemalan] corruption prosecutor held in jail as Guatemalan
elite bids to purge foes.* |
| 9:32p |
Carbon pumped into oil fields to get more oil
Carbon capture and storage can't be a path to ending fossil fuel
emissions if the CO2 that it captures is pumped into oil fields to
squeeze out more oil.
It becomes just another way to extract more oil. |
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Limits being placed on price paid to Russia for oil
Several major economies are planning to impose a limit on the price
paid to Russia for oil, starting in December.
The price limit could apply to imports by other countries when the
shipping involves EU countries in some way.
Russia says it will refuse to sell at that low price, and that will
continue the contest of economic muscle. So far, Putin has come out
ahead in this contest. The question will be whether other customers
will buy all the oil Putin needs to sell. |
| 9:32p |
Urgent: Protect our economy and communities from Wall Street funded climate chaos
US citizens: call on the Federal Reserve to protect our economy and
communities from Wall Street funded climate chaos. |
| 9:32p |
Urgent: Stop classifying "forest biomass" as "renewable energy source"
EU citizens: call on your MEPs to vote to stop classifying "forest
biomass" as a "renewable energy source".
Burning wood on a small scale is renewable, but it tends to get out of
hand and result in destruction of forests. Lots of small-scale users
in Haiti eliminated most of the forests in that country. Nowadays,
the EU policy encourages industrial-scale burning of wood, and the
deforestation at industrial scale.
There isn't time, before the disaster we need to try to avoid, for new
trees to grow. We must stop the cutting and burning of the existing
trees. |
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New York State gun control rules
New York State has passed new gun control rules to replace those
that the Supreme Court ruled against. |
| 9:32p |
Delayed UN report on repression of Uyghurs
Pressure from China — threats of noncooperation — delayed the UN report
on repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang for a whole year.
Bad as racism, plutocracy and media bias are in the US, we must not
forget that things can get far, far worse — and China shows what that
is like.
The US bullies some Muslims to act as spies on their friends. China
bullies all Chinese to act as spies and agents of pressure, and
bullies international institutions to serve its will.
Putin has recently reshaped Russia into a sort of quasi-China. He
engages in cruelty massively, but in a more emotional fashion than
China's machine-like callousness; meanwhile, his grip on Russians is
still not as tight as Chairman Xi's. There is a chance to defeat Putin
before he can reach that point. |
| 9:32p |
Tory minister's acknowledgment of what makes a "good family"
A Tory minister has surprisingly acknowledged that a good family
is any group of people that make children feel loved and supported.
I did not have a good family — after age 8 or so, I did not feel that
either parent's house was my home. The next time that I felt I had a
home was when I lived in Currier House at Harvard. After I was
expelled for passing too many classes (I was too grief-stricken to
attend the graduation ceremony), I felt that the MIT AI lab was my
home, for a few years. Perhaps the support I felt there is what
enabled me to develop the strength to begin, in the late 70s, to stand
up against wrongs I saw around me. |
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