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Urgent: Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes, farms, clinics, schools and businesses
US citizens: call on Biden to use US diplomatic power to stop Israeli
demolitions of Palestinian homes, farms, clinics, schools and businesses
on the West Bank. |
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Truss's plans for policy changes
Truss's plans for policy changes amount to an across-the-board attack
on the non-rich, the dreams of an antisocialist ideologue.
I fear that they will include business-supremacy treaties
that would be difficult for the next government to fix or escape from.
Meanwhile, I suspect that Starmer, who is rather right-wing himself,
like a US plutocratist Democrat, won't seek to fix more than a
fraction of them. |
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Protests in Iran continue
Protests in many parts of Iran continue, triggered by the death of
Mahsa Amini, who seems to have been beaten by religious thugs on
account of her clothing.
The thugs and the state take the usual authoritarian "We never do
anything wrong, shame on you" stance, that we have seen in many
countries before, including the US. |
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Undersea deposit of natural gas
Israel is about to extract natural gas from an undersea deposit
claimed also by Lebanon.
As with all international disputes about which country has the right
to extract certain deposits of fossil fuel, the only acceptable answer
is, "Leave it in the Earth!" |
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Burning all known fossil fuel reserves
Burning all the currently known fossil fuel reserves would exceed the
carbon budget by 7 times.
In the absence of some massively deployed future CO2 extraction system,
that would bring certain disaster.
On a secondary issue, the fossil fuel industry claims falsely to
employ 11 million Americans. In fact, jobs numbered roughly 700,000
in 2019, and only 500,000 today.
Obviously, destroying civilization and the ecosphere in a few decades
is too high a price to pay to keep a few million people employed for a
decade or two — even if it would really achieve that. There are lots
of other ways for the state to support workers. |
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Biden pandered and claimed "the pandemic is over"
Biden pandered to Americans' desire to forget the danger of Covid-19,
by saying that "the pandemic is over." For proof, he cited that
Americans have stopped taking sensible precautions.
*"What's ending here," tweeted University of Washington medical
anthropologist Nora Kenworthy, "is political commitment and funding,
not cases or deaths."* Or, let's not forget, instances of permanent
organ damage, short of deaths. |
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Republican Representative Bowers denounced trumpery
Representative Bowers, a Republican and currently speaker of the
Arizona state house of representatives, denounced the trumpery of most
Republican candidates there as "fascism". |
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Handing Florida electric utility to cronies
More Perfect Union accuses Florida Republicans, starting from Governor
Dementis, of handing control of the state's electric utility into the
hands of cronies who allow it to keep raising prices. That was in
exchange for the company's secretly funding sound-alike candidates,
whose names would confuse voters so as to defeat some Democratic
legislators.
I don't know whether any of this is illegal, but it clearly shows
Dementis's real contempt towards the residents of Florida, and his
country. |
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Corruption of democracy in Pakistan and Britain
A British-Pakistani novelist talks about corruption of democracy, in
Pakistan and in Britain. |
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Difficult situation men and boys face
Boys and men today face a difficult situation — the flip side of the
difficult situation that girls and women face.
Men can no longer win respect by being the "bread winner" for a wife,
not only because that role is no longer respected, but because most
jobs don't pay enough to enable a worker to support anyone else.
It is hard for me to empathize with people who want to be the "bread
winner", since I was repelled by that idea of the male role ever since
I learned about it. I yearned for a relationship of love, not for one
of being valued only for bringing in money.
But this problem is real enough for those in it, and the US right wing has
taken advantage of this to recruit fanatics. |
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