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Event |
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Australian children in prison camps in Syria coming home
Australia will bring home some Australian children from prison camps
in Syria. Some of their mothers, who fought for PISSI, will also be brought to
Australia for trial. |
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National Archives had complained the cheater had taken documents
In May 2021, the National Archives complained that the cheater had
taken some documents — including documents from Obama's term — and
had to return them.
The article does not say whether the cheater has yet all of those
documents. |
| 4:18a |
Cost overruns of "Small, modular" nuclear reactors
Nuclear industry has pushed in many countries for "small, modular"
power reactors, but the only projects that were actually completed
had giant cost overruns.
And there remains the question of what to do with the long-term
radioactive waste. |
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All phones in EU to use the same charger
*EU votes to force all phones to use same charger by 2024.*
This is a victory over callous abuse of power by a nasty corporation
which makes for massive waste. However, this is hardly the worst
thing that Apple does. Apple won't let the "owner" of an iMonster
install free software in it! The EU should very deliberately force
Apple to change this practice. |
| 4:18a |
Mexican journalists snooped on with Pegasus spyware
Mexican journalists that investigate corruption have been snooped on
with Pegasus spyware after the Mexican government promised to stop
doing this. |
| 4:18a |
Big Oil gouging American customers
Big Oil is gouging American customers with a 13% increase in retail prices
compared to the last time the crude price was the same as now.
A tax on oil would boost conservation by raising the price in a
predictable way. People could plan long-term investments in reducing
their greenhouse emissions based on that. But this unpredictable gouging
doesn't encourage anything positive. |
| 4:18a |
Herscel Walker's son calls him a hypocrite
Candidate Herschel Walker's son publicly called him a lying hypocrite
for denying he paid for the son's girlfriend's abortion.
That doesn't surprise me. Right-wing leaders talk about "morality"
to stir up hatred that is the fuel for their campaigns, but they often believe
that they and their family are exempt from the rules. |
| 4:18a |
Iranian pop musician arrested
A famous Iranian pop musician played a song whose words are the words
protesters have posted. The regime arrested him, but the song is
heard everywhere.
The article says that copyright threats are being used to try to get
the song taken down. The details are not clear in the article, but it
seems to involve a false attribution of the song; why that claim is there
is not explained.
Technical systems of copyright enforcement are repressive in their own
right, and here they are being used to support of more general repression. |
| 4:18a |
Cities refusing to present video of world cup of soccer
Several French cities, including Paris, will refuse to present the
video of the world cup of soccer, as a rebuke to Qatar for its abuse
of human rights and the environment.
In particular, the abusive treatment of the foreign workers who
built the facilities for the world cup. |
| 4:18a |
White House hunger conference
* The White House hunger conference last week was a step in the right
direction.*
*Policymakers should be focusing on those causes if they want to solve
hunger, said Michael Fakhri, the UN special rapporteur on the right
to food. Racism, corporate control and poverty contribute heavily to
hunger, he said.*
The US military depends on poverty and debt to push young people into
joining up. To militarists, the widespread poverty in the US looks like
a good thing and reducing it looks like weakening the army. |
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Relabeling "white supremacism"
Relabeling "white supremacism" as "whiteness", a calculated ambiguity,
morphs the opposition to white supremacy — opposition which I support
— into a new form of racial hostility which is more or less the
reverse of white supremacy.
Instead of "whiteness", let's call it "white inferioricism" for clarity.
I oppose both white supremacism and white inferioricism. |
| 4:18a |
Replacing paper Metro tickets with a digital payment system
The Paris Metro is replacing paper Metro tickets with a digital payment system.
There are more than sentimental reasons to find this horrible: the
digital payment methods track the passenger.
Paying with a mobile phone inevitably identifies the payer. It is not
inevitable that travelcards identify the payer — in New York City and
Boston, the payment cards can be anonymous. (Be careful, never feed
money into the card with anything but cash!) But Paris has set them
up so that it is not feasible. |
| 4:18a |
Ohio's abortion ban
Ohio's abortion ban puts pregnant females in danger when some things go
wrong with the pregnancy. The supporters of that ban deal with this
by pretending it isn't so. |
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China wants DNA samples and voice prints of everyone
China is not content with facial recognition; it is pushing to get DNA
samples and voice prints of everyone.
In Hong Kong, China is arresting people for having indirect
relationships with past protesters. Increased data to identify people
will compel people to act like robots.
Meanwhile, San Francisco has invited private owners of surveillance
cameras to let the thug department look through them live.
No one should be allowed to set up surveillance cameras that see and
show everyone that passes a certain place, with out a specific court
order for a limited time and a limited place. Not a thug department,
and not a private entity. |
| 4:18a |
Urgent: Call on Dept. of Education to defend free speech
US citizens: call on the Dept of Education to defend free speech, due
process, and the right to learn without fear of right-wing hate. |