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Chancellor Hunt to reverse Truss' economic policy decisions
The Tories have left Truss in position as "prime minister", but allowed
a newly appointed Chancellor Hunt to reverse all her economic policy decisions. This seems paradoxical to me, but my knowledge of the UK's unwritten
constitution is limited.
Practically speaking, Hunt has cancelled plans for tax cuts (mainly
for the rich) that were supposed to to achieve mythical trickle-down,
and is perhaps amenable to a windfall profits tax.
He has cancelled plans to limit what people pay for heating their
homes, but so far he doesn't seem to intend to replace that flawed
method for protecting the poor from inability to afford heating with
any better method.
He also intends cuts in government programs that non-rich Britons
depend on: education, medicine, and such. He seems to be ideologically opposed to even trying to protect poor
people from being driven out to starve on the street while dying of
illness. |
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Wildfires in US west causing extreme weather
*Wildfires in US west causing extreme weather in other states, study finds.*
The extreme weather has caused $100 million in damage, including to
houses and crops. |
| 12:33a |
Putin forces aiming missiles at monuments
It appears that the Putin forces are aiming missiles at monuments to
Ukrainian historical nationalists of the past.
Putin says he aims to eliminate Ukraine as a nation. Destroying those
monuments might be one method of trying. |
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If you don't like activists' art gallery protests
One person argues, *If you don't like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organize something better.*
I think it is wrong to damage art as a protest. To make a statement,
there is no need to damage things at random.
However, it turns out that Van Gogh's painting, Sunflowers, was in no
danger of being harmed by the soup that protesters threw at it. It is
protected behind a piece of plastic. I suppose they knew this. So
there was no objective harm in protesting that way, no objective
reason why they should not.
Still, that method may still have been self-defeating, influencing
people such as me who did not know how the painting is protected. |
| 12:33a |
Iranian government thugs attack girls' high school
Iranian government thugs attacked a girls' high school and ordered students to sing a song that praises Ayatollah Khamenei, whom they call "the dictator".
They refused, so the thugs attacked them, arresting some and injuring others.
One of the girls died afterwards; protesters claim she was beaten to death.
There is an ethnic element in protests in the Kurdish and Baloch regions.
I wonder how strong the protests are in the rest of Iran. |
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Corrupt officers in London thug department
The London thug department allowed hundreds of "racist, corrupt and
misogynist officers remain in their jobs."
Even worse, the new head of the department says he may not even have
the authority to fire them.
A retired London cop says that the London thug department was
"corrupt, racist and misogynistic" for the 30 years she worked there. |
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Republican candidate for governor of Arizona
The Republican candidate for governor of Arizona is suggesting, in a
vague dogwhistle manner, that if she loses the election she will try
to steal it by pretending that she had won it, and hope other
Republicans will support lie.
This sort of conduct ought to land a candidate in prison. |
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Atlanta thugs harassing air passengers
Atlanta thugs have a habit of harassing air passengers just as they are
about to get into an airplane, and asking them to "voluntarily"
answer questions about whether they are carrying illegal drugs.
Of the 400-odd passengers questioned. the thugs took the cash that 25 of them
were carrying. It added up to a million dollars. Only one of those 25
was charged with a crime. How very lucrative. |
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The corrupter's antisocial media company
A whistleblower reports that the corrupter cheated other participants
in his antisocial media company by pressuring them to give shares
to Melania. |
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Cuban state repressed protestors
After Hurricane Ian wiped out Cuba's electric system and destroyed
some buildings, Cubans protested, and the state responded with
repression.
Cuban repression is wrong, now as it was in the past, but I don't
think the Cuban state is responsible for the weakness of its power
grid. US sanctions, increased by the wrecker, are responsible for
that. |
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Criticism of The Woman King
Criticism of The Woman King for presenting a sanitized and false
picture of Dahomey, and hiding the fact that its main business was
capturing Africans and selling them as slaves.
The first article I read about that movie mentioned that it was about
Dahomey, and I immediately wondered how it treated this basic fact.
This article shows the answer.
There may be much to appreciate in The Woman King, but this is an
important flaw. In general, I'd always prefer if "based on a true
story" were more true and less "based on." |
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Just Stop Oil back to protesting
Just Stop Oil has returned to protesting by blocking streets in London,
and now demands subsidy for public transport as well as quick reductions
in oil extraction. |
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