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Event |
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One good thing Liz Truss did for Britain
One good thing Liz Truss did for Britain: tying trickle-down tax cuts
and dooH niboR to a crushing response from markets. |
| 8:33p |
Israel apartheid rules
Israel has announced new apartheid rules that would greatly interfere
with anything but a short visit to Palestinian territory.
People born in the few countries where most Palestinian refugees live
would be banned entirely from entering Palestinian territory. |
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Republicans trying to pass "don't say gay" law
**Republicans aim to pass national "don't say gay" law.*
These laws spread broad fear because Republicans have a pattern of
stretching the repressive potential of any law that fits their
ideology. We cannot judge these laws by interpretations that would be reasonable. |
| 8:33p |
Incarcerated Louisiana men wrongly convicted
* Three Louisiana men incarcerated for over 28 years were found to have
been wrongfully convicted of murder on Wednesday, after newly uncovered
evidence linked the original police investigation to a notorious
[thug] found guilty of murder conspiracy and endemic corruption in the
New Orleans police department.* |
| 8:33p |
Outrage at Tories' "war on nature"
*How the Tories' "war on nature" outraged everyone from the RSPB to
farmers.* |
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Next Prime Monster(minister) without an election
The Tory MPs have gone through Prime Monster Bogus Johnson and
Prime Monster Liz Truss. She resigned so that they can choose the
next Prime Monster without an election.
This way they will still have a chance to enact arbitrary repression
of protesters before the people are consulted about it.
This sequence of events shows that |
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NHS not functioning to keep people healthy and well
Economic growth based on real work depends on keeping workers healthy
and well. The UK's right-wing government is not keeping the NHS functioning
enough to achieve that. |
| 8:33p |
Racism visible in British court judges
Racism on the part of judges is visibly present in British courts.
If half of all lawyers have seen instances of this, that doesn't mean
half the judges have demonstrated such behavior. I expect it is more
like 1%. If one out of 100 judges displays racism, and those that do
so do it frequently, and if the average lawyer gets to see observe 50
judges' behavior, then half of all lawyers would see a judge act racist.
It is unacceptable for any judge to act in a biased way in court.
What's needed is a system for helping biased judges learn,
or excluding them. |
| 8:33p |
Pesticide use doubles since 1990
*Pesticide use around world almost doubles since 1990, report finds.*
The pesticides harm the health of almost 400 million people every
year, and are part of the cause of the great decrease of bird and
insect populations. |
| 8:33p |
Putin's conscripts not issued proper equipment
Putin's new conscripts find that they are not issued proper equipment,
armor, weapons, or even uniforms. Some beg their relatives to buy
some of what is missing.
I can't imagine anything worse for relatives of conscripts to do than
pay for equipment to enable sending those conscripts to the front.
That is self-defeating.
If you don't have warm underwear, you might get sick or frostbitten
and be sent to the rear. Isn't that a good outcome?
I've read that British soldiers in France in World War I, knowing that
the generals' incompetent tactics would get almost all soldiers killed
uselessly sooner or later, used to pray for wounds that would make
them invalids — that was a chance for survival.
If they give you a fake helmet that won't protect you, how about
throwing it away? Likewise, a rusted rifle that you can't rely on.
Why disguise the fact that you lack necessary equipment? The army
needs to know this.
On the other hand, asking your relatives for a bulletproof vest might
make sense; that would tend to protect you from the hits that are
likely to kill you. |
| 8:33p |
Salafi Arabia's oil output cut and the US election
Arguing that Salafi Arabia's oil output cut is an attempt to intervene
in the US election against the Democratic Party.
I fear it may be very effective. |
| 8:33p |
New Jersey sued oil and gas companies
* New Jersey on Tuesday sued five oil and gas companies and a leading
fossil fuel lobby group for knowingly lying to the public about the
existence of climate change and the role their products play in
exacerbating human-caused global heating.* |
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Iran selling exploding drones to Russia
Ukraine and the US say that Iran is selling exploding drones to
Russia. Iran and Russia deny this and say that Russia is building
the drones. I don't see why this should matter.
The wrecker broke the old non-nuclear deal, and Biden's weak efforts
to restore it have more or less collapsed. That is quite unfortunate,
but since that is the case, why does Iran's exporting exploding
drones change anything significant? |
| 8:33p |
Systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in UK
Laws proposed for the UK offer systems to reduce the greenhouse gas
emissions of things used in the UK, independent of where they are
produced. Tories have not supported these proposals much, but perhaps they
should change their stance. |
| 8:33p |
Foreign interventions that implanted elites in Haiti
Previous foreign interventions in Haiti have only helped to implant
elites that serve foreign interests. There is no reason to think that
another one will do Haiti any good.
I can't imagine what kind of actions have a chance of doing any good. |
| 8:33p |
Wet parts of British Columbia are in drought
Parts of British Columbia, known for normally having a lot of rain,
are now in drought.
The immediate causes of the drought are complex, but the short
explanation is, "global heating." But over-logging made it worse. |
| 8:33p |
What a pregnancy looks like at nine weeks
*What a pregnancy actually looks like at nine weeks.*
(It doesn't look much like a human being.) |