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Large percentage of 12- to 34-year-olds have unsafe listening levels
*Study suggests 24% of 12- to 34-year-olds globally listen at "unsafe
level" on devices and visit noisy venues.* |
| 10:17p |
High cancer frequency near Iraqi oilfield
Young people living near an Iraqi oilfield have a very high frequency
of cancer, apparently due to pollution from flaring gas from the oil
wells. |
| 10:17p |
Russian missiles hit Poland
Two apparently Russian missiles hit Poland in the region near the
Ukrainian border. NATO will probably not respond directly militarily.
Although anything Putin says is likely to include lies, it is possible
that these missiles were not fired intentionally at Poland. |
| 10:17p |
Australia criticised for resisting push to end fossil fuel subsidies
*Australia criticised for resisting Cop27 push to end international
fossil fuel subsidies.* |
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UK considering national ID cards again
The UK is considering imposing a national ID card once again.
Britons, you defeated ID cards 15 years ago. Now you will have to
defeat it again.
The question of what data the state will or won't link to the national
ID number is a red herring, because many other organizations are
likely to index databases by national ID number. It will become the
easiest way to keep a data base about individuals. They will do this
even if they don't really need to verify anyone's identity.
In Barcelona, I learned 15 years ago, the municipal swimming
pools recorded who was a paying member by their national ID numbers.
All they really need is to verify that a client paid for a membership,
but checking the national ID card was quick and easy — and unjust.
The state too is likely to include a person's national ID number in
other data bases of personal data.
Stephen Kinnock is the MP for Aberavon in Wales. If you know people who
live there, please talking about the issue with them. |
| 10:17p |
CEOs opinions on pay gap
Interestingly, most CEOs don't say they believe they morally deserve
to be paid enormous sums. On the contrary, many say the gap should be
smaller. But they are accustomed to receiving high pay offers, for practical
reasons that the article explains, and they don't insist on being paid
less than that.
What should society do about this? We could ask investors, executives
and directors to consider making executive salaries smaller. But the
same factors that have made executive salaries so high are likely to
make that request ineffective.
I suggest we instead increase the tax rate on high incomes, and close
the loopholes that they use to avoid taxation entirely. It is the
obvious solution that many people don't consider because plutocratists
have smeared it.
How about the restoring the Eisenhower income tax? |
| 10:17p |
Energy Charter Treaty
The Energy Charter Treaty, a business-supremacy treaty
designed to prevent any and all measures to reduce fossil fuel extraction,
incorporates a fundamental conflict of interest which tends to bias
its judgments in favor of fossil fuel companies.
However, that is a secondary problem, because the treaty is explicitly
designed to promote fossil fuel companies and interfere with measures
to regulate them. Even if every judgment were made in a perfectly
honest fashion, the tendency would be for them to do harm. |
| 10:17p |
Israel condemns investigation of shooting of Shireen abu Akleh
The FBI is investigating the shooting of Palestinian-American
journalist Shireen abu Akleh. Israel condemns the investigation on
principle.
The need for this investigation is because Israel's investigation
refused to recognize that soldiers must have chosen to kill her
for no legitimate reason. |
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Increase in population is problem to environment
We must all recognize that increasing human population is a major obstacle
to saving civilization from environmental danger.
See also |
| 10:17p |
Speed up of decrease in sperm counts
We need the human population to start decreasing, to save
civilization. But if we want civilization to survive, we must also
prevent human species from dying out entirely. The decrease in sperm
counts, recorded since 1970, is global, and has sped up since 2000.
There is some evidence that the decrease is due to prenatal
environmental pollution. |
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Inadequate medical care in US prisons
Medical care in US prisons tends to be inadequate.
If you have a minor treatable problem, the prison staff can deny you
treatment so you develop a serious problem. If you have a serious problem,
they can treat it insufficiently or badly, so that you die from it.
I suspect that their attitude is that anyone who isn't satisfied with
the medical treatment received is a troublemaker and should be punished
by suffering from the disease. |
| 10:17p |
UK right-wing newspapers attack Labour politicians
Most UK newspapers are right-wing and will attack any personal detail
about an important Labour politician in innumberable absurd and
vicious ways. Trying to give them nothing they could attack is
self-defeating.
Angela Rayner, who I believe is the only former ally of Corbyn in an
important position in Labour, just tried the opposite tactic: tell
them something about her they are sure to revile (but not actually
wrong in any way), and dare them to attack her.
Bravo, Ms Rayner! |
| 10:17p |
Google to pay damages for tracking some users
Google will pay damages of around $400 billion for tracking locations
of users who had said not to track them.
This suggests three questions to me.
- Is that sum big enough to convince Google to stop maintaining a
"location history"?
- Will Google stop maintaining a "location history"?
- Will Google continue to receive a sequence of locations even though
it is not supposed to record that sequence?
Meanwhile, every mobile phone's location is tracked by the mobile
network, and US law requires the network to store this history for a
long time. 18 months, I think. |
| 10:17p |
Terrorist bombing in Ankara
A terrorist bombing took place in Ankara, targeting civilians.
Turkey blamed the Kurdish militant group PKK, and the Syrian Kurds,
but the PKK says that it does not approve of attacking civilians
and had nothing to do with it. |
| 10:17p |
Putin forces admit to being forced from north Kherson
The Putin forces have admitted that they were forced out of the north
Kherson region by Ukraine's interdiction of supplies.
This article gives more information on their widespread looting and
sabotage. Some looting had to have been organized by the Putin forces
commanders. Some sabotage was carried out on the Nova Kakhova dam,
Ukraine cannot try to repair the dam until it has chased the Putin
forces out of artillery range. Even then, the Putin forces might
fire missiles at it, |
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Urgent: Questions about menstruation on Florida High School health forms
Everyone: call on the Florida High School Athletic Association remove
questions about menstruation from its student health forms. |
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Urgent: Investigate merger of Kroger and Albertson's
US citizens: call on the FTC to thoroughly investigate supermarket
giant Kroger's proposed merger with Albertsons.
A court already ruled against it, but that's not inevitably final. |
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