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| 5:02a |
Australia's ambitious greenhouse gas goals
Victoria (in Australia) has adopted ambitious greenhouse gas goals.
Here are suggestions for how to achieve them. |
| 5:17a |
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| 5:17a |
Colombia 2021 protests
Amnesty Interational: Colombian thugs used torture, rape, and
kidnaping to repress the mass protests of 2021.
They also used lesser forms of psychological punishment, such as
forcing people to strip.
The article embodies a strange set of values. It seems to take for
granted that acting based on sexism or racism is a more serious wrong
than rape.
I disagree with that. In my view, rape is wrong regardless of the
details of the victim. |
| 5:32a |
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| 9:47a |
Tory voter suppression
The Tories have adopted a "voter ID" law, which as always is systematic
suppression of voting by voters who are poor, young, or marginalized.
In addition, merely through the extra work it requires at underfunded
polling places, it will cause chaos. |
| 9:47a |
Pursuit of Julian Assange
*Australian PM Anthony Albanese urges US government to end pursuit of
Julian Assange.*
Assange has been hounded for over a decade using a series of dirty tricks
and twisting of the law.
But this injustice has a bigger target than Julian Assange. Its
main target is the freedom of the press to report on crimes committed
by governments.
Democracy depends on whistleblowers, and it depends on journalists to
publish what whistleblowers report. The prosecution puts democracy too
in danger.
Massive surveillance is part of the threat to democracy.
That is why we must limit the collection of databases of personal data,
not merely regulate how the data are used. |
| 10:02a |
Involuntary commitment
New York City's night-mayor has asked a wide variety of workers to
incarcerate homeless people in mental hospitals — including people
who are supposed to help the public. This plan is explicitly not
limited to people who seem to pose a threat to others.
Many homeless people run away from shelters because the conditions there
are so unpleasant they would rather be on the street.
A host of criticisms of this plan.
Once you get committed to a hospital — even if you did it by faking
insanity — it is reported to be very hard to prove you are sane. |
| 10:17a |
Antifascist Twitter accounts suspended
Antifascist individuals and groups are finding their Twitter accounts
suspended.
Apparently Musk's idea of freedom of speech has a right-wing bias. |
| 10:17a |
Oath Keepers convicted
Leaders of the Oath Keepers have been convicted of secitious
conspiracy for organizing the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol,
based on their conversations about same.
This gives the Department of Justice a basis for confidence in
bringing that charge against others who were involved, including
potentially the corrupter himself. |
| 10:17a |
Fracking victims win water
A fracking company accepted criminal liability for poisoning the water
of Dimock, Pennsylvania and will pay to replace the wells with new
water systems and to deliver clean water for the next 75 years.
Here is a timeline of how the company caused the damage, of
enforcement efforts, and how the company resisted them.
This is justice in a narrow sense, but it won't clean up the water of
that region. It won't undo the lasting diminiution of water supplies
in Pennsylvania. There may not be any feasible way to do that.
There must be many other regions of the US which have already suffered
similar damage.
We must not allow it to happen in any more places. |
| 10:32a |
Farming subsidies dangerous
George Monbiot: Farming and its subsidies are an increasing danger
to nature and the climate.
There is no mystery to why governments subsidizes farming. It is not just
that rich people want to profit from them; everyone wants the results.
But we need to cut down this unsustainable practice.
Fewer babies will certainly help! |
| 10:32a |
Anti-vax fanatics
Anti-vax fanatics in New Zealand would rather let their baby die
than let it get a transfusion of "vaccinated blood" for surgery.
They and others have convinced each other that there is some danger in
this. |
| 10:32a |
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| 10:47a |
Pest image recognition
Pheromone-assisted INSECT traps CAN photograph and identify pests
via image recognition.
This technique can potentially save greatly on the use of pesticides.
Unfortunately, under today's general practices, it will also be a trap
for farmers. It will be run by nonfree software, so it will snoop
on the farm and put the farm at a disadvantage. And the farmers won't
be able to repair it. |
| 11:02a |
Georgia senator, republican candidate
Herschel Walker, MAGA maggot candidate for the Senate in Georgia,
filed for a tax break on a "primary residence" in Texas where he
really lives. This may have been illegal. |
| 11:02a |
Ukraine needs tanks
*Ukraine needs tanks, and the west should supply them. They could
finish off Putin and Russia.*
The proposal includes modern aircraft and longer-range missiles.
Careful strategic thought is required about whether to donate the latter. |
| 11:02a |
Protester sentenced
A Just Stop Oil protester was sentenced to 6 months in prison for
blocking a highway for a while.
The court called this "causing a public nuisance," and I'm sure it
did. As these protesters say, it's nothing compared to the unending
public nuisance conditions that increased use of fossil fuels will
cause. |
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UK incompetent, confused
The UK's immigation department sent 20 asylum seekers letters inviting
them to come to meetings to discuss their cases. When they arrived,
which in some cases was a big expense for them, they were told that
the staff did no plans for meetings with them that day.
Either these letters were a prank, or the UK government has become so
incompetent and confused that it can't carry out the simplest plan.
After seeing how incompetent Tories are,
I think the latter is more plausible. |
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