Thursday, December 22nd, 2022

Time	Event
12:03p	Urgent: Youth voting rights US citizens: call for passage of the Youth Voting Rights Act, which would defend younger voters from tactics used to impede them from voting. (Comment on this)
12:18p	Urgent: Starbucks picket line Everyone: tell the Starbucks board you will not cross the picket line. (Comment on this)
1:18p	Biodiversity offsets One weakness of the global biodiversity pact is that it allows countries to give permission to destroy natural ecosystems based on "offsets" as an excuse. This means a promise to construct a new wild area to replace the one that was destroyed. Such replacement is easy to say and hard to do. (Comment on this)
1:18p	Protester crackdown, Iran Iran's secret police are cracking protesters' Telegram accounts to get information to arrest people. (Comment on this)
1:33p	Wrecker lawyers bribe The wrecker's lawyers tried to bribe witnesses to mislead federal investigators. (Comment on this)
1:33p	Wrecker and insurrection The Jan 6 committee voted to recommend prosecution of the wrecker for four crimes, including supporting an insurrection. (Comment on this)
2:03p	Afghans banned from university * Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have ordered an indefinite ban on university education for the country’s women,* (Comment on this)
2:03p	Twitter and Pentagon, propaganda Twitter intentionally hid the origin of Pentagon political propaganda aimed at the Middle East. (Comment on this)
2:03p	Dutch apologise for slavery *Dutch PM apologises for Netherlands’ role in slave trade.* Activists in former Dutch colonies imperiously rejected the apology because its words and its ceremony were not done to their satisfaction. (Comment on this)
2:03p	Turkey politics at NATO Turkey may block Sweden from joining NATO because Sweden's supreme court has rejected the extradition of a Turkish journalist wanted by Erdoğan for political persecution. (Comment on this)
2:03p	Congressman falsehoods Republican George Santos, who was recently elected to Congress, seems to have filled up his biography with falsehoods. (Comment on this)
2:18p	No nonsense COP 28 UN Secretary-General Guterres announced a "no-nonsense" climate defense conference for September 2023 for which *the price of entry is non-negotiable -— credible, serious, and new climate action and nature-based solutions that will move the needle forward and respond to the urgency of the climate crisis must be presented.* (Comment on this)
2:18p	Right Whales doomed A last-minute deal in a must-pass spending bill gave Maine fishermen 6 more years before they have to protect North Atlantic Right Whales. Given the rate at which the population of those whales is decreasing, that could wipe them out. (Comment on this)
2:18p	Wells Fargo fraud The CFPB has ordered Wells Fargo Bank to pay almost 4 billion dollars for fraud committed against 16 million customers. The CFPB called Wells Fargo a "repeat offender" and said that this is just the beginning of its actions against the bank. (Comment on this)
2:18p	Prosecuting the wrecker After the wrecker's veiled but undeniable launch of an attack against the US government, prosecuting him is a necessary part of loyalty. (Comment on this)
2:18p	Ending forever chemicals *3M sets 2025 deadline to stop making [PFAS].* (Comment on this)
2:48p	Facial recognition abuse, NY Radio City Music Hall decided in advance to exclude certain people from its shows, and sent bouncers to get one from a show, and identified her through facial recognition. The reason they did not want her to watch the show is that she is a lawyer that works for a law firm that is handling someone's a legal dispute with the operators of Radio City Music Hall. In addition to being a bizarre overreaction, it demonstrates why we need to ban the practice of identifying people by their faces, outside of very limited circumstances. However, the crucial step in the chain of surveillance is not the step of matching the face in a picture against a database. Rather, it is systematically collecting images of people (whether video or still) that could be used to identify people. That is what we need to prohibit. We must prohibit surveillance cameras and allow only security cameras. (Comment on this)
2:48p	Governments protect people In various countries, people are suing governments for failing to protect them from the harm global heating will do to them. (Comment on this)
2:48p	Senator rebukes Pentagon Senator Warren rebuked the Pentagon for "vastly" underreporting civilian casualties in its required annual report. (Comment on this)
3:03p	Right-wing political psychology Right-wing extremist candidates combine racism and disinformation with promises to help the poor (but excluding poor blacks and poor immigrants). (Comment on this)
3:18p	Biden homelessness plan Biden has a plan for how to eradicate homelessness in the US. (Comment on this)
3:18p	US prosecutors violate rights Why is it that so many US prosecutors so often violate the rights of the accused by making trials unfair? Perhaps it's because the Supreme Court has barred them from being sued for such illegalities. (Comment on this)
3:18p	Police robotics Even if we stop thug departments from putting weapons on robots, some robots will endanger human rights in other ways. This article suggests some rules to limit use of robots by thug departments. The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry, capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important. That article is one of the exceptions. (Comment on this)
7:48p	No nonsense climate summit UN Secretary-General Guterres announced a "no-nonsense" climate defense conference for September 2023 for which *the price of entry is non-negotiable -— credible, serious, and new climate action and nature-based solutions that will move the needle forward and respond to the urgency of the climate crisis must be presented.* (Comment on this)

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