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Tories allow thugs to "stop protests before they start"
The Tories have decided to allow thugs to "stop protests before they
start" by arresting protesters preemptively.
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Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam
Wendell Potter: *Medicare Advantage is a money-making scam. I should
know. I helped to sell it.*
Potter resigned from promoting "Medicare Advantage" and turned to
exposing it instead. |
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Unofficial war crimes tribunal
An unofficial war crimes tribunal heard the case against Dubya,
Cheney, Rumsfeld and their associates, following serious procedure,
and found them guilty of launching a war of aggression against Iraq.
This tribunal has no power to punish those convicted, but it suggests that
an official tribunal would likewise convict them. |
| 12:47a |
Some teenagers started a "Luddite Club"
Some teenagers have started a "Luddite Club" to reject anti-social media
and (at least part of the time) snoop-phones.
They see one side of the injustice. It would be great to clue them in
to the other unjust aspect of snoop-phones. |
| 12:47a |
Israelis marched in central Tel Aviv
*Tens of thousands of Israelis marched in central Tel Aviv and in two
other major cities on Saturday night, protesting far rightwing PM
Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to overhaul the legal system and weaken the
Supreme Court — undermining democratic rule just weeks after his
election.* |
| 12:47a |
Supreme Court Historical Society
An NGO, the Supreme Court Historical Society, raises money mainly from
from companies that have a stake in coming Supreme Court cases, and
gives their executives and stockholders access for one-on-one
conversations with the justices of the court.
That is an avenue for unjust influence. |
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Censorship of political dissent in Salafi Arabia
In Salafi Arabia, censorship of political dissent operates by
execution. |
| 12:47a |
UK may replace ankle-mounted GPS trackers
The UK may replace ankle-mounted GPS trackers with portable
fingerprint readers that the person is required to carry at all times.
I think the two systems are equally intrusive, more or less, but they
need to be compared with being in an immigration prison. Overall, I
am more frightened by spread of "voluntarity" GPS tracking that is
imposed implicitly, by apps and web sites used via snoop-phones, and
that hardly anyone has the stubbornness to refuse.
I think it should be illegal for those devices to track the user
except under special conditions — and the snoop-phone should never
be allowed to send a GPS location directly except in an emergency
call. Other than that, the user should be able to send the current
location by requesting to display it, then cutting and pasting that
location into an app. This gives the user the opportunity to decide
what location to tell to the app. This flexibility is what shields
users from tracking. |
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Four months after floods in Pakistan
Four months after the floods in late August, parts of Pakistan remain
flooded. Of the 33 million who were flooded out of their homes, 8
million are still homeless. |
| 12:47a |
Espionage Act absurdly overbroad
The Espionage Act is so absurdly overbroad that even the actions of
people such as Julian Assange and Joe Biden may technically have
violated it.
We need to change that law. |
| 12:47a |
Draft decree intended to overturn Brazil election results
*Brazil police find draft decree intended to overturn election result in
former Bolsonaro minister’s home.*
Bolsonaro had not signed the decree; it is not clear whether he ever
saw it.
The ex-minister was Anderson Torres. Bolsonaro put Torres in charge
of security in Brasilia shortly before his presidential term ended,
and it appears that Torres used that authority to help the
insurrection.
Torres went to Florida in time to be missing in action at the
time of the insurrection. However, he returned to Brazil
as he said he would, and was arrested on arrival. |
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World on verge of "new industrial age"
*World On Verge of "New Industrial Age" as Clean Energy Jobs Boom: IEA.*
The projections in the article sound very good, but I wonder how they
compare with what is needed to keep global heating to a level of 1.5°C. |
| 12:47a |
Staff working for TikTok tracked other staff giving interviews to reporters
Staff effectively working for TikTok used TikTok location data to track
reporters to try to find staff who were giving interviews to those reporters.
I don't care whether those staff had asked permission. I don't care
whether TikTok (or its Chinese owners) are sincere in saying they
won't do this again. The problem is that they do collect the data,
and are in a position to use it to track people if they decide to.
The problem is that the system is designed to require users to trust
the good will of the company's staff and management. Such a system
must be designed differently so that users' trust not to track people
is not an issue.
The fact that some Chinese staff could track the locations of US
reporters and their US sources makes the problem additionally grave,
but that is not a fundamental change. Enabling the US staff to track
the locations of people in the US is dangerous too. |
| 12:47a |
What remains of the Voting Rights Act
After a series of blows to the Voting Rights Act, what remains, and
what have right-wing judges destroyed? |
| 12:47a |
Capturing Soledar would be of little practical significance
Capturing Soledar would be of little practical significance to the
Putin forces.
It would not even guarantee they could take Bakhmut; and capturing Bakhmut
would likewise be of little practical significance.
The concentration of so many Putinite mercenaries there seems to
indicate the lack of capacity to try to do anything strategically
significant — at least for now. |
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Business lobbying blocked bills to regulate PFAs
Business lobbying blocked bills in Congress intended to regulate PFAs. |
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Thugs tased Keenan Anderson to death
Los Angeles thugs repeatedly tased Keenan Anderson to death while
holding him helpless on the ground.
Anderson had warned passers-by
that the thugs were trying to kill him. It appears he was right. |
| 12:47a |
Wrecker's 2017 tax cuts were giveaway to corporations
The wrecker's 2017 tax cuts were a big giveaway to rich corporations.
This was anticipated, but now the figures demonstrate it was true.
*NEWS: GAO Study Finds 34% of Large,
Profitable Corporations Pay Zero in Federal Income Taxes.* |
| 12:47a |
Germany demands medical care for Alexei Navalny
*Germany demands medical care for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny.*
Putin has greatly increased his crimes since the time when he poisoned
Navalny, but we should not forget Navalny's heroism. |
| 12:47a |
Water supply of London area privatized
The water supply of the London area was privatized, supposedly so that
the company would invest in improving the water supply there. The
trouble is, it makes more money by not investing and leaving the
quality unacceptable.
This is because homes and offices have no alternative choice besides
that one. Water supply is a natural monopoly, and therefore it should
be closely regulated.
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