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Event |
| 5:50a |
Violence against protesters, Canada
Canadian "mounted" thugs are being investigated for cruel violence
towards
environmental protesters.
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| 5:50a |
Nord Stream bombing
Comparing various stories about which opponents of Putin bombed the
Nord Stream pipelines and
what relationship
they had with the US
government.
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| 5:50a |
Fossil fuel funding, UK
*Fossil fuels received £20bn more UK support than renewables since 2015.*
*One-fifth
of money given directly
to fossil fuel industry
was to support new extraction and mining.*
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| 5:50a |
Jurisdictional battles over abortion
Right-wingers plan to ask the Supreme Court to enforce the
long-disused
Comstock Act to prohibit mailing
abortion pills and
abortion information.
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| 8:02a |
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| 8:02a |
Have a child or be a criminal
Right-wing religious fanatics
in several states propose bills to prosecute
women for having abortions.
In the past, anti-abortionists said they did not want to do this.
But success encourages fanatics to compete to see who can be the most
extreme.
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| 8:02a |
Too-hot fires, US West
Hotter fires are
not just burning the existing conifers in parts of
the US west, they are also killing seedlings so that no new conifers
can grow.
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| 8:02a |
Carbon offsets: a redesign
Verra, which organizes many suspect "carbon offsets" whose validity is
now recognized as questionable, says
it will redesign the offset
system.
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| 8:02a |
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| 8:02a |
A China brokered Iran-Saudi agreement
*Iran and Saudi Arabia
agree to restore ties
after China-brokered talks.*
A priori, this decrease in hostility could reduce conflict in the
middle east. It might lead the way to more reconciliations, such as
perhaps peace in Yemen.
However, both of those governments are fanatical Islamists. If they join
forces for religious repression, that will not be good for the world.
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| 8:02a |
Fox-in-henhouse Conservative cronyism, UK
Tories appointed
a former minister of deforestation
to work for
"Natural England", whose mission is to protect nature in England.
You can't get more blatant contempt for the nation and the people
than this.
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| 9:17a |
Carry your fetus to term or be a criminal
Right-wing religious fanatics
in several states propose bills to prosecute
women for having abortions.
In the past, anti-abortionists said they did not want to do this.
But success encourages fanatics to compete to see who can be the most
extreme.
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| 10:47a |
Women in Texas being sued for helping woman to obtain abortion pills
Three women allegedly helped another woman obtain abortion pills which
she used in Texas. Her ex-husband is suing the three for a million
dollars for "killing" the fetus.
I wonder how he got ahold of their text messages.
Unless those women have quite high incomes, his winning this case
would leave them in poverty for the rest of their lives.
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| 10:47a |
Silicon Valley Bank's collapse
Silicon Valley Bank's collapse would have been prevented by the former
bank regulations that Republicans eliminated in 2018. |
| 10:47a |
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| 10:47a |
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| 10:47a |
How to break the Xi-Putin axis
*How to break the Xi-Putin axis? Biden must engage with Beijing.*
That is good advice for the first step, but it isn't a map to the desired
destination. |
| 10:47a |
"Gender apartheid" as crime under international law
*Campaign calls for "gender apartheid" to be crime under international law.*
I agree with the substance of this proposal, but "apartheid" is the
wrong word for extreme patriarchal. Calling it that distorts the
meaning of the word "apartheid." That word's fundamental idea is
separation, and extreme patriarchy does not try to divide up men
from women as if they were two separate peoples that should never mix. |
| 10:47a |
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| 10:47a |
Push to end US military presence in Syria
*Progressives Back Bipartisan Push to End US Military Presence in Syria.*
I am not sure exactly what US troops are doing nowadays in Syria, and
perhaps there is no reason for part of their mission. But the US
should help protect the Kurds of Rojava, including with troops so that
Turkey and Syria won't attack them. |
| 10:47a |
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| 10:47a |
The US system of "guest workers"
The US system of "guest workers" funnels hundreds of thousands of
foreign workers into a system of low-wage temporary work that in
that verges on slavery.
In some cases it is effectively slavery. |
| 10:47a |
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