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Wednesday, March 15th, 2023
| Time |
Event |
| 12:32p |
Phosphate rock mines
Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus fertilizer obtained from
mines, but the mines are heading towards exhaustion, leading towards
food shortages.
Meanwhile, the runoff of fertilizer into waters creates toxic algal blooms,
which then convert into planet-roasting methane in the air.
Before modern agriculture farmers gave plants phosphorus as part of
urine. Some countries, even some modern ones, still use this method.
| | 12:32p |
Protester killed had hands up, GA
The autopsy results show that protester Manuel Paez Terán
had his
hands up
when the thugs shot him and killed him, in Cop City. | | 12:32p |
Jan 6 footage abuse by Faux News
Faux News
edited the security camera footage
of insurrectionist Jacob
Chansley on Jan 6 to omit his criminal acts, then claimed that the
absence of those scenes exonerates him.
What liars say doesn't prove anything, except, occasionally, that they
lie.
| | 12:32p |
Christian protest march in bad taste, AU
30 Christians held a protest march on a street where there are clubs
frequented by queer people. The march was condemned as
"disgraceful"
and "unauthorized protest activity".
I oppose those protesters' views, and I reject their religion; but we
must respect their right to protest. Queers especially must defend
that right — it was not that long ago that queers met with violent
repression holding rallies, and even when not holding rallies.
Didn't right-wingers call them "disgraceful" when they did not
disguise their orientations and identities?
| | 12:32p |
Water crisis, Europe
Western Europe, from Spain to Germany, is being hit by a shortage of
rain (and snow) which is
already causing major problems,
and likely to get worse as weeks go by with little rain.
| | 12:32p |
Risk regulations for US banking, weak
*Silicon Valley Bank's CEO
pressed Congress to weaken risk regulations
[designed to keep banks from failing].*
He said that his bank's operations were risk-free. We now know
empirically that that was false.
Basically, our officials (elected and appointed) believe too much of
what business executives and their mouthpieces say. I speculate that
that is due to lobbying, campaign funds, and the revolving door — in
one word, corruption.
| | 12:32p |
Urgent: Dodd-Frank banking regulation
US citizens: phone your senators and representative and call on them
to undo the changes made in the Dodd-Frank bank regulation law to the
strength it had in 2015.
This law, if not for being weakened by the corrupter, would have
prevented Silicon Valley Bank from doing the risky things that
caused it to fail.
The Dodd-Frank law was a weaker replacement for the previous
Glass-Steagall Act, which was abolished in 1999 by Republicans in
Congress. It is described in
this history of US bank regulations.
I think we should bring back Glass-Steagall with its full force,
rather than an inferior substitute.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word!
| | 12:47p |
Phosphate rock mines
Modern agriculture depends on phosphorus fertilizer obtained from
mines, but the mines are heading towards exhaustion, leading towards
food shortages.
Meanwhile, the runoff of fertilizer into waters creates toxic algal blooms,
which then convert into planet-roasting methane in the air.
Before modern agriculture farmers gave plants phosphorus as part of
urine. Some countries, even some modern ones, still use this method.
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