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| 1:17p |
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| 1:17p |
Punishment for abortion, SC
21 Republican legislators in South Carolina supported a bill to
impose
the death penalty
for "homicide" against a fertilized egg.
That much strong support shows that that religious fanaticism has
become mainstream in the Republican Party. Women, Republicans want to
kill you.
This bill would punish not only abortion, but also some methods of
birth control that prevent a zygote from implanting and generating a placenta.
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| 1:17p |
Bank deregulation, Sinema
Senator Sinema voted for the Republicans'
bank deregulation law
in 2018,
after accepting campaign funds from Silicon Valley Bank's lobbyists.
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| 1:17p |
Bank depositors rescued, CA
How Biden plans to
bail out the depositors
of failed banks, including
large deposits not officially covered by FDIC, using funds accumulated
by FDIC.
If this sort of thing becomes frequent, it may call for increasing the
fee rates of FDIC.
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| 1:17p |
Destructive anti-terrorist forces used against protesters, GA
Thugs committed violence against
the property of protesters at Cop City
while trying to find evidence for "terrorist plots" in protest supplies.
The actions of the thugs are calculated to spread terror among
civilians who are only exercising their legal rights. That's
terrorism, pure and simple.
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| 2:47p |
Oil drilling in the Arctic
Biden has given reasons for approving the
Willow oil drilling project,
but they are fallacious.
Allegedly the attempt to reject the project entirely is likely to be
overturned by courts. What if that is true? What would be the right
thing to do?
We are dealing with a threat to kill most human beings and wipe out
most living species -- in effect, the biggest war in all history.
So let's look at it like a battle against the planet-roasters.
When your army holds a position that it cannot continue to hold
indefinitely, should you pull those troops back promptly, or hold the
position as long as possible? It depends on what you can gain by
holding it and what you might lose.
In this case, there is nothing to lose by fighting in court except the
cost of paying some lawyers. Therefore, Biden's duty is to hold that
position for as long as possible. Delaying the drilling is good in
itself, and the fight to delay it will inspire climate defenders and
help win the next election.
The delay also creates an opportunity for the situation to change. In
2025 it may be possible to pass a law — perhaps a carbon tax
— that would make Chevron abandon the project.
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| 2:47p |
Escobar's African hippos, feral in Columbia
Feral hippopotamuses in Colombia are reproducing and causing
problems
for humans and for wildlife.
Since these intrusive animals are damaging native wildlife, the right
thing to do is to eliminate them from the wild in Colombia.
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| 2:47p |
Credit card junk fees
*Republican lawmakers funded by the credit card industry are fighting
to protect the
excessive fees
companies charge consumers.*
The junk fees are not among the biggest ways that businesses exploit
bad laws to exploit the non-rich, but they are an example of the
electoral corruption that upholds plutocracy in the US.
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| 2:47p |
A post-truth US and the Iraq war
*The
Iraq War started the post-truth era.
And America is to blame.*
I don't think that is entirely true, because the right-wingers were
using lies before that. The campaign to capture US policy decisions
for the rich, and pretend that non-rich receiving government help were
the exploiters, started in the 1970s; it was based on lies from top to
bottom.
It has been argued that al-Libi was not merely giving his torturers
what they demanded, but intentionally encouraging a war between the US
and Saddam Hussein, both being enemies of al-Qa'ida.
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| 2:47p |
BBC News, right-wing bias
The BBC claims to be politically independent, but in practice its rules
for
presenters, writers and commentators
are applied with enormous
right-wing bias.
This has been the case for decades at least.
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| 11:17p |
The Case For a 28% Corporate Tax Rate
Americans for Tax Fairness: arguments for raising the
tax rate on
corporations to 28%.
I think we also need to eliminate the ways that corporations arrange
to claim that income was nominally received in some other country with
a lower tax rate.
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| 11:17p |
The Fed needs to stop raising rates now, former FDIC chair says after Silicon Valley Bank failure
*The [Federal Reserve] needs to stop raising rates now, former FDIC
chair says after
Silicon Valley Bank failure.*
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| 11:17p |
(satire) *Fetus Panics After Ballooning Up To 500 Times Her Original
Weight.*
(satire) *Fetus Panics After Ballooning Up To 500 Times
Her Original
Weight.*
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| 11:17p |
Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military after spying claims
*Mexico to investigate alleged human rights abuses by military
after
spying claims.*
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| 11:17p |
DeSantis Lets Electric Companies Hide Their Dirty Work
*After industry cash flooded their war chests, Florida Republicans stopped requiring utilities from disclosing who they are punishing
with power shutoffs.*
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