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Religious display requirement, TX
The fanatical Christians that is the Texas Republican Party plan to
require display of
a religious statement in every classroom.
This would directly defy the First Amendment, which bans establishment
of religion.
In normal times, we would confidently expect federal courts to quash
this — but no one can be sure nowadays.
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| 12:48a |
Check, balance politicized judiciary
The Supreme Court decision to tentatively allow sales of mifepristone to continue seems to have
split the most extreme right
wing from the rest.
It is a very sad thing for the US that the Supreme Court has been
politicized so far, but there is no use denying it.
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| 12:48a |
Costs of tourism
The numbers of tourists now going to the main destinations are not only
making them unpleasant places to be, but also
converting them
into theme parks.
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| 12:48a |
Buying elections: No Labels ballot
"Americans, unite to
support the anonymous billionaires!"
In the US, the "Centrists" are the plutocratists — the ones who avoid
most political issues and mainly insist on keeping life profitable for
the rich. What's new is that billionaires plan to pool their money
secretly to get their politicians elected without bothering with
support either major political parties.
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| 12:48a |
Anti-terrorism power abuse, UK
When UK "anti-terrorist" thugs questioned French publisher Ernest Moret,
supposedly about "terrorism", they asked him questions about his
positions
in French politics,
such as whether he supported President Macron and
whether he had protested against Macron's pension delay law.
This catches them red-handed in dishonest use of these special powers,
which violate human rights.
It is not enough to drop charges against Moret. The UK must restore
its respect for human rights.
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| 11:03a |
Reversed deforestation, CR
Costa Rica sets an example of successfully reversing deforestation.
Since around 1990, most of the
lost forests have grown back.
The basic idea was to pay the owner of a formerly forested area just a
little more than the pittance that could be made from inefficient
raising of cattle, for letting forest grow there.
I wonder if this method can be adapted to the Brazilian Amazon.
The situation is not the same.
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| 11:03a |
Securing your child's future
To be a good parent requires fighting now to
prevent climate disaster
from destroying them
later in their lives.
The article reiterates a basic assumption -- that you should love,
care about, your own children more than anyone else. Carried too far,
that narrow focus is a mistake. A saying that struck me as very wise
is, "Helping only your own family is a just a form of selfishness."
This can be see in the way billionaires are practicing precisely that
form of selfishness when they try to take all the world's wealth for
their own heirs.
Notwithstanding that, the article's overall point is valid. But I
would take it one step further. Nowadays the best thing you can do
for your potential children is not to have them.
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Republican strategy to combat voting
A Republican who pushed to override the 2020 election results
now proposes a strategy to rig the 2024 election: make it
harder
for college students to vote.
Republicans are already trying hard to do this, and
facing a lot of resistance. What the presentation shows
is that Republican activists feel no shame whatsoever
about systematic cheating.
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| 11:03a |
Not protests, not rallies
Arguing that only sabotage and direct resistance are strong enough to
prevent the mass murder that
greenhouse emissions drive us
into.
The idea is to stop deadly projects, not merely symbolically denounce them
and hope that governments will stop them.
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| 11:03a |
Urgent: Close the Guantanamo prison
US citizens: call on Biden to
close the Guantanamo prison.
My recommendation for how to get around the US laws that make it hard
to find a way to move the current prisoners out of that prison
is to convert it into a town.
The White House comments lines are
+1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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