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| 10:18a |
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| 10:18a |
Lack of a voter ID, UK
More reason to suspect that Tories have introduced voter IDs as a means
to prevent legitimate voters from voting is that they plan not to report
how many people
show up to vote and are turned away.
That number would be an underestimate of the number actually blocked
from voting. Some of them, knowing they didn't get the required ID
card, will not come to the polls at all.
The people most likely to fail to get the ID card are those who can barely
keep up with their work and family duties, and have little time to spare
to get the ID card.
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| 10:18a |
Gambling on credit, AU
Australia plans to block the use of
credit cards to pay for online
gambling.
This is a wise plan since it can prevent some gambling addicts
from betting money they do not have.
I conjecture that any system that requires gamblers to declare their
intention to gamble and then wait a while will help people avoid
compulsive gambling. Perhaps other ideas can be found from that.
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| 10:18a |
Climate protest increases, Germany
Right-wingers and thugs in Germany demand to
imprison people for a
month
if they are suspected of planning annoying protests, such as blocking roads.
The protesters demand cutting greenhouse emissions faster, on the grounds
that climate collapse is likely to kill them before they get old.
The thugs want to "get the situation under control" to assure an orderly
march towards mass death. Orderly, that is, until it is too late to
prevent collapse and the early death of most of these potential protesters
is assured.
Climate disaster is likely to kill billions of people. It will not be
an accident, though; big businesses of various kinds are lobbying to
keep it going while they extract all possible money. (Those who
profit suppose that they will be somehow safe from the disaster,
though I don't see how that could be true.)
As a consequence, we can describe future climate disaster as the
biggest act of mass murder of all human history, past and future. It
is unlikely that there will ever again be billions of people to kill.
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| 10:18a |
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| 10:18a |
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| 10:18a |
Urgent: This Julian Assange Rally, Boston
This Julian Assange rally will be at the May Day rally, Monday, May 1, at 5 pm at the bandstand on the Boston Common.
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| 10:18a |
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| 12:18p |
Tree-planting plan, NZ
New Zealand thinks it can
plant enough trees
to outweigh all its greenhouse gas emissions.
That is very risky.
What if the trees die? That has happened before
in big tree-planting projects.
It is also no example for the rest of the world to follow.
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| 12:18p |
Covid vaccine politics, FL
Florida's surgeon general, an anti-vaxxer,
altered the text of a study
the state was publishing, to exaggerate a rare problem with Covid-19
vaccines.
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| 12:18p |
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| 12:18p |
China increasing authoritarianism
China has charged a Chinese journalist,
who works in China for a
government news outlet, with "espionage", apparently for talking
frequently with foreigners.
The article lists a long series of disappearances and jailings of
journalists in and by China.
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| 12:33p |
Climate protest increase, Germany
Right-wingers and thugs in Germany demand to
imprison people for a
month
if they are suspected of planning annoying protests, such as blocking roads.
The protesters demand cutting greenhouse emissions faster, on the grounds
that climate collapse is likely to kill them before they get old.
The thugs want to "get the situation under control" to assure an orderly
march towards mass death. Orderly, that is, until it is too late to
prevent collapse and the early death of most of these potential protesters
is assured.
Climate disaster is likely to kill billions of people. It will not be
an accident, though; big businesses of various kinds are lobbying to
keep it going while they extract all possible money. (Those who
profit suppose that they will be somehow safe from the disaster,
though I don't see how that could be true.)
As a consequence, we can describe future climate disaster as the
biggest act of mass murder of all human history, past and future. It
is unlikely that there will ever again be billions of people to kill.
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| 12:33p |
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| 12:33p |
China's increasing authoritarianism
China has charged a Chinese journalist,
who works in China for a
government news outlet, with "espionage", apparently for talking
frequently with foreigners.
The article lists a long series of disappearances and jailing of
journalists in and by China.
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