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Natural gas facilities in Australia
Australia has approved the construction of new facilities for handling
natural gas near Darwin, which will surely push the Earth closer to
busting the carbon budget and collapse of civilization.
The facilities are supposed to include producing "blue hydrogen",
which means hydrogen gas generated by consuming fossil fuels and
generating carbon emissions. They also include carbon capture and
storage, will encourage using more fossil gas but is unlikely to
actually eliminate its greenhouse emissions.
If that were not bad bad enough, the currently approved development
area comes pretty close to an aboriginal rock art site. If
development extends, it could reach that site and endanger it.
Australian rock art is amongst the oldest cultural relics of
humanity and no one should have the power to authorize damaging it. |
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Responding to Republican threats of sabotage
Responding to Republican threats of sabotage:
*Make them [the Republicans] own it. Make sure the public understands
what is at stake and who will bear the responsibility if things
go wrong. That’s not only smart politics. Absent successful
application of the “constitutional option,” this is the only strategy,
short of capitulation, that stands any realistic chance of preventing
default.* |
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Big oil trying to buy its own courts
*Big Oil Tries To Buy Its Own Courts: Texas oil and gas companies
could soon have their business cases heard by judges handpicked by a
close ally: Gov. Greg Abbott.* |
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Biden selling weapons to autocracies
*Biden is selling weapons to the majority of the world's autocracies.* |
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Use of disinfectant wipes
Widespread use of disinfectant wipes spread exposure to certain
chemicals, which could be harmful.
Some researchers say the chemicals are linked to serious health problems, they
contribute to antimicrobial resistance, they pollute the environment
and they are not particularly effective. |
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Fascists in France set fires
Fascists in France set fire to the cars and house of a town mayor
who supported caring for immigrants.
The fascist strategy, in France as everywhere, is to demonstrate their
"courage" to attack those who can't defend themselves, in order to
make everyone afraid to disagree with them. It is not easy to
thwart. But I think it requires capturing and punishing some fascist
terrorists. |
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New coal mine in Australia
Australia's not so environmentalist government approved a new coal mine.
That is playing with fire. Every new fossil fuel investment acts to
accelerate global heating and increase the chance that we cross a
tipping point that tips the world into disaster. |
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Erdoğan's control of internet in Turkey
Human Rights Watch and Article 18 condemned Erdoğan's control of the
internet in Turkey, saying he will use that to twist the election.
Sad to say, right-wing rich people own the principal news sources
in most countries, including the US and the UK. |
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Democracy in trouble
Democracy is in trouble because most people are biased and most people
are often mistaken. But democracy can be effective when it is
structured to lead to discussions in which people present arguments
for various sides.
The article refutes the claims of certain rich people who argue that
markets, or the cleverest people, should rule. They call themselves
"libertarians", but I don't think they deserve that term since they
advocate subjugation of nearly everyone. Like most people who
call themselves "libertarians", their real goal is for the an elite
to dominate most of society and to get rid of systems that help the
non-rich. That is why I call them "antisocialists". |
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(satire) Official end to Covid-19 emergency
(satire) *Picking up thousands of incapacitated Americans
by their wrists and ankles and tossing them down to the sidewalks
below, Covid-19 patients were reportedly flung out of hospital
windows across the country Thursday as the public [Covid-19] emergency
officially ended.* |
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Urgent: Impeach Justice Thomas
US citizens: call on Congress to impeach Justice Thomas.
Thomas's corruption serves Republican interests, so I expect they
won't vote to impeach him, or vote to remove him from office if he has
been impeached. Nonetheless, it may help strengthen the will to do
other things, such as expand the Supreme Court, after the next
election. |
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