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How opponents of LTNs are adopting the climate-sceptic playbook
The British right-wing is drumming up opposition to
low-traffic
neighborhoods
(designed to facilitate and encourage walking or biking rather than
driving cars) using the same playbook as global heating denialism.
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CSOs Condemn G7 Leaders for Dangerous Backsliding on Gas
The G7 threw away concern for avoiding climate breakdown
and adopted plans for
development of gas extraction.
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There’s no shame in waging war on old age
*There's no shame in waging
war on old age.*
But if we are mostly living on Earth, we will have to have children
very rarely.
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Mother says border patrol ignored her daughter
*Mother of girl who died in US border
patrol custody says agents
ignored her.*
Avoidable death of prisoners happens repeatedly in any kind of prison,
because the prison staff don't really care about prisoners' suffering.
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Cancellation of events due to threats
Warning: canceling events because of extremists' threats is treated
by the extremists as a victory.
The article refers to right-wing extremists, but I think it applies
to leftist extremists too.
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Colombia's murderous paramilitaries
A former leader of one group of Colombia's murderous paramilitaries
says that officials protected the group and gave them lists of people
to torture and/or kill. |
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Biden canceled planned trips
Biden canceled a planned trip to Australia and Papua New Guinea to
"negotiate" with Republican terrorists.
By treating the negotiations as important, Biden encourages
Republicans to think he is desperate for an agreement, and that will
encourage them to stand by their demands. They make think they can
get Biden to help them harm non-rich Americans.
I fear that maybe they can. |
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Darwin fossil fuel extraction projects
Darwin's planned large development on the "middle arm" turns out to be
part of a plan for large new fossil fuel extraction projects.
The development has been criticized for putting some ancient rock art
at risk in the long term.
Strict laws might be able to keep the ancient rock art safe. But they can't save Earth from those fossil fuel developments,
if those are allowed to proceed. |
| 9:02a |
George Santos expulsion resolution
Republicans didn't want to lose the vote of George Santos, so they
were determined to defeat the resolution to expel him from Congress.
But they didn't want to be criticized for voting to keep an accused
criminal in the House to vote for them. So they voted to refer the
expulsion resolution to a committee where they can quietly bury it. |
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Montana ban of TikTok
Montana has banned app stores from offering to install the TikTok
client program.
This prevents users from installing the TikTok client program.
since there is no other way to install it on a snoop phone.
This scenario has injustice on every side. TikTok collects data on
every user. So do many other "app" client program — all of them are
unjust. Secondarily, they are unjust because they are nonfree
software.
The snoop-phones are unjust too, for snooping and for limiting what
users can install. Their software also has the secondary injustice
of being nonfree. |
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Bernie Sanders for national medical system
Bernie Sanders calls for a national medical system,
and makes it clear that the name "Medicare for All" does not mean
preserving the flaws of Medicare as it is today. |
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Cameras at Olympic games in France
France has decided to use cameras at the Olympic games with software that will
scan the images looking for "suspicious activities".
We can't count on the software in the system to limit the effective
level of surveillance, because more analytical capability could be
added later. The only limiting factor that people can count on to
prevent violation of their privacy is the capability of the hardware
sensors (cameras, in this case). As people pointed out, that
capability might be sufficient to enable the system to recognize and
track people. |
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When Democrats do something for right reason
*"When Democrats do something for the right reason,
[Republicans] use the precedent to do something for the wrong reason."*
The emendation "[Republicans]" is in the words I quoted from the
article. That statement is generally true.
I'm not planning to read the Durham report myself, but I won't
trust any claims about it that are made by people whose life is lying. |
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Israeli fascists marched in Jerusalem
Israeli fascists marched in Jerusalem; some chanted "death to Arabs".
Url Avnery warned years ago that the Israeli right-win sought to render the
West Bank "Araberrein" (without any Arabs).
Avnery meant this to compare
them with the Nazis whom he had seen in Germany in the 1930s, before
his family fled to what they hoped would become Israel. |
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Urgent: reject the "HALT Fentanyl Act"
US citizens: call on Congress to reject the "HALT Fentanyl Act"
which would prohibit a wide range of substances, most of which have never been
tested on people at all. Of those few which have been tested,
most were harmless.
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! |
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How opponents of LTNs are adopting the climate-skeptic playbook
The British right-wing is drumming up opposition to
low-traffic
neighborhoods
(designed to facilitate and encourage walking or biking rather than
driving cars) using the same playbook as global heating denialism.
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