Sunday, June 18th, 2023

Time	Event
12:02a	EU verses Google ads The EU accuses Google of taking unfair advantage of running advertisement auctions with favoritism towards Google's own ad generation. (Comment on this)
12:02a	African fishers: EU-commissioned fleet in violation 2000 fishing boat crew workers in Africa went on strike, over the terms of work and to protest illegal overfishing by their European employers. (Comment on this)
12:02a	Austerity measures in debt deal *The US debt-ceiling ‘deal’ was a giant exercise in bipartisan class warfare.* (Comment on this)
11:03a	Star fusion project flaws, setbacks ITER, the international fusion experimental reactor, will not be completed in 2025 as previously announced. It will be a decade or more late for its goal of making some experiments possible. This is sad, but it doesn't really change the situation. If fusion power ever works, it will be decades too late to help avoid global heating disaster. We can keep the research going, but our plan to curb global heating should ignore nuclear fusion. It must also ignore nuclear fission. Although fission reactors do work, they are so expensive that the main effect of building one is to waste the money we could have used to build more solar and wind power. (Comment on this)
11:03a	Invasive species project, IRL Killarney park, Ireland's largest national park, has suffered ecological disaster from invasive species. No new trees can succeed in growing there under present conditions. To correct this will require persistent effort. Perhaps in a few decades it will be possible to develop biological killers that, when released, would eradicate rhododendron and sika deer in Ireland while being somehow unable to spread elsewhere. But that is just speculation. In the absence of that, the eradication of rhododendron will have to be done manually without cease. (Comment on this)
11:03a	English butterfly enthusiasts' violating conservation laws Unsupervised reintroductions into Britain of butterflies that have to be brought from other countries risk bringing their diseases and pests too. It is well-meaning but dangerous practice. (Comment on this)
11:03a	DoD contractors' vast wealth financing less R&D US arms companies are sponging more on the US treasury and spending less on research and development. (Comment on this)
11:03a	DOJ, Minneapolis Police, consent decree The official investigation into the Minneapolis thug department found a pattern of "aggression and discrimination" against blacks. (Comment on this)
11:03a	Violent protest: 500 migrants' deaths preventable, GR An overloaded boat carrying migrants sank in the Mediterranean near Greece. A Greek coast guard vessel accompanies the boat for hours, but someone on the boat who had a satellite phone insisted that the people on it did not want to be rescued, and eventually the coast guard vessel went away. Did the Greek vessel do something wrong? If so, what should it have done? Some say it should have towed the boat to "safety". Does this mean forcibly taking them to Greece? To Italy, where they wanted to go? Would it have been safe to tow the overloaded boat? Would it have been possible to tow it, if the people on the boat tried to prevent towing? Maybe they could have cast off the towing cable or cut it. I wonder if the boat had an actual crew, and not only passengers. Sometimes smugglers conscript one or more passengers to "run the boat", which (not being sailors) they can do only in easy circumstances. Sometimes that conscript gets charged as a conspirator in the crime of "people smuggling" even though perse was not given a choice. But this was a bigger boat than usual, and maybe it had a real crew. If so, maybe the person with a satellite phone was one of them. Maybe the passengers would have been happy to land safely in Greece. (Comment on this)
11:03a	Urgent: Stop attacking voting rights US citizens: call on GOP State Legislatures to stop attacking voting rights. (Comment on this)
11:47a	Indictment: congressmen inciting political violence, US Some Republican officials are following the wrecker in labeling law enforcement against the wrecker's crimes as military attacks in a civil war. (Comment on this)

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