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Mandatory bird housing, UK
Swifts, remarkable birds that fly for months without landing, are
running out of nest sites as old buildings are renovated. Hollow
"swift bricks"
built into new buildings provide them with new nest sites.
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Low-emissions zones healthier
Implementing
low-emission-zones in a city
tends to produce small but
significant decreases in heart and lung disease.
I am in favor of limiting the use of high-pollution vehicles, but it
must be implemented in a way that doesn't track where each car goes.
Tracking people's movements is
the foundation for tyranny and repression.
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| 12:32p |
Gun laws and murder rates
If you want to be safe from gun violence, know that
Democrats tend to
do it better.
Republicans are more interested in making it easy for people to carry guns and shoot you.
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| 12:32p |
High Court hijacked to attack
Rebecca Solnit: *The US supreme court has dismantled our rights
(rights that we had won) but we still believe in them.
Now we must
fight.*
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| 12:32p |
Fear-driven politics, RWA
A report on pervasive tyranny in Rwanda: if you don't join President
Kagama's rally,
you will be individually noted
and persecuted.
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Wealth tax, or insurrection, UK
The
Patriotic Millionaires UK warned
the rich to expect "pitchforks and torches" if they don't stop pushing most people into poverty.
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| 12:46p |
US policy deceives immigrants
*Border agents promise better chance of asylum for those agreeing to go
to Mexico and apply there, then
strands them with no access.*
The article mentions an unreliable app. It does not mention
that the app is an injustice because it is nonfree.
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| 11:31p |
Collapsing NHS in UK, a history
A doctor says
the NHS has been collapsing since 2012, and has kept
getting worse.
Even when Labour was in power, all was not well, Waiting lists for
treatment were long. Of course, Tories have made it far worse.
What Tony B'liar's Labour Party and the Tories have in common is
plutocratism. They are unwilling to tax the rich enough to make the NHS
function properly, so they always under-fund it.
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| 11:31p |
Magazine-printing in the UK d
The UK now has
essentially a monopoly on printing magazines.
This sort of thing happens when anti-monopoly laws are too weak
or too weakly enforced. That tends to happen due to plutocratist
pressure on governments.
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| 11:31p |
Bounty on democracy advocates, HK
Hong Kong has filed charges of criticizing the government
on democracy
activists living in exile.
This is not a surprise — it is part and parcel of the Chinese
repression in Hong Kong, and it is why people would be wise not to go
to Hong Kong or any part of China. Chine has no reason to limit these
charges to people who really have rebuked China's repression from
other countries (not that it is justified to punish people for that).
False and dishonest charges are standard there too.
Perhaps the US should criminalize people outside the US who participate
in placing criminal charges against people in the US for criticizing
other countries.
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Sea Barrier, London
The Thames Barrier,
like a dam that can be opened and closed, protects
London from surges of the North Sea. But, by 2070, sea level rise
will leave it insufficiently tall, and impossible to maintain if they
close it as often as it now must. It will have to be rebuilt.
Eventually protecting London will need a dam.
And then it will become impossible.
The only way we can protect the
thousands of threatened coastal cities
is curb global heating, and then suck greenhouse gases out of the air.
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