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Weathered, at the mercy of time
Bernie Sanders: Congress must act
to overcome the planet roasters.
*Why are people dying at sea? They are
fleeing disasters
that we once called
‘biblical’, and now call normal.*
I rarely see an article which depicts how horrible is the fate that
human activity is imposing on humans and nature. This is one.
I have to point out that the other jaw of the vise is
over-reproduction. Having a few children is not much compared with
what any plutocrat does, but it is harm you can avoid.
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| 7:02a |
Global companies' data, AU
Australia is planning to demand that multi-national companies give
economic data about their operations in other countries. Some
Swiss
conglomerates are making vague threats
that they "won't invest so much in Australia."
Australia should tell them not to slam the door on the way out.
No country desperately needs investment to be made in ways that tend
to subjugate the country to foreign plutocrats. The proposed
Australian law will take the world one step closer to
a progressive
tax on corporations
that would tend to pressure them to split up.
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| 7:02a |
NHS serviceability, UK
*Most [UK] doctors think ministers want to destroy the NHS,
BMA boss says.*
I believe the same. It is a good thing that the NHS doctors recognize this,
because they are the ones that have to fight it.
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| 7:02a |
Chinese dissidents pursued overseas
Hong Kong has
arrested former protest leaders.
One was arrested at the airport, leading me to wonder if he was trying to flee to a safe haven.
The Hong Kong "national security" law applies to "crimes" "committed"
before that law was passed. In US legal terms, it is an
"ex-post-facto" law. The US Constitution bans ex-post-facto
criminalization. Many other countries do likewise -- because it is
evident that such a law amounts to, "If we don't like you, we will put
you in prison."
That's Hong Kong for you — and that's China for you.
I wonder if there is a way to arrange for Hong Kongers to flee
without permission, as people fled from East Berlin.
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| 7:02a |
Said the founders, US Const.
Radical thoughts stated by the
founders of the US Constitution.
Ironically amazing is Jefferson's ringing condemnation of slavery as
evil — ironic given that he owned slaves and never freed them.
In the Declaration of Independence,
he wrote a paragraph
to condemn King George for the slave trade.
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| 7:02a |
Bounty on democracy advocates, HK
Hong Kong has established a bounty of over
$100,000 for the arrest of
any of the exiles
accused of violating the "national security"
censorship law.
The natural response is for other countries to make it a crime to try
to capture those freedom defenders, and offer a similar bounty for the
arrest of anyone involved in trying to arrest them.
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| 7:02a |
Protesting as sedition, ISR
Former Israeli elected officials are being investigated for "sedition"
after calling for nonviolent protests.
The protests
were to be against right-wing plans for a fascist
judiciary.
Israel is being taken over by fascism. Where can Israelis who want to
live in a democracy with human rights move to?
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| 7:02a |
Employment by another name
Many
US employers forbid workers to sit
(ever) while on the job,
This is worse than uncomfortable; it builds up injuries.
The experience of many other countries shows that businesses can
function just fine while permitting staff to sit occasionally. But suppose
that were not true — would that justify the policy? Should the
employer's interests entirely override the well-being of the workers?
Of course not.
"Right to sit" laws ought to exist, but that is a very narrow remedy,
for this specific method of mistreating workers. What we really need
are "right to strong unions"
laws, that will help workers deal with many kinds of wrongs by employers, including this kind.
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| 7:02a |
Climate-era duties, FL keys
The foolish response to sea-level rise: two people are trying to
preserve
a small island
they own by building sea walls.
This is futile because sea-level rise is accelerating. If they
heroically manage to keep up with it this decade, they won't keep up
next decade. By the end of this century, all their work will have
been erased.
What a shame they aren't putting all that effort into an effort that
may not be futile — that may actually win a victory.
We can't save everything, and scattering our efforts makes them
futile. We must concentrate on defeating the planet roasters who are
deliberately accelerating the problem.
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| 7:02a |
Cluster bombs, UKR
*US expected to provide
cluster bombs to Ukraine.*
The US and Ukraine surely know this — so why do they consider
using cluster bombs? What advantage do they think those have,
to outweigh what is bad about them?
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