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Event |
| 3:32a |
Campaigns to decriminalize suicide
17 countries make attempted suicide a crime and punish those survivors.
In several there are campaigns to repeal those laws. |
| 3:32a |
European heat waves
Last year's European heat waves are estimated to have
killed 61,672 people:
This year's hotter heat waves will surely kill many more. |
| 3:32a |
Musicians' politics, Myanmar
A music festival in Malaysia invited a British band which, on stage,
criticized Malaysia's repressive laws against homosexuality. Then two
male musicians kissed.
Officials closed the performance.
The government then shut down the rest of the festival. This shows the intolerance of established religion.
Laws like those deserve full disrespect, just like
laws against
sharing copies of published works.
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| 3:32a |
Cash bail abolished, IL
The Illinois supreme court has abolished the practice of demanding
cash bail for accused criminals to
wait for trial at home.
It is unjust because it treats rich suspects better than all other suspects.
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| 3:32a |
Peak fish
We are already
past the peak
catch of wild fish. Overfishing and environmental damage are reducing them.
Also, aquaculture does not have much potential to increase any more.
We can give humans of the future
lives of plenty by making a lot fewer of them.
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| 3:32a |
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| 3:32a |
Voter suppression, felons down South
*Tennessee … has enacted a law that makes it nearly impossible
for people with felony convictions to
regain their right to vote.*
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| 3:32a |
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| 3:32a |
Hot climate and tourism, EU
The countries of southern Europe are becoming so hot that they
are
less attractive for summer vacations.
Even in the past those places were so hot that I tried to have my
visits there outside the summer.
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| 3:32a |
Euthanasia v. suicide, Cyprus
David Hunter was convicted of manslaughter for
helping his wife die
to escape excruciating pain. This conviction means he may not be put in jail.
When she was dead, he tried to kill himself because he had nothing to
live for without her — but someone "saved"
him.
I wonder, have his feelings changed since then? Does he now have a
will to live? Does he see a purpose in continued existence — and if so, what?
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| 3:32a |
FBI, CIA, NSA illegal snooping, abuse
The
FISA court has found many violations
of the FISA law by the FBI, CIA and NSA. These violations amount to massive surveillance that
was not supposed to happen.
Some years ago the FISA court said that it had found itself unable to
make US agencies obey
the FISA law, that the agencies were making
monkeys out of the court — and out of Americans' human rights.
Additional examples of these agencies'
dangerous snooping.
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| 3:32a |
French publisher vindicated, UK political anti-terrorism
A UK agency that reviews the actions of thugs has said
it was wrong to
use an "anti-terrorism" law
to force a French publisher to unlock his phone as he entered the UK to attend a book fair.
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