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A mere fiction on liberty, Hong Kong
An organization in Hong Kong that promotes the Cantonese language has
been compelled to shut after its
leader published a fictional story
about loss of freedom there.
It doesn't surprise me that the story and its author were attacked.
Attacking the organization as well may simply reflect using it for
that publication. But it could also be an escalation of the campaign
to suppress the Cantonese language. That has been active in Canton
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DeMentis at shooting-victims vigil, FL
When DeMentis showed up at a vigil for three blacks murdered by a white
racist hater, and condemned the killer,
the people present booed him
for promoting the racism, fascism and Nazism that motivated the killer.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I
denounce bigotry, and normally I will not link to articles that
practice it, even if they also criticize it. But I make exceptions
for some articles that I consider particularly important — and I label them like this.
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Man charged against Anti-homosexuality Act 2023, Uganda
A Ugandan man faces
the threat of execution
if convicted of "aggravated homosexuality."
The article leaves me wondering what aspect makes it "aggravated".
You would think editors would anticipate readers' being left with curiosity.
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Houston elementary schools win a recess period
Parents organized in Free Play Houston have convinced Houston public
schools to bring back recess, in which
children direct their own
activities.
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Pope: living doctrine vs ideology
Pope Francis rebuked the conservatives in the Catholic Church
for choosing
right-wing ideology over the church doctrine.
I don't support Catholic doctrine any more than I do right-wing
ideology, but this is a good thing.
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Republican deceit on Ohio voters
*Ohio Republicans accused of trying to mislead voters with [misleading description of the
abortion ballot question].*
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Wikileaks on imperialist agriculture
*Environmentalists Owe
an Enormous Debt to Julian Assange.*
Wikileaks revealed how the US twisted many countries' arms to
legalize the farming of patented GMOs which promote pesticides that
can wipe out all insects in the neighborhood, and to allow foreign
corporations to buy their farmland.
Wikileaks also published the secret text of the
Pacific Partnership
Trance (official name, Trans-Pacific Partnership),
which helped the US to refuse to sign it.
(How sad that countries such as New Zealand
signed it. And recently the UK as well
— one last act of lasting Tory sabotage.)
Environmentalists should demand that the US drop charges against
Julian Assange. And don't waste time — he may be extradited in October.
The charges against him are meant to establish a precedent
for treating journalists as spies,
and the US, to get its hands on Assange, used tricks dirtier than those it used to push GMOs.
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