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Republicans blow smoke and exaggerate
The Republicans' "investigation" of Biden, intended to find grounds
for impeachment, appears to be just "blow smoke and exaggerate it."
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Open letter condemning antisemitic comments by Mahmoud Abbas
*Dozens of leading Palestinian intellectuals, artists and other public
figures have published an open letter condemning antisemitic
comments made by the Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas.*
Bravo! Palestinians have plenty of reason to hate Israel's occupation
policies;
that they speak up to distinguish that from (and reject) antisemitism
is an admirable example.
If they can do this, surely the supporters of Israel's occupation
policies
can do likewise.
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Remember the 9/11 war lies
*We Must Remember the 9/11 War Lies.*
*We can’t afford to let these lies go down the memory hole, like we have the other wars we were lied into.*
I disagree with Hartmann about ending the war in Afghanistan. I
supported the war in Afghanistan, for the sake of democracy and
women's rights there, when it looked like we could win that war. But
it became clear that the army we supported could never defeat the
Taliban.
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Queensland cops attitude of bigotry
Queensland cops caught sharing a thuggish attitude of bigotry will not
be punished.
The state has a duty not to allow this. Sneering at people with
insulting words cannot be a crime, since it is part of freedom of
speech. But people who hold an office such as "police officer", which
includes special powers over everyone else and special authorization
for violence, have a duty to treat the public without bias. If they
engage in bigotry, they are not fit for the office. If they promote
bigotry among the other officers, they undermine the proper respect
for society among the whole body of officers.
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Federal thugs shot man in wheelchair
Undercover federal thugs shot and maimed a man in a wheelchair who had
come to the aid of his brother, whom the thugs were attacking. They
did not identify themselves as cops until after.
People should not be killed or maimed for coming to the aid, with or
without a gun, of someone being attacked by unknown strangers.
The fact that this victim was homeless doesn't alter the issue.
Neither does the fact that he already needed a wheelchair for some
other reasons. Those are misfortunes, and a better organized society
would spare people the first of the two, but if the thugs had done the
same thing to a fit and healthy home-owner it would have been equally
unjust.
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Covid's back, it never went away
*Covid's back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too
well, it never went away.*
What happened, rather is that governments gave up trying to protect the public
to cave to the people who preferred to pretend Covid was gone. This is the case
in the US and Europe, with variations in details between countries.
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Mexico could provide a place for abortions
Mexico could provide a place where US citizens in abortion-banning
southern states could get abortions.
The ironic result would be that the main group of people in those
states who could not go to Mexico for an abortion would be the
unauthorized immigrants. Republican racists would tear their hair out
to see their own abortion bans speeding the "great replacement".
Imagine a campaign calling for Texas to allow non-citizens to get
abortions also. "Way to go, Republicans — protect every possible
anchor baby!"
Even better, US government could directly help the non-US-citizens get
abortions. It could make an arrangement with Mexico to set up border
abortion clinics on the Mexico side, which would be federal facilities
so they would be lawful right away,
and allow anyone to cross the
border from the US directly into an abortion clinic and then return,
regardless of passport or immigration status. However, only
authorized personnel would be allowed to enter the clinic from Mexico.
To make sure there is no unfairness towards Mexicans, each of these
transborder abortion clinics would be accompanied by another abortion
clinic that serves people coming from Mexico.
The arrangement could also explicitly permit royalty-free importation
of mifepristone and any other medicines purchased in these clinics.
What I don't know is whether it is possible to do this without getting
the approval of the Senate, which might be blocked by overt and covert
Republicans.
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Package travel sold through Xinjiang
Urging western tourism companies to stop selling package travel
through Xinjiang
into areas where Uygurs are being brainwashed.
It may be romantically exciting to imagine visiting Xinjiang and
pulling back the curtain or deception, but the Chinese who operate the
curtain are skilled experts whereas you would be encountering it for
the first time. Whatever move you try, they would surely have
training and experience at countering.
It is wiser to leave that sort of thing to people who are themselves experts.
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Rishi Sunak hopes for warm welcome
*Rishi Sunak hopes for warm welcome at G20 as India’s "son-in-law".*
This warm welcome would be a business-supremacy treaty that did not
disadvantage British plutocrats too much compared with Indian plutocrats.
What we see, therefore, is a less rich oligarch sucking up to a richer
oligarch.
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Wearing your seat belt in Australia
Australia fines drivers, even cancels their driving licenses, if
occasionally a passenger does not wear a seat belt.
This is are a system of collective responsibility: "Hey you! Monitor
those others near you, or we will punish you!" This attitude towards
people is an injustice in general.
Since 1975 I have made a practice of wearing my seat belt. for safety,
whether driving or riding as a passenger. But there is one exception:
when I need to sleep. I have never found a way to sleep with a seat
belt rubbing on my shoulder — it changes my posture. If I am
compelled to wear the seat belt because the driver has been
conscripted into forcing me, I will not be able to sleep and I may get
sick.
So I regard that system as an injustice.
If the system permitted me to wear the lap belt but not the shoulder
belt, I would certainly do that, since the lap belt does not stop
me from sleeping. But nowadays they don't support that mode of use.
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Australian thugs working to convict Jason Roberts
Australian uniformed thugs worked very hard to come up with evidence
to convict Jason Roberts of killing two thugs.
There wasn't enough real evidence, so they had to fake it.
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Talk in Prague, Czech Republic on Oct. 1st
Richard Stallman will give a talk,
"Free Software And Your Freedom",
in the Czech Republic in Prague on Oct 1. That will be at this year's
Hackers Congress,
part of the
Paralelni Polis 2023,
September 29 – October 1, 2023. |