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| 7:17a |
Extraterritorial harassment of Iranian activists
*Iran and its agents appear to be orchestrating a
Europe-wide campaign
of harassment, surveillance, kidnap plots and death threats targeting
political activists who are protesting against the regime.*
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| 7:17a |
Oil Cos. dupe CA
How one oil industry agent set up
a web of pretend "grass roots"
groups
to make a lot of noise and thus give hesitant California
legislators an excuse to water down a new oil regulation.
The agent responds with misleading words, such as claiming that these
organizations are "real". They probably are "real" in the sense of
really being legally registered, but they are not really what they
claim to be. Then he insists that their arguments are "valid", which
is no indication that they are valid.
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| 7:17a |
Yango taxi disservice: an EU, ISR warning
Putin's spy service directly tracks the ride service Yango.
Everyone who gets a ride on Yango
will be tracked and reported immediately. That includes clients in
Israel and Europe as well as in Russia.
It is unjust for a ride service to identify you!
Boycott GUber!
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| 7:17a |
McCarthy VS Extremist Republicans
House Speaker McCarthy, in thrall to Republican lunatic extremists who
are willing to sabotage anything and everything to
any helpful
government policies
they can get their hands on, is desperately trying to remain in the
office of speaker by obeying their impossible demands.
The result of this is that he is losing what little shreds of honor
and political respect remain to him. How foolish that is. If he
resigns now and consigns the lunatics to hell, he may be unable to
remain as speaker but he will salvage some respectability.
The lunatics of SCROTUS will look for another Republican willing to
dangle on their strings to be a puppet "speaker". But the rest of the
Republicans might decide to make a deal with Democrats on a bipartisan
House leadership that would adopt compromise policies. I expect that
sooner or later they will decide to climb out of the lunatics' vice.
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| 7:17a |
Indigenous win huge, Brazil
The Brazilian supreme court rejected a
right-wing attempt to deny
indigenous groups' claims to ancestral lands from which they had
already been kicked out before 1988.
1988 is not long ago. I think this decision is correct when an
indigenous group was kicked out a few decades before 1988. But I
worry that it could extend too far: it could result in evicting
non-indigenous farmers from land that they have farmed for
generations, replacing one wave of dispossessed with another.
Situations like that call for compromise.
I wonder what other limits there are in the law regarding how many
decades it takes for non-indigenous farmers' title to be valid.
Illegal gold miners
should never get valid title.
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| 7:17a |
Decarbonization backtracking, Tories
The Tories have
dropped the commitments
for decarbonization they adopted some years ago.
It is a standard Tory pattern
to make a commitment in response to public pressure backed by valid
reasons, go slowly, drop it a few years later when conditions make it in convenient.
Thus they pretend to address national problems but don't really do so.
A UK minister said that Britain must give up on decarbonization
rather than achieve it by
"bankrupting the British people."
This choice is the result of a policy that will ensure suffering
for most British people: the refusal to tax the rich.
Britain has many grave problems, all caused by a lack of public spending. Schools,
the NHS,
housing for the non-rich,
public transit, as well as avoiding global heating disaster.
Ceasing the policy of providing more and more of national
income to the rich and the wealthy is necessary for all of them.
Corbyn would do this; Tories and Starmer-Labour have surrendered
to the rich and therefore can't do much about these problems.
I reject the term "net zero" for the way to formulate the goal of
curbing greenhouse emissions. It provides an excuse to accept
continuing emissions that might well be underestimated.
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| 7:17a |
Urgent: Your contracts, in the fine print: forced arbitration
US citizens:
call on the CFPB
to stop forced arbitration now.
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| 9:47p |
Wildfire VS economic emissions, CAN
*Wildfires turn Canada’s
vast forests from carbon sink
into super-emitter.* This years emissions amount to three times Canada's
usual annual emissions, and the fires are not finished yet.
Further global heating is sure to increase the emissions from burning
forest in further years — until it is all burned up. This is the
sort of tipping point
that can cause unstoppable disaster.
The article describes precautions that might be able to reduce the fires in future years.
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| 10:17p |
Environmental stewardship mistake, CAN
Logging companies clear-cut Canadian forests in the 1980s, and
replaced them with
a monoculture of highly flammable black spruce.
Those appear to have been the cause of many of the unquenchable giant wildfires of this year.
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