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Middle-class fear of green policies
*Middle-class fear of green policies fuels rise of far right,
Colombia’s Petro warns.*
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Israel unwilling to consider temporary truce unless it kills HAMAS leaders
Israel is reportedly unwilling to consider another temporary truce
unless it kills the highest leaders of HAMAS and gets proof they are dead.
Biden has reportedly acquiesced to this and will not even try to pressure
Israel to stop its murderous bombardments.
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Megayachts
*"Megayachts" are environmentally indefensible. The world must ban them.*
I agree, but we should recognize that these vessels are a symptom of
concentration of wealth. And not the most dangerous symptom, either,
Their influence over politics endangers democracy. To fully fix this
problem, we need to eliminate the possibility of possessing billions
of dollars.
Taxing wealth would be one way to do that.
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Fearing unlikely danger does harm
Teaching children to cower in fear of extremely unlikely dangers does
them lasting harm.
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Kate Cox
Kate Cox left Texas to get an abortion. *The Texas supreme court ruled
that she cannot terminate her non-viable pregnancy there, despite
risks to her life and future fertility.*
*Kate Cox begged Texas to let her end a dangerous pregnancy. She won’t
be the last.* For antiabortion fanatics, making their dogma prevail justifies
causing any actual suffering to actual human beings.
The supreme court's ruling eliminated the immediate issue of whether
the attorney general could prosecute doctors for obeying the lower
court's order. But the dangerous effect will linger even though this
case does not.
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PISSI
The UK has made a few more exceptions to its policy of permanently exiling
people who went to Syria to fight for PISSI, and the children they had there.
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Biden and Israel
Biden has amplified verbal criticism of Israel for the bombardment of
Gaza. Still no real pressure, though, and that's what it will take
to end the atrocities.
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Canada treats assisting suicide as murder
It appears that Canada treats giving someone a supply of poison
suitable for suicide, which perse then uses for suicide, as
"murder".
This is morally dishonest. Enabling someone to commit suicide
is not killing, not if the person made the decision perself to do it.
That article veils so much of the facts that is hard to tell what
actually happened. I have a suspicion that the writer, or the editor
of The Guardian, was desperate to avoid showing that the concept of
"murder" did not fit the events.
Another article gives a little more of the picture.
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Taliban ended opium production in Afghanistan
The Taliban have more or less put an end to opium production
in Afghanistan.
They did this before 2001, also -- because it is part of their
religion.
This doesn't mean that there is no more heroin production. Rather,
growing opium has moved to Burma. With so much money to be made, it
will be produced somewhere. This is why prohibition is generally
ineffective.
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