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Thugs that killed Mario Gonzalez
The city that employed the thugs that killed already-handcuffed Mario
Gonzalez will pay his family 11 million dollars, but will the thugs be
punished?
Until the killers themselves face punishment, they will expect to get away
with their crimes.
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Attachment to eating meat
George Monbiot reports on the billions of dollars that the enormous
meat industry can spend on sowing irrational attachment to eating far
too much meat — and the forms of attachment we see around us.
He reports on how the UN Food and Agriculture organization has been captured
by the meat industry, and how Cop28 was blocked from even proposing that
we eat less meat.
The amount of meat we eat in the US and many other wealthy countries
is too much, because it is bad for the ecosphere's health and bad for
each human's health.
Meat production does harm to the ecosphere first by deforestation to
make more farmland to grow feed for animals, then by fertilizer runoff
from those farms. then through the waste that the animals produce.
All these harms are massive in scale because the quantities or meat
produced are massive.
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Urgent: Clothing manufacturers use of fossil fuels
Everyone: call on clothing manufacturers to phase out fossil fuels.
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Discouraged from speaking up about dangerous chemicals
*[Former EPA employee] Karen McCormack says regulators at [that]
environmental agency are discouraged from speaking up about
dangerous chemicals.*
She said *that she believed the EPA was not
fulfilling its mission to protect the public from harmful chemicals.*
One example is the weedkiller, paraquat.
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Leaderless horizontal protests
In the decade after 2010, many countries experienced leaderless
horizontal protests,- some of them very large. But hardly any gained
anything for democracy or justice, or whatever causes had motivated
the protests.
Some were co-opted by right-wing forces that were organized. Others
suffered from having no leaders that could negotiate to accept
concessions from the state.
President Rousseff of Brazil, a leftist who had been tortured by the
same military thugs that were bashing mass protesters in Sao Paulo,
watched the protests on TV trying to figure out what the protesters
wanted -- so she could do that for them. But there was no answer to
be had, because they were not organized enough to have agreed on
anything specific. She could only guess.
The article explains how organized right-wing extremists put the blame
on her, and that eventually led to making Bolsonaro president.
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Platform feudalism
Yanis Varoufakis claims that capitalism has given way to a form of
platform feudalism, where the dominant powers are the companies that
charge rent for transactions passing through digital platforms that
most people consider impossible to avoid.
It is not in fact impossible -- I almost never touch any of them --
but avoiding them does require an effort. I am able to stand firm in
this effort because I hate the wrongs they impose on individuals
(nonfree software and tracking each person) even more than their
wealth and power.
Most people don't appreciate the injustice of that nonfree software or the tracking of everyone
so they can't draw strength and resilience from that source.
If you want to discuss Varoufakis's interesting political theory, I
suggest not adopting the term "cloud" that he so often uses. That is a
marketing term designed to distract the mind from the one-user-at-a-time
wrong that these companies' sites do to each user.
Pity the poor fools who think that what Europe needs is "its own Apple
or Google". One of each of those is too many. And pity even more the
Europeans, if that quest for home-grown European feudal lords is a
success.
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Abortion persecution
Various US states have found legal pretexts to persecute 61 women for
giving themselves abortions or helping with them. Many have suffered
lasting harm as a result.
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AI doomsday distraction
*AI doomsday warnings a distraction from the danger it already poses,*
such as the recommendation engines of antisocial media platforms that
encourage the spread of disinformation and hatred.
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Unguided munitions
*[At least 40%] of the air-to-ground munitions that Israel has used in
Gaza since October 7 have been unguided, otherwise known as "dumb
bombs."*
When bombing in Gaza, to hit some Palestinian civilians does not
require great precision.
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Trial for supporting democracy
China is putting former Hong Kong newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai on
trial for supporting democracy (they describe it in different terms).
After he is convicted, he will probably spend the rest of his life in
prison.
China would probably claim those statements are false -- that it is
"Hong Kong's" courts, not China's, that the charges are undermining
order and national security, Those are typical lies of repressive
tyrannies such as China.
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