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Call for release of members of Jenin Freedom Theater
British playwrights, actors and directors wrote to Israel calling for release
of the members of the Jenin Freedom Theater. who were jailed a week ago.
My comments
on the Palestinian boycott-divestment-sanctions
policy.
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Fingerprints and "facial scans" in the EU
The European Union will start taking fingerprints and "facial scans"
of all visitors.
Can anyone tell me what a "facial scan" is, and how it differs from an
ordinary photograph?
I have refused to go to countries that demand fingerprints. Refusing
to visit Europe is too big a sacrifice for me, so I will yield in that
one case.
That does not mean I will yield to similar demands from other
countries. If there is one defensive position you can't hold, that is
no reason to surrender them all! I will continue to refuse to visit
the other countries that demand fingerprints, such as Japan, South
Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, and Argentina, unless I can bypass the
system.
Of course, I will also not visit China.
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Collective enshittification
In addition to the enshittification
of individual web sites, the
general practice of online sales is suffering collective
enshittification as described here.
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Arrest of unauthorized immigrants
Texas has passed a state law to arrest unauthorized immigrants and
that purports to authorize the state to deport them.
This is beyond the authority of a state, so the US Attorney General is
being asked to sue to block it.
As the article states, this law reflects the racist bigotry and
ideology of today's Republican Party, as well as its contempt for
human rights.
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Urgent: Finding Searx instances
Can anyone tell me how to find a Searx instance I can use? The one I
formerly used seemed to work ok although I had LibreJS active, but it
does not seem to exist any more.
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Illegal settlers need to be relocated
*Two-state solution would mean relocating 200,000 settlers,*
according to an Israeli lawyer advising the UK foreign minister
who is working toward that solution.
Israel established these "settlements", in knowing violation of the
treaties covering military occupation, expressly to prevent
establishment of a State of Palestine. We must not allow this to
determine the borders of Palestine for the future. It is acceptable
if some of the "settlements", complete with current Israeli
inhabitants, end up inside Palestine.
The crucial idea is to agree on an acceptable ultimate outcome, then
use temporary allowances to make it feasible to reach that outcome
after time.
There is no legitimate way to make them all move in a short time.
(The method Israel is using in Gaza is not legitimate there or
anywhere.) Fortunately, there is no need to aim for that goal.
Making those lands and buildings part of the State of Palestine does
not require emptying them of inhabitants in a hurry. The crucial
thing for creating the state is to establish Palestinian sovereignty
and jurisdiction over that territory.
In Israel, I was told that a large fraction of the Israelis who moved
to the "settlements" did so to save money. (Apparently inhabiting the
settlements was subsidized, just as their construction was.) Those
Israelis are not fanatics and would move out if that becomes
advantageous.
Palestine could allow Israeli citizens to reside there while paying
rent, which Palestine would not subsidize for them. I am sure it
would appreciate the income from this.
Israel would be compelled by voters to subsidize the rent paid to
Palestine, but for financial reasons would wish to reduce the rate of
flow of this money. So it would hasten to build new housing within
the agreed-on borders of Israel, enabling Israelis to move out of
Palestine.
As for the violent fanatics among the "settlers", Palestine's cops
(trained to be less brutal than Israel's Border Patrol) would identify
them and deport them to Israel, and they would not get visas to
reenter.
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Nikhil Gupta
The US will prosecute an Indian for allegedly organizing a plan to kill
Sikh separatists living in the US.
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Unconstitutional censorship
A federal agency cited federal trade sanctions to prohibit inviting
certain people to speak at an event in the US. A lawsuit argues that
this is unconstitutional censorship.
I agree -- trade sanctions against foreign interests are legitimate
but must not be an excuse for censorship.
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Saving forests
*Root and branch reform: [since] carbon markets aren't working, how do
we save our forests?*
I think that all these methods require a bigger stick, to succeed,
than people today envision arming them with.
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Lawsuit over album cover
A former baby that was photographed nude for an album cover at the age
of 4 months is now suing for "sexual exploitation".
There was nothing remotely sexual in the image that was published.
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Targeting journalists
*The Committee to Protect Journalists has accused the Israeli
military of targeting journalists and their families in Gaza amid
the highest death toll of media workers in any recent conflict.*
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