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Hamas hostage trauma
*Many hostages released by Hamas still being treated for trauma.
Head of psychiatry at Tel Aviv medical centre says hostages have
undergone worst abuse she has witnessed.* It sounds horrible.
HAMAS is a terrorist organization and some of its kidnappers vented all
their hatred against hostages. But that is not an excuse to hate all
Palestinians in Gaza and torture them,
Some of these kinds of torture have been practiced by other counties
such as China
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World behind on carbon cutting
*World [is going far too slowly] on almost every policy required to
cut carbon emissions, research finds.*
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Water violence
War over access to water is increasing globally, and so is use of denial
of water as a weapon. How can the world reduce this?
Our system for preventing atrocities, mostly set up after World War
II, is defied constantly, and the most powerful governments are unable
to make other countries obey. In some cases, Russia being just one
one, they are among the most guilty. That encourages the increase of
all kinds of atrocities.
So the real question is how to reshape international power competition
so that it is not advantageous to disregard that system, let alone
fight against it as Putin and Netanyahu are doing now.
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| 8:03p |
Billionaire philanthropy
*The True Cost of Billionaire Philanthropy: the ultra-wealthy use
[tax-exempt] giving to avoid taxes and exert influence, while ordinary
taxpayers foot the bill.*
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Israel reducing troops
Israel will reduce its troops in Gaza and demobilize some who are
reservists. But this does not mean the mass murder will end any time soon.
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Snoop-phone connected cars
Recent autos offer a feature by which the driver can connect per
snoop-phone to the car. That feature snoops on the calls and texts and
give the data to the car manufacturer, and to the state.
A good privacy law would prohibit cars recording this data about the
users activities. But not just this data -- lots of other data too.
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Commercially available sensitive information
EPIC reports on how little we know about the "commercially available
information" about Americans that US government agencies buy.
The root of this problem is not that the US government buys the
commercially available information but that sensitive information
about people can be collected at all. The fourth amendment was
meant to limit investigation of people's things and activities, and
such limits are meaningful only if it can't be bypassed by asking a
business to pressure you to consent.
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