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Border patrol thugs
Israeli border patrol thugs repeatedly drove over the body of a
wounded Palestinian who was lying helplessly in the street. Some of
the border patrol had shot him just before, but he may still have been
alive.
An Israeli peace supporter told me 20 years ago that the border patrol
were especially cruel towards Palestinians.
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FBI agents pretending to work for PISSI
FBI agents pretending to work for PISSI convinced a mentally disabled
teenager to fly to Syria or Afghanistan (it wasn't clear to him which
one) to join PISSI. As soon as he turned 18, they told him to head for
the airport, where they arrested him.
A competent person who was capable of actually doing these things
could be a real terrorist and a real threat. But that young man was
hardly capable of hurting anyone without being led on a leash to do
it. If the FBI had not set out to do just that, he would have been
harmless.
What strikes me as wrong is that the FBI is eager for the chance
to make headlines by setting traps for Walter Mitty terrorists,
which doesn't do much good against real terrorists.
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Regulating driverless vehicles
California is giving cities and counties the power to regulate
driverless vehicles.
This is a step forward, but part of the benefit is that it will allow
cities and counties to ban them entirely.
Most criticism of driverless vehicles is because they cause various
sorts of local danger. That issue is properly treated as very
important, but we must not overlook the surveillance threat they pose.
No taxi company should be allowed to operate on the basis of
systematically identifying everyone that hires a ride -- there must
be a reasonable way to travel anonymously.
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Austerity
George Monbiot: *There are no savings from austerity and
privatisation, just a wholesale shifting of costs. The rich pay
less tax and the public service companies in which they own shares
make greater profits. The rest of us pick up the bill.*
He had been on a train run by a privatized train company, but the
train was stopped by extreme weather. The company found a clever way
of reducing discharging its legal duty to give the passengers
alternate transport to London: it gave them taxi vouchers, which most
of them couldn't use since few taxis were available.
The rest of the passengers just had to wait hours in the rain. The
company never had to actually pay those vouchers because the vouchers
were never used.
Clever and destructive!
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Harvard sued
Some Jewish students at Harvard have sued the university for
"tolerating" antisemitism.
The allegation could be true; antisemitism is found in many places,
and it may have been manifested at Harvard. However, it could also be
an instance of the frequent distortion which construes condemnation of
Israel's actions as "antisemitic", and erroneously equating support for
Palestinians rights with support for HAMAS.
There is also the question of whether respect for the constitutional
rights of the accused students requires some of the toleration that
the plaintiffs object to.
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Gaza sexual violence
This article complains that the world is not focusing outrage
especially on the women who were captured and then raped in Gaza by
HAMAS.
The rape of around 100 people would in ordinary circumstances stand
out as an major atrocity. However, in Gaza it happened alongside the
killing of 20,000 people and wounding of 60,000. That is an atrocity
800 times bigger, and it continues to grow.
The Jewish victims of HAMAS terrorism are not responsible for the
Israeli bombardment and siege, Neither are the Palestinian victims
of the Israeli bombardment responsible for the HAMAS terrorism.
Neither group deserved to be the victims of an atrocity.
These atrocities are both gravely morally culpable, but it is proper
to focus first on the far larger atrocity, especially if it continues
to happen.
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EV charger funding
Biden has allocated $500 million in funding for chargers for EVs.
I wonder if any of them allow charging a car without identifying
yourself? I doubt it.
Slowly and steadily flying under the media, the establishment of total
surveillance in the US advances step by step.
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Wrecker bomb threats
Various officials involved in prosecuting or resisting the wrecker
have been swatted.
This confirms what we knew: he is the leader of a fascist movement
to overthrow democracy in the US.
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Hydroxychloroquine
*Study calculated that there was an 11% increase in mortality [when
patients used] hydroxychloroquine*, the "cure" that the bullshitter recommended
based on zero evidence.
Causality has not been established. It could be that the people who
followed the bullshitter's advice were a priori less capable of
resisting Covid-19.
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