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Profits and payouts over passengers
Boeing and its spin-off Spirit put *Profits And Payouts Over Passenger
Safety.* This article gives the history and details.
The US system of business is fundamentally broken, systematically
producing results that don't resemble what is said to make capitalism
beneficial. It is no longer "If we do a good job of XYZ, we will make
a lot of money"; rather, "Let's make more money by doing a bad job and
screwing our customers, our workers and the public."
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Tories and carbon
The Tories have decided to build and run a "carbon capture and
storage" plant at the cost of 50 billion dollars, if fully
implemented.
"Carbon capture and storage", if it works, will reduce greenhouse
gases in the atmosphere. We will need to do that in he future, once
we have cut greenhouse gas emissions, if we have damaged forests and
algae so much that they can't remove the excess CO2 we will have
emitted.
However, what we need now is to reduce the rate of increase down to
zero, and the money used for this absurdly expensive system could
achieve a lot more of that if spent on building renewable generation,
battery storage, and grid enhancement.
I suspect that the Tories' decision was intended to please those who
will get that money.
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AT&T cheating customers
AT&T in California has been cheating its customers, the public and the state
for over a decade. All the details are here.
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EU advertising rule
New EU advertising rule: *Products and services billed as climate
neutral, biodegradable or eco [(organic)] must provide proof, with
carbon schemes banned as evidence.*
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Urgent: HJ Res 25
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and say to sign the discharge
petition to bring HJ Res 25 to a vote. This is the resolution to
bring the Equal Rights Amendment into effect by recognizing the
ratifications that a sufficient number of states have already done.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Clothing industry greenhouse gas
The clothing industry contributes significantly to greenhouse
emissions and to the waste society ultimately discards. How to reduce
these two burdens is not clear.
One thing which is not clear to me is how this accounting deals with
remaindered garments -- like the ones you can find in Marshalls. Are
they included in the "sold" category (after all, they do eventually
get sold by the company that ordered their production) or the "waste"
category? If these are considered "sold", how come any garments
remain as "waste"? Why aren't they all remaindered, and thus
eventually put in the hands of someone who will wear them?
Some fraction must be bizarre styles that hardly anyone wants to wear.
But it seems implausible to me that they would be a substantial
fraction of total production.
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Recording
A recording of a clear proposal to assassinate Rep. Nadler or
journalist Eric Swalwell was turned in to the Capitol Police. But it
isn't clear whether it is a real recording or a deepfake.
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