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| 6:04a |
Alarm as first uranium mine in years opens near Grand Canyon
The Cop28 climate conference failed to set a target for decarbonizing,
but it did set a target of
tripling nuclear generation.
The US is rushing to carry out.this plan.
Nuclear generation is more expensive and slower to build than renewable
generation, it pollutes at many levels, and it carries the risk of disaster.
We should not carry out that agreement -- we should build renewable generators
and batteries instead.
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| 6:04a |
Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to prison instead of joining IDF
*Tal Mitnick, 18, on going to
prison instead of joining
[the Israeli army].*
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| 6:04a |
UK’s crackdown on climate protesters
*Five examples of the UK’s crackdown on
climate protesters.*
Has Starmer said that Labour would end this repression, or defend the
climate enough to the protests unnecessary? I don't think so, but I'd like
to be reminded if I forgot.
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| 6:04a |
Cooking carbon offsets overstate climate benefit by 1,000%, study finds
Burning wood indoors for cooking is a bad idea because the wood smoke
harms people's health. Projects to hand out wood-burning stoves in
poor countries are supported by "carbon offsets" which are
fraudulent
in the usual way.
I've heard of projects to give people inexpensive solar-powered
cookers. They don't cause any pollution; the users don't even need to
buy or cut wood.
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| 6:04a |
Bureau of Land Management proposed land for solar projects
The Bureau of Land Management has proposed 22 million acres of public land
to designate for
solar power use.
This is 1% of the land area of the US. I think we can spare that much,
especially since civilization's survival depends on that.
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| 8:19p |
Urgent: Pass the Right-to-Repair legislation
US citizens: call on Congress to
pass Right-to-Repair legislation.
Fully effective Right-to-Repair legislation must require the software to be something
close to free.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:19p |
Urgent: Ban single-use plastics
US citizens: call on Congress to
ban single-use plastics
to protect our environment and public health.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:19p |
The JP Morgan Chase, US presidential "vote", Davos
Jamie Dimon,
CEO of the bank JP Morgan Chase,
has started to give
mendacious praise for the bullshitter's policies while president.
Evidently he doesn't mind joining in the bullshit in order to win the favor
of someone who may become dictator of the US.
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| 8:19p |
*"No one should have more than [$10 million]": the author of
Limitarianism on
why the super-rich need to level down
radically.*
An absolute limit on any person's wealth is roughly equivalent to a
100% marginal tax rate on income beyond a certain point. A 93% tax
rate would give similar results, and we know it is feasible and works. So I think
we should try that instead.
To fully implement that 93% marginal tax rate entails eliminating the deductions and
manipulations currently used by the rich to shelter much of their wealth and income from it.
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Chemical attack on university protesters, NY
*[Columbia University] students protesting Israel's bombardment of
Gaza reported being
sprayed with a chemical
that caused nausea and
headaches.*
Ironically, they may have been sprayed with a chemical used in Israel
against protesting Palestinians.
Protest organizers accused two former Israeli soldiers who are now students there.
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War-money sit-ins at university, MA crackdown
Students at the University of Massachusetts held a sit-in strike
calling for
disassociation from manufactures of weapons
Israel uses in the occupation of Palestine. The university is prosecuting 57 protesters
for trespassing.
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