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Amazon drought
*Devastating drought in Amazon result of climate crisis, study shows.*
The forest is close to the predicted transformation into a savannah,
which would mean most of the trees die and release their carbon
into the air.
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Khan Younis hospital
*Thousands trapped in Gaza hospitals as Israeli troops encircle Khan Younis.*
And civilians can't easily get in or out of the three main hospitals.
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Nondisclosure agreement
An Australian local government council, about to vote on a proposed
event about Harry Potter, was told that each member had to sign a
nondisclosure agreement in order to receive information about the plans.
This violated government's democratic duty of transparency for the
public.
Businesses often demand, and get, secrecy pledges from businesses,
and often they apply to facts that affect possible issues for safety
of people and the environment.
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CO2 emissions
The EU has made significant reductions in CO2 emissions from fossil
fuels.
It's going in the right direction but we all need to do it, and faster,
if we are to avoid disaster.
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Majority verdicts
Allowing convictions by 10 votes out of the 12 jurors may have been
adopted in the UK as a way to facilitate repression of minorities.
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Bogus fossil fuel arguments
How the UK government uses bogus arguments to justify extracting the maximum
possible fossil fuels.
We could call the arguments sleight of mind, since they are the
equivalent, for thoughts, of what sleight of hand is for physical
operations.
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Lod interviews
Interviews with Jewish and Arab inhabitants of the Israeli town of Lod.
I find it noteworthy that the Arab residents face repression and are
barred entirely from holding political rallies.
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Moral clarity
Robert Reich: Ending the war in Gaza, and ending the oppression of the
occupation of Palestine, calls for moral clarity. The US called on
Israel to manifest that.
Biden should show that Palestinian lives matter to him by insisting
that Israel end the atrocities in Gaza.
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Proud Boys member sentenced to only 6 years
A Proud Boys member who joined in the Jan 6 insurrection, then planned
to try an insurrection in Portland, Oregon, has been sentenced to only
6 years in prison.
Given his unrepentant determination to support a fascist take-over of
the US that is a combination of massive crimes, he will be eager to
support a right-wing coup when he gets out. It would be wiser to give
him a sentence several times as long.
The most worrisome part is that if the bullshitter grabs power, he
will pardon violent supporters like this one, then use them in an
unofficial extralegal repression squad. That is the fascist way.
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Carbon mega bomb paused
*Biden administration reportedly pauses approval of "carbon mega bomb" gas
export hub.*
If this export terminal is built, it could speed up global heating to
the point that sea-level rise forces it to stop operating. That would
be ironic, but what we need is not an ironic self-defeat for some of
those working global disaster. Rather, we need to avoid that
disaster.
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