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Bullshitter mixing up Haley with Pelosi
*[The bullshitter] says mixing [up] Haley with Pelosi and Biden
with Obama was tactic, not gaffe.*
One advantage of training your supporters not to accept truth from you
is that you can get away with bullshit about your bullshit.
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Feasibility of plastic recycling
*Plastic producers have known for 30 years that recycling is not an
economically or technically feasible plastic waste management solution.
That has not stopped them from promoting it, according to a new report.*
This could be the basis for big lawsuits against them.
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Explanations around Netanyahu, HAMAS and the US
Explanations for why Netanyahu clings so tightly to defeating HAMAS militarily
even though the war is not going well, and why the US finds it so hard
to stop this.
The fact that HAMAS is not dead even in occupied northern Gaza may
help convince pertinent people that the idea of militarily eliminating
HAMAS is an impossible dream.
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Small US farms having trouble
Small farms in the US are having trouble, while large farms are bringing
high profits. Congress is proposing to increase subsidies that are
independent of size. That won't address the problem.
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Denouncing critics of Israel as 'un-Jews' or antisemites
*Denouncing critics of Israel as ‘un-Jews’ or antisemites is a
perversion of history.*
There is an old current in Jewish thought
which stands up for anyone who is mistreated — including Palestinians
mistreated by Jews. And another old current of deplatforming them.
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Tennessee bill on helping minors obtain abortion
*Tennessee advances bill to [imprison] people [for] helping minors
obtain abortion.*
This demonstrates the fanaticism of the religious extremists that are
determined to prevent abortion, whatever the cost (to those who are
pregnant).
The bill says specifically anyone who "recruits, harbors, or
transports a pregnant unemancipated minor" commits a crime. I wonder
what it means, concretely, to "recruit" someone for an abortion.
Does that ever really occur?
I also wonder what is covered by "transports". Does it include
giving someone money, which she might use to buy a bus ticket?
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Germany silencing criticism of Israel
Germany is harshly silencing those who criticize Israel.
After Hitler's mass murder of Jews became public knowledge, Jews were
compelled to confront the question: is it "never again" against us,
or "never again" against anyone whatsoever? Humanitarian morality
must choose the latter interpretation, and that is what I support.
Germany has, according to the article, adopted the narrow
interpretation, according to which Israel cannot be criticized for
predictably killing tens of thousands (and perhaps eventually more) of
Palestinians in Gaza, and those who do criticize it are
"anti-semitic".
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People privately enslaved in Britain
Almost half the people privately enslaved in Britain nowadays were not
trafficked from some other country. Rather, they are boys who were
pressured by local criminals into supporting their crimes.
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Tunnels under UNRWA's main office in Gaza
The Israeli army showed reporters extensive tunnels under the UNRWA's
main office in Gaza.
We cannot trust either HAMAS or Israel to tell the truth about events
in Gaza, or about tunnels that exist there. But I think it must be
true that these tunnels were built by HAMAS. I don't think Israel
could have built tunnels 700 meters long in a few months in Gaza in
the middle of the fighting. It could perhaps have set up a room full
of electrical equipment supposedly connected to the tunnels, but I won't
say those couldn't be the work of HAMAS.
I would expect that the construction of military facilities amidst
UNRWA's facilities was a war crime committed by HAMAS. We already
know HAMAS commits much worse violations of international humanitarian
law.
It is plausible that the tunnels got their electricity from the UNRWA
camp. Stealing electricity happens world-wide, but it is a minor
issue compared to the war crimes in Gaza.
I don't think the UNRWA knew about these tunnels. I expect that HAMAS
recruited some of the UNRWA staff and they ensured no one else learned
of the existence of the tunnels
. Israel has accused some of UNRWA's staff of serving HAMAS.
That accusation is not proof as regards the guilt of specific
individuals,
but it is perfectly plausible that HAMAS infiltrated the staff of
UNRWA. I expect Israel tried too but was not in a position to succeed
very much.
This infiltration of UNRWA is no reason to cut the funding for the
humanitarian aid it gives to Palestinians, and no excuse for
continuing to subject hundreds of thousands in Gaza to death from
hunger, thirst and disease.
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Urgent: Reject proposal to label fentanyl as "chemical weapon"
US citizens: call on Congress to reject the proposal to label fentanyl
dishonestly as a "chemical weapon" and charge people with "terrorism"
for possession of it.
Laws must not lie. The illegal fentanyl trade has harmful effects — the usual
effects of black-market sale of drugs.
Some of the people who buy fentanyl on the street buy it because they
doctors won't prescribe them enough oxycodone to last the whole day.
(Each pill works for 6 hours.) They are victims of the War on Pain Sufferers.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Urgent: Investigation into the wrecker's ill-gotten gains
US citizens: call on the Senate to complete the investigation into the
wrecker's foreign ill-gotten gains.
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Urgent: Investigate election rigging in Pakistan
US citizens: call on the United States to insist on a full
investigation into accusations of military election rigging in Pakistan,
before recognizing a new government there.
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