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| 5:43a |
N. Gazans' food supply vs. S. Gazans
The
UNRWA says that, given the desperation for food of people in southern Gaza, they can't
safely carry aid to northern Gaza.
The only place they can bring aid into Gaza is in the south, from Egypt, transporting a fraction
of that insufficient aid across southern Gaza, meaning carrying it past injured and starving
refugees, whose families will steal it.
As long as the aid is insufficient, and someone is going to starve, I suppose
it makes no moral difference who draws the short straw, The real point is to
bring in enough aid for everyone in Gaza.
The US could do that — it could land the aid on Gaza's shore by boat.
It could land, each week, enough for everyone in Gaza for a week.
Even Netanyahu would not dare attack the US aid force.
What it does require is boldness of spirit.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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| 5:43a |
Protest-rights erosion, UK
The UK government is trying to
eliminate a defense
that climate
defense protesters have used to convince juries
to acquit them.
There is another defense that is valid for all climate defenders on trial for protesting: the
necessity defense, for trying to prevent the bigger crime of ecocide.
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| 5:43a |
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| 1:43p |
Urgent: Stop insuring LNG export terminals
US citizens:
tell the executives
of some insurance companies to stop insuring LNG export terminals.
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| 1:43p |
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| 1:43p |
Urgent: Bankruptcy case of Near Intelligence
US citizens:
call on the FTC
to intervene in the bankruptcy case of Near Intelligence and stop it from ever again selling people's location data.
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| 1:43p |
Car theft by technical cracking
Emulators that pretend to be
radio keys make stealing a car
faster and easier than ever before.
*Revealed: car industry was warned
keyless vehicles vulnerable
to theft a decade ago.*
These cars are full of computers with nonfree software and little
security. But the insecurity (like the surveillance) depends on
their attempt to communicate by radio.
If you deactivate the antennas, the car may be safe.
How difficult is that in practice? Does anyone collect information on
converting connected cars into disconnected cars?
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| 11:00p |
Alabama ruling on embryos
The Alabama court ruling that every embryo is a "child" makes no sense
in terms of biology and medicine, and is based on mistaking science
fiction (artificial wombs) for reality.
When the judges grasp the reality, that none of those stored embryos
can develop into a baby except by being implanted, I have a hunch they
will conscript women to forcibly implant them into. Or maybe they
will force the woman who made the eggs to suffer implantation of all
of her stored embryos at once. These would seem like justice to
people who don't care about human suffering.
But I doubt they could find any doctors willing to perform
those procedures.
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| 11:00p |
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| 11:00p |
Trial of 4-day work week
The UK's trial of 4-day work week was a success. 9/10 of the companies that
started it a year ago are still using it.
</li> |
| 11:00p |
Embryo shipping services halt business to Alabama
*Embryo shipping services to halt business in Alabama after IVF ruling.*
That puts the Alabama IVF clinics that no longer dare to continue with
the implantation of the frozen embryos that they are storing on
patients' behalf into a quandary. There is no course of action
that won't make them liable.
I expect it is not safe to be pregnant in Alabama either.
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| 11:00p |
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| 11:00p |
European countries pulling out of energy charter treaty
Several European countries have now pulled out of the Energy charter
Treaty.
Alas, this is not as beneficial as it might have been.
Pre-existing foreign investments remain covered by the treaty
for many years after a country leaves the treaty.
What is really needed
is something stronger: for the countries that belong to it to agree
to an "update" which turns this part into a no-op.
</li> |
| 11:00p |
Potential move to restrict asylum
*Progressives lambaste Biden over potential move to restrict asylum.*
Not everyone has ground for asylum, but rejecting people without a
hearing is evidently unjust.
Trying to "compromise" with the Sabotage Party is futile. Their
specific demands, ordered by the fascist saboteur, are meant only as
trolling, and when he wants them to block government he can invent a
new excuse at any moment.
</li> |
| 11:00p |
Rare harmful consequences of Covid-19 vaccines
The rare harmful consequences of Covid-19 vaccines are being tracked
with great care. A couple of side effects have been found to happen
to 1 or 2 people in every million that has been vaccinated.
But if you have the bad luck to get one of these, you'll probably
recover anyway. And you're more likely to get either of them after a
real Covid-19 infection than after a vaccination.
</li> |
| 11:00p |
Attempt to declare that "nature" has rights
The UK, and other countries, rightly resisted an attempt at a UN
conference to declare that "nature" has rights.
This must be rejected because it is an incoherent idea. Exercising a
right requires volition. "Nature" as such does not have volition.
Neither does a species, an ecosystem, or a ship … or a
corporation, for that matter.
Although many countries treat a corporation as a "person" and accord
it rights, that policy is harmful. and we need to change it.
In the US, we need to override the Corporations United decision
which says that constitutional rights apply to corporations.
Laws to protect aspects of nature are a different issue. Those are
coherent, and in general I support them. Indeed, I think we need to
make some of these laws more strict
and add more.
But we can protect aspects of nature without
confusing ourselves philosophically.
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| 11:01p |
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| 11:01p |
Refugee compelled to drive overloaded boat
A refugee who was compelled by people smugglers to drive an overloaded boat has
been convicted
of manslaughter because some of them drowned, because supposedly the smugglers forced on
him the "duty of care" — to have required qualifications, to refuse to allow too many
passengers, to drive it safely, etc.
This is morally bullshit. A person who is forced to do a job can
never deserve punishment on account of being unable to do it properly.
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