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| 4:19p |
Antisemitism, the original definition
Kenneth Stern in 2019: *I drafted the [IHRA] definition of
antisemitism.
Rightwing Jews are weaponizing it.*
He says it was not designed to be a basis for censorship and objects to its use for that.
Nowadays, said weaponization has spread to the entire right wing, both
Jews and non-Jews, including powerful right wing Christians with
billions of dollars. In 2022, Stern, himself a Zionist, condemned the
use of
this
distortion of his work
to falsely label political support for Palestine as "antisemitic".
He also explains that encouragement of a culture of hatred of some groups — whichever
groups they may be — promotes hatred of other groups. One bigotry promotes other
bigotries. Thus, right-wing leaders that justify hate in the name of opposing antisemitism
indirectly promote antisemitism (as well as the hate they try to justify).
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| 4:19p |
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| 4:19p |
Urgent: Deter excessive methane emissions
US citizens:
support the EPA's plan to charge companies
for excess methane emissions.
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| 4:19p |
Responsible investing as antitrust
Citi, BofA, JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo have dropped
the Equator Principles,
which among other things provide minimum environmental standards,
I speculate that their executives now feel less pressure to hold back
even from the most outrageous forms of damage. There is a campaign
calling on Citi (pronounced "seetee", or perhaps "sheetee") to
stop
funding expansion of US exports of liquid methane.
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| 4:19p |
Urgent: Fund the Antitrust Division
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators and call on each
to fully fund the Department of Justice's Antitrust Division.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 4:20p |
Nikki Haley is out
Nikki Haley has abandoned her campaign for
the Republican nomination.
The votes she received demonstrated a considerable fraction of Republicans
are reluctant to vote for the fascist.
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| 4:49p |
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| 8:51p |
Police spied on Ireland journalists
UK thugs arrested some Northern Ireland journalists after collecting
evidence with secret surveillance. The journalist, once freed,
demanded an investigation of that surveillance. The investigation is
occurring,
but it is being kept secret.
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| 8:51p |
Palestine Peace Protest
Tories are considering a proposal to forbid MPs from talking with
members of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign. That would be an offense
against democracy in the UK.
The people who join the PSC's protests are representing their own
political views as individuals, as they have a legitimate right to do.
They do not all agree completely; I expect that some call for the
elimination of Israel, while others do not, and surely some are
antisemites. However, the PSC's views as stated here by its director,
I can agree with.
The people whom MPs should never meet with are the lobbyists who are
paid to represent the desires of the rich.
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| 8:51p |
RTO disadvantages
A study found that when companies required employees to work from the
office again, this provided no benefit for the company's work, but
did
make employees dissatisfied.
*The data [are] consistent with bosses using RTO to reassert control
and scapegoat workers.*
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| 8:51p |
Deadly heat in Florida and Texas prisons
Prisons can be deadly in the summer
because of hazardous heat.
In the US, prisons in Florida and Texas are the hottest, and those
states have governments that think it is fine if the heat kills prisoners.
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| 8:51p |
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| 8:51p |
Norway's vital climate leap
Norway now judges approval of undersea oil wells counting the carbon
emissions from burning the fossil
fuels extracted from the well.
This is a necessary part of any regulatory system intended to curb
global heating from fossil fuels. The fossil fuel companies fight
against this, not only in law but in people's minds. They emit
publicity about their efforts to reduce the (fairly small) emissions
from their own activities, distracting people from the
emissions from
burning the fuel they sell
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| 8:51p |
House Bill 1639
Florida's Republican-dominated legislature is considering a law to
require all insurance companies to cover so-called "conversion
therapy" to convince trans-people to adopt the gender that goes
with
their biological sex.
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| 8:51p |
Child Aisle Study
*[At] What Age Would You Let Your [10 year old] Child Go to a
Different
Aisle at the Store?*
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| 9:21p |
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| 9:21p |
Gazan detainees reportedly tortured
Many Palestinian men imprisoned temporarily by Israel
reported being
tortured.
American soldiers did this to Arab (and other Muslim) prisoners,
especially when suspected of
some connection with terrorism;
I would expect Israelis
to do it too. Some of the victims were real terrorists, but most were
suspected erroneously based on vaguely suggestive evidence.
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