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| 6:21a |
MI5 interference
In the 1980s, the Tories used the government's intelligence agency to
attack the striking miners' union,
which they sought to destroy.
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| 6:21a |
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| 6:21a |
Low-traffic neighborhoods
A low-traffic neighborhood in the UK has a one-time cost of 100 UKP
per person (or less) to build, and save 200 UKP per person per year
by benefits to health.
I think those benefits come from (1) more exercise and (2) less
pollution.
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| 6:21a |
(Satire) Zuckerberg Murder
(satire) *Blood-Covered Mark Zuckerberg Informed That Murder He Just
Committed
Was Not In Metaverse.*
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| 6:21a |
Cash-strapped UN
*Sweden and Canada will resume aid to
UN agency for Palestinians.*
*To unblock the aid, UNRWA had agreed to "allow controls,
independent audits, to strengthen internal supervision and extra
controls of personnel".* This is to ensure that they don't work
for HAMAS.
Israel has not provided proof of its accusations that some UNRWA
employees work for HAMAS.
But it would not surprise me if that were true, since it is hard
to hire a lot of people in Gaza without including some HAMAS
members.
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| 6:50a |
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| 6:50a |
New York Surveillance expanding
The New York City subways' crime rate is very low, but Governor Hochul
was sent soldiers to patrol entrance gates and demand to search
passenger's bags just to make
them feel comfortable.
I don't think the ones who are racially profiled and searched
repeatedly will feel comforted.
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| 6:50a |
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| 6:50a |
The U.S. War in Somalia
The US intervention in Somalia has continued for more than 20 years,
without ever making a coherent plan for
what it was trying to do.
The Pentagon investigated what went wrong there and discovered
this basic problem.
Somalia had almost become stable under a government that had the bad
quality of being Islamist. So it got Ethiopia to intervene and get
rid of it, leaving al Shabaab in guerrilla war against a government
that the US supports. It seem to me that
that intervention made
things worse.
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| 6:50a |
La Joyita prison
A prisoner in Panama, in a prison that was full of refuse, started a
program for prisoners to work to clean on cleaning it up. The result
was to involve hundreds of prisoners in
doing work that legitimate
and constructive.
Programs for prisoners to learn and work in useful ways and be
rewarded were known in the past as "rehabilitation". They were
widespread in the US, but a right-wing "tough on crime" wave
eliminated equated enlightenment with "softness" and eliminated them.
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| 4:21p |
Gang violence crisis, Haiti
The government of Haiti has been brushed aside by gangs, which are now
fighting to take over
the most important central resources.
The government of Haiti became so weak because the US
imposed
presidents
through
coups and rigged elections.
No one thought of them except as viceroys.
Haiti has not had a legitimate president since a coup orchestrated by the US
forced Aristide out in 2004.
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