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Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
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| 7:54a |
JBS meats and consumer fraud, NY
New York State is suing JBS, the biggest meat company for greenwashing that
tried to pretend
it was reducing its greenhouse gas emissions.
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Pivotal point in Gaza war
Biden's threat to stop support for Israel led it to make a
concession
to allow aid
into Gaza through Israel.
Whether Israel will really allow all the food, water, medical supplies and other aid that the
people of Gaza need is something that remains to be seen. We can't take for granted Israel
will sincerely implement what it has agreed to.
However, there is also the matter that we now know from whistleblowers that the Israeli army
was disregarding its obligation to avoid
wanton killing of civilians.
The US must not tolerate the continuation of this attitude towards causing civilian casualties.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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Urgent: Apply over-pricing laws, Big Grocery
US citizens:
call
on the FTC to enforce the law and stop supermarket chains from putting massive profits over consumers.
| | 7:54a |
Urgent: The greed of Big Pharma
US citizens:
call on Biden
to direct Medicare to lower drug costs and fight Big Pharma's greed.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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Military AI databases, ISR
Israel has implemented in real life the most horrible fictional scenario of a bloodbath caused by
letting algorithms choose
targets for bombing.
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When it came to targeting low-ranking Hamas and PIJ suspects, they said, the preference was
to attack when they were believed to be at home. “We were not interested in killing [Hamas]
operatives only when they were in a military building or engaged in a military activity,”
one said. "It’s much easier to bomb a family’s home. The system is built to look for them in
these situations."
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Another said that after the 7 October attacks by Hamas, the atmosphere in the IDF was
"painful and vindictive". "There was a dissonance: on the one hand, people here were
frustrated that we were not attacking enough. On the other hand, you see at the end of the
day that another thousand Gazans have died, most of them civilians."
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