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No Labels director vote
No Labels has abandoned the idea of running a candidate for president.
Its director said that between Biden and the
wrecker he would vote for
Biden.
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Toxic bandage brands
The biggest US brands of bandages contain PFAS, which can be absorbed
directly into the skin.
How much of a dose a person is likely to get from wearing these
bandages, the article does not say, and perhaps no one knows. I think
it would not be an easy experiment to do. But it would surely be safer
not to have them in bandages.
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Israeli inquiry
Australia demands that Israel save pertinent evidence and permit an
independent investigation into the
killing of an Australian aid worker
who was in the WCK aid convoy attacked by a drone.
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Possible war crimes
The UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution to hold Israel
accountable for
possible war crimes.
"Hold accountable" is rather vague — I don't see precisely what the
resolution called for.
Meanwhile, Biden threatened to cut off support, and this compelled
Netanyahu to agree to open more channels for humanitarian aid into
Gaza. This demonstrates that Biden can compel Israel to change an
inhumane practice in war.
Whether these changes will end the starvation in Gaza remains to be
seen. I would not sell Netanyahu anything on credit.
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A symbol of harmony
About a mosque in Varanasi where both Hindus and Muslims come to say
their respective prayers.
I myself do not pray to anything, because I don't believe there is
anything to pray to. But I am glad that Hindus and Muslims coexist
in peace and tranquility.
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15-minute neighborhoods
Paris is constructing "15-minute neighborhoods" (what most people want
every day is available close by), and
people generally like them a lot.
It is a shame that right-wing disinformation killed this in the UK.
This is far from the worst harm that right-wing disinformation has done,
but it is noteworthy for being so evidently false, so easy to confirm
as false. We need to change our social systems so that they cease
to facilitate lies, even lies as blatant as this.
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Turkey democracy
Things are looking up in Turkey for democracy; a secularist and
democratic opposition party won most of the
votes in local elections.
But it is not certain that the public will be allowed to go ahead
peacefully to vote that way. Erdoğan has used horrible dirty tricks
before,
even starting a civil war
as an excuse to redo an election and get more votes by appealing to a
misguided idea of patriotism,
much as Dubya did by attacking Iraq.
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Starlight tours
Thugs in Saskatoon made a practice of arresting indigenous people and
leaving them at isolated places, on freezing cold nights, when their
clothing was not adequate to survive. They were likely to die as a
result. One victim knew a place where
he could find shelter, and
survived to testify.
Two thugs who were known to have killed indigenous people in this way
were later convicted of a crime for that, and sentenced to prison.
That's better than what usually happens to killer thugs, which is that
they are never prosecuted at all; but the crime they were convicted of
was an understatement.
They should have been charged with murder. They must have expected
that the men they dumped in the cold were likely to die as a result,
and intended that result.
It seems that the attempt to kill Darrell Night was motivated only
by his being merely a nuisance.
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