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| 12:21p |
Youngsters' musical autonomy
The use by parents of
music-streaming
dis-services is cutting children off from playing music on their own.
This is an example of the injustice that results inevitably from locking up music (or any kind
of recording) behind a web site or app that works only for someone who has an account, and which
blocks and forbids distributing copies.
As tends to happen, the author does not carry the criticism down to the root of the problem.
Perse suggests superficial workarounds that leave the system's injustice uncriticized.
The solution is to get DRM-free copies of music, and copy them into a player made with free
software that a child can use.
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| 12:21p |
War as political gain, ISR
*Biden: "every reason" to believe
Netanyahu
is prolonging Gaza war for political gain.*
I agree — so Biden, when will you put your foot down and stop this?
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| 12:21p |
Shoplifting stats soaring, UK
In the UK, systematic shoplifting has become the supplier for fences who act as a
discount
store chain for the many whose income is too low to get by.
This is not a good solution for the problem. I suspect that some
criminals are enriching themselves from it. It may also lead some
stores to close. But it is better than no solution at all.
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| 12:21p |
New president extraordinaire, MEX
Mexico's new president is
a climate scientist.
That ought to be a hopeful sign. But I am worried about the plan to increase fossil fuel
extraction as an "investment" and use the profits to switch to renewable energy later. Fossil
fuel "investment" has a tendency to carry society along into more and more of the same —
then, before you expected it, you're out of time and it's too late for civilization to survive.
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| 12:21p |
Ocean health
*Oceans face
"triple threat"
of extreme heat, oxygen loss and acidification.*
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| 12:21p |
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| 12:21p |
Voter-fraud fear exploit
Republicans are creating irrational outrage over Washington DC's policy of allowing
non-citizen
residents to vote in local elections.
The outrage is irrational because those targeted for outrage mostly
don't live there and therefore are not affected by the practice.
Many places in Europe allow non-citizen residents of a city to vote in local elections. The
idea shocked me at first, but on further thought I concluded it made sense. Non-citizen
residents have the same relationship to the city that citizen residents have: they benefit from
local services and support them with taxes.
Republicans would have us conflate the act of lawfully voting as a non-citizen, when and where
that is authorized, with the act of voting fraudulently. But the two are completely different.
The latter is extremely unlikely, because what one can personally gain by voting is not enough
to motivate people to break a law. In fact, individual
voter fraud is very
rare.
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| 12:21p |
Dr Anthony Fauci's family: death threats
*Anthony Fauci says
Marjorie
Taylor Greene drove death threats against him.*
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| 12:21p |
Closing US-MEX border
Biden plans
to "close" the US-Mexico border to asylum seekers entirely,
imitating what the wrecker tried to do as president.
Meanwhile, the Democratic leaders of the Senate negotiated a deal for restricting immigration
based on right-wing Republican policies, whereupon the Republicans rejected the deal, calling it
insufficiently harsh. Trying to make a compromise with Republicans who are obeying the
wrecker is a fool's errand.
The right to request asylum, and be considered for it according to the facts of your case, is
one of the triumphs of the movement for international human rights law that followed World War
II. I fear that we are witnessing the effective abolition of that right.
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| 12:21p |
Netanyahu's speech to congress boycotted
Bernie
Sanders explains why he will not attend Netanyahu's speech to the US Congress.
He describes the enormous atrocities of Israel's bombardment and siege
of Gaza, which have killed or wounded 5% of the whole population.
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| 12:21p |
CO2 emissions trading system fraud, EU
The European CO2 emissions trading system proved to be an excellent
vehicle for VAT fraud.
I did not know about this wrinkle until today, but I realized when I read about emissions
trading that it would provide
opportunities
for fraud at the expense of Earth's climate.
The proponents of a "carbon market" tend to assume that such a market would effectively give the
same results as a carbon tax. They disregard that every trade of emissions quota from A to B is
an opportunity for sleight of hand to hide some emissions somewhere between A and B.
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| 12:21p |
Urgent: New England power grid bills
US citizens:
call
on ISO-New England to stop funding fossil fuel "peaker" plants.
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| 12:21p |
Nakba scholarship censored, two US Uni.
*Columbia Law Review Refused to Take Down Article on [how Israeli law is applied to] Palestine,
So Its Board of Directors
Nuked
the Whole Website.*
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| 12:21p |
(Satire) Name your representatives
(satire) *Study Finds
Only
1 In 3 Americans Can Name Their Representatives' Corporate Donors.*
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