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Urgent: Free-software tax returns
US citizens:
call on the IRS
to make a libre site for filing tax returns.
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Urgent: COP29, oil boss organizer
US citizens:
call on COP29 to remove the head of
Azerbaijan's state oil company from the position of its organizer.
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| 8:55a |
Urgent: Tax the rich
US citizens:
call on Congress
to tax the rich.
Many of America's problems can be corrected by this, both those that
call for spending money and those that involve weakness of democracy.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Widening targets on both sides, UKR
*French
military instructors in Ukraine would be "legitimate target",* according to the Putin forces.
They should bring anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses with them so they can protect
themselves if attacked. These defenses will not escalate the war, since they could not engage
any of the Putin forces except when said Putin forces are attacking them.
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| 8:55a |
Covert marketing, fast food, AUS
*Fast food chains are successfully influencing news outlets [in Australia] to produce "covert
marketing" for their brands,
a
new study has found.*
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On banning fossil-fuel advertising, UN
Secretary
General Guterres calls for a global ban on fossil-fuel advertising.
I support the idea. The challenge is to overcome the domination of the
planet roasters and their PR funds.
Perhaps this suggests a new idea for climate defense protests:
covering or tearing off the advertisements for fossil fuels and the
products that use them, and the companies involved with those.
That
should
include greenwashing, whose message is, "Forget about our enormous fossil fuel business,
please associate us with our comparatively small renewable electricity business."
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| 8:55a |
Starvation in Gaza now
*Starvation already causing mass death and
lasting
harm in Gaza, agencies say.*
Children that live through this may suffer lifelong damage from their current malnutrition.
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| 8:55a |
Young child hunger
*One young child
in
[every four in the world] at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to restricted diet, UN report
says.* These children rarely get vegetables, let alone meat.
Local shortages of food are one of the main causes, but heavy marketing of non-nutritious foods
to parents who don't know what is bad about them is also a cause. In Gaza, the Israeli siege is
the main cause.
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Netanyahu wants no peace in Gaza
Reading Netanyahu, a former Israeli official says that he killed a
peace plan that Israel had privately agreed to, because he is
determined not to have peace in Gaza.
I think the only way Biden can make progress from here is with
pressure that Netanyuahu cannot defy -- such as, to cut off arms
supplies to Israel. As people in Gaza are suffering death and
permanent damage from the lack of food, Biden must not dither.
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