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New eqpt measures air pollution, LA
*Air in Louisiana's
"Cancer
Alley" likely more toxic than previously thought.*
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Social media chat botted, FB
Bullshit generators have been hooked up to Facebook and Instagram. In
some
cases they post bullshit in discussion groups, pretending to be humans.
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Not accountable to account holders, FB
If your Facebook account gets suspended for bogus reasons, Facebook
will delete it after 30 days, and gives you
no
way to ask the company for help with the problem in the mean time.
If you decide to be used by Facebook, at the very least assume that
everything in that account could disappear any day. To be safe, you
should back up everything important from the account on your own
computer. (Does Facebook make that possible? I am happy to say
I have never been a used of Facebook.)
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Gen Z visions of 2024 elections, USA
Why young American adults see America's
social and economic
systems as carrying them into disaster, despite favorable short-term economic trends.
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| 8:56a |
Security council agrees on Gaza plan
*UN security council endorses
US-backed
hostages-for-ceasefire Gaza deal.*
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| 8:56a |
Violent crime decline, US
*Violent crime in the US
dropped
by 15% in the first three months of the year, new figures have shown, the latest evidence in
a broader decline of crime across the country that has occurred over the past year.*
Murders, and reported rapes, decreased by 25%. Robberies decreased by 17%.
I expect this is due to improvement in the economy for most Americans.
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| 8:56a |
Shepherd killed in West Bank
An Israeli shepherd was killed in the West Bank.
In revenge, Israeli
"settlers" set cars and houses on fire as well as shooting many Palestinians one by one.
Both attacks were acts of terrorism, but the "settlers" cannot justify their terrorism by
pointing to the Palestinians' terrorism.
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Mozilla Firefox's censorship
Mozilla has blocked users in Russia from loading several
censorship-bypassing add-ons into Firefox.
I am somewhat puzzled by this. Why would Mozilla want to do this?
Also, why would it be effective? I understand it, you can load an
add-on into Firefox if you can access a page where it is distributed.
I also don't see what threat Russia could make against Firefox that
could make Mozilla comply with this demand.
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| 11:43a |
Urgent: Right to Contraception Act
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and ask per to sign the discharge petition for the Right to
Contraception Act.
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| 11:43a |
Urgent: Teachers carrying guns in school
US citizens:
call on state legislatures
not to allow teachers to carry guns in school.
The myth that a "good guy with a gun" will protect people from a murderer with a gun is true
often on Have Gun Will Travel, but that is fiction. In real life
it
is rarely effective.
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| 11:43a |
Urgent: How to end "Citizens" United
US citizens:
call
on Congress to end the "Citizens" United era by passing the Freedom to Vote Act and the
DISCLOSE Act.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 11:43a |
Urgent: How to get Israel to cease fire
US citizens: call on Biden to
cut off arms
deliveries to Israel unless it accepts a permanent cease fire in Gaza.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111 and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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Green Party as labourer's genuine rep
George Monbiot: Britons should respond to Labour's "anticipatory betrayal"
by turning to
the
Green Party.
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| 11:43a |
John Deere farm-out, MEX
Biden should
put up a fight as John Deere Inc. moves US factory jobs to Mexico.
John Deere also
mistreats
the purchasers of its tractors: it designs them with nonfree software that the farmers
cannot change or replace, and which snoops on them.
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IEA on clean-energy investment rates
*Investment in clean energy likely to be double figure for fossil fuels in 2024, IEA says
[; however,]
oil and gas spending still too high to meet climate goals.*
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Heat takes out ralliers, Las Vegas
Fanatical
supporters of the corrupter regularly get heat stroke at his rallies, because of increasing
global heating, but it doesn't occur to them that we should stop drilling for all and making it
hotter.
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| 11:43a |
Lawmakers' stock trades as indicator
*Stock traders are trying to
beat the
market — by copying lawmakers [stock trades].*
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| 11:43a |
Hostage rescue carnage, Gaza
Testimony of witnesses to the attack on Nuseirat refugee camp, in which
the Israeli
army
killed at least 274 Palestinians to rescue four hostages.
The number of killed that were civilians was almost certainly over 100, and likely considerably
more. But I think I can make a better estimate.
I think that "children" means minors. Most minors there were probably civilians, thought some
of the older ones may have been HAMAS fighters. I would expect that HAMAS, being Islamist,
would not recruit women as fighters (can anyone tell me whether that is true?), so it would
follow that the 57 women killed were all civilians.
I expect roughly equal numbers of men and women among the civilians, since they were in and
around their homes. That would suggest there were around 160-170 civilians killed, and maybe
100 HAMAS fighters.
It is therefore likely that most of the Palestinians in the area were civilians.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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| 11:43a |
Hostage rescue operation, Gaza
The rescue of hostages from Gaza
started out clean, but developed into a
street battle. That is when the civilians were killed.
This suggests that most of those killed were civilians.
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| 11:43a |
Alito's religious bias against abortion
Alito admitted at an organization dinner that
his vote to overturn Roe v
Wade was part of an overall campaign to impose his religion on the US.
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| 11:43a |
How Cherán beat the Avocado cartel, MEX
In Mexico, growing avocados is so lucrative that cartels fight over
land to grow them, as
they
cut down forests.
It amazes me that this happens for a product that is not illegal.
I don't think this would happen for any of the widely used illegal
drugs, though. The sheer volume consumed would not be enough.
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How Hush-money-verdict attacks amplify
*Ex-prosecutors
and historians warn that Republicans' parroting of ex-president's wild allegations of
political bias could erode trust and lead to violence.*
Eroding trust in anything that he considers a rival is his purpose. And while the claim is not
true now, he intends, if he wins or steals the election, to make it so.
He
plans to pervert the US justice system to imprison his political enemies, as part of Project
2025.
The US justice system is in fact untrustworthy for
defendants who belong to disprivileged
groups,
and
for poor people since they can't afford good lawyers. But the corrupter is not at risk for
this: he is a white male, and even if he may theoretically be bankrupt due to court judgments,
still has good lawyers.
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