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| 10:36a |
Settler-control up: occupied West Bank
Israel gave fanatical "settlers" control over expansion of its colonies in the West Bank. They
can
authorize
their own construction of new colonies.
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| 10:36a |
Same-sex acts, primates, mammals
*Study finds same-sex sexual behaviour in primates and other mammals
widely
observed but seldom published.*
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| 10:36a |
Sports-team owners' playbook
Super-rich major league sports team owners continue to
squeeze money out of the public
by making
one city or state bid against another to subsidize the team.
Many years ago
I
condemned this and proposed a federal law
to regulate such backwards competition. The idea
was that if a company makes location A compete against location B, any subsidy from A must get
B's approval and vice versa.
For the specific case of sports teams, a law outright prohibiting all governmental subsidy to
them might do the job well, but the proposal above would help also in situations which are not
cartels and which do work that is more important than artificial contests.
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| 10:36a |
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| 10:36a |
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| 10:36a |
Reasons to abandon Ukraine, NOT!
The Ukrainian journalists of
Texty refute the arguments of Putin's disinformation.
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| 10:36a |
The four-hostage rescue, ISR
The US insists that Israel did not use the US aid pier for the deadly
hostage rescue operation. What Israel did use was
the
area of land near the pier.
This makes sense to me. I don't think that area of land is or was under US control. But I have
seen it described as a "safe area", which I think implies some sort of agreement to do no
fighting there.
If that agreement included Israel and HAMAS, then using it for a combat operation (such as the
hostage rescue operation) was a violation of that agreement by Israel;
I've read that the World Food Program stopped transporting aid from the pier because of this.
This makes sense. No humanitarian organization will be allowed to continue operations in Gaza
unless it satisfies all parties that it is militarily neutral.
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| 10:36a |
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| 10:36a |
Intelligence assistance, US, UK, in ISR
*U.S. Intelligence Helped Israel [plan the operation to]
Rescue Four Hostages in Gaza*.
Since the plans were designed to minimize civilian casualties, I don't see anything wrong in
that part of the operation. Many
civilians were killed and wounded after something went wrong during the getaway phase. At
that point they started to improvise as the plan was no longer usable.
The obligation to safeguard civilians does not end when a plan goes awry.
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| 10:36a |
Govt vs encryption, AUS
*Police
have used the "very legitimate grievance" the public has with large tech companies like Meta
about data collection and surveillance as a pretext to undermine user privacy*.
The first step in protecting our privacy from snooping dis-services is to reject nonfree
(non-libre) clients and apps. Nearly all apps are nonfree, and most organizations' web sites
run nonfree software in the users' browser. Once they send private data to the server, there is
hardly any limit in practice to where it will go. (There are some dis-services that explicit
demand users enter sensitive private data — those pose various more complex problems.)
I've considered using Signal, since the client program (what I would need to run) is free
software. However, it requires having a portable phone,
and that
requirement conclusively excludes me.
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| 10:36a |
Scientific research org disparaged, AUS
*Nuclear engineer
dismisses [Australian right wing's] claim
that small
modular reactors could be commercially viable soon.*
This
confirms
what I said recently.
I am not an expert like him, but I know what experts have concluded for years about nuclear
power's lack of practical use for electric power on Earth. For the public it is a waste of
money; for business it is an opportunity to get paid lots of money and achieve no good.
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| 10:36a |
Delayed delivery of heavy bombs, ISR
Netanyahu complained that Biden is carrying out his announced intention to
delay
delivery of heavy bombs to Israel.
AIPAC, the Israeli Hawks' (and extremists') lobby, has been putting lots of
effort into
defeating Rep. Jamaal Bowman
in a primary this Tuesday.
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| 2:58p |
Wealth tax ready and now legal
The
Supreme
Court approved a tax that the corrupter put on moving money to the US, and thus left the
legal door open to wealth taxes on big business.
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| 2:58p |
Repealing the Comstock Act
*Democrats move
to repeal anti-obscenity and anti-abortion act from 1873.*
I expect Republicans will fight to keep the Comstock Act, hoping to use it for repression. But
maybe that will convince some people not to vote for them.
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