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Pier failure
The expensive US pier, meant to provide a way to land aid from ships,
has been mostly a failure. As of June 23, it had been physically
functional for 12 days out of the 37 days it had been in place.
This is because the waves on the Gaza coast have been higher than
normal, and the designers did not allow enough safety margin for it.
On most of those 12 days when the pier itself was usable, there was no
transport to take the aid to the starving civilians.
The rules of war say that attacking a military target with some
civilians nearby must satisfy the criterion of "proportionality". If
there are a few HAMAS cops near an aid convoy, who are there to keep
security for the convoy, attacking them and endangering the more
numerous] civilians handling the aid (and this ought to count those
whose lives depend on its arrival) cannot satisfy that criterion.
To attack the convoy would be a war crime.
If Israel did attack the convoy, that would be interference with
delivery of US humanitarian aid. Under US law the US would have to
suspend weapons deliveries to Israel.
The US thus has plenty of leverage to make Israel stop blocking this
aid, but does not use it.
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New ice sheet tipping point
*Newly identified tipping point for ice sheets could mean greater sea level
rise.*
Small increase in temperature of intruding water could lead to very big
increase in loss of ice, scientists say.
*Sea level rise is the greatest long-term impact of the climate crisis
and is set to redraw the world map in coming centuries. It has the
potential to put scores of major cities, from New York City to
Shanghai, below sea level and to affect billions of people.*
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Great Barrier Reef bleaching
The Great Barrier Reef has suffered 97% bleaching in some areas.
A coral reef typically has many species of coral.
I have a suspicion that different species have different rates
of survival. If the overall rate of survival is 10%, some species
may have 20% survival and some 5% survival, and some 0% survival.
If some species have become locally extinct, that region's coral
reef may be changed permanently.
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Farage and Ukraine
The UK's right-wing extremist leader, Farage, said that Ukraine should
give Putin some of its territory.
Many right-wing leaders seem to be allied with Putin -- starting with
the wrecker. The ones in the US blocked arms for Ukraine to help Putin
conquer some more territory, while Farage cites that as a reason to
accept defeat.
It may prove impossible to defeat the Putin forces completely, It may
be unavoidable for Ukraine to cede some territory to him, but that
would be a very sad victory for tyrannical conquest. We should not
let a tyrant conquer without a hard fight.
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Routine, coastal flooding by 2050
*Rising sea levels will disrupt
millions of Americans’
lives by 2050, study finds.*
The same is true in various other countries. I've seen places in France, Italy and Turkey that
are likely to be inundated in a few decades. Some of them have millennia of history. Some of
them are very important to excavate for archeology.
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| 3:00p |
Urgent: An opening to tax billionaire wealth
US citizens:
call
on Congress to pass a wealth tax on billionaires.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Urgent: Ban machine guns
US citizens:
call
on Congress to ban bump stocks. They effectively convert rifles into machine guns.
Right-wing judges recently ruled against an executive order to treat them as machine guns. So
a new law is needed.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 3:00p |
Urgent: Climate defense measures
US citizens:
call
on Congress to reject Republican efforts to cancel climate defense measures.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Bosnian War, new book criticizing Serbia
Fedja Stukan, a Bosnian, recently wrote a book about his experiences in the civil war in the
90s. It criticized Serbia for that; he has also accused Serbia's current government of running
nonfree elections.
Recently he tried to go to a
book
festival in Serbia, but was denied entry.
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More ICC arrest warrants: RUS war-crimes
*The International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for Russian officials over alleged
Ukraine war crimes,* such as firing missiles at
civilian
targets.
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Julian Assange plea bargain OKed
The US judge in Julian Assange's case approved his plea bargain,
but
warned
that future journalists were indeed in danger from the US.
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