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Activists' disruption tactics, UK
Climate defense
activists
are on trial in the UK, charged with organizing a nonviolent and nondestructive protest,
intended to be massively disruptive.
I dislike the disruption caused by protests, just as many people do. But climate disaster will
be fatal, perhaps for most of humanity, and will cause massive injustice and suffering along
the way. The strategies of Just Obey Orders, Just Complain and Just Give Up have failed, so
what should humanity do to protect itself if not this?
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Urgent: All citizens should vote
US citizens:
call
on Congress to ensure no American citizen is denied the right to vote on account of felony
convictions.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Meticulous electronic voting, IND
In the
recent
Indian election, Congress Party election monitors checked the numbers and security seals of
individual digital voting machines to detect tampering or failures.
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Republican subterfuge targets President
Republican Senator Graham warns of a campaign to invent excuses to prosecute Biden, as
a
way of pretending that the corrupter's serious criminal accusations are mere
Republican-style bullshit.
That is the tactic right-wingers use to normalize the persecution of opposition in a right-wing
authoritarian regime.
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Street dogs in Turkey
Turkey's urban street dogs befriend the people who live nearby
and are taken care of by them. Now
Erdoğan
wants to eliminate them.
This article suggests some questions to me:
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The street dogs must recognize the people who live in the neighborhood. How do they treat
strangers? Do they (or did they) serve to warn the local people about incursions?
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How were street dogs treated in Anatolia before the Turkish conquest, when it was part of the
Byzantine Empire? In other words, was this specifically a Turkish custom or was it an older
Anatolian custom?
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How did the many non-Turks in Anatolia in the 19th century, living under Turkish rule, treat
street dogs?
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Labour is now a conservative party
*Labour is telling Britain it is now a conservative party — and we should
believe it.*
Britons who used to look to the Labour Party for something more than small change cling to the
hope it will try to But it can't be soon — Starmer has promised so clearly and firmly to
reject all that the Labour Party used to stand for that if he did much of that he would be
accused of lying.
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Wikileaks fathered today's journalism
Wikileaks changed the nature of journalism, but with many organizations now set up to publish
leaks, there may not be
a
need for Wikileaks itself to resume doing so. However, Wikileaks has a reputation for
separating the truth from the disinformation, and that could help the public distinguish the two.
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Oil well profits unafforded cleanup, CO
*Colorado oil and gas wells
can’t
fund their own cleanup. Taxpayers may foot the bill.*
*A Carbon Tracker report shows the cost to safely shut down
low-producing wells is $3bn more than what they earn.*
The efforts in the US to make mine owners pay the cost of closing up and cleaning up a mine has
been haphazard and half-hearted, and mines have continued to cheat the public by dumping these
costs on the public.
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Plutocracy's historical mechanics, USA
Robert Reich: *The "free market" is nothing but
a set of
rules, established and enforced by government.* There are many possible sets of rules, and
no one of them is "the" free market. Some rules are better for society than others.
The rules we have now were decided by the power of plutocrats that bought politicians. Those
rules are bad for most of us. Biden has made improvements in some, but big improvements would
require Congress's support.
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Urgent: No military draft
US citizens:
call
on Congress not to allow a military draft.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Slovakia repolarizing like Hungary, EU
*Since the attempted assassination of the prime minister of Slovakia,
the
far
right has wasted no time in silencing its critics.*
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