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Urgent: limit mass surveillance
US citizens:
call
on the Senate to pass reforms to place limits on massive government surveillance.
See
past
articles
about
this
issue.
Republicans claim to be for "small government", but that is only as regards serving and aiding
the public. Where mistreatment of non-rich people is concerned, they stand for "heavy government".
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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How Kagame won by landslide in Rwanda
*Paul Kagame
banned
opponents like me from Rwanda’s election. No wonder he cruised to [reelection as president
of Rwanda].*
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Protesters' years in prison, UK
Nonviolent protest
organizers
for Just Stop Oil have been sentenced to years in prison.
That is the policy of most governments: keep the world safe for fossil fuels,
so they can kill hundreds of millions 20 years from now.
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Billionaires for Trump
60 billionaires are now supporting the corrupter's campaign
hoping he will
reduce taxes on super-rich
Americans.
The money that billionaires gain from this will come from the rest of the country, in the form
of reduced government support for their survival, reduced wages, more expensive education for
fewer people, more expensive medicine that they can't afford to buy, and so on.
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(Satire) Opinions about most recent news
(satire) *News Happening
Faster
Than Man Can Generate Uninformed Opinions.*
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Kamala Harris
Information
about the politics and career history of Kamala Harris.
I would like to know what laws she would like Congress to adopt if it agreed with her —
regarding issues such as decarbonization, reduction of toxic pollution and plastic pollution,
public transit, a public medical system, the taking back the Extreme Court, decreasing the
political influence of rich people and big businesses, and reversing decades of dooH niboR by
applying some Robin Hood.
How would she defend democracy from what Peter Thiel defines as "freedom"?
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ICJ declares Israel "occupier"
The most interesting point in the opinion of the International Court
of Justice about Israel and the Palestinian territories is that it
confirms that this is
legally
an occupation. (There have been disputes about that question.) So the treaty rules about
military occupations, also described in the article, do apply.
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Lula warns of Maduro election-violence
Lula has accused President Maduro of neighboring Venezuela of threatening massive violent repression
if
he loses the coming election.
Some of Maduro's opposition consists of
right-wing
rich families that used to control Venezuela and want to control it again. Like the US
billionaires that back the corrupter, they are ready to attack using lies and distortions. So
I can't trust them to be honest
any
more than I can trust Maduro to be honest.
Lula's statement gives me a basis for understanding the situation. Lula is a sincere supporter
of democracy. When he accuses a president in Latin America of repression, I have confidence
that he is right.
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Election war-threat retracted, US
A magat who openly threatened to start a civil war
if the wrecker loses
this election has apologized.
Republican leaders often say this with dog-whistles. and Americans are aware of this danger,
but Republicans try to avoid admitting it clearly.
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Students protesting gov. job quotas, BGD
*Bangladeshi students allege
police
tortured them after protests crackdown.*
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UNRWA as a terrorist organization, ISR
*Israeli
parliament
voted to label UNRWA a terror organisation. UNRWA is the UN agency that provides aid to
Palestinians.
I have said for years that it is unjust and illegitimate to "designate" any person or
organization "terrorist". Terrorism is a serious crime and anyone accused of this crime
deserves a fair trial.
I think this accusation is meant to create a strained excuse to block relief supplies to
Palestinians in occupied territory — in other words, an excuse for more grave crime.
Let's not lose sight of
where we want to end up.
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Republican censorship in history lessons
The history of Republican censorship of teaching history in the US
began with an executive
order
made by the corrupter when he was president.
Biden subsequently reversed it, but many states have passed similar censorship laws, and the
Republican Party platform calls for one. Most teachers in the US are now afraid of being
punished for teaching the wrong part of history.
Learning about the wrongs of history, almost always committed by people other than me, can lead
me to feel discomfort, or even anger, but not on account of my race or sex. They have
nothing to do with the wrong. And likewise for you. As for guilt, I can feel that about
things I myself have done.
It's the same for you, whoever you are.
As for Governor Kemp, he is not responsible for his ancestors' role in
slavery, but he is responsible for his own role in censorship.
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Snipers against children, Gaza
Dr. Mark Perlmutter went to Gaza for a week to do surgery. He reports being
amazed
by the number of children who were killed, and in particular the children who were shot by
snipers. That proves an Israeli soldier looked at an evident noncombatant who posed no threat
and decided, calmly, to kill per. Not in the heat of battle, not in the fog of war, but with
unhurried murderous dehumanization.
Perlmutter reports photographing two dead children who were each shot once in the middle of the
chest and once in the middle of the side of the head. This makes the unhurried dehumanization
even more clear.
Some Israeli right-wing extremists post recordings of their hatred for Palestinians. I think
that others become snipers and commit war crimes.
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Urgent: About Project 2025 news coverage
Everyone:
call
on major news networks to cover project 2025.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
function without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
I have done the first step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the end of the campaign URL
before posting it above. That should bring you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns
will not work without JavaScript!" They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the
following simple method seems adequate for some of them.
To start, in the personal information in the box on the right side of the page. That's how you
say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. You will get a page that does not function (assuming
you have blocked nonfree JavaScript code), but by editing its URL in the browser's address bar
you can finish sending your letter.
First, delete everything from `&redirect' to the end. Then insert, instead of what you
deleted, `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the browser to visit that URL. This should give you a
version of the page that works without JavaScript. Enter the text for your letter and click on
the "SEND LETTER" button.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send letters to a fixed list of recipients,
the same recipients for every sender. Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional
step needed to bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a small effort
compared with the benefit of supporting the campaign without opening your computer to unjust
(and potentially malicious) software.
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