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Urgent: Ultra-wealth, corporate, taxation
US citizens:
call on
Congress to raise taxes on the ultra-wealthy and corporations.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 2:55a |
The grifter's Mar-a-Lago memberships
Four fortunate plutocrats will have the opporunity to buy a membership in Mar-a-Lago for the special
high price of
a
million dollars, instead of the regular price of seven hundred thousand dollars.
There they will be able to meet privately with
the corrupter.
I suspect this is the pre-election price, and if he succeeds in acquiring the presidency again, the
price will go up to five million dollars.
For the
people, he
is all
bullshit, all the time. For
the plutocrats,
he is
all corruption,
all the time.
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Streetlights as insecticide
*All-night streetlights
make leaves inedible
to insects, study finds.*
Doing that on any street must be good for the trees on that street, but doing that over a large area
endangers insects and animals that eat them.
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| 2:55a |
Urgent: Cartoonist wanted
I'm looking for a cartoonist who would like to draw cartoons for me once in a while, If you're
interested, please write to rms, which refers to me, at the location gnu period org.
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| 2:55a |
Ruler in self-exile, BGD
The repressive ruler of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, has resigned and gone into
exile
after massive protests filled the country.
As I understand it, the protests themselves were not violent but the repression was. Those who were
protesting in the streets are now celebrating in the streets.
The employment preferences for children and grandchildren of the independence fighters of 1971 were
frustrating to the rest of the population. As far as I can see, they were a zero-sum policy so
reducing them or ending them would not hurt the people overall.
However, the bigger problem underlying the situation was the low wages
for the other work that Bangladeshis could get — for instance,
making
clothing to be sold in other countries,
paid
a pittance, and sometimes
getting
killed because
factories
locked them in. This is the other side of the global problem caused by "fast fashion". Maybe
one change could reduce both problems at once. I hope the next government will do something about
this.
In the long term, Bangladesh is squeezed between population growth and
global heating. Reducing the
birth rate in Bangladesh will help the people there. However, parts of the country are being
gradually
inundated by the Bay of Bengal, and the only way to stop
this
in the long term is to
curb
global heating,
world-wide.
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| 8:55a |
Migrant-subcontractor class-war, UK
Subcontracted workers in the UK can be
abruptly
fired for the littlest of "infractions", such as eating a catered sandwich that wasn't used in
the meeting it was purchased for and was waiting to be scavenged.
I would guess it is similar in the US, but I don't actually know. The protection of
workers'
rights in the US
is very flimsy after decades of lobbying by employers.
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| 8:55a |
Israeli prison-conditions
Palestinian
ex-prisoners
report being tortured and maimed in Israeli prisons. Some report on the slow death of prison
neighbors from untreated wounds.
Adding an insult to their rights to the injury to their bodies, often they were imprisoned without
any charges. It seems that this can happen to any Palestinian, with no visible rhyme or reason.
There is no possible excuse for treating prisoners this way.
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| 8:55a |
A candidate-suppression howto, TUN
Tunisia's dictator still plans to have a presidential election but has
imprisoned
the serious opposition candidates.
This illustrates why it is undesirable to prohibit anyone with a criminal record from running for
office. Of course we don't want swindlers and corrupt people to be elected to office, but such a
simple method is not trustworthy. Rulers that don't respect truth have a habit of using false
non-political charges to exclude the serious opposition.
The corrupter has made it clear he would
do this in the US if he seizes the presidency again.
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| 8:55a |
Torture-camp "jails", ISR
*Guardian interviews back up report by
rights
group B’Tselem, which says jails should now be labeled "torture camps".*
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Jailer guilty plea, AL
*Alabama jailer pleads guilty in death of prisoner who froze to death in cell*
where jailers kept him
nude
in the cold for two weeks.
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| 8:55a |
"Electors" case guilty plea, AZ
*First
conviction in Arizona fake electors case as Republican activist pleads guilty.*
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| 8:55a |
(Satire) Keeping billionaires humble
(satire) *Billionaire Credits
Millionaire
Friends With Keeping Him Humble.*
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| 8:55a |
Atlanta city-council grifters, GA
A
study compares the voting records of Atlanta politicians with campaign funds donated by
companies that can profit from those votes.
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| 8:55a |
Harris picked up Walz as VP, USA
In
praise
of Tim Walz, Harris's running mate.
Regarding some
political
stances and actions of his.
Even the fascist leader had favorable words for Walz, saying that he
seeks to make
Minnesota
as progressive as California. (Though
the fascist
may not understand how favorable that is ;!)
I hope Harris and Walz take America farther than California has gone without federal help.
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| 8:55a |
Conclusions in UNRWA-HAMAS ties
UNRWA investigated accusations that 19 of its Gaza staff were involved in HAMAS's Oct 7 terrorist
attack.
For
9 of them it found sufficient evidence to fire them.
Since UNRWA has 13,000 employees in Gaza, to be that successful in excluding HAMAS militants from
its work force is good going. If we estimate roughly a million adult men in Gaza, 13,000 is roughly
1% of them. I think that HAMAS militants numbered around 10,000, also roughly 1% of the total. So
the intersection of the two sets, by pure chance, would have numbered around 100.
To have had only a tenth that many indicates an effective effort by UNRWA to avoid hiring HAMAS
militants.
It is absurd to fault UNRWA for not doing even better than that!
The US should resume its support for UNRWA.
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| 8:55a |
US, ISR, muffle Palestinians voices
*Palestinians voices are
needed
more than ever. But they are being silenced.*
I rarely see the US manstream media. In print, they are paywalled and no longer viewable without
running nonfree software. On cable they are even worse: they are restricted by DRM and viewing is
surveilled, and they have the drawbacks of being video.
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