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Saturday, August 24th, 2024
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Event |
| 12:17p |
(Satire) Jonesing for TV-news-camera fix
(satire) *CHICAGO—In a deliberate counter-programming effort aimed at one of the biggest weeks of
the 2024 election, [the bullshitter] reportedly hoped to disrupt the Democratic National Convention
news cycle Tuesday by
eating
a live rat on television.*
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Lab-grown meat ban, FL, AL, ITA, HUN
George Monbiot: *At the behest of
livestock
lobby groups, lab-grown meat has been banned in Florida, Alabama, Italy and Hungary.
Politicians in France, Romania and [128] other US states are seeking to follow suit. [...] [A] new
campaign funded by the livestock industry and fronted by a former meat executive is pressing for an
EU-wide ban.*
Monbiot asserts, and this is plausible to me, that the meat industry is aiming to preemptively
prohibit an urgently needed substitute for the massive and heavily polluting farming of cattle feed.
| | 12:17p |
Sign carrier pelted at DNC
A delegate at the DNC held up a
sign saying "Stop
Arming Israel". Other delegates near her started hitting her with their "We ???? Joe" signs.
This was disgusting behavior, and those who attacker her should be punished for it.
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Why July blood drive faltered, US
Extreme
weather in the US is causing a shortage of donated blood. That can kill people, and it is just
one of many ways that the climate crisis can kill.
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Mpox developments, DRC, KEN, RWA, UGA
*African health officials have appealed to the international community not to impose travel bans on
countries dealing with an outbreak of mpox, but instead to support the continent in rolling out
testing
and vaccinations.*
This is very wise.
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Israel-arms embargo court case, UK
A court case in the UK seeks to
show
that UK law requires cutting off arms exports to Israel.
Is there any chance of doing something similar in the US?
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