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UN peacekeepers
*UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel has fired on
their bases deliberately.*
It did this in two different places at around the same time. In one,
a drone reconnaissance seems to have been preparation for the attack.
Meanwhile, a number of Israeli tanks drove up to a UN peacekeepers'
position, apparently to threaten the peacekeepers into pulling out.
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COP29
The contract for holding the COP29 conference in Azerbaijan does not protect
the human rights of the participants from
Azerbaijan's repressive state.
It also does not protect the conference's goal from Azerbaijan's
planet-roasting state. Planet-roasters, including fossil fuel
companies, dominate this series of conferences so completely
that they are not fit for the purpose any more.
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Vehicle-To-Everything
Engineers are proposing a system for every car to communicate
constantly with every other nearby car, as well as with nearby
pedestrians (does that mean, their snoop-phones?) and
local non-mobile
surveillance systems.
The result would be total surveillance of everyone.
It may be possible to design such a system such that it doesn't
identify any car or any person. That could be safe as well as
beneficial. But we cannot expect the manufacturers of today's
"connected cars" to value their customers' privacy.
If I were going to buy a "connected" car such as are made today, I
would choose a model that people know how to disconnect. I expect
that each antenna needs to be either removed or covered with a Faraday
cage such that it cannot receive or transmit.
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Narges Mohammadi
Narges Mohammadi has been imprisoned in Iran since 3 years ago. A
year ago she received Nobel peace prize, and the screws
made her
imprisonment harsher.
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| 2:55a |
Maim and kill
Robert Reich described how Bridgestone defeated the US government
legal effort to compel Bridgestone keep its factory workers safe.
Bridgestone responded by saying it would shut the factory rather
than
install the safety measures.
It announced that threat by making a false assertion: that it would be
"uneconomical" to run the plant if it had safety measures. With the
usual meaning of those words, that was not true: Bridgestone would
have made a profit even with the safety measures installed. But it might
have made less from that plant than from a hypothetical replacement
plant somewhere else, without the safety measure.
To put an end to this sort of practice, we need laws that will prevent
businesses from winning disputes in that way. Reich explains other changes
that would have strengthened his hand.
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Timor Sea gas project
Australia and East Timor were formerly very hostile, but now they are
making joint plans to collaborate in planet roasting by extracting
undersea
fossil gas.
The world must hope that they can't come to agreement on the details.
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Chris Minns’ plan
*NSW [(a state in Australia)] premier says police should be able to
ban pro-Palestine protests
because they are too expensive.*
This has
met with opposition.
Bravo for resisting this.
I agree that we should avoid the terms "pro-Israel" or "pro-Palestine"
because those terms tend to push society into a dichotomous choice.
My wish is well-being, peace and
freedom for both peoples.
Decades ago, large demonstrations were run by organizations, and the
organizations appointed and trained Marshalls to keep the protest on
the track of nonviolence. I am sure that practice greatly reduced the
cost of policing, as well as the probability that the official thugs
would go on a
rampage against protesters.
That isn't 100% effective at
preventing rampages,
but it surely helps.
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| 2:55a |
Environmental reforms
A government can be far better than blatant plutocracy and still be
weak in resisting plutocracy's destruction of the eco-sphere.
Australia's
Labor Party seems to be an example.
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Dirty Truth Report
*Utilities Only Planning Enough Clean Energy to Replace Half of Fossil
Fuel Generation by 2035,
New Sierra Club Report Finds.*
They still plan to build lots of gas-fired power plants. Using fossil
gas cause more
global heating than coal.
This demonstrates that existing laws, plus existing pressure from
well-informed public opinion, are not sufficient to decarbonize rapidly.
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| 2:55a |
Lead Pipe Rule
The corrupter ordered the US to adopt a nearly no-op rule about
poisonous lead and copper pipes. Now it has been replaced with a plan
to eliminate nearly all lead in
American's faucet water.
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| 2:55a |
Harris Medicare plan
*Harris announces plan for Medicare to cover
long-term care at home.*
This would be a big help for partially or completely disabled Americans,
and not just those 65 years old or older.
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Shasta county
A Republican official, extreme right-wing by the standards of 2022, is
now organizing the fight to defend some basic idea of truth and
justice
against the wave of trumpery.
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Activist’s visa
An Australian official is moving to revoke the visa of a visiting
Palestinian who said, speaking in an event this Oct 7, that it was the
occasion for “considerable celebration” as the anniversary of HAMAS's
hostage taking and killings. Now the Australian is considering revoking
his
visa on grounds that he advocated terrorism.
The official said, "But he did prove the point that many of us are
making in the lead up to the rallies on Monday, which is that the only
reason you would organize a pro-Palestinian protest on Monday, is if
you thought it was worthy of celebration." This seems to be valid.
Both HAMAS and subsequently Israel were responding to terror attacks.
Both had grounds for belligerence if it were in accord with
international humanitarian law. Both entities' retaliations instead
violated that law, committing atrocities.
I defend freedom of speech in a very firm way. I don't think anyone,
whether citizen or visitor, should be prohibited to express those views,
even though I strongly disagree with those views.
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Brett Kavanaugh
Accusing the wrecker of restraining the FBI from thoroughly investigating
the rape accusation against Brett Kavanaugh when he was nominated
for the
Supreme Court.
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Energy industry
The head of the UK "energy industry" has been chosen as the new
head of the
"Climate Change Committee.
I know nothing more about her besides that point about her previous experience,
but that one point is enough to make me suspect that the fox is now
in charge of keeping us chickens safe.
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55,000 Bibles
Oklahoma Republicans have found a clever way to corrupt the election:
by buying bibles from the corrupter's campaign.
The price will be
over 3 million dollars.
They don't openly admit that the purchase has to be from his campaign,
but they make that inevitable by specifying details that other printed
bibles don't fit.
Government purchases coming directly or indirectly from electoral
campaigns ought to be illegal.
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Meaningful dialogue
US universities are confused and conflicted about how to deal with strongly opinionated students and
their disagreeing view.
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