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UK rich threaten to move if taxed
Rich UK citizens threaten to fully move away from the UK if the UK
requires them to pay taxes. Experience shows that few actually follow through on such threats.
I have an idea for how make it even less likely they will resist
taxation: require them to renounce their UK citizenship in order to
avoid being liable for UK taxes. Then make it a crime for a
non-citizen to fund or support political campaigns in any fashion.
With this policy, the UK won't necessarily get those millionaire
jerks' taxes, but it will at least block them from buying elections.
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Jeremy Loffredo released
*U.S. Journalist Jeremy Loffredo Released After Four Days in Israeli [Jail].*
He had been accused of "aiding the enemy" by republishing (or was it
merely downloading) photos of sensitive places that had been published
by news outlets already.
*If Israel’s theory is that reporters illegally share information with
the enemy whenever the enemy reads the news, that could criminalize a
whole lot of journalism. If Israel has proof that Loffredo did
something more nefarious than that, it should say so, and be specific.*
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Urgent: Support the Stop Wall Street Looting Act
US citizens: phone your congresscritter to support the Stop Wall
Street Looting Act, which will prevent some abuses by private equity
corporations.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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Ex-Twitter censored journalist
Musk made ex-Twitter censor and then ban a journalist who published
embarrassing leaked material that made Vance look bad.
Now we see what the muskrat means by "freedom of speech".
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Countering influence of misogyny and male supremacy
Some Australian schools try to counter the influence of right-wing misogyny and male supremacist campaigns.
Right-wing politics is all about winning some groups' support by
teaching them to scapegoat other groups. It looks like right wingers
have concluded that women will oppose them regardless, so they will
use women as scapegoats.
They don't really care about anyone who isn't rich. Whether you're a
scapegoat, or being manipulated by teaching you to despise someone,
either way you're being used.
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Talks in Peru, 22-31 Oct 2024
Richard Stallman's talks in Peru, in Spanish, in October 2024.
Conferencias de Richard Stallman en el Perú, en español,
en el mes de octubre 2024.
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El Movimiento del Software Libre y el Sistema Operativo GNU
2024-10-22 @ 14:00 p.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de Casa de la Cultura, Universidad Nacional de Cañete
Cañete, Peru
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El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU La IA y la estupidez artificial
2024-10-23 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorium Villa 2, Universidad Científica del Sur
Lima - Chorrillos, Peru
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Free/Libre software and freedom in the digital society
2024-10-24 @ 10:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de Ciencias de la Computación, Universidad Nacional de San Agustín
Arequipa, Peru
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El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU
2024-10-26 @ 18:00 p.m.
Ubicación: Auditorium, Gobierno Regional de Tacna
Tacna, Peru
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El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU
2024-10-29 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio de la FIIS. Edificio de la Facultad de Ingeniería Industrial y de Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal
Lima, Peru
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Por una sociedad digital libre
2024-10-30 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Av. Antigua Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Autónoma Auditorio de la Universidad Autónoma
Lima, Peru
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El Movimiento del Software Libre y el sistema operativo GNU - Los sistemas de Aprendizaje Automático
2024-10-31 @ 11:00 a.m.
Ubicación: Auditorio: Celso Alfredo Alva Bravo - FISI Edificio de la FISI Panamericana Sur km 16.2. Villa El Salvador, Universidad Nacional de San Marcos
Lima, Peru
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Renewable energy could make fossil fuels cheaper
The International Energy tells us that sufficient progress in moving
to renewable energy could make fossil fuels cheaper.
That is true, but the IEA does not seen to realize that that would be
a deadly trap for society. The lower price would threaten to entice
people to move back to, or continue using, fossil fuels and continue
driving the world into climate mayhem.
The disadvantage of fossil fuels is not expense or scarcity. It is the
harm they do by producing CO2. A suitable carbon tax could make sure
these fuels continue becoming more expensive, so that humanity would continue to reduce its use of them.
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Sunken slave ship
Exploring a sunken slave ship in which the slaves tried to revolt.
They were defeated, locked in the hold, and later all died when
the ship sank in a storm.
I don't think those slaves regretted their revolt just because it
failed. Better to fight than go meekly to subjugation.
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Financial repercussions of disasters
The damage from disasters such as modern hurricanes cause financial
repercussions through many areas of the economy. They can ruin
insurance companies, banks, cities governments and states, as well as
individuals and families.
If we don't organize managed retreat from places that it isn't
sustainable to live in, we are likely to have an unmanaged retreat
which will be even more painful.
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Israeli army attacks on UN peacekeeping forces
Explaining the context and significance of Israeli army attacks on UN
peacekeeping forces in the south of Lebanon.
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Israel attacking town of Jabalia
Israel is attacking the town of Jabalia in northern Gaza, full of civilians
with nowhere else to go.
Israel claims to have killed 50 HAMAS fighters or more, while counting
corpses found it had killed at least 350 people, of whom most are
surely civilians. Israel claims that killing these civilians is excused
by (1) intending that HAMAS fighters be the ones to die and (2) telling
the civilians to evacuate and never mind whether they can.
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Deloitte threatened with loss of government contracts
*The bully's supporters have threatened Deloitte with the loss of
lucrative government contracts … because one of its employees
leaked critical comments about his presidential performance made by
his running mate JD Vance.
I don't care at all what happens to Deloitte, but the use of this sort
of bullying to spread repression throughout society is repression.
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Arrests of those protesting Iran former president imprisonment
Pakistan's government arrested the leaders (and many other members) of
the main political party, which was protesting the imprisonment of the
former president, Imran Khan.
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Georgia rule of hand-counting ballots
How the Georgia rule of hand-counting ballots can introduce delays and
possible confusion.
Delays in the counting from any county are likely to spark imaginary
right-wing conspiracy theories. In fact, there is a conspiracy — the
right-wing conspiracy that led to adopting this rule.
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Politicians excuses for not solving problems
Politicians that don't want to actually address society's big problems
can make excuses by saying they are "complex", and negotiating with business
about how to do it, and the businesses will ensure no progress in reducing greenhouse emissions is made.
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Play about Ukrainian children
A play about Ukrainian children seized and imprisoned by the Putin forces
was written by a journalist based on interviews with some of them.
Putin's excuse for imprisoning Ukrainian children is to protect them
from the danger of the war that Putin started by choice. This is a
standard right-wing behavior pattern: creating a problem and insisting
on prolonging it, and citing that as an excuse for repression.
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The wrecker's failing ebusinesses
The wrecker started one ebusiness after another, and drove most of them to failure. He damaged the US when he was president, but this time
he has prepared to damage it a lot more.
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No attention paid to war in Sudan
The world hardly pays attention to the civil war in Sudan. I know why
I say little about it.
In my political notes, I do not set out to report news, but rather to comment
on the issues (political and moral) raised by the news. If there is a problem,
what might be solutions.
The coverage of the civil war in Sudan, that I see, describes only the
tactical developments. I can't draw any significant conclusions from
that. Are these two sides merely factions fighting for power? Does
either side stand for something — anything at all? Why is the
fighting continuing? I don't know anything about that, so I have
nothing to say, and I have no idea what might be a good outcome
to help attain it.
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Israeli soldiers killed journalists
Israeli soldiers killed some of the journalists covering the forced
migration of Palestinians from northern Gaza. Other journalists who
witnessed this say the soldiers specifically targeted those they
killed.
Israel has killed so many Palestinian journalists that it is hard
to imagine that this was not systematically intentional.
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US meteorologists face death threats
*US meteorologists face death threats as hurricane [conspiracy ideation]
surges.
Storms Helene and Milton have triggered rise of misinformation stoked
by Trump and fellow Republicans.*
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Fertilizing plankton with dust
The article identifies
- Too Hot to Farm (and too wet for humans, or too dry for plants)
- Too Acidic for Fish (too much CO2 in the ocean).
The article suggests fertilizing plankton by dropping lots of dust in
the ocean as a way to remove CO2. Would this really work? Would it
be safe? I don't know.
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Decrease of violent crime in US
Violent crime in the US decreased substantially in 2023, including an
11% decrease in murders.
Republicans pretend the rate is increasing. The real flaws of
Democrats are due to being too right-wing, but the Republicans have
trouble repeating those criticisms. So they have to make some up.
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Hostage of China Michael Kovrig
Michael Kovrig, held hostage by China for the release of accused
criminal Meng Wanzhou, was kept in solitary confinement for 6 months
in a cell where the light was always on. And interrogated for up to 9
hours a day, every day.
This is a form of torture.
I have no opinion about whether the accusations against Meng Wanzhou
were true, nor whether they were morally legitimate in principle. I
don't know enough about that issue to have an opinion. But I am
confident that the Chinese government did not care about those
questions. It wanted hostages that Canada would feel a need to bring
home.
I makes me sad to know that the United States holds some prisoners in
similar conditions of torture. Julian Assange could expect to be held
that way, if he had been sent to the US for trial. Indeed, his
imprisonment in Britain was in conditions almost as bad as that, It is
wrong no matter which country does it.
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Proposal to ban Chinese-made cars
*Biden administration proposes rules to ban Chinese-made cars over
spying fears. *
They surely do spy, and we should not tolerate that. But this threat
is not limited to cars made by Chinese companies. What about all the
non-Chinese-made cars that are known to snoop on their users?
Shouldn't they be banned, too?
Instead of banning those cars, we could require them to give users
some control. We could enable users to get rid of the snooping by
requiring cars to ask for the driver's permission before recording
and/or transmitting any information about their drivers and
passengers, including their identifies and their actions.
Or we could require all software delivered in cars to be free software
so that users could change it. If you're allowed to work on your
car's brakes, why not its software too?
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