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Weakening measures to move UK from fossil fuels
British "centrists" find excuse after excuse to weaken the measures that
are supposed to move the UK away from fossil fuels.
Look in the article for where they leap from "We may need to move
away from the gas tax someday" to "Let's ditch it now!"
A carbon tax ought to be programmed in advance
to increase gradually year by year. That will encourage people to plan
to reduce their consumption, even with plans that take years.
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LA Times editor resigned
The editor of the LA Times has resigned after the paper's owner
forbade endorsing Harris for president.
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Elon Musk’s declaration
Musk is trying to destroy the Center for Countering Digital Hate for
sharply criticizing the slant of ex-Twitter towards right-wing hate.
His methods so far include (1) exaggeration and (2) trying to
stretch
the law (but failing so far).
Overall I think his aim is to intimidate people into surrendering to
his encroachment on election law, as they would if he were emperor.
I am of two minds about on-line hate. On the one hand, that hate can
whip up right-wing hate campaigns that undermine human rights
generally. On the other hand, laws against expressing hatred as such
are a form of censorship, and the laws can easily be redirected to
suppress protests that the state does not like.
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Nobel prize winners endorse Harris
*Nobel prize winners endorse Harris and warn [the corrupter] would
endanger future of science. … letter by 82 laureates …
calls [the corrupter] a potential threat to
progress on climate crisis.* |
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Young male voters
Republicans are *doing a really wonderful job of faking
relationships* with
individual supporters.
It always bothers me when an organization pretends that my support for
it is a personal relationship Rather than a political position. I
don't make a fuss about it because that doesn't affect my support for
the cause (whichever cause that might be). But since it feels
manipulative, I would rather the organization didn't do that.
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UN relations
*Israel's plan to ban Unrwa from accessing Gaza marks new low in its
relations
with UN
US only nation likely to be able to persuade Netanyahu to drop plan
condemned by 123 member states.*
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Netflix removing films
Netflix abruptly disappeared nearly all the films in its
"Palestinian
Stories" collection.
This demonstrates a political aspect of the basic injustice of
streaming as a way of distributing works of art and opinion: nobody is
allowed to have a copy that is copyable, so the company can make the
work nonexistent.
The streaming dis-services take DRM (Digital Restrictions Management)
to the next level of injustice. Please join me in refusing to use them
(I have never done so, not even once).
When the only copies that respect people's rights are unauthorized
copies, insist on unauthorized copies!
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Helen O’Sullivan
Helen O’Sullivan was with Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in an olive grove away
from everyone else, when the latter was
killed by a sniper's bullet.
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High Russian death toll
It seems that the Putin forces recruit 20,000 soldiers per month,
while suffering
casualties at about the same rate.
They mostly recruit convicts and people from poor regions who join for
the money. As a result, Russians in general don't feel upset about the
high casualties. Russian generals don't care either.
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Sudan’s deadly civil war
Claiming that the civil war in Sudan continues because each side is
propped up by rich or
powerful Arab countries.
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Harris’s Medicare at Home!
Sign in support of Harris's plan to have Medicare cover the cost of
at-home help for people who
medically need such help.
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Death of Edwin Santos
A Venezuelan opposition figure who was seized by state suppression
forces on Wednesday
turned up dead on Friday.
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Musk tax gift
If the wrecker takes the presidency and appoints Musk to a federal office,
Musk would get an
enormous tax break.
But that would be tiny compared to the profit he could get by
bullying people into giving him almost anything he wants.
He would not be president, but he would be emperor, having more
power than any president ever had.
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Aberdeen clean energy plan
Global heating threatens to kill billions of people in this century.
But the short-term-thinking people of Aberdeen look with terror
measures to reduce the use of fossil fuels and see that 200,000 jobs
in that
field might disappear.
Then they exaggerate and say, "They are killing us", but it is only
certain world-destroying jobs that would disappear. This wouldn't
actually kill anyone.
If Britain makes its welfare system adequate, the disappearance of some
jobs won't be a disaster for anyone. And it will help avoid a much bigger
disaster for everyone.
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Roundup weedkiller
Bayer did not remove glyphosate from its weedkillers as promised,
but it did release new ones
that are very toxic.
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Bullhorn expulsion
Swarthmore College is accusing students of "assaulting" people in campus by
using megaphones to shout protest slogans, and
threatens to expel them
as a punishment.
The college administrators who allow such attacks to be made against freedom
of speech have demonstrated their unfitness for the job, and ought to resign.
Or, either than resigning, cancel the proceedings and join the side of
freedom of speech.
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