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Wednesday, November 27th, 2024

    Time Event
    10:46a
    Exclude biomass energy from climate plans at COP29

    *Call on countries around the world to exclude biomass energy from their national climate plans at COP29.*

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    10:46a
    Reopen investigation of Kavanaugh's attacks on various women

    Call on the FBI to reopen the investigation of Kavanaugh's various sexual attacks on various women.

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    10:46a
    US anti-trust case against Google

    What the US anti-trust case against Google is asking the judge to impose. Most of these proposed measures I see no specific flaw in. But I do see two specific flaws:

    • The measure to make Google's web crawl data available to competitors at a nonzero price would excludes noncommercial search engines a priori.
    • Chrome is proprietary malware. No matter which company releases it, your freedom can only suffer if you use it. However, its variant, Chromium, is of some benefit to the free world. You would not run it if you are wise, since it contains some nonfree code for doing web DRM. But free software supporters use it as the basis to make Ungoogled Chromium, which is much closer to being usable in freedom. (I don't know precisely how close.) Spinning Chrome off to another company might lead to the elimination of support for Chromium. That company might make Chrome purely proprietary, and that would indeed be a loss.
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    10:46a
    Bolsonaro formally charged with plotting coup

    Bolsonaro is now formally charged with plotting a coup after the election that brought back Lula.

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    10:46a
    International criminal court ordered arrest of Netanyahu

    The International Criminal Court has ordered the arrest of Netanyahu and his former minister of defense, Galant.

    I hope they are convicted, but it won't be easy to arrest them.

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    10:46a
    Agents of the wrecker's vengeance

    *[The wrecker's] cabinet picks are agents of his contempt, rage and vengeance.*

    *An economic populism for the majority — irrespective of gender, race, religion, [and sexual] or gender [identity] — is the way forward.*

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    10:46a
    Harris ran from popular Biden policies

    *Harris ran from the Biden policies that were actually popular with voters* and adopted more plutocratist policies instead.

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    10:46a
    Republican party turning into playpen for oligarchs

    *The Republicans were always the party of big business, but [the corrupter] is turning them into a playpen for oligarchs.*

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    10:46a
    Thugs shot victim of break in

    Brandon Durham called 911 because people broke into his home. While he was struggling to take a knife away from one of them, a thug arrived and shot him dead.

    His relatives want the thug to be tried for this hasty killing which predictably invited a deadly mistake.

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    10:46a
    Evidence global heating supercharging deadly weather

    *Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity.*

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    10:46a
    Urgent: Revoke Musk's security clearance

    US citizens: call on Biden to revoke Musk's security clearance.

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    10:46a
    Urgent: Close Data Broker Loophole

    US citizens: call on Senate Democrats to close the Data Broker Loophole, that allows agencies like ICE, CBP, and the FBI bypass the 4th Amendment and spy on everyday people's location and online activity without a warrant.

    In my view, that change would be a change for the better, but would not be adequate. We are entitled to use devices controlled by us, not be companies. We should be able to make sure they do not tell anyone where we go.

    But closing the Data Broker Loophole is at least a change for the better.

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