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| 10:37a |
Speed limits in Wales
Wales changed most roads to have a 20mph speed limit. It reduced
deaths and injuries on the roads, but a right-wing grass-roots campaign
was launched to fight it.
It turns out that the organizing was done by people who just
happened to be Tory politicians.
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| 10:37a |
Nomination of Russian asset to head of CIA
Reaction to the wrecker's nomination of a Russian asset to head the
CIA.
Think about what this would mean. Every person secretly working for
the CIA would be reported to Putin's (renamed) KGB, and available to
its assassins.
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| 10:37a |
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| 10:37a |
Urgent: Standard transition ethics pledge
US citizens: call on the corrupter to sign the standard transition
ethics pledge.
It might be effective for Biden to order refusal to cooperate with the
corrupter's transition team until he formally agrees to this ethics
pledge.
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| 10:37a |
Urgent: Call on block of Project 2025
US citizens: call on officials at all levels of government to block
Project 2025.
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| 10:37a |
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| 10:37a |
Urgent: Stop advertising on ex-Twitter
Everyone: call on Walmart, the NFL and the Wash Post to stop
advertising on ex-Twitter.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
function without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code.
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript or are using the
LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you can
enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript.) You can finish sending without
that code By editing its URL in the browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Enter the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort compared with the benefit of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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| 4:37p |
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| 4:37p |
Higher levels of PFAS in blood
Higher levels of PFAS in the blood correlate with (1) lack of access
to fresh food and (2) proximity of toxic waste sites.
All three tend to correlate with poverty.
As a result, when we see correlation between those factors and medical
problems, it is not trivial to determine which of them cause medical
problems, and which simply correlate with things that cause medical
problems.
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| 4:37p |
US military developing autonomous weapons
It looks like the US military is developing autonomous weapons.
Its vague non answers provoke suspicions but make it hard to know for certain.
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| 4:37p |
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| 4:37p |
Weakening commitment to act on climate crisis
*Huge election year worldwide sees weakening commitment to act on
climate crisis.*
I suspect that many billionaires are supporting right-wing candidates
who will allow them to wipe out civilization (and most humans)
unhindered.
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| 4:37p |
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| 4:37p |
Racists shutting down antiracist events
Racist harassers are shutting down antiracist events in London
by threatening violence.
They ought to organize to defeat any violence, rather than giving up
at the first threat.
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| 4:37p |
Greeks tried a general strike
Greeks tried to hold a general strike, but they were in such penury
that they could not afford to miss a day of work.
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| 4:37p |
Journalist convicted by China of spying
China has convicted a major journalist of spying simply for talking with
Japanese diplomats.
There is speculation that the government wants to intimidate people
against having contacts with diplomats.
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| 4:37p |
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| 4:38p |
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| 4:38p |
Military bases in place of neighborhoods
Israel is demolishing
neighborhoods in Gaza to build permanent
military bases.
This would, under international law, make Israel officially responsible
for food, water, medical care and so on for the civilians in Gaza.
It does not follow that Israel will actually provide them. It might
prefer to exterminate tens of thousands more. But if Israel does provide
humanitarian needs in full, it could cease the wrongs that have gone
on for years.
Israel denies that it is deliberately planning to permanently displace
civilians, but planned construction of a large strip of Israeli
military bases in land where people live is undeniably a deliberate
plan to permanently displace civilians.
I fear we are witnessing the complete abandonment of the idea
of internationally punishing war crimes. That would be a terrible
setback for justice in the world.
Of course, that system never functioned entirely. But many
governments endorsed it and tried to make it function. Despite its
gaps, it remained an advance over the world as it was before World War
II. Now we are falling back towards barbarism, and
the wrecker is
likely to do it to death.
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| 4:38p |
Stress test on US constitution
How the wrecker
plans to put the US Constitution to a stress test
and see its checks and balances break.
He aims to force the Senate to adjourn so he can impose
his mockery nominations through without consideration by the Senate.
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