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| 4:38a |
Carbon emissions from arctic tundra
*Arctic tundra is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs, US agency
says.*
This is a consequence of the higher temperature in the Arctic,
and consequences such as wildfires.
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| 4:38a |
Defunding at US State Department
It looks like the part of the US State Department that tries to combat
foreign disinformation will be defunded.
Who in the US government might want to do that? Perhaps those
who are in league with Putin, such as the corrupter, and those who
spread foreign disinformation, such as Musk.
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| 4:38a |
Monarch butterflies listed as threatened
Monarch butterflies are now listed as threatened in he US, which puts
limits on actions that could further harm the species.
The limits, not very strict, are described in the article.
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| 4:38a |
Merger block upheld
Th FTC's order to block the merger of the Kroger and Albertsons
supermarket chains was upheld in court.
However, it appears that Lina Khan, responsible for several years of militancy
by the FTC, will not be reappointed. That means it will become weaker,
and additional damaging mergers of large companies will proceed.
I would like to know more about how this happened. If you can point
me at an article about this, please email me the text as well as the URL.
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| 4:38a |
Giving infectious diseases a break
Robert Kennedy Jr said he will "give infectious diseases a break".
That would be a dangerous error, given that the more people they have
infected, the more starting points they have to infect others.
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| 4:38a |
More wealth to stockholders at any cost
The doctrine, that corporation executives are obligated to make "more
wealth for stockholders" the highest priority, sounds simple — but it
obtains that simplicity by disregarding all factors that weren't
trivial to quantify.
Events have shown that it doesn't lead to clear consequences on any
question.
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| 4:38a |
Prohibition on deporting by Boston cops
Boston City Council reaffirms prohibition on Boston cops' helping
to deport anyone who doesn't have an arrest warrant.
</li> |
| 4:38a |
Pausing asylum for Syrian refugees
Some European Countries have decided to pause decision on asylum
for Syrian refugees, to wait and see if Syria now becomes a safe country
from which people have a need to flee.
Let us hope that Syria now becomes safe for peaceful civilians, but if
that happens for most of them, that does not imply it will be safe for
all of them. For instance, will it be safe for secularist people that
want an end to religious persecution? Will it be safe for non-Arabs,
such as Kurds? Will be safe for freethinkers? Will it be safe for
queer people? We cannot assume all that.
Thus, even if Syria ceases to persecute millions of its civilians,
there may still be some Syrians who are entitled to asylum for
specific reasons.
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| 4:38a |
Banned chemicals exported from UK
* Investigation uncovers how chemicals like diquat, banned in the UK but
legal to export, are causing [medical] problems in [other countries].*
The issue is worth posting about, but I reject the term "global south"
and I took this opportunity to campaign against it.
I also took the opportunity to highlight my disagreement with the
marketing campaign to replace the word "medical" with "health". I
don't know whether that author (or The Guardian) supports that as a
marketing campaign—it may be a matter of following a fashion.
But I see it as a marketing campaign, and as such I reject it.
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| 4:38a |
Voting for the axe
This came from A Word A Day. It fits the right-wing servants of dooH
niboR who whip up poor fools to vote to cut their income to help the
rich.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
The forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the axe for the axe was
clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood he was
one of them. -Turkish proverb
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| 4:38a |
Brain rot by recommendation engines
Brain rot caused by recommendation engines is not just a metaphor. It
has been demonstrated by many experiments, both psychological an
physiological.
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| 4:38a |
Pardoning everyone involved in Jan 6 attack on Capitol
The corrupter reaffirmed his intention to pardon everyone convicted
for participating in the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol that the
corrupter launched to overthrow the US government.
*Liz Cheney calls Trump threat to jail her an "assault on the rule of law".*
The supposed grounds for this investigation would be that she
participated in investigating the attack on the Capitol.
*RFK Jr to research unsupported link between vaccines and autism, [the
truth-hater] says.*
In effect, the corrupter has declared war on truth, justice, and
honesty. In place of the United States of America, he would have the
Utter Subserviece to the Autocrat — a state in which patriots are
imprisoned if they obstruct him and criminals freed if they serve him.
Like Putin, he hopes to leave no visible path to find the truth except
to believe whatever he says.
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| 4:38a |
Demilitarized zone on Syrian border
Israel seized a small demilitarized zone on the Syrian border.
I think that the importance of that border zone is minimal. Precisely
because of that, Israel's seizure of it was a stupid and vicious act,
likely to provoke various sorts of conflict just as Syria had
encountered possibilities of peace.
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| 4:38a |
UK deporting man to Pakistan
The UK is deporting a man to Pakistan although he is likely to be
murdered if he is there.
She is likely to be deported some time later, and she too faces the
threat of murder.
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