Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Time	Event
4:36a	Arctica Sea ice - LA fires - teleconnect *The Los Angeles wildfires are climate disasters compounded.* Remember the insane rigidity of UK punishment of climate-defense protests, which is bent on repressing climate protesters and will punish them even for unintentional failure to comply. The root of this cruelty is a fundamental wrong decision not to recognize the magnitude of the crime that fossil fuel companies are committing. (Comment on this)
4:36a	LA fires and climate chaos A fire destroyed 5,000 buildings in Pacific Palisades, part of Los Angeles. 5,000 more buildings have been destroyed in other parts of LA. Global heating is affecting the US to the point where Americans even in major urban areas are in danger. And the world overall, too. The only way to stop this from getting steadily worse is to curb greenhouse gas emissions. Biden tried to make a start at that in the Inflation Reduction Act, but after 2021 Republican opposition solidified and he could not do more. I expect the bullshitter to scapegoat Biden for not doing enough (never mind who prevented him from doing more), while pushing useless measures that won't reduce greenhouse gas emissions. (Comment on this)
10:36a	Nauru refugees win ruling against AUS The United Nations human rights committee decided that Australia violated the human rights of refugees by sending them to Nauru, essentially for life. This decision was published almost 24 years after Australia started sending refugees there. The committee warned other countries that they too would be violators if they shirked their responsibility to asylum seekers by outsourcing the handling of them. (Comment on this)
10:36p	Urgent: On executives of failed banks US citizens: call on the FDIC to release findings from probes into executives of failed banks. (Comment on this)

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