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Scorn for protesters of Gaza massacres
Right-wing extremist groups in the US now express their scorn for
people protesting on behalf of Palestinians by
threatening
to get them deported by claiming (arbitrarily) that they support
terrorism.
Arrogant right-wing attacks are often based on some false
presupposition. In this case, it the presupposition is, "Everyone
that stands up Palestinians' human rights is a jihadi Islamist
terrorist." The goal of these campaigns is to lead the public to
believe the false presupposition.
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US int'l aid VS China aid
The wrecker's destruction of USAID and cutoff of most
nonmilitary
foreign aid has probably increased China's global influence.
I don't think the wrecker cares about this as much as he cares
about his own power.
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| 4:38a |
Insects and AMR in hospitals, NGA
Flies
in hospitals can carry drug-resistant bacteria from patient to
patient.
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| 4:38a |
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DEI history, air-traffic controllers
Facts concerning the
FAA's DEI
hiring program, compared with presidential bullshit.
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About midair collisions in DC airspace
A collision between an airliner and a military helicopter near Reagan
National Airport
happened
in 1949. Ever since pilots and people involved in air safety
have warned of the danger that the difficult situation would lead to
another collision.
So don't believe the fabricator when he puts the blame on his usual suspects.
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Google AI in surveillance, weapons
Google(‡) has adopted the motto,
"Be evil in
every possible way,"
by its decision to use artificial intelligence
for weapons.
I write "artificial intelligence" because I presume this would use the
adaptive pattern matching
that really is artificial intelligence,
not the bullshit generators which aren't.
‡ I don't distinguish between the different corporate entities of
Google because I see those distinctions as insignificant details
that cloud the overall picture.
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| 4:38a |
Wealthy interests VS Government, AZ
Phoenix, Arizona, tried to prohibit construction in areas where there
is no sustainable groundwater available. Rich real estate interests are
trying
to invalidate the ban in court.
I guess they hope to make money selling houses to people who will
eventually find that it is impossible to live in them for lack of water.
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| 10:38p |
Flag "security" at Super Bowl
*Performer in Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl show [questioned by
"security"] on field after holding up
Sudan-and-Gaza combined flag.
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| 10:38p |
Kyrsten Sinema dooH niboR, AZ
*In
Waning Senate Days, Kyrsten Sinema Screwed Workers and Spent
Campaign Cash on Stay at French Castle.*
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| 10:38p |
Plastic waste executive order
The trasher thinks of the environment as an enemy and yearn to trash
it at every opportunity, even in small ways, to demonstrate his hate
for it. He decided to encourage plastic pollution by canceling
Biden's decision to
gradually
end use of plastic straws in the US government.
The trasher's campaign for plastic straws may seem to be a pointless
frivolity, but the attitude he seeks to instill is broader and
potentially deadly. The attitude consist of prioritizing short-term
desires over long-term needs. People who approach questions this way
can be manipulated into wasting their money.
That campaign turns the World War II slogan, "Use it up, wear it out,
do without," on its head, applying it to the environment rather than
to products such as straws.
If we use up and wear out the environment, humanity can't survive very
long.
The reason so little plastic is recycled is only a few kinds of
plastic are practically
feasible
to recycle. Several other kinds are recyclable in principle, but it
is too
expensive so so that never happens. Plastic industry PR fooled
the public about this by getting
the
"recycle" symbol put on those other kinds, so people imagine they
will be recycled.
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Spike in phone calls to Congress
*Fury Over Musk and DOGE
Triggers Spike in Calls to Congress.*
*Members of Congress say they are being flooded with calls from angry
constituents about President Donald Trump's Director of the Department
of Government Efficiency, Elon Musk, and what he is doing inside the
federal government.*
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| 10:38p |
Urgent: Increase climate-emergency funding
US citizens: phone your congresscritter and senators
and call on them to protect FEMA from plans to
abolish it or greatly cut its funding.
Climatic disasters are increasing, and will continue to increase
as long as we keep increasing greenhouse gases in the air.
FEMA will need more funding than it needs now.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 10:38p |
"Efficient" government research, US
The National Institutes of Health have
cut
the ratio of "overhead" payments that they add to research grants.
The NIH offers these overhead payments knowing that the things that
they fund are necessary for the research organizations to function so
they can do the contracted research. Reducing them will make it hard
for the research organizations to do the research.
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| 10:38p |
Specter of national censorship, ISR
Freedom of the press is threatened in Israel. Thugs in Jerusalem
arrested the Palestinian owners of a bookstore.
The thugs seized
many books, including each book that showed a Palestinian flag. This
included books by Noam Chomsky and Israeli writer Ilan Pappé.
They also seized a copy of the newspaper Haaretz.
This is part of a wave of arrests of Palestinian political
intellectuals in Israel and Palestine.
Side point:
I used to make links to articles in Haaretz before it sprouted a
paywall. To pass the paywall is impossible without running nonfree
JavaScript software on my own computer, so I cannot see that
newspaper's articles, nor recommend them to others.
The payment of money, as such, I would on some occasions accept, if I
could pay it anonymously without running nonfree software. But I
never accept running nonfree software, and I never urge the public to
do so.
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