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Event |
| 2:38a |
Greenpeace free speech right to protest
A court in North Dakota ruled that Greenpeace must pay hundreds of millions
of dollars in damages for protesting against the
construction of the
Dakota Access Pipeline.
The fossil fuels transported in that pipeline will increase and hasten
the damage caused to nearly everyone by global heating disaster.
If that leads to the collapse of civilization and the death of most
humans, there will be no way to measure the damages Energy Transfer is
liable for, nor to collect them from what remains of that company, nor
to pay them to the descendants of the dead.
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| 2:38a |
Mahmoud Khalil letter from SLV prison
*My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am
a
political prisoner.*
He published that article over two months ago. It reflects the American
ideals of freedom and democracy.
He is still in jail now.
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| 2:38a |
Recognizing ecocide as a crime
*Classing grievous acts of environmental harm as crimes against peace
may
hold
states and corporations to account.*
As with crimes against humanity,
the
hard part will be to overcome the ways they use their power to
make governments protect them — and protect their crimes too.
I question whether it is wise to include "of a given territory" in the
definition of ecocide. The biggest ecocides now in progress cause
damage around the world, but that fact should not exclude them from
being considered ecocide.
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| 2:38a |
Urgent: Rep. LaMonica McIver V DOJ
US citizens:
call
on the Department of Justice to drop all charges against
Rep. LaMonica McIver, She was arrested trying to demand answers about
a deportation, along with the mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
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| 2:38a |
Supreme Court on climate-chaos lawsuits
The US Supreme Court ruled that
cities
can sue oil companies in state courts for the damages from global
heating.
As the article says, these lawsuits' judgments won't be able to repay
the cost of the damages done by global heating. All the
money in the world won't be able to do that. We have to hope it will
lead to a political decision to decarbonize.
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| 8:38p |
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| 8:38p |
Fewer trained professionals for US
*Proposal to
limit
student loans for "professional programs" risks driving people
away from medicine, critics say.*
The magats figure
that after big spending cuts on medical treatment for the poor, the US
will employ fewer doctors and nurses.
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| 8:38p |
Senator: Well, we are all going to die
Republican Senator Joni Ernst did not quite say it is of no importance
whether her constituents live or die. Rather, she made a pedantic
quip about careless wording in a constituent's criticism of the substance
of her position.
The criticism's intended point was that the Medicaid exclusions she
supports would leave many unable to afford medical treatment, and that
would cause some of them to die much sooner.
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| 8:38p |
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