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Social Security Administration propaganda letter
The Social Security Administration sent (some) recipients a
letter whose only purpose was propaganda to praise the Big Bad Bill.
Part of the claimed benefits were false, of course.
Never suppose that magats are telling the truth.
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| 2:37p |
Ralph Nader presents the wrecker's three overall goals
Ralph Nader presents the wrecker's three overall goals — riches,
vengeance, and permanent plutocracy — and relates them to his
specific acts of destruction.
I think that the word "vengeance" is not adequate for the second of
these goals. Its targets are not limited to personal rivals or
enemies; he aims to crush everyone who was on the other side,
politically, and support those who were on his side.
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| 2:37p |
UK pressuring tax havens
The UK has been pressuring various mostly autonomous colonies which
are tax havens for decades to keep track of corporate profits that flow
through them to anonymous owners, but it isn't pressing hard enough
to make them change anything.
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| 2:37p |
US deportation thugs' rules and procedures
The US deportation thugs have rules and procedures that systematically
result, occasionally, in jailing US citizens and even deporting US
citizens.
Part of the cause is racial profiling, but fixing the operational
rules would prevent most of these.
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| 2:37p |
Greenpeace suing pipeline company
Greenpeace is suing the pipeline company Energy Transfer under the
EU's anti-SLAPP directive
The lawsuit against Greenpeace clearly is a SLAPP. It was meant to
distract attention from the danger of river-polluting pipeline leaks,
the broader danger of deadly floods and fires, and the longer-term
danger of collapse of civilization from global heating.
i wonder how an EU court has jurisdiction over it, though.
The protests were in he US, the SLAPP lawsuit is in the US,
and Energy Transfer is in the US.
Some US states have anti-SLAPP laws, but North Dakota is rather
right-wing so it probably does not have one.
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| 2:37p |
Datacentres to take water from driest areas
*Big tech's new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest
areas.*
A government that considers people important will prohibit the operation
of a data center if there is a shortage of water in the region when it
is operating.
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| 2:37p |
Mackerel in Northeast Atlantic are overfished
Mackerel in the Northeast Atlantic are overfished, and numbers
are shrinking.
</li> |
| 2:37p |
UK universities trying to get year-long protest bans
UK universities are getting advice from a specialist law firm
on how to obtain year-long protest bans.
Cardiff University obtained a ban his way. Other universities that
registered for the webinar include Reading, Exeter, Northumbria,
Hertfordshire, Birkbeck, Bath Spa and Liverpool John Moores
If you are or were a student at one of them, you might want to inform
the university that this or other opposition to traditional political
freedom puts you off any will to donate to that university.
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Climate change reports removed from US government sites
*Key climate change reports removed from US government websites.*
The wrecker is not merely uncooperative with efforts to curb fossil fuel;
he seems to be doing everything possible to ensure global gigadeaths.
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| 2:37p |
Daily Kos notified as being under investigation by US government
Daily Kos, the organization, has been notified that the US government
is investigating it for un-magat activities, but with no specifics
about why. Here it explores what the alleged grounds might be.
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BBC on facts on Israel's war crimes
Many BBC journalists rebuke the BBC for refusing to present the facts
that would shed a critical light on Israel's war crimes.
For instance, its refusal to show the documentary Gaza: Doctors
Under Attack, which it had commissioned, apparently because of the
truth that that documentary would demonstrate.
Another pertinent issue:
I am obliged to point out that authorized distribution of BBC video
programs on the internet is wrapped in DRM, which is an injustice in
itself.
The article talks about other channels that distributed the
documentary in the UK, after the BBC finally rejected it. I suppose
that their internet distribution is afflicted with DRM too, meaning no
less subjugatory.
I hope you will join me in refusing to use anything that imposes DRM on
published works. Let's make DRM a felony!
However, you can find textual explanation of the same facts in
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0xp969n69o and
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/24/new-details-on-killing-of-paramedics-in-gaza-appear-to-contradict-idf-account
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| 2:37p |
Droughts worldwide pushing people towards starvation
*Droughts worldwide pushing [around 100 million people] towards starvation, says report.*
This looks like the beginning of what we know global heating will
produce: a permanent inability for some regions to sustain their
current populations. To stabilize the population of endangered
regions with birth control and abortion is urgent, if we want to
prevent megadeaths from doing so.
The article's actual title said "tens of millions", but those words
are misleading since the article's text says "more than 90 million".
In the absence of a basis to know it is closer to 90 than to 100, the
best rough approximation is 100 million.
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| 2:37p |
Expelling of ancestrally Napali minority group
Bhutan expelled 100,000 members of an ancestrally Nepali minority
group into India, They went to refugee camps in Nepal. Many were
later allowed to move to other countries including the US. Some have
been deported from the US for various alleged crimes, but the US
doesn't check that Bhutan will allow them entry (it does not). So
they go to Nepal, but the refugee camp won't let them return, and
Nepal does not believe, or does not care, that they formerly lived
there.
Now Nepal insists on deporting them to Bhutan, and officials seem
unwilling to face the fact that Bhutan won't allow them in.
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EU abandoning leadership in curbing greenhouse gas emissions
The EU seems to be abandoning its leadership in curbing greenhouse gas
emissions.
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| 2:37p |
Canada considering dangerous immigration and surveillance bill
Canada is considering a cruel and dangerous immigration and surveillance bill.
The immigration part would permit officials to cancel visas arbitrarily
and ban arbitrarily any pathway for people to reach Canada to ask
for admission. No appeal is allowed.
Furthermore, people arriving across the border where there is no
crossing point would have just two weeks to apply for asylum.
What does such harshness serve/
The immigration minister has admitted that all this is a surrender to pressure from the bully.
The surveillance part would make it easier for cops and prosecutors to get
access to people's communication metadata without a warrant. It
includes an almost unlimited exceptions for emergencies; perhaps it
would be acceptable if it stated more concrete limits, or if it
prohibited the state from retaining such surveillance data more than 2
weeks if it has not by then obtained a warrant covering that same data.
</li> |
| 2:37p |
Genetic evidence air pollution provokes lung cancer
Genetic evidence that air pollution provokes development of lung
cancer — and faster aging of telomeres.
</li> |
| 2:37p |
Weaponization working group
* A former FBI agent who allegedly shouted "kill ’em!" at law enforcement
during the [109]January 6 insurrection is now advising a "weaponization
working group" in the "justice department".
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| 8:37p |
Google's EU antitrust complaint over "AI" overviews
The EU
is investigating whether Google Search's "AI" Overviews are
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Eran Zelnik
US citizen and Israeli citizen Eran Zelnik: *I’m a Jewish Israeli in
the US standing up for Palestine.
By
[the fascist leader's] logic, I’m
a terror supporter.*
He compares the current US regime in detail to the Nazi regime that
his grandparents fled, and then asks Kash Patel (head of the FBI), "Do
you want to arrest me?"
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| 8:37p |
Palestine Action activists arrested
Britain's repression of protest becomes more vicious, as we might
expect. 20 protesters face prosecution and perhaps 14 years in prison
for carrying signs
stating
support for the banned "terrorist"
organization, Palestine Action.
The declaration that Palestine Action is a terrorist organization
declares an absurd (and false) exaggeration to be true. The
prosecution of the sign-carriers, if that goes ahead, will use that
false "truth" for tyranny, and threaten even more tyranny.
I expect that the judge will forbid any discussion, in the trial, of
whether Palestine Action really is terrorist -- to insist that the
declaration replaces the truth.
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Swedish PM tracked by surveillance app
The security detail for the prime minister of Sweden ran and rode
their bikes to and from work shifts, and
allowed a personal
surveillance app to track them. This allowed the public to track the
prime minister's movements.
I gather that publishing where users run or ride is a documented feature,
not a bug or a documented malfeature. If humans were infallible, the fault
would be entirely on the guards who used it. But since humans are fallible,
the system is at fault also.
Don't be a sap,
Avoid the app!
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| 8:37p |
ICC warrant for Taliban leader
*ICC issues
warrant for Taliban's supreme leader for persecution of women.*
Hooray! Even though it isn't likely that he will be arrested and brought
to the court for trial, this will still have good effects on the world.
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Varroa mites killing honeybees
60% of Honeybees in the US died last winter,
killed
by he varroa mites
which spread various diseases among the bees.
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