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The persecutor eager to deport people to countries they have no connection
The persecutor
is eager
to deport people to countries they have no
connection with. He has had them sent to at least 13 countries. of
which 12 have been rebuked by the US State Department for
disrespecting human rights.
Freedom House is a little less picky — it rates 4 of the 13 as
"free countries".
We can see this form of deportation as an indirect substitute for what
he really wants to do: persecute them directly and permanently.
The persecutor
does this even to people whose countries of origin
would accept them, such as Mexico. Though it is possible that the
specific Mexicans in question faced an individual danger of
persecution there.
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Letter from prominent and admired Israelis
*We,
Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and our
Palestinian neighbors, write this with grave shame, in rage and in
agony. Our country is starving the people of Gaza to death and
contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the
Strip. The international community must impose crippling sanctions on
Israel until it ends this brutal campaign and implements a
permanent ceasefire.*
The signatories are prominent and admired Israelis; each one's claim
to fame is listed.
Here is more
about the letter.
I admire their courage and support their call.
It should be noted that Israelis
carry
out sadistic
oppression in the
West Bank too.
An Israeli expat
explains
why sanctions can overcome Netanyahu's
political power.
*Advocates of a
two-state
solution realize time to act is now.*
Israel is setting out on to expel Palestinians and colonize, in Gaza
and the West Bank. If this isn't stopped now, it will be too late.
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Activist kicked and choked by Israeli soldiers
When Israeli soldiers seized the ship Mavi Marmara, as the crew were
trying to bring food aid to starving Gaza, the soldiers
choked and kicked
Chris Smalls, one of the activists.
I can't tell from this article whether Smalls is still in jail. Nor
the others who were on the ship. Does anyone know?
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FDA artificial "intelligence" system
The FDA has an artificial "intelligence" system that is supposed to make
its work go faster. However, staff have noticed the same
disastrous flaw
discovered by everyone who tried to use a chatbot for serous
work: it can't distinguish statements that are true from statements
that are false.
Or even between academic papers that really exist and imaginary papers.
Please join me in telling the public that this emperor never had any clothes.
The way to do that is to
stop
calling it "intelligence".
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Colombia's former president found guilty of witness tampering
*Colombia’s former president Álvaro Uribe
found
guilty of witness tampering.
[He was] convicted over efforts to sway testimony [when he sued a
left-wing senator who accused him of having connections with
Colombia's worst terrorist group — the right-wing
paramilitaries.
It was for supporting them that I referred to him as "el
Presidente Horrible".
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The project to eliminate feral cats on Kangaroo Island
The project to eliminate feral cats on Kangaroo Island (South
Australia) is making steady progress and advancing its technology to
catch the remaining cats.
Part of the program is strict requirements on domestic cats.
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Pushing to criminalize nonviolent resistance to deportation thugs
The government of occupation is pushing to criminalize nonviolent
resistance to the deportation thugs, including identifying those thugs
and giving protesters face masks that protect them against pepper spray.
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UK thugs arrested two elderly protesters
UK thugs
arrested
two elderly protesters as those were carrying signs
in a protest against mass expulsion from Gaza, and accused them of
supporting "terrorism". While holding them in jail,
thugs forced
their way into one's home and searched it meticulously for possible
dangerous substances.
They even brought a Geiger counter in case the "suspect" had
radioactive materials.
This may seem like rigid attachment to rules, to the point of
absurdity, but don't laugh just yet. I suspect it is something much
more dangerous: doubling down on their bullshit to make it pass
for truth.
The British government asserted an absurd exaggeration when labeling a
protest organization as "terrorist." It is aware that the public
recognizes the absurdity. How to convince the public to treat the
exaggeration as serious? One way is by acting on the state's lies as
if they were true.
This means doing what they would rationally do if Palestine Action
were really a terrorist organization and those protesters were likely
to be terrorists. Later the thugs
will cite that as "proof" that the
the arrested protesters are real terrorists.
Just for the hell of it, they denied one of the prisoners prescribed
antibiotics in jail (this is dangerous!) and imposed bail conditions
that will cost her perhaps thousands of pounds.
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Forests in Britain being wiped out by global heating
Some forests in Britain are
being
wiped out by
global heating.
The old trees are not all dying, but no new trees survive.
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White House rescinds $20m for clean water
*White House rescinds
$20m for clean water in pesticide-contaminated rural
California.
*EPA
said grant to provide clean water was a "wasteful DEI program" as
pesticide leaches into residents’ wells.* That is, evidently, a
logical confusion. Making drinking water clean and safe everywhere is
not DEI, only fairness. This dirty water program is a DIE policy.
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Countries which aspire to be what the US aspired to be
*I don't identify with my country's values anymore.* Some Americans
are looking to move to a country which
still
aspires to be what the US
aspired to be.
I share their feeling but I don't see that there is one.
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Hong Kong arrest warrants for freedom defenders
Hong Kong put
out arrest warrants for 19 freedom defenders living in exile.
That shows how the Hong Kong branch of Chinese repression thinks
about democracy and protests.
The British government's condemnation of this repression would
resonate more strongly if that same government were not punishing
dissidents as as
"terrorists".
Both of these governments are doing wrong, in similar ways.
Each of them must stop.
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All nations must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions
The International Court of Justice ruled that all nations must rapidly
reduce
greenhouse gas emissions so as to keep
global heating under 1.5°C.
Those that don't may be ordered by the court to pay damages to
countries harmed by global heating.
In the near future, those sums
may be small enough that it is possible to pay them, which would make
it harder to laugh them off.
Paying them would be fair, and would pressure to reduce emissions.
But the saboteur in chief
will spit in the court's face, with all the
big fossil fuel companies burying the decision under a chorus of
contempt. Can anything defeat them?
An Australian court
prohibited
the extension of a coal mine, because
of the harm to be expected from the greenhouse emissions from burning
the coal.
This decisions may block all such expansions in New South Wales,
because they would only be approved if judged based on incorrect
criteria.
When will the Australian government choose survival rather than
destruction?
Meanwhile, reality deniers in the US are planning to officially
cancel
official recognition that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
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Significance of global heating presented in qualitative changes
People comprehend
better the significance of global heating when the
facts are presented in terms of qualitative changes, X happens but
previously it didn't, rather than gradual increase in temperatures.
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Ukrainians protested law ending independence of anticorruption institutions
Ukrainians protested
the law that ended the independence of the
anticorruption institutions.
I wonder if that move was something that
the corrupter demanded of Ukraine.
Could it be that this is about prosecuting Hunter Biden?
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Fema director defends Texas flood response
*Fema director
defends
Texas flood response as "model" for disasters.*
I think he means that FEMA should adopt an inadequate response as its
model.
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Museum history scrubbed
The truth-hater made the National Museum of American History delete
mention of the times
he
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Monarch butterflies
*Monarch butterflies’ mass die off in 2024 caused by pesticide
exposure —
study.* |
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Presidential term limits
Bukele is preparing to be president-for-life of
El Salvador.
I have a feeling that associating with the would-be dictator of the US
encouraged Bukele to push for this, and maybe explicitly urged him to. |
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Social media ban enforced
Australia's surveillance system for age verification is as oppressive
as Britain's. Every option enables the
state
to identify the user.
This includes the option of asking a bank to verify your age, giving
the platform some sort of account number known to the bank. The bank
might refuse to tell the platform your name and your state ID, but it
will be forced to tell the state. |
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Susie Wiles
*[The corrupter's] Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was a Corporate
Lobbyist. Now, Her Former Clients are
Lobbying
the White House.* |
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American nurse
A visiting American nurse tried to save Awdah Hathaleen's life after
he was shot by one of the Israelis carrying out a pogrom. Once he was
in an ambulance she worked on helping an unconscious Palestinian.
This was her duty as a medic.
The Israeli government considered her practice of medicine on
Palestinians so vicious that it arrested her, and
soon after deported
her.
While in jail, she says, she saw other jailed Palestinian prisoners
bound and blindfolded, while Yinon Levi (suspected of killing Awdah)
was walking almost freely and the prison guards were joking with him.
Blocking
medical workers from reaching wounded Palestinians is a frequent
murder tactic in
Palestinian
territories. |
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Oil slicks from ships
Satellite examination found 90,000 oil slicks from ships over the
5-year period, 2014 to 2019. Only around 500 were
reported to
authorities.
Most of these oil slicks were released intentionally, not caused by
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Forced Labor Suit
Indonesian fishermen are suing Bumble Bee for buying tuna from boats
whose crews are forced workers,
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Labor statistics chief fired
The bullshitter has undermined the Bureau of Labor Statistics by
firing its head, in response to disappointing economic developments
that the
agency reported.
He prefers to have a Bureau of Lying Statistics.
"Killing the messenger" is an ancient practice, but in modern times
rulers usually try to avoid letting it be seen that they want their
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Kilmar Ábrego can be released from prison
A judge ruled that Kilmar Ábrego
can
be released from prison, because there are
no valid grounds to jail him. But he will stay in jail to protect him from
snatchers who might ship him to a prison in some other country. His lawyers
are trying to find a way to keep him safe from that.
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