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UK government agency trying to discourage unprivatizing water
One UK government agency is trying to discourage unprivatizing water
companies by proposing that this would require enormous expenses.
Why even consider "temporary" nationalization?
Water companies should not have been privatized
and the British government should permanently reverse that mistake.
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Cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates U.S. media
*A small cartel of billionaires and conglomerates dominates the U.S.
media landscape. Through a history of mergers and acquisitions, they’ve
concentrated their control over much of what Americans see, read and
hear. Free Press rates the independence of each of these giants and
analyzes their ability to defend democracy at a time of domestic and
international authoritarianism.*
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Earthly bacteria have evolved to live in outer space
Earthly bacteria have evolved to live in outer space. They were found
on the outside of China's space station.
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| 8:39a |
Media companies caving to the dangerous despot
Robert Reich: *From the Washington Post to CBS, [media] companies are caving
to [the dangerous despot]. This is how democracy dies.*
"The dangerous despot" is Reich's words, but I copied them to that sentence.
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Venezuelans recall 125 days in El Salvador prison
*‘Cemetery of the living dead’: Venezuelans recall 125 days in
notorious El Salvador prison.*
There are two ways for the reasoning to proceed from here. One leads
to the conclusion that the president of El Salvador is a sadist and a
monster. The other leads to the conclusion that the president of the
US is a sadist and a monster.
Suarez, the musician prisoner, says he has forgiven the bullies who
boasted of making life hell. I think it is a mistake to forgive them
until they learn how horrible were the crimes they have committed.
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Electric cables across private land in Victoria
The government of Victoria (an Australian state) is passing a law to
give the government the authority to build electric cables across
private land, paying a fee for the cables' presence. It seems to do
no particular wrong, and more power cables are necessary for moving to
renewable generation.
But there is a peculiarly strong opposition movement, I wonder why.
When the leader criticized the "push for renewables", that gave it
away. This opposition movement is linked to the right-wing parties
want to boost fossil fuel extraction. So I suspect that rich planet
roasters are funding this protest campaign. The building of cables
across rural land can't bother enough people to bring about strong
opposition without some selfishly-motivated financial motive.
Meanwhile, those rich planet roasters continue to spread absurd claims
with no shame.
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Propaganda videos mandatory viewing for students in US colleges
Propaganda videos, made to teach that hostility to Israel implies
antisemitism, are now mandatory viewing for students in various US
colleges.
Some Jewish groups are campaigning against this. Good on them!
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| 8:39a |
Protesters arrested in UK for supporting banned protest group
Describing a few of the many protesters who have been arrested in the
UK for allegedly supporting the protest group which was arbitrarily
banned.
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| 8:39a |
Countries are failing to act on UN climate pledge
*Countries [are generally] failing to act on UN climate pledge to
triple [renewable electric generation], thinktank finds.*
It seems that various other real dangers (such as right-wing parties
that attack poor and marginalized people and their human rights) and
imaginary dangers (such as immigrants and queer people) have
distracted public attention from the biggest danger of all, that of
global heating disaster.
Lobbyists took advantage of this distracted state of mind to cancel
the plans to save civilization.
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| 8:39a |
US stands up globally for tyranny
The US stands up globally for tyranny by putting sanctions on the judge
presiding over the trial of Bolsonaro for his coup in Brazil.
These are accompanies by heavy punitive tariffs.
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| 8:39a |
Nonfree software from UK companies
Watch out for nonfree software from companies that operate in the UK!
It may contain a secret back door ordered by the UK government.
With a nonfree program, it is very difficult for the users to check
the software for a back door.
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Two large US railroads want to merge
Two of the four large consolidated US railroads want to merge.
Lina Khan would never have allowed this,
but the wrecker sees them
as a way to reward big business for its support.
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Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim
*Ghislaine Maxwell is not a victim. And if she is pardoned, it won't
be for the sake of justice.*
When the corrupter is involved in events, the a priori probability of
corruption in them is fairly high. I suspect he wants to pardon her
so that she won't inculpate him somehow.
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| 8:39a |
US resident Hernan Castro faces deportation
US permanent resident Hernan Castro faces deportation because he applied
for citizenship and did not mention a decades-ago drug arrest.
It is reasonable to deport people for serious and dangerous crimes,
but doing so for minor crimes long ago bespeaks a desire to cause suffering
rather than a responsibility to protect the public.
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Urgent: Boycott Avelo Air
US citizens: call on officials in some states to boycott Avelo Air,
which runs deportation flights.
Even though some deportations are legitimate, we cannot expect that to
be true most of the time, not with the persecutor in charge.
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| 9:37a |
National Guard domestic operations abuse
The persecutor has adopted a clever suggestion for how to strew
confusion in the records about people in deportation prison:
by having National Guard soldiers handle the
processing of jailing them.
Since those soldiers have no experience in doing this, they are sure
to make lots of random mistakes, which will prevent the prisoners
from contacting their families, contacting their lawyers, or getting
medical attention.
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Home Depot "Mexicans" entrapped, CA
US border thugs set up a trap by
pretending
to seek day laborers and arresting whoever showed up. This
violated a court order that US agents needed specific grounds about a
person to arrest per for deportation.
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