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| 2:39a |
Figures for people killed in Gaza by siege
The usual figures for people killed in Gaza by the bombardment and
siege are lower bounds, based on lists of names of people known to have
been killed. The lower bound is now 60,000, but the actual number
could
be tens of thousands more. It is a mistake to present 60,000 as
the actual number killed.
We could have better estimates if Israel stopped blocking foreign
journalists from Gaza. Excluding them is a crime against the truth.
Since the only journalists in Gaza are Palestinians who live in Gaza,
Israel can call their reports "lies", and they can never prove
otherwise. But there is no way to disguise the fact that Israel
intentionally keeps the world in the dark.
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| 2:39a |
State department ordered to stop reports on respect for human rights
The persecutor
ordered the State Department to
stop
its annual reports on respect for human rights around the world.
Perhaps he doesn't wish to encourage the idea that there is something
wrong with trampling human rights.
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| 2:39a |
Lula vetoed worst parts of "environmental devastation" bill
Lula has vetoed
the worst parts of the "environmental devastation" bill
but will need the public to mobilize to sustain those vetoes.
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| 2:39a |
Australian minister blocked invited participants
An Australian minister
arbitrarily
blocked several invited
participants from attending a specialized international research
conference about bats, and refuses to tell anyone why.
This obtuseness is supposedly for the sake of the privacy of the
participants who were blocked. What contemptuous bullshit!
I think the US did hings like this in the 2010s.
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| 2:39a |
New UK rules on partnerships with UK universities and foreign governments
The UK has new
rules to restrict partnerships between UK universities
and a foreign government if they give the foreign government
an unofficial propaganda arm.
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| 2:39a |
Refugees deported to Panama
Some of the refugees
that the persecutor deported to Panama (without
even telling them that plan) are forced to choose between unofficial
jail in Panama and return to countries where they would be killed.
Many who could safely return to their home countries have done so.
Those how can't continue to face a "hostile environment" designed
to make them break down and go home to die.
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| 2:39a |
Rising food prices driven by climate crisis
*Rising food prices driven by climate crisis
threaten
world’s poorest, report
finds.
Climate change-induced food price shocks are on the rise and could lead
to more malnutrition, political upheaval and social unrest as the
world’s poorest are hit by shortages of food staples.*
I expect right-wing plutocratist
extremists will respond to this problem
with lies and distraction, backed up by voter suppression.
*“These effects are going to continue to become worse in the
future. Until we get to net zero emissions extreme weather will only
get worse, but it’s already damaging crops and pushing up the price of
food all over the world.*
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| 2:39a |
FBI report disproves bullshitter's claim on crime wave
*FBI report disproves
the bullshitter's claim of a Biden-era
out-of-control crime wave.*
When the bullshitter
or his henchmen say something, we should not
presume it is honest until refuted. He lies so much that we should
give it no credibility from the outset.
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| 2:39a |
US Stalinesque rewrite of climate crisis
The wrecker's head of the
Energy
Department plans to "update" past US government reports on global
heating. We can presume this will make them fit
the bully's fossil
fuel agenda rather than with reality. |
| 2:39a |
US Air Force trans bashing
The persecutor's
henchmen have demonstrated their hatred toward trans people
by firing them with
no
pension.
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Netanyahu V Israeli military, a crisis
Netanyahu wants to send the Israeli army to occupy all of Gaza.
The
army
commanders are opposed to this.
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Usage of Microsoft resources in Israel
*Microsoft investigates Israeli military’s use of
Azure
cloud storage.*
This topic is full of irony. It wouldn't surprise me if the Israeli
army uses these rented facilities to carry out atrocities, and
Microsoft should not knowingly assist that. At the same time, the
people who operate your servers have no business knowing what you are
doing with them, and the aim of homomorphic encryption is to ensure
that they can't know.
The moral onus of these atrocities is on Israel.
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| 2:39a |
Israel bombing of Gaza kills 89 in 24 hours
*Israel intensifies bombing of Gaza killing 89 within 24 hours.*
*Prominent Al Jazeera correspondent among five journalists killed
in Israeli airstrike on Gaza* which Israel admits was intentional.
Israel's killing of so many Palestinian journalists in Gaza, and its
exclusion of all foreign journalists, amounts to a policy of hiding
whatever the Israeli Army does in Gaza from he eyes of the world.
*Palestinian reporters killed and foreigners barred in Israel's battle for Gaza narrative.*
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| 2:39a |
Strict ideological requirements on Smithsonian museums
The underminer is planning to impose ideological requirements in strict
detail on the Smithsonian museums. Everything will be required to
sustain his official political line.
This will create an opportunity to sell museum guides to explain what
the museums will have distorted, falsified or covered up,
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| 2:39a |
Wrecker's appointee for Bereau of Labor Statistics
After firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for bearing
bad news, he now wants to appoint someone who has displayed contempt
for that agency.
If he gets to run it, he will make its figures deserve contempt.
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| 2:39a |
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria spreading in Gaza
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria are spreading in Gaza.
If they are evolving more antibiotic resistance, they could spread
around the world and put everyone in more danger. How ironic.
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Brazilian newspaper turned homeless into journalists
*how a Brazilian newspaper has turned a city's [homeless people] into journalists.
Boston has a homeless people's paper, too, though I don't know whether
it is entirely operated by such people. I generally buy a copy of
each issue, if I pass a seller during that month.
I do that because I can pay cash. Whether it offers subscriptions, I
don't know, but since paying for that requires identifying oneself and
running nonfree JavaScript code on my computer, that I refuse on
principle. I have no online subscriptions that require
subscribers to identify themselves.
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| 2:39a |
Bullshitter reports arranging peace deal between Armenia and Azerbaijan
The bullshitter reports arranging a peace deal between Armenia and
Azerbaijan.
We can't assume what the bullshitter says is true, but it might be.
Even if it is partly true, the deal may fall apart next week or next
year.
If peace between Armenia and Azerbaijan lasts, that will be a change
for the better. But these can hardly make up for the harm he has done
and keeps doing.
There are also bad effects (though not enormous). Facilitating
increased oil extraction and combustion, if that does follow, will
harm the world. Further enriching the dictator of Azerbaijan is bad
too.
Nonetheless, if this lasts, I will have to agree that once in a while
the bullshitter does something good. However, it would be negligible
compared with destroying democracy and the rule of law in the US
and ensuring global heating disaster for the whole world.
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| 2:39a |
Academic researchers published attack related to Google's "intelligence"
Academic researchers have published an attack that led Google's
supposed "intelligence" to obey malicious commands to manipulate
devices in the user's home.
Giving Google control of your devices, or control of your own computing
that you do on their servers, inevitably makes you
vulnerable to Google.
This announcement shows that the vulnerability
includes third-party crackers too.
Please don't call these systems "artificial intelligence";
>intelligence is something they do not have.
Side point: The article says that the crack discoverers worked with
Google to "mitigate" the danger. What, concretely, does "mitigate"
mean here? I think in this case it is a weasel word to suggest fixing
a problem without claiming to have fixed it.
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| 2:39a |
UK Online Safety Act is license for censorship
*The UK’s Online Safety Act is a license for censorship [and
surveillance] – and the rest of the world is following suit.*
I should point out that surveillance and inaccessibility result from
other causes.
For instance, some of the factual references in that article point to
ex-Twitter, which the musk-rat made completely inaccessible to people
who people who don't (1) run nonfree JavaScript code and (2) sign up.
If you can find the specifics of these reports in a place that is
accessible to all, please tell me the USL so I can post it.
If you want to make a link as a factual reference, and the only place
to use is on ex-Twitter (or another site inaccessible in the Free
World), please summarize the point enough so that we who can't
follow the link can see the crucial points. That will normally take a
few lines of text. The summaries in that article are nowhere near
enough.
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| 8:39a |
London car travel rates
The Mayor of London reports that a
20
mph speed limit in large parts of London greatly reduced harm to
pedestrians and reduced toxic emissions, without actually making car
travel slower.
The article gives the explanation for that paradoxical result. |
| 8:39a |
No go on D.C. military takeover
The bully made a deal with the Mayor of DC, by which the mayor mostly
regains control of the DC cops, but the bully's personal
representative can order them to
help
in deportations.
It is not clear to me whether a victory by the DC government,
in its lawsuit against the bully's takeover of the police,
would end this agreement. If not, this agreement represents
a surrender.
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| 8:39a |
Urgent: Lava Ridge Wind Project
US citizens: call on
Secretary Burgum to revive
the Lava Ridge Wind Project.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
for why that issue matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you
can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You
can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the
browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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| 8:39a |
Urgent: US soil, internment camps
US citizens:
Message the White House Faith Office to condemn Trump’s treatment of migrants
Trump’s Internment Camps are
a
moral stain on our nation.
Here's how to make the actionnetwork.org letter campaign linked above
work without running the site's nonfree JavaScript code. (See
https://gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
for why that issue matters.)
First, make sure you have deactivated JavaScript in your browser or
are using the LibreJS plug-in.
I have done the next step for you: I added `?nowrapper=true' to the
end of the campaign URL before posting it above. That should bring
you to a page that starts with, "Letter campaigns will not work
without JavaScript!"
They indeed won't work without some manual help, but the following
simple method seems adequate for many of them, including this one.
To start, fill in the personal information answers in the box on the
right side of the page. That's how you say who's sending the letter.
Then click the "START WRITING" button. That will take you to a page
that can't function without nonfree JavaScript code. (To ensure it
doesn't function perversely by running that nonfree code, you
can enable LibreJS or disable JavaScript by visiting that page.) You
can finish sending without that code By editing its URL in the
browser's address bar, as follows:
First, go to the end and insert `&nowrapper=true'. Then tell the
browser to visit that URL. This should give you a version of the page
that works without JavaScript. Edit the subject and body of your
letter. Finally, click on the "SEND LETTER" button, and you're done.
This method seems to work for letter campaigns that send the letters
to a fixed list of recipients, the same recipients for every sender.
Editing and revisiting the URL is the only additional step needed to
bypass the nonfree JavaScript code. I'm sure you'll agree it is a
small effort for the result of supporting the campaign
without opening your computer to unjust (and potentially malicious)
software.
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| 8:39a |
Wealth tax V Holding companies
Spain's wealth tax is effective, and the threatened desperate exodus of rich
people has not happened. Here is how
it
works.
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