29 November 2018 (FGM legislation) A federal court ruled that the US government has no say over feminine genital mutilation. 29 November 2018 (Brisbane: blocked bridges to deter homeless) As Brisbane locations boulders to cease homeless people from sleeping under a bridge, why shouldn’t they break open unused authorities buildings to sleep there? That’s why Macron’s apology is so vital.” 17 September 2018 (Australian coal mining plan) Adani’s plan to open up an enormous new coal mining region in Australia has collapsed, but it surely may still open a single large mine there. For the sake of avoiding international catastrophe, we have to push exhausting in opposition to that and against every new fossil fuel facility. 17 September 2018 (Bloomberg at ‘climate summit’) Michael Bloomberg, who needs to run for president in 2020, went to a enterprise-dominated “climate summit” and mocked environmentalist protesters. I won’t vote for him. 17 September 2018 (Measures after school shootings) When US parents demand faculties “do one thing, instantly” to stop a taking pictures, the measures schools adopt make them really feel (more) like jails. This does little for security however too much to create an environment of distrust. School shootings harm few students annually; the college to prison pipeline harms far, far more. 17 September 2018 (Corrupted FEMA) Republicans are chiefly to blame for “natural” disasters within the US. Directly so as a result of they corrupt FEMA, so that the physical occasions cause a a lot bigger human catastrophe. When the bodily event is excessive weather, Republicans are additionally accountable not directly as a result of they’ve compelled world heating sooner. Democratic officials do a great job with FEMA. Against international heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats are not as unhealthy as Republicans, but not ok to keep away from international catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch luggage) A UK supermarket chain will exchange plastic baggage for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch bags. The issue with cornstarch is that it is made from corn, and the corn must be grown. If all the plastic packaging now used were replaced with cornstarch, what fraction of the world’s corn crop would that use? Can anyone find the info to make a rough estimate of this? If I obtain a great answer, I’ll post it. 17 September 2018 (Nerve fuel poisoning) Activists have tied the current nerve gas poisoning suspects to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and caught them in other lies. Based on all the information that has been revealed, I consider it practically certain that they dedicated the poisoning. 17 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s opposition to Roe v. Wade) Facebook Suppressed a story About Brett Kavanaugh’s Opposition to Roe v. Wade. We’re Republishing It. 17 September 2018 (Solar energy satellites) Once once more, proposing to build photo voltaic energy satellites utilizing materials from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this around 1980. I supported it. Solar power satellites could certainly give us plentiful renewable electricity. The impediment to constructing them is the large preliminary funding before the first one is working. States starved for funds by tax-competition have bother making such an investment. 17 September 2018 (Flooding) New cities are being built in coastal areas liable to be flooded in some decades. These “investment autos” might turn out to be submarines. We want to start out moving individuals away from some coastal areas. 17 September 2018 (Global heating) Australian farmers demand extra effort to curb global heating. 17 September 2018 (Global heating and hurricanes) Global heating is making class 6 hurricanes doable; we will certainly see them in the future, and they might submerge total cities. 17 September 2018 (Cattle overproduction) Europe is producing more cattle than the environment can stand, and will have to chop in in half. 17 September 2018 (Progressive organizing among Amish) Progressive organizing among the many Amish. 17 September 2018 (Repression of insults in the UK) The UK increasingly represses mere insults. It started with insults primarily based on bigotry, however now it is increasing to all insults. I disagree with the writer on one level: I believe it’s appropriate to punish crimes of violence more heavily when they’re primarily based on bigotry, such attacks symbolize a campaign of violence that could are inclined to spread. It’s proper for the state to act to stamp that out. 17 September 2018 (Overfishing) The ocean off Tanzania is overfished – more boats are going out, and the catch is declining. A big trigger of the decline is the overseas fishing boats that fish illegally. In the long term, what Tanzania needs is fewer births, no more food. 17 September 2018 (State thugs observe progressive teams) Massachusetts state thugs unintentionally leaked the fact that they’ve bookmarked several progressive political groups to observe. Either the thugs are way more progressive than one would expect, and are looking for alternatives to show help, or they are biased against these teams. 17 September 2018 (Theater of Security Agency) Theater of Security Agency employees insisted on swabbing the top of a passenger’s prosthetic leg to see if it had been in contact with explosives. They threatened to arrest her if she didn’t allow them to. The article ends by giving the TSA undeserved legitimacy by asserting that it has actually made flying safer. This is unlikely – the TSA acknowledges that terrorists are usually not concentrating on airplanes any more. 17 September 2018 (Israel-Palestine peace negotiations) Palestine’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, says that the bullshitter is trying to get rid of peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine by taking Israel’s facet on every necessary issue. At this level, Palestine might reject the idea of including the US in talks, and ask another energy such because the EU or Russia to mediate peace talks. That can’t advance negotiations now, since Netanyahu refuses to contemplate any concessions, however it’ll put a little more stress on Israel and the US. Sixteen September 2018 (Amazon delivery workers) Amazon’s subcontracted delivery employees endure wage theft and varied different mistreatment. Sixteen September 2018 (Farmers’ proper to repair) Farmer Lobbying Group Accused Of Selling Out Farmers On Right To Repair Laws. Sixteen September 2018 (Berkeley thug division) When the Berkeley thug department arrested protesters for bogus crimes and posted their private details, this was a part of an explicit PR campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the division appear powerful. Those thugs brought the law into disrepute. Every one of them who participated in these actions, together with those that authorised the plans, must be fired for that. 16 September 2018 (Zero-hour contracts) After the leader of the Church of England (the Archbishop of Canterbury) criticized zero-hour contracts and the piecework sweatshop financial system, someone called this a “hypocrisy” because some churches hire on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The stated rebuke that you must “put your own house so as earlier than” criticizing an abuse is misguided. If we settle for that as a precept, it might come all the way down to “Only saints are entitled to criticize”, which might give abusers a shield to deflect stress to appropriate abuses. The correct response is, “Remember to incorporate your personal group in this criticism.” We should focus on correcting the abuses, not on loathing everyone one way or the other associated with them. I believe the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, on condition that the archbishop doesn’t control those hiring practices in different church organizations. The issue of investing in Amazon is a different one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church may do more to vary these companies’ habits (and get their taxes increased) by divesting from them and condemning them. I don’t know how much affect the archbishop personally has over these investments, however that’s how he ought to use it henceforth. 16 September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) “Centrist” Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, however 6 of the eight “Democratic” collaborationists which have stored Republicans in energy within the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. 16 September 2018 (Conflicts of curiosity with businesses) The top medical officer of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center resigned in a scandal for not reporting conflicts of interest in his relationship with companies, including a big drug company. Making researchers report these conflicts of curiosity is just the first step. If we want research to be honest, we must finish the follow of letting companies choose whether or not to fund it. They should fund it indirectly, via taxes. 16 September 2018 (Demise of democracy in the US) The Demise of Democracy (within the US). Sixteen September 2018 (Toxic coal ash pollution) Heavy rain from Hurricane Florence has washed toxic pollution from coal ash dumps into water provides. Even from one inactive dump that was capped, supposedly to make it secure. It is because the coal corporations make more cash by not moving the ash away from waterways, or letting it’s recycled into concrete. 16 September 2018 (Avoiding massive extinction) A scientific recommendation that 50% of the Earth’s surface be protected wildlife areas by 2050, to avoid large extinction. If we would like to guard more than desert and mountain species, protected lands can have to include lots of places that might be used for agriculture, not less than for 20 years till they are exhausted. To protect them, we need to maintain human farmers away. That will likely be difficult, but retaining the birth charge down will make it slightly simpler. In addition, protected areas could not serve their objective if international heating makes them unviable habitats for some of the species that stay in them. Curbing the human inhabitants will also make progress towards decreasing world heating. 16 September 2018 (tenth anniversary of Wall Street crash) On 10th Anniversary of Wall Street Crash, Warren Says: Break Up the Banks and Jail the Bankers. Sixteen September 2018 (Republican Party) Senator Graham is the paradigmatic example of a Republican who can see no flawed in anything the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is not a political social gathering in the standard sense. It is a cult. Sixteen September 2018 (Google’s Censored-for-China search engine) Google already developed a prototype censored-for-China search engine. It additionally identifies who searches for one thing “suspect”. I feel the US should make it a criminal offense for a US firm to censor politically for other nations. Other nations that wish to be thought of free should do likewise. Even though this can mean that tyrannical states corresponding to China will block entry to them, the truth that they’re blocked will talk a message of freedom to those that can’t access them. 16 September 2018 (UK referendum rigging) The UK government permitted rigging the referendum on the EU in favor of the depart campaign. 16 September 2018 (Urgent: citizenship of Americans) US citizens: name on the State Department to stop denying the citizenship of Americans of hispanic descent. Please join me in rejecting the absurd and unpronounceable word “Latinx”. 16 September 2018 (Urgent: Shut down megabanks) US residents: call for shutting down criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo. Sixteen September 2018 (Underpaid Amazon staff) “If Jeff Bezos needs to assist low-earnings individuals why not just pay them better?
I summed it up myself to a friend, generally you could have the love the questions themselves. They love a pregnant body when it’s nine months pregnant or has a large baby bump, for instance. A few of it comes from the desire for subsistence of billions of poor folks. A few of this strain comes from want for goods equivalent to beef, but that stress comes from a whole bunch of hundreds of thousands of individuals, not from the rich few. It comes following Keir Starmer’s speech this week during which he painted a woeful image of the state of the nation’s economic system, as he braced the UK for a troublesome Autumn budget. 29 November 2018 (Democrats’ First Bill) Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Deal with Strengthening Democracy: computerized voter registration, strengthen the Voting Rights Act, limit partisan redistricting and tighten marketing campaign finance laws. 29 November 2018 (Dangers of wildlife extinction) Biodiversity experts say mass extinction of wildlife is as huge a danger as climate change. Climate change is occurring earlier and extra rapidly than expected. More Scoopmail and Jock Vs. 29 November 2018 (Charges for medical provides) Some “insurance coverage” corporations cost patients much more for CPAP machines and supplies than the machines and supplies truly price.
I suspect that these “insurance” corporations are the ones that employers use to supply coverage to their staff. I exploit a singular system of corrective Japanese yoga postures, wholefood medication and breath work, which has the potential to heal and enliven, stimulate and support each the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. 29 November 2018 (CO2 focus) “The last time the Earth experienced a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5m years ago, when the temperature was 2-3C hotter and sea level was 10-20 metres greater than now.” 29 November 2018 (‘Gang symbols’) Thugs can punish folks in and out of prison based mostly on arbitrarily designated “symbols” that are supposed to indicate membership in a gang. Maybe a number of the individuals associated with these symbols are gang members, however others should not. Guilt by affiliation is an injustice. Prisoners get put in solitary confinement for years based on equally sketchy accusations. 29 November 2018 (Marijuana legalization) 2/three of Americans now support legalization of marijuana. Even a majority of Republicans support it. Congress, how about legalizing it? 29 November 2018 (Prosecuting Clinton and Comey) An anonymous insider supply reviews that the bully needed to prosecute Clinton and Comey. He was advised he couldn’t give the Justice Department such an order. 29 November 2018 (The War Lobby) Now that the Democrats control the House of Representatives, will they accept leaders that support the War Lobby? 29 November 2018 (Gerald Reed trial) Chicago thugs tortured Gerald Reed with no subtlety in any respect, leaving clear proof of what they had accomplished, but his false confession led to his conviction for homicide and he has been in prison for 28 years. Now he could get a new trial. 29 November 2018 (Starvation in Yemen) Save the Children estimates that 85,000 kids below 5 years previous have died of starvation in Yemen due to the civil struggle. The “obstacles to importing and distributing supplies” are mainly imposed by Salafi Arabia (with backing from the US and other countries). 28 November 2018 (Scheme to deny folks Medicaid) Arkansas’s new scheme to deny people Medicaid if they don’t seem to be employed was not explained clearly to Adrian McGonigal, so he lost first his Medicaid protection after which his job. I have a sinking feeling that this system also requires folks to run nonfree software program to report their work hours. 28 November 2018 (Secret indictment of Julian Assange) Julian Assange Deserves a Medal of Freedom, Not a Secret Indictment. 28 November 2018 (Proposed Amazon protected zone) A proposed Amazon protected zone from the Andes to the Atlantic could also be killed by proper-wing rulers of Colombia and Brazil. 28 November 2018 (Dubai sentences Hedges to life in prison) Dubai sentenced Matthew Hedges to life in prison after a nasty joke of a trial. 28 November 2018 (Change in right-wing exercise) Denial of the homicide of 6 million Jews has changed the identical means other proper-wing activity has changed: instead of attempting to seriously persuade people there was no holocaust, they mock the question: “What’s reality?
29 November 2018 (Arkansas drops Medicaid for 12,000 folks) Arkansas has kicked 12,000 individuals out of Medicaid, using their unemployment as an excuse. 29 November 2018 (Urgent: Thomas Farr) US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Thomas Farr as a decide. 29 November 2018 (Urgent: Andrew Wheeler) US citizens: call on the Senate to block and resist Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator. 29 November 2018 (Trump’s warfare on science) The denialist’s war on science, and how Congress can fight back. Meanwhile, encourage her to wave those sexy hips in a determine eight formation, reminding her that the place she’s in may also stimulate her clitoris. 29 November 2018 (Problems with Pelosi’s insurance policies) Suggesting how progressives can work to beat Rep. I’m trying to stop the world from changing me.” I used to attribute the quote to Thoreau, but it seems that was mistaken: it is actually from Ammon Hennacy. I’ve succeeded in changing the world to some extent, and I am still making an attempt to achieve more. At the same time, I see how the usage of nonfree software, and digital dis-services, has modified others for the worse. Millions surrender their freedom and privacy without shifting a muscle to guard it. They run freedom-denying software program that snoops on them constantly. They let Facebook use them. They play nonfree video games for hours, killing time which they could have used for something significant, and learning nothing except methods to retreat from society. Even when they’d find it onerous work to resist these evils 100%, there are absolutely components they could easily resist. It certain seems like malicious technology has modified them for the worse. Please do not let it change you! 27 September 2018 (Lists of supposed non-citizens) Right-wingers are posting lengthy lists of supposed non-residents who are voting, offered as proof there’s a big drawback of invalid voters. They’re being sued by US citizens whose names they falsely posted. 27 September 2018 (Land-based mostly birds susceptible to extinction) “Land-based bird populations have gotten confined to nature reserves in some elements of the world-elevating the danger of worldwide extinction-as a result of loss of appropriate habitat.” 27 September 2018 (Prosecution for photographing a rally) Cambodia has pardoned Australia documentalist Ricketson on the recommendation of the tyrant that had him prosecuted, calling making pictures of a rally “spying”. This is a typical ploy for governments implementing unjust laws: prosecute somebody, who’s after all convicted, then pardon the sufferer. It serves to scare individuals into obeying the unjust regulation, whereas avoiding the odium that would observe from protecting journalists in prison. 27 September 2018 (Prof. Blasey Ford to testify) Prof. Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate on Thursday, however different particulars have not been agreed on. This consists of equivalent to whether or not they will call in some lawyer to talk together with her (being too cowardly to take action themselves). 27 September 2018 (Cuts to Head Start and cancer analysis) The bully’s saboteurs are going to cut Head Start and cancer research to fund their prisons for immigrant minors. The article says “youngsters”, however I’m fairly positive the prisoners vary up via age 17. Some are youngsters, and a few are teenagers. 25 September 2018 (Urgent: Fight against voter-purging) Citizens of North Carolina: fight in opposition to Republican voter-purging. I can not test this, since I’m not from North Carolina and mustn’t signal. If you discover that this petition can’t be signed with Javascript disabled fully, and cannot be signed with LibreJS lively, please electronic mail me (rms at the GNU undertaking site) so I can delete it. If you sign, please spread the phrase! 25 September 2018 (Bully-appointed federal judge) One of the bully’s appointed federal choose disregarded the information to make a partisan decision in favor of right-wing counterprotestors. 25 September 2018 (Bully’s arrest policy) The bully’s coverage of arresting unauthorized immigrants in the event that they go to court succeeds in scaring lots of them away from looking for protection in opposition to home violence. 25 September 2018 (Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline) It took the US State Department just one week to publish a sham environmental evaluation of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline. 25 September 2018 (Protests deliberate at Salesforce occasion) Protests are planned at the Salesforce annual occasion, demanding that the corporate cease serving the US border thugs. 25 September 2018 (Bully’s hush money) (satire) Trump Asks Why Kavanaugh Accuser Didn’t Just Immediately Request Hush Money. 25 September 2018 (Palestinian residence life) Israelis Experience Palestinian Home Life in Virtual Reality. They see the home of a selected Palestinian family that volunteered for this. 25 September 2018 (Immigration judges ordered to be cruel) Sessions has ordered immigration judges to be merciless, strict, callous and merciless. 25 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s Republican votes) The explanation Republicans intend to vote for Kavanaugh irrespective of what is that he’s part of the same plutocratist group as four different right-wing justices. They’ll turn the US into hell for all besides the favored lessons. 25 September 2018 (Uighurs in brainwashing camps) Pompeo condemned China for placing around a million Uighurs in brainwashing camps. Another person known as this “The pot calling the kettle black”, however that is not right. What Chine has completed is comparable to placing 1,000,000 individuals in Guantanamo. The US put solely a thousand folks, whole, in Guantanamo. Even right this moment it is possible to be worse than the US. When Pompeo talks about “stealing intellectual property”, he spreads confusion. That time period invariably has that effect because it doesn’t match actuality. 25 September 2018 (Mainstream media coverage of hurricane) US mainstream media covered Hurricane Florence, but very rarely connected it to its human cause. 25 September 2018 (Judge frees migrant-rescuing fishermen) An Italian decide freed the Tunisian fishermen, victims of the suitable-wing try and criminalize the act of rescuing migrants from drowning. This won’t finish the risk. Right-wingers attempting to pervert justice never quit. 25 September 2018 (SCROTUS delay final Kavanaugh hearing) SCROTUS have delayed the last Kavanaugh listening to rather than tell Ford “Too late!