Right off the bat, it’s good to let your partner know your intentions to save lots of your marriage. That’s why Macron’s apology is so important.” 17 September 2018 (Australian coal mining plan) Adani’s plan to open up a large new coal mining region in Australia has collapsed, but it should still open a single large mine there. For the sake of avoiding international disaster, we have to push onerous in opposition to that and against every new fossil fuel facility. 17 September 2018 (Bloomberg at ‘local weather summit’) Michael Bloomberg, who desires to run for president in 2020, went to a business-dominated “climate summit” and mocked environmentalist protesters. I won’t vote for him. 17 September 2018 (Measures after faculty shootings) When US mother and father demand faculties “do something, immediately” to prevent a taking pictures, the measures schools adopt make them feel (more) like jails. This does little for safety however too much to create an environment of distrust. School shootings harm few college students every year; the school to prison pipeline harms far, way more. 17 September 2018 (Corrupted FEMA) Republicans are mainly to blame for “pure” disasters in the US. Directly so because they corrupt FEMA, so that the bodily events cause a much larger human disaster. When the bodily occasion is excessive weather, Republicans are also accountable indirectly because they’ve forced world heating quicker. Democratic officials do a great job with FEMA. Against world heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats are usually not as unhealthy as Republicans, however not good enough to avoid world catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch luggage) A UK supermarket chain will substitute plastic baggage for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch bags. The problem with cornstarch is that it’s made from corn, and the corn needs to be grown. If all of the plastic packaging now used have been changed with cornstarch, what fraction of the world’s corn crop would that use? Can anybody find the info to make a rough estimate of this? If I receive an excellent reply, I’ll post it. 17 September 2018 (Nerve gasoline poisoning) Activists have tied the latest nerve gas poisoning suspects to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and caught them in different lies. Based on all the information that has been printed, I consider it almost certain that they committed the poisoning. 17 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s opposition to Roe v. Wade) Facebook Suppressed a narrative 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 solar energy satellites utilizing materials from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this round 1980. I supported it. Solar power satellites may indeed give us plentiful renewable electricity. The impediment to constructing them is the massive preliminary funding earlier than the primary one is running. States starved for funds by tax-competitors have bother making such an investment. 17 September 2018 (Flooding) New cities are being inbuilt coastal areas liable to be flooded in some many years. These “investment vehicles” might turn into submarines. We want to start transferring people away from some coastal areas. 17 September 2018 (Global heating) Australian farmers demand extra effort to curb international heating. 17 September 2018 (Global heating and hurricanes) Global heating is making category 6 hurricanes potential; 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 surroundings 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 more and more represses mere insults. It began with insults primarily based on bigotry, however now it’s expanding to all insults. I disagree with the author on one level: I think it’s appropriate to punish crimes of violence extra closely when they’re based on bigotry, such attacks signify a marketing campaign of violence that could are likely to spread. It’s correct 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, not more food. 17 September 2018 (State thugs observe progressive groups) Massachusetts state thugs by chance leaked the fact that they’ve bookmarked a number of progressive political teams to follow. Either the thugs are much more progressive than one would count on, and are looking for opportunities to point out help, or they’re biased in opposition to these teams. 17 September 2018 (Theater of Security Agency) Theater of Security Agency workers insisted on swabbing the top of a passenger’s prosthetic leg to see if it had been involved with explosives. They threatened to arrest her if she didn’t let them. The article ends by giving the TSA undeserved legitimacy by asserting that it has really made flying safer. This is unlikely – the TSA acknowledges that terrorists aren’t concentrating on airplanes any extra. 17 September 2018 (Israel-Palestine peace negotiations) Palestine’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, says that the bullshitter is making an attempt to remove peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine by taking Israel’s side on each vital subject. At this level, Palestine could 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 consider any concessions, but it will put somewhat more stress on Israel and the US. Sixteen September 2018 (Amazon delivery staff) Amazon’s subcontracted supply employees suffer wage theft and numerous other mistreatment. 16 September 2018 (Farmers’ right to repair) Farmer Lobbying Group Accused Of Selling Out Farmers On Right To Repair Laws. Sixteen September 2018 (Berkeley thug department) When the Berkeley thug division arrested protesters for bogus crimes and posted their personal details, this was a part of an explicit PR marketing campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the department seem highly effective. Those thugs introduced the legislation into disrepute. Every one in every of them who participated in these actions, including those that accredited the plans, should be fired for that. 16 September 2018 (Zero-hour contracts) After the chief of the Church of England (the Archbishop of Canterbury) criticized zero-hour contracts and the piecework sweatshop financial system, someone known as this a “hypocrisy” as a result of some churches rent on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The acknowledged rebuke that it’s best to “put your own home in order before” criticizing an abuse is misguided. If we settle for that as a principle, it could come down to “Only saints are entitled to criticize”, which might give abusers a shield to deflect stress to appropriate abuses. The suitable response is, “Don’t forget to incorporate your personal organization in this criticism.” We should concentrate on correcting the abuses, not on loathing everybody by some means related to them. I think the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, provided that the archbishop doesn’t management those hiring practices in other church organizations. The difficulty of investing in Amazon is a unique one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church could do extra to change those corporations’ 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 is how he ought to use it henceforth. Sixteen September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) “Centrist” Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, however 6 of the eight “Democratic” collaborationists which have kept Republicans in power within the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. 16 September 2018 (Conflicts of interest with businesses) The pinnacle medical officer of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center resigned in a scandal for not reporting conflicts of curiosity in his relationship with businesses, including a big drug company. Making researchers report these conflicts of curiosity is just the first step. If we want research to be trustworthy, we must end the follow of letting businesses choose whether to fund it. They need to fund it indirectly, through 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 supplies. Even from one inactive dump that was capped, supposedly to make it secure. This is because the coal firms make extra money by not shifting the ash away from waterways, or letting it’s recycled into concrete. 16 September 2018 (Avoiding large extinction) A scientific recommendation that 50% of the Earth’s surface be protected wildlife areas by 2050, to avoid huge extinction. If we wish to guard greater than desert and mountain species, protected lands may have to include lots of places that could be used for agriculture, at the least for 20 years till they’re exhausted. To protect them, we want to keep human farmers away. That can be troublesome, but conserving the beginning price down will make it somewhat easier. As well as, protected areas may not serve their objective if international heating makes them unviable habitats for a few of the species that reside in them. Curbing the human inhabitants can even make progress in direction of lowering world heating. Sixteen September 2018 (tenth anniversary of Wall Street crash) On tenth 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 incorrect in anything the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is not a political party in the usual sense. It’s a cult. Sixteen September 2018 (Google’s Censored-for-China search engine) Google already developed a prototype censored-for-China search engine. It also identifies who searches for something “suspect”. I believe the US should make it a criminal offense for a US company to censor politically for other countries. Other countries that wish to be considered free should do likewise. Though this can mean that tyrannical states comparable to China will block access to them, the truth that they are blocked will talk a message of freedom to those that can not 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 residents: name on the State Department to stop denying the citizenship of Americans of hispanic descent. Please be part of me in rejecting the absurd and unpronounceable word “Latinx”. Sixteen September 2018 (Urgent: Shut down megabanks) US citizens: name for shutting down criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo. 16 September 2018 (Underpaid Amazon staff) “If Jeff Bezos needs to assist low-income folks why not simply pay them better?
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