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That’s why Macron’s apology is so important." 17 September 2018 (Australian coal mining plan) Adani's plan to open up a massive new coal mining area in Australia has collapsed, nevertheless it should open a single large mine there. For the sake of avoiding global catastrophe, we have to push exhausting in opposition to that and against each 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 will not vote for him. 17 September 2018 (Measures after faculty shootings) When US dad and mom demand schools "do one thing, instantly" to prevent a capturing, the measures schools undertake make them feel (more) like jails. This does little for safety however rather a lot to create an ambiance of distrust. School shootings harm few college students annually; the varsity to prison pipeline harms far, much more. 17 September 2018 (Corrupted FEMA) Republicans are mainly to blame for "natural" disasters in the US. Directly so as a result of they corrupt FEMA, so that the bodily events cause a much greater human catastrophe. When the bodily occasion is extreme weather, Republicans are additionally accountable not directly because they have compelled global heating faster. Democratic officials do a very good job with FEMA. Against international heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats are not as bad as Republicans, however not good enough to keep away from world catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch bags) A UK supermarket chain will change plastic luggage for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch baggage. The issue with cornstarch is that it is made from corn, and the corn has to be grown. If all of the plastic packaging now used had been 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 receive an excellent reply, I'll submit it. 17 September 2018 (Nerve gas 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 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 power satellites) Once once more, proposing to construct solar energy satellites utilizing materials from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this around 1980. I supported it. Solar energy satellites might certainly give us plentiful renewable electricity. The impediment to building them is the massive initial funding before the primary one is operating. 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 "funding vehicles" might develop into submarines. We need to start out 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 class 6 hurricanes attainable; we will surely see them in the future, and they could submerge total cities. 17 September 2018 (Cattle overproduction) Europe is producing more cattle than the environment can stand, and may have to cut in in half. 17 September 2018 (Progressive organizing amongst Amish) Progressive organizing among the Amish. 17 September 2018 (Repression of insults in the UK) The UK increasingly represses mere insults. It began with insults based mostly on bigotry, but now it is expanding to all insults. I disagree with the author on one point: I think it is correct to punish crimes of violence extra closely when they're primarily based on bigotry, such attacks signify a marketing campaign of violence that might 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 - extra boats are going out, and the catch is declining. A big trigger of the decline is the international fishing boats that fish illegally. In the long term, what Tanzania wants is fewer births, not more meals. 17 September 2018 (State thugs comply with progressive groups) Massachusetts state thugs accidentally leaked the fact that they have bookmarked a number of progressive political groups to comply with. Either the thugs are rather more progressive than one would count on, and are in search of opportunities to point out support, or they're biased against these teams. 17 September 2018 (Theater of Security Agency) Theater of Security Agency workers insisted on swabbing the highest of a passenger's prosthetic leg to see if it had been in touch 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 actually made flying safer. This is unlikely - the TSA acknowledges that terrorists will not be concentrating on airplanes any extra. 17 September 2018 (Israel-Palestine peace negotiations) Palestine's chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, says that the bullshitter is attempting to remove peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine by taking Israel's side on each important subject. At this level, Palestine might reject the idea of together with the US in talks, and ask another energy such because the EU or Russia to mediate peace talks. That cannot advance negotiations now, since Netanyahu refuses to think about any concessions, however it can put a bit of extra stress on Israel and the US. Sixteen September 2018 (Amazon supply staff) Amazon's subcontracted delivery workers suffer wage theft and varied other mistreatment. Sixteen September 2018 (Farmers' proper to repair) Farmer Lobbying Group Accused Of Selling Out Farmers On Right To Repair Laws. 16 September 2018 (Berkeley thug division) When the Berkeley thug division arrested protesters for bogus crimes and posted their personal details, this was part of an specific PR campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the department seem powerful. Those thugs introduced the law into disrepute. Every considered one of them who participated in these actions, including those who accredited the plans, ought to 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, somebody referred to as this a "hypocrisy" because some churches rent on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The stated rebuke that it's best to "put your personal house in order before" criticizing an abuse is misguided. If we settle for that as a precept, it could come right down to "Only saints are entitled to criticize", which might give abusers a shield to deflect stress to appropriate abuses. The correct response is, "Don't forget to include your individual group in this criticism." We must always give attention to correcting the abuses, not on loathing everyone someway associated with them. I think the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, on condition that the archbishop would not control these hiring practices in other church organizations. The problem of investing in Amazon is a distinct one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church may do extra to change those corporations' behavior (and get their taxes elevated) by divesting from them and condemning them. I don't know the way much affect the archbishop personally has over these investments, but that is how he ought to use it henceforth. 16 September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) "Centrist" Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, but 6 of the eight "Democratic" collaborationists which have saved Republicans in power within the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. Sixteen 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 companies, including a large drug firm. Making researchers report these conflicts of curiosity is simply step one. If we want research to be trustworthy, we must end the observe of letting businesses select whether or not to fund it. They should fund it indirectly, by way of taxes. 16 September 2018 (Demise of democracy within the US) The Demise of Democracy (in the US). 16 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 protected. It's because the coal corporations make extra money by not moving the ash away from waterways, or letting or not it's recycled into concrete. 16 September 2018 (Avoiding large extinction) A scientific advice that 50% of the Earth's floor be protected wildlife areas by 2050, to avoid huge extinction. If we want to protect greater than desert and mountain species, protected lands will have to incorporate numerous places that could be used for agriculture, no less than for 20 years till they are exhausted. To guard them, we'd like to maintain human farmers away. That might be troublesome, however preserving the beginning charge down will make it just a little simpler. As well as, protected areas could not serve their purpose if global heating makes them unviable habitats for a number of the species that dwell in them. Curbing the human population may even make progress in the direction of reducing international heating. Sixteen 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. 16 September 2018 (Republican Party) Senator Graham is the paradigmatic example of a Republican who can see no unsuitable in something the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is now not a political get together 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 additionally identifies who searches for something "suspect". I think the US should make it against the law for a US company to censor politically for different nations. Other countries that wish to be thought-about free should do likewise. Regardless that this will imply that tyrannical states comparable to China will block entry to them, the fact that they're blocked will communicate a message of freedom to those that can not access them. Sixteen September 2018 (UK referendum rigging) The UK authorities permitted rigging the referendum on the EU in favor of the leave campaign. Sixteen September 2018 (Urgent: citizenship of Americans) US residents: name on the State Department to cease denying the citizenship of Americans of hispanic descent. Please be part of me in rejecting the absurd and unpronounceable word "Latinx". 16 September 2018 (Urgent: Shut down megabanks) US residents: name for shutting down criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo. Sixteen September 2018 (Underpaid Amazon employees) "If Jeff Bezos needs to help low-earnings individuals why not simply pay them higher?