29 November 2018 (Trump’s war on science) The denialist’s struggle on science, and the way Congress can combat again. 1 December 2018 (Detailed progressive agenda) Just Being Anti-Trump ‘Not Adequate’: Sanders Urges Democrats in New Congress to Embrace This Detailed Progressive Agenda. 1 December 2018 (Matthew Hedges’ analysis) Speculation about how Matthew Hedges’ PhD research might have led the repressive UAE to want to imprison him. These chemicals are believed to have accumulated in the tissues of fish and animals that make up the majority of those populations’ diets. 29 November 2018 (CO2 focus) “The final time the Earth skilled a comparable concentration of CO2 was 3-5m years in the past, when the temperature was 2-3C warmer and sea stage was 10-20 metres greater than now.” 29 November 2018 (‘Gang symbols’) Thugs can punish people in and out of prison based mostly on arbitrarily designated “symbols” that are supposed to indicate membership in a gang. Maybe some of the individuals associated with these symbols are gang members, but others usually are not. Guilt by association 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 help legalization of marijuana. Even a majority of Republicans help it. Congress, how about legalizing it? 29 November 2018 (Prosecuting Clinton and Comey) An anonymous insider supply studies that the bully wished to prosecute Clinton and Comey. He was informed he couldn’t give the Justice Department such an order. 29 November 2018 (The War Lobby) Now that the Democrats management the House of Representatives, will they settle for leaders that assist the War Lobby? 29 November 2018 (Gerald Reed trial) Chicago thugs tortured Gerald Reed with no subtlety at all, leaving clear proof of what they had accomplished, however his false confession led to his conviction for homicide and he has been in prison for 28 years. Now he may get a brand new trial. 29 November 2018 (Starvation in Yemen) Save the Children estimates that 85,000 kids underneath 5 years previous have died of starvation in Yemen because of the civil battle. The “obstacles to importing and distributing supplies” are primarily imposed by Salafi Arabia (with backing from the US and other nations). 28 November 2018 (Scheme to deny folks Medicaid) Arkansas’s new scheme to deny people Medicaid if they are not employed was not explained clearly to Adrian McGonigal, so he lost first his Medicaid coverage and then his job. I have a sinking feeling that this system additionally requires individuals 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 bad joke of a trial. 28 November 2018 (Change in proper-wing activity) Denial of the homicide of 6 million Jews has modified the identical method other right-wing activity has changed: as an alternative of making an attempt to significantly persuade folks there was no holocaust, they mock the query: “What is fact?
Pelosi’s heart-right policies, such as spending even more cash on the army and rejecting Medicare for all. Climate change is occurring earlier and extra rapidly than expected. I’m not attempting to alter the world. I’m attempting to stop the world from changing me.” I used to attribute the quote to Thoreau, but it seems that was mistaken: it is definitely from Ammon Hennacy. I have succeeded in altering the world to some extent, and I’m nonetheless making an attempt to attain extra. At the same time, I see how using nonfree software, and digital dis-providers, has changed others for the worse. Millions surrender their freedom and privacy without transferring a muscle to protect it. They run freedom-denying software program that snoops on them continuously. They let Facebook use them. They play nonfree video video games for hours, killing time which they might have used for one thing meaningful, and studying nothing besides tips on how to retreat from society. Even when they might discover it onerous work to resist these evils 100%, there are surely elements they may easily resist. It certain seems to be like malicious technology has changed them for the worse. Please do not let it change you! 27 September 2018 (Lists of supposed non-residents) Right-wingers are posting long lists of supposed non-citizens who are voting, introduced as proof there is a big problem of invalid voters. They are being sued by US citizens whose names they falsely posted. 27 September 2018 (Land-based mostly birds susceptible to extinction) “Land-primarily based hen populations have gotten confined to nature reserves in some elements of the world-raising the danger of global extinction-due to the lack of suitable 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 standard ploy for governments imposing unjust legal guidelines: prosecute someone, who is after all convicted, then pardon the victim. It serves to scare people into obeying the unjust regulation, while avoiding the odium that may follow from holding journalists in prison. 27 September 2018 (Prof. Blasey Ford to testify) Prof. Blasey Ford agreed to testify to the Senate on Thursday, but different details have not been agreed on. This contains such as whether they will name in some lawyer to speak with her (being too cowardly to take action themselves). 27 September 2018 (Cuts to Head Start and most cancers analysis) The bully’s saboteurs are going to chop Head Start and cancer research to fund their prisons for immigrant minors. The article says “kids”, however I’m pretty certain the prisoners vary up by age 17. Some are youngsters, and some are teenagers. 25 September 2018 (Urgent: Fight in opposition to voter-purging) Citizens of North Carolina: battle against Republican voter-purging. I am unable to test this, since I’m not from North Carolina and mustn’t signal. If you find that this petition cannot be signed with Javascript disabled fully, and can’t be signed with LibreJS active, please electronic mail me (rms at the GNU undertaking site) so I can delete it. Should you signal, please unfold the word! 25 September 2018 (Bully-appointed federal choose) One of the bully’s appointed federal judge disregarded the details to make a partisan choice in favor of right-wing counterprotestors. 25 September 2018 (Bully’s arrest policy) The bully’s policy of arresting unauthorized immigrants in the event that they go to court succeeds in scaring many of them away from seeking safety towards home violence. 25 September 2018 (Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline) It took the US State Department only one week to publish a sham environmental evaluation of the Keystone XL planet-roaster pipeline. 25 September 2018 (Protests planned at Salesforce occasion) Protests are deliberate at the Salesforce annual event, demanding that the corporate stop 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 home life) Israelis Experience Palestinian Home Life in Virtual Reality. They see the house of a particular Palestinian family that volunteered for this. 25 September 2018 (Immigration judges ordered to be cruel) Sessions has ordered immigration judges to be cruel, strict, callous and merciless. 25 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s Republican votes) The explanation Republicans intend to vote for Kavanaugh regardless of what is that he is a part of the same plutocratist group as 4 other proper-wing justices. They will flip the US into hell for all except the favored classes. 25 September 2018 (Uighurs in brainwashing camps) Pompeo condemned China for putting around a million Uighurs in brainwashing camps. Someone else referred to as this “The pot calling the kettle black”, however that is not right. What Chine has performed is comparable to putting one million people in Guantanamo. The US put only a thousand people, total, in Guantanamo. Even right now it is possible to be worse than the US. When Pompeo talks about “stealing intellectual property”, he spreads confusion. That term invariably has that impact because it would not fit reality. 25 September 2018 (Mainstream media protection of hurricane) US mainstream media lined Hurricane Florence, but very hardly ever connected it to its human cause. 25 September 2018 (Judge frees migrant-rescuing fishermen) An Italian judge freed the Tunisian fishermen, victims of the appropriate-wing try and criminalize the act of rescuing migrants from drowning. This would possibly not finish the threat. Right-wingers trying to pervert justice by no means quit. 25 September 2018 (SCROTUS delay last Kavanaugh listening to) SCROTUS have delayed the last Kavanaugh listening to quite than inform Ford “Too late!
Don’t you understand you’re killing us? Patterns of offending by males and by women are notable both for their similarities and for their variations. Attorneys for the three men argued that since their shoppers had accomplished their court docket sentences for sex crimes, and completed probation and intercourse offender rehabilitation, that they need to not should be on the registry and will be able to be faraway from the general public registry. The discovery of intercourse is a “phenomenon as painful as weaning” and she views it with disgust. However, some foods have a popularity for growing your sex drive. Is the American approach to intercourse registration working? Furthermore, the bodily form, the voice, and the mental qualities of mutilated men strategy those of women; while girls whose reproductive organs stay from some trigger in a state of arrested improvement, strategy the mental and bodily habits of males. In 1947, anthropologist Harold Sterling Gladwin wrote “supermodel” in his ebook Men Out of Asia. 29 November 2018 (Arkansas drops Medicaid for 12,000 people) Arkansas has kicked 12,000 folks out of Medicaid, using their unemployment as an excuse.
29 November 2018 (US charity gives lawyers to those going through deportation) A US charity campaign supplies legal professionals to people dealing with risk of deportation. He wants to take the time period “professional-life” away from the campaign against abortion rights. 29 November 2018 (Democrats’ First Bill) Democrats Say Their First Bill Will Give attention to Strengthening Democracy: automated voter registration, strengthen the Voting Rights Act, limit partisan redistricting and tighten marketing campaign finance laws. 29 November 2018 (Urgent: Andrew Wheeler) US residents: name on the Senate to block and resist Andrew Wheeler as EPA administrator. 29 November 2018 (Urgent: Thomas Farr) US citizens: call on the Senate to reject Thomas Farr as a decide. 29 November 2018 (Truths from the bully) In between all the lies, the bully has sometimes advised the truth in ways in which centrist politicians would not have dared. Unfortunately, given his tendency to be totally inconsistent, the truth that he admits these forbidden truths every so often offers us no foundation to count on him to do something good about them. 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 area in Australia has collapsed, but it should open a single massive mine there. For the sake of avoiding world catastrophe, we need to push hard 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 “local weather summit” and mocked environmentalist protesters. I won’t vote for him. 17 September 2018 (Measures after school shootings) When US dad and mom demand colleges “do something, instantly” to prevent a taking pictures, the measures faculties adopt make them feel (more) like jails. This does little for safety however quite a bit to create an environment of distrust. School shootings hurt few students each year; the varsity to prison pipeline harms far, much more. 17 September 2018 (Corrupted FEMA) Republicans are chiefly to blame for “pure” disasters in the US. Directly so because they corrupt FEMA, in order that the bodily occasions trigger a much bigger human disaster. When the physical occasion is extreme weather, Republicans are also accountable indirectly as a result of they’ve pressured international heating quicker. Democratic officials do an excellent job with FEMA. Against international heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats are not as unhealthy as Republicans, but not ok to avoid international catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch bags) A UK supermarket chain will substitute plastic baggage for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch baggage. The problem with cornstarch is that it’s made from corn, and the corn has to be grown. If all the plastic packaging now used were changed with cornstarch, what fraction of the world’s corn crop would that use? Can anybody discover the data to make a tough estimate of this? If I obtain a superb reply, I will put up it. 17 September 2018 (Nerve fuel poisoning) Activists have tied the latest nerve gas poisoning suspects to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and caught them in other 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 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 power satellites utilizing material from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this round 1980. I supported it. Solar power satellites could indeed give us plentiful renewable electricity. The impediment to constructing them is the massive initial funding before the primary one is working. States starved for funds by tax-competition have hassle making such an funding. 17 September 2018 (Flooding) New cities are being built in coastal areas liable to be flooded in some decades. These “investment autos” would possibly develop into submarines. We need to start out moving people away from some coastal areas. 17 September 2018 (Global heating) Australian farmers demand extra effort to curb world heating. 17 September 2018 (Global heating and hurricanes) Global heating is making category 6 hurricanes doable; we will surely see them in the future, and they might submerge entire cities. 17 September 2018 (Cattle overproduction) Europe is producing extra cattle than the surroundings can stand, and could have to cut in in half. 17 September 2018 (Progressive organizing among Amish) Progressive organizing among the many Amish. 17 September 2018 (Repression of insults within the UK) The UK increasingly represses mere insults. It began with insults based mostly on bigotry, however now it’s increasing to all insults. I disagree with the writer on one level: I feel it is appropriate to punish crimes of violence more heavily when they’re primarily based on bigotry, such attacks signify a marketing campaign of violence that would are inclined to unfold. 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 large cause of the decline is the foreign fishing boats that fish illegally. In the long term, what Tanzania wants is fewer births, not more food. 17 September 2018 (State thugs observe progressive groups) Massachusetts state thugs unintentionally leaked the truth that they have bookmarked a number of progressive political teams to comply with. Either the thugs are far more progressive than one would expect, and are on the lookout for alternatives to point out assist, 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 highest of a passenger’s prosthetic leg to see if it had been in contact with explosives. They threatened to arrest her if she did not 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 aren’t targeting airplanes any more. 17 September 2018 (Israel-Palestine peace negotiations) Palestine’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, says that the bullshitter is attempting to eliminate peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine by taking Israel’s aspect on each vital problem. At this point, Palestine may reject the concept of including 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 contemplate any concessions, but it is going to put somewhat more pressure on Israel and the US. 16 September 2018 (Amazon supply staff) Amazon’s subcontracted delivery employees undergo wage theft and numerous other mistreatment. Sixteen September 2018 (Farmers’ right 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 department arrested protesters for bogus crimes and posted their personal particulars, this was a part of an express PR marketing campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the department appear highly effective. Those thugs introduced the legislation into disrepute. Every one of them who participated in these actions, including those that approved the plans, should be fired for that. Sixteen 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 economy, somebody known as this a “hypocrisy” because some churches rent on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The said rebuke that it is best to “put your individual home in order earlier than” criticizing an abuse is misguided. If we settle for that as a precept, it might come right down to “Only saints are entitled to criticize”, which would give abusers a shield to deflect stress to right abuses. The appropriate response is, “Remember to incorporate your own group on this criticism.” We should always concentrate on correcting the abuses, not on loathing everybody somehow associated with them. I think the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, given that the archbishop would not management these hiring practices in different church organizations. The difficulty of investing in Amazon is a unique one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church might do extra to vary these firms’ behavior (and get their taxes elevated) by divesting from them and condemning them. I don’t understand how much influence the archbishop personally has over these investments, but that is how he should use it henceforth. Sixteen September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) “Centrist” Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, however 6 of the eight “Democratic” collaborationists which have saved Republicans in energy within the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. 16 September 2018 (Conflicts of interest with companies) The pinnacle medical officer of Sloan Kettering Cancer Center resigned in a scandal for not reporting conflicts of interest in his relationship with businesses, together with a large drug company. Making researchers report these conflicts of curiosity is just step one. If we would like research to be honest, we should finish the follow of letting companies choose whether or not to fund it. They should fund it indirectly, through taxes. Sixteen September 2018 (Demise of democracy in the US) The Demise of Democracy (within the US). 16 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 safe. It’s because the coal firms make more cash by not transferring the ash away from waterways, or letting it’s recycled into concrete. 16 September 2018 (Avoiding huge extinction) A scientific advice that 50% of the Earth’s floor be protected wildlife areas by 2050, to avoid large extinction. If we wish to guard more than desert and mountain species, protected lands will have to incorporate quite a lot of locations that may very well be used for agriculture, no less than for 20 years till they’re exhausted. To protect them, we need to maintain human farmers away. That will be difficult, but preserving the beginning charge down will make it a bit of simpler. As well as, protected areas may not serve their goal if international heating makes them unviable habitats for a few of the species that live in them. Curbing the human inhabitants will also make progress towards reducing 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. 16 September 2018 (Republican Party) Senator Graham is the paradigmatic example of a Republican who can see no fallacious in anything the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is now not a political social gathering in the same old 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 something “suspect”. I believe the US should make it a crime for a US company to censor politically for different international locations. Other international locations that wish to be thought-about free ought to do likewise. Even though it will imply that tyrannical states akin to China will block access to them, the truth that they are blocked will talk a message of freedom to those who can’t entry them. 16 September 2018 (UK referendum rigging) The UK government permitted rigging the referendum on the EU in favor of the depart marketing campaign. 16 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 a part of me in rejecting the absurd and unpronounceable phrase “Latinx”. 16 September 2018 (Urgent: Shut down megabanks) US citizens: call for shutting down criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo. Sixteen September 2018 (Underpaid Amazon staff) “If Jeff Bezos wants to assist low-revenue people why not just pay them better?