That’s why Macron’s apology is so essential." 17 September 2018 (Australian coal mining plan) Adani's plan to open up an enormous new coal mining region in Australia has collapsed, however it may still open a single large mine there. For the sake of avoiding global disaster, we have to push hard towards that and towards each new fossil fuel facility. 17 September 2018 (Bloomberg at 'climate 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 college shootings) When US parents demand colleges "do one thing, straight away" to forestall a shooting, the measures faculties adopt make them feel (extra) like jails. This does little for security but quite a bit to create an atmosphere of distrust. School shootings hurt few college students each year; the varsity to prison pipeline harms far, much more. 17 September 2018 (Corrupted FEMA) Republicans are chiefly to blame for "natural" disasters within the US. Directly so because they corrupt FEMA, in order that the bodily occasions cause a much larger human catastrophe. When the bodily occasion is excessive weather, Republicans are additionally responsible not directly as a result of they've compelled world heating faster. Democratic officials do a good job with FEMA. Against global heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats are usually not as unhealthy as Republicans, but not ok to avoid world catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch bags) A UK supermarket chain will substitute plastic luggage for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch bags. The issue with cornstarch is that it's made from corn, and the corn needs to be grown. If all of the plastic packaging now used had been changed with cornstarch, what fraction of the world's corn crop would that use? Can anyone find the information to make a tough estimate of this? If I obtain an excellent reply, I'll put up 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 knowledge that has been revealed, I consider it almost 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 power satellites) Once again, proposing to build photo voltaic power satellites using materials from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this around 1980. I supported it. Solar power satellites could indeed give us plentiful renewable electricity. The obstacle to building them is the massive initial funding earlier than the primary one is operating. States starved for funds by tax-competitors have bother making such an investment. 17 September 2018 (Flooding) New cities are being built in coastal areas liable to be flooded in some many years. These "funding vehicles" would possibly become submarines. We need to start out transferring folks 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 class 6 hurricanes doable; we will certainly see them in the future, and they might submerge whole cities. 17 September 2018 (Cattle overproduction) Europe is producing more cattle than the setting can stand, and could have to chop in in half. 17 September 2018 (Progressive organizing among Amish) Progressive organizing among the Amish. 17 September 2018 (Repression of insults within the UK) The UK increasingly represses mere insults. It started with insults based on bigotry, however now it is expanding to all insults. I disagree with the writer on one level: I believe it is correct to punish crimes of violence extra heavily when they are based on bigotry, such assaults characterize a marketing campaign of violence that might are likely 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 cause of the decline is the international fishing boats that fish illegally. In the long run, what Tanzania wants is fewer births, not more meals. 17 September 2018 (State thugs comply with progressive groups) Massachusetts state thugs by accident leaked the truth that they've bookmarked a number of progressive political groups to follow. Either the thugs are rather more progressive than one would anticipate, and are in search of alternatives to show assist, 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 touch 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 truly made flying safer. That is unlikely - the TSA acknowledges that terrorists usually are not focusing 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 get rid of peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine by taking Israel's facet on every vital concern. At this point, Palestine could reject the thought of including the US in talks, and ask some other power such as the EU or Russia to mediate peace talks. That can't advance negotiations now, since Netanyahu refuses to consider any concessions, but it should put a little more stress on Israel and the US. 16 September 2018 (Amazon supply staff) Amazon's subcontracted supply staff suffer wage theft and numerous different 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 department) When the Berkeley thug department arrested protesters for bogus crimes and posted their personal particulars, this was part of an express PR marketing campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the department appear highly effective. Those thugs brought the law into disrepute. Every one among them who participated in these actions, including those who authorized the plans, ought to be fired for that. Sixteen 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 economy, somebody referred to as this a "hypocrisy" as a result of some churches rent on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The stated rebuke that it is best to "put your own 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 might give abusers a shield to deflect stress to right abuses. The correct response is, "Do not forget to include your individual group on this criticism." We should focus on correcting the abuses, not on loathing everyone someway associated with them. I believe the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, given that the archbishop would not management those hiring practices in different church organizations. The difficulty of investing in Amazon is a distinct one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church might do more to vary these companies' conduct (and get their taxes elevated) by divesting from them and condemning them. I do not understand how a lot affect the archbishop personally has over these investments, however that is how he should use it henceforth. Sixteen September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) "Centrist" Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, however 6 of the 8 "Democratic" collaborationists which have kept Republicans in energy in the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. 16 September 2018 (Conflicts of curiosity 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, together with a big drug company. Making researchers report these conflicts of curiosity is simply step one. If we want analysis to be sincere, we should finish the observe of letting companies select whether or not to fund it. They need to fund it indirectly, by 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. It is because the coal companies make more money by not transferring the ash away from waterways, or letting it's recycled into concrete. Sixteen September 2018 (Avoiding massive extinction) A scientific suggestion that 50% of the Earth's surface be protected wildlife areas by 2050, to keep away from massive extinction. If we would like to guard greater than desert and mountain species, protected lands could have to incorporate quite a lot of places that could be used for agriculture, no less than for 20 years till they are exhausted. To protect them, we'd like to maintain human farmers away. That will probably be troublesome, but holding the delivery price down will make it somewhat simpler. In addition, protected areas might not serve their function if global heating makes them unviable habitats for among the species that reside in them. Curbing the human inhabitants may even make progress in direction of reducing global 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. Sixteen September 2018 (Republican Party) Senator Graham is the paradigmatic instance of a Republican who can see no incorrect in something the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is not a political occasion 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 also identifies who searches for one thing "suspect". I think the US ought to make it a criminal offense for a US firm to censor politically for different international locations. Other countries that want to be thought-about free should do likewise. Regardless that this will mean that tyrannical states equivalent to China will block entry to them, the fact that they're blocked will talk a message of freedom to those that can't entry them. 16 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 citizens: call 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 phrase "Latinx". Sixteen 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 help low-revenue folks why not simply pay them better?
