However, my alternative for president is still Bernie Sanders, partly because I anticipate him to face for related insurance policies about abortion and contraception. 29 November 2018 (Ojeda on abortion rights) Richard Ojeda says he firmly helps abortion rights, and that he calls himself “professional-life” because he wants to make dependable contraception available to all women so that they won’t want abortions typically. That’s why Macron’s apology is so vital.” 17 September 2018 (Australian coal mining plan) Adani’s plan to open up a large new coal mining area in Australia has collapsed, nevertheless it should still open a single giant mine there. For the sake of avoiding world disaster, we need to push arduous towards that and towards every new fossil fuel facility. 17 September 2018 (Bloomberg at ‘climate summit’) Michael Bloomberg, who desires to run for president in 2020, went to a enterprise-dominated “local weather summit” and mocked environmentalist protesters. I will not vote for him. 17 September 2018 (Measures after college shootings) When US parents demand colleges “do one thing, right away” to stop a capturing, the measures colleges undertake make them really feel (extra) like jails. This does little for safety however so much to create an ambiance of distrust. School shootings harm few college students each year; the school to prison pipeline harms far, way 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, in order that the bodily occasions trigger a much bigger human catastrophe. When the physical event is extreme weather, Republicans are also responsible indirectly as a result of they have pressured world heating sooner. Democratic officials do a superb job with FEMA. Against international heating, plutocratist mainstream Democrats will not be as dangerous as Republicans, however not good enough to keep away from global catastrophe. 17 September 2018 (Cornstarch baggage) A UK supermarket chain will change plastic bags for fruits and vegetables with cornstarch luggage. The problem with cornstarch is that it is made from corn, and the corn has to be grown. If all the plastic packaging now used have been replaced with cornstarch, what fraction of the world’s corn crop would that use? Can anyone discover the information to make a tough estimate of this? If I obtain a superb reply, I’ll submit it. 17 September 2018 (Nerve fuel poisoning) Activists have tied the current nerve gasoline poisoning suspects to the Russian Ministry of Defense, and caught them in different lies. Based on all the data that has been revealed, I consider it practically sure 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 power satellites) Once again, proposing to construct photo voltaic energy satellites utilizing material from the moon. The L5 society campaigned for this around 1980. I supported it. Solar energy satellites may certainly give us plentiful renewable electricity. The impediment to building them is the massive preliminary funding earlier than the first one is working. States starved for funds by tax-competitors have hassle 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 automobiles” would possibly turn into submarines. We need to begin shifting 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 potential; we will certainly see them sooner or later, and they might submerge entire cities. 17 September 2018 (Cattle overproduction) Europe is producing more cattle than the setting 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 primarily based on bigotry, however now it is increasing to all insults. I disagree with the writer on one level: I think it’s appropriate to punish crimes of violence more closely when they are based on bigotry, such attacks represent 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 large trigger of the decline is the international fishing boats that fish illegally. In the long run, what Tanzania wants is fewer births, not more food. 17 September 2018 (State thugs follow progressive groups) Massachusetts state thugs by accident leaked the fact that they have bookmarked several progressive political groups to observe. Either the thugs are far more progressive than one would anticipate, and are on the lookout for opportunities to indicate support, or they are biased in opposition to these groups. 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. That is unlikely – the TSA acknowledges that terrorists should not 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 side on every necessary subject. At this point, Palestine may reject the thought 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 would put a bit extra strain on Israel and the US. 16 September 2018 (Amazon delivery employees) Amazon’s subcontracted delivery workers undergo wage theft and varied other mistreatment. 16 September 2018 (Farmers’ proper 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 private details, this was a part of an specific PR marketing campaign meant to intimidate protest and make the department appear highly effective. Those thugs introduced the legislation into disrepute. Every one in every of them who participated in these actions, together with those who authorized 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 economic system, somebody referred to as this a “hypocrisy” as a result of some churches hire on zero-hour contracts and the church invests in Amazon. The acknowledged rebuke that it’s best to “put your personal house so as earlier than” criticizing an abuse is misguided. If we settle for that as a principle, it would come right down to “Only saints are entitled to criticize”, which might give abusers a shield to deflect pressure to appropriate abuses. The precise response is, “Don’t forget to include your personal organization on this criticism.” We should deal with correcting the abuses, not on loathing everyone by some means related to them. I think the accusation of hypocrisy is invalid with regard to the zero-hour contracts, given that the archbishop would not management those hiring practices in other church organizations. The difficulty of investing in Amazon is a special one. Shareholder activism has proved to be ineffective, and the church could do more to alter those corporations’ habits (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’s how he ought to use it henceforth. Sixteen September 2018 (Progressive Democrats) “Centrist” Democrat Governor Cuomo defeated Cynthia Nixon, but 6 of the 8 “Democratic” collaborationists that have saved Republicans in energy within the state legislature have been defeated by progressive Democrats. Sixteen 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 curiosity in his relationship with businesses, together with a big drug company. Making researchers report these conflicts of interest is simply step one. If we want analysis to be honest, we must end the follow of letting businesses select whether to fund it. They should fund it not directly, by means of taxes. 16 September 2018 (Demise of democracy within 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 supplies. Even from one inactive dump that was capped, supposedly to make it secure. This is because the coal firms make more cash by not shifting the ash away from waterways, or letting it be 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 avoid huge extinction. If we would like to protect more than desert and mountain species, protected lands may have to include numerous locations that may very well be used for agriculture, not less than for 20 years until they are exhausted. To guard them, we want to keep human farmers away. That will be difficult, however keeping the delivery rate down will make it somewhat simpler. In addition, protected areas might not serve their purpose if world heating makes them unviable habitats for a number of the species that dwell in them. Curbing the human population will even make progress in direction of lowering world 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 wrong in anything the bullshitter says or does. The Republican Party is not a political celebration 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 something “suspect”. I think the US should make it a crime for a US firm to censor politically for different nations. Other international locations that want to be considered free ought to do likewise. Although this can mean that tyrannical states reminiscent of China will block access to them, the fact that they are blocked will communicate a message of freedom to those that can’t entry them. Sixteen September 2018 (UK referendum rigging) The UK government permitted rigging the referendum on the EU in favor of the depart 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”. Sixteen September 2018 (Urgent: Shut down megabanks) US citizens: name for shutting down criminal megabanks like Wells Fargo. 16 September 2018 (Underpaid Amazon workers) “If Jeff Bezos needs to assist low-earnings individuals why not simply pay them better?
Synthetic” is a misnomer; “synthetic imitation” would match these drugs higher, since they don’t seem to be the identical psychoactive chemicals present in actual marijuana. It appears they’re addictive. It isn’t said what “urgent action” is being thought-about, but I doubt that they embrace any sort of legalization or partial legalization, although these measures could make the drug less dangerous and less interesting to young individuals. 31 October 2018 (Greenhouse gasoline commitments) The US is just not, in reality, finishing up its totally insufficient greenhouse gas commitments made under the Paris Climate Agreement. 31 October 2018 (Bridge from Hong Kong) China has constructed a 34-mile-lengthy sea bridge from Hong Kong to Zhuhai for use only by chosen individuals China needs to single out for reward. As a transportation system, it is going to be a waste of money. As an instrument of influence over Hong Kong, it may show efficient. Wealthy Chinese compete for status, and a part of this competition is likely to be shelling out lots of cash in order to win skills to be permitted the use of the bridge. 31 October 2018 (Enabling Saudi crimes) The West Enabled Khashoggi’s Demise – Not To say All the other Saudi Crimes. 31 October 2018 (LA teacher strike) Los Angeles teachers have voted to strike, and not only about their salaries. 31 October 2018 (Marijuana in South Korea) South Korea threatens to imprison South Koreans for using marijuana even in the event that they do it in locations where it is authorized to do so. I dislike this text greatly. It asserts that South Koreans couldn’t probably use marijuana in defiance of that law. And it seems to endorse the idea that that regulation makes the South Koreans improper for using marijuana, fairly than making the nation wrong for having the regulation. 31 October 2018 (Deporting from Mexico) Amnesty International: Mexico should not deport anyone to Honduras or Guatemala who would face danger there. 31 October 2018 (US mass media) No matter that the US mass media are so right-wing that they praise plans to chop back on civil rights for queer individuals, the correct-wingers claim the mass media have a “Liberal bias”. 31 October 2018 (Coal mines in Wales) Wales will pledge to not open any new coal mines. Most coal mining within the UK, perhaps all, was shut down within the 1980s as a result of the underground mines had been more expensive than blowing off mountaintops in Appalachia. Wales has additionally banned fracking. 31 October 2018 (Examples of democracy) Many examples exhibit that humans can follow democracy and make it work. The US is having bother as a result of Americans have not recognized that they need to unite to take energy away from the plutocrats. 31 October 2018 (Arms exports to Salafi Arabia) Germany has stopped arms exports to Salafi Arabia. 31 October 2018 (Performance in Israel) Two New Zealanders that Israel tried to “high quality” for urging a singer to not perform in Israel write to turn consideration again to the actual issue: the occupation of a part of Palestine and the siege of the rest. 31 October 2018 (Microplastics in humans’ stools) A sample means that 50% of people have microplastics in their stools. They might trigger medical problems, but we do not know. 31 October 2018 (Addiction remedy hole) Addiction Treatment Gap Is Driving A Black Marketplace for Suboxone. 31 October 2018 (Judge lobbied for by Kavanaugh) Kavanaugh Once Lobbied for Judge Now Handling Ethics Complaints in opposition to Him. Nowadays, Republicans scorn the concept of integrity. Is it potential that the other decide still has some? 31 October 2018 (Survivors of Brazil’s dictatorship) “After what I lived by way of?
How: this pose is sort of like your 8th grade PE classes besides you won’t want to chop class. Episode 1013: Smells Like Vanilla (w/ Eric Dittelman). Episode 050: Johnny Kats’ Beef w/ Floyd Mayweather’s Fatburger Buns Kicking. “No matter what kind of sex you’re having, doing a pulse test to ensure you’re on the same page with a accomplice is always a good idea,” she says. This technique is extraordinarily effective because you give extra diverse stimulus to your companion and you give yourself time to get back management. 29 November 2018 (Trump’s conflict on science) The denialist’s struggle on science, and the way Congress can combat back. UTC – Urgent Transformation Crisis A tale of mad science, id and outward appearance. 1 December 2018 (Making someone stateless) Australia proposes to mimic the UK’s loophole that permits taking away citizenship even when it might make somebody stateless. If a straight male candidate on the marketing campaign trail mentioned, “I made love to my spouse final evening,” it could be seen as an embarrassing and bizarre gaffe, regardless that nobody on objects to straight men having sex with their wives. I can’t wait to speak to my son (he’s only 5 now) about sex.
The company, which has been focusing available on the market outdoors China, is now also concentrating on the domestic sector. Pay for increased priority if you would like any service.” 25 September 2018 (Money for Seattle Mariners) The Seattle Mariners squeezed one other 135 million dollars out of the town of Seattle. Town council got here near rejecting the demand, but did not fairly get there. I feel there needs to be a federal legislation that prohibits cities and states from subsidizing sports activities groups both immediately or indirectly. 25 September 2018 (Refillable bottles) Oregon’s bottle recycling program now handles refillable bottles for breweries. They do not need to be floor up and melted and made into new bottles. It is nice to see such beginning steps, but when we do not scale it far up we’re nonetheless screwed. 25 September 2018 (University tuition) Rice University will spare low-income and center-revenue students the need to borrow money. 25 September 2018 (FCC rewards large wireless companies) The FCC has rewarded the enormous wireless corporations at the expense of US cities. Just reminds us of who the FCC now tries to serve. 25 September 2018 (Investigating accusations of rape) Normally anybody investigating an accusation of rape is lucky to have one other witness, a chance to find the reality. The fact that SCROTUS did not name him to testify is but more proof that their objective is to cover up the truth. 25 September 2018 (Weakness of truth in contending with lies) The weakness of truth in contending with lies is like a deficiency in society’s immune system. The report about how the bullshitter will not settle for corrections even on insignificant particulars suggests that he considers himself infallible, and that he is out of contact with actuality. Is that enough to judge him mentally incompetent and institutionalize him? 25 September 2018 (Children used as deportation bait) The US deportation thugs imprison kids as bait to deport relatives that supply to obtain them. 25 September 2018 (Ending the conflict in Yemen) How Congress Can End the War in Yemen. It appears like Congress’s will is shifting slowly in that course. There is no legitimate reason for the US to involve itself in Yemen’s civil conflict. No motive for the US to maintain particular hostility to Iran, both. That country is dominated by a repressive theocracy, but it’s not as repressive, nor as harsh in its theocracy, as Salafi Arabia, which the US is supporting. 25 September 2018 (Kavanaugh’s lies) “Dr.