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the Two major parties in Australia have disregarded protecting the environment.

lundi 23 mai 2022 à 22:19

The two major parties in Australia have disregarded protecting the environment. As a result, both land and sea have been grievously damaged.

The list of recommendations are good ones, but a crucial recommendation to reduce population growth (in Australia and elsewhere) is missing.

Bank of England and inflation

lundi 23 mai 2022 à 22:19

* As the Bank [of England] lurches to reverse its own policies, there is a risk that "stability" will again be delivered on the backs of poor people.*

New federal law to prosecute lynching is not enough

lundi 23 mai 2022 à 22:19

The new federal law to prosecute lynching is not by itself going to make racist murder cease. To achieve that requires other kinds of efforts, including rooting out white supremacists (and white supremacist ideas) from thug departments.

The point that states are making it illegal to teach what happened to Emmett Till is a very important one.

One of the things we need to do is to teach people to reject bigotry. Engaging in bigotry, even in a symbolic way as that article does by capitalizing "black" but not "white", works against that goal. Normally I decline to link to articles which promote bigotry, but I make exceptions for some articles which give important information about racism or the fight to eliminate racism, as here.

Right-wing PACs spent millions on plutocratist Democrats in several primaries

lundi 23 mai 2022 à 22:19

Right-wing PACs spent millions on plutocratist Democrats in several primaries, aiming to defeat progressive Democrats, but many of the progressives won anyway.

One incumbent that was defeated was Kurt Schrader,

who set up a devious scheme to defeat Sanders's plan to pass the Build Back Better bill by not voting on the infrastructure bill until after it was passed before.

The [German] business dynasties who benefited from Nazis

lundi 23 mai 2022 à 22:19

*The [German] business dynasties who benefited from Nazis*,

and in some cases remained close to Nazis after the war.