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Australia's retirement funds

lundi 26 avril 2021 à 02:00

Australia's retirement funds have decided to cast their votes in corporations' bodes in favor of greenhouse emission reduction targets. To be sure, following the Paris treaty is aiming for failure, and 2050 is far too late; but it is a shift to start pushing aside the Australian government's planet-roaster policies.

Solar panels from Xinjiang forced labour

lundi 26 avril 2021 à 02:00

*Revealed: UK solar projects using panels from firms linked to Xinjiang forced labour.*

The effective way to get away from using products of China's forced labor is to plan to develop production capacity outside China, and plan to refuse to buy the products from China. However, the WTO may make that difficult.

Which is one more reason why the WTO, which is a business-supremacy treaty, is an injustice. Add that to the obstruction of generic Covid-19 vaccines and a long list of other injustice.

Tracked by Google

lundi 26 avril 2021 à 02:00

Google has decided to protect users of Android from being tracked — except by Google.

What gives Google the power to make this choice and impose it on users? That is due to Google's nonfree software in Android.

France support of the dictator of Chad

lundi 26 avril 2021 à 02:00

France supported the dictator of Chad (who was just killed by rebels) in exchange for his help in fighting PISSI.

I agree that fighting PISSI is a good thing to do, but keeping a dictator in power (and now his son and heir) is not.

Urgent: reject face recognition

lundi 26 avril 2021 à 02:00

US citizens: call on live event producers to reject imposing face recognition in the name of Covid safety.