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Pipeline shut down by court

mardi 7 juillet 2020 à 02:00

A court shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline because its environmental review did not satisfy legal requirements.

I am glad, but keep in mind that it is not a final outcome.

Antisocialists and boogaloo

mardi 7 juillet 2020 à 02:00

The Antisocialist Party presidential candidate gave an interview to a podcast closely associated with the ‘boogaloo’ movement that proposes a right-wing uprising against the US government.

That party calls itself "libertarian", but I dispute their entitlement to that term. It is a way of pushing their perverse definition of "liberty" which says that the government should not help people and businesses should be able to gouge without hindrance. They call all positive government activities "socialism", so I think the right term for them is "antisocialists".

Terrorism conviction for using encryption

lundi 6 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Leaders of Amnesty Turkey were convicted of "terrorism" charges based on the assertion that one of them had a certain encryption app on his phone. Although investigation reported he did not even have it.

They were arrested while holding an event with a visiting foreign encryption expert to teach people how to use encryption.

Returning home to find work

lundi 6 juillet 2020 à 02:00

Venezuelans who fled to Colombia now can't find any work, so some are returning home.

Cops, rave and covid-19

lundi 6 juillet 2020 à 02:00

London cops, apparently not thuggish this time, shut down a dangerous rave, but the participants threw bricks at them and broke bones of two.

That the rave was illegal is what authorize the cops to act, but morally it is a minor detail. What does matter morally is that the rave would tend to spread Covid-19. It therefore threatened harm to people in general. For public safety, raves can't be allowed until the Covid-19 problem is licked.