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‘Borrowed time’: crop pests and food losses supercharged by climate crisis
Heating means pests breeding and spreading faster, warn scientists, with simplified current food system already vulnerable
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 *The key global crops, wheat, rice and maize, are expected to see the losses to pests increase by about 46%, 19% and 31% respectively when global heating reaches 2C, the scientists said... The direct impact of the climate crisis on wheat, rice and maize is predicted to cut yields by
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The Intercept
Bari Weiss Is Doing Exactly What She Was Installed at CBS to Do
Cutting one “60 Minutes” segment is a small price to be paid to keep Trump happy and shape the future of American media.
Farewell to "60 Minutes"
It just went the way of the Washington Post's editorial page
 Paramount installed Bari Weiss as CBS news editor-in-chief in obedience to the bully, so she could kill stories that would make him look bad. She just killed one. The writer argues that this is part of a plan by Larry Ellison and David Ellison to get control of all the US major media.
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Damning Recording of Trump 2020 Call Exposed: “Who’s Gonna Stop You?” | The New Republic
 A recording of a phone call shows that the cheater tried directly to persuade someone in Georgia to nullify the 2020 vote.
Reject Trump’s mass surveillance proposal
Imagine you’re planning a trip abroad – but the new rulers of the country you’re thinking about visiting have just imposed new rules: you mus...
 US citizens: Denounce the bully's proposed deep surveillance of visitors to the US.
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the Guardian
Merry boycotting: US shoppers avoid Trump-aligned businesses amid holiday season
People are supporting economic boycotts to show discontent with businesses capitulating to Trump’s agenda
Spotify
We oppose DRM. | Defective by Design
Reasons not to use Netflix
Reasons not to buy from Tesla
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 Here is a list of some consumer boycotts mounted by progressives. I mostly support them, but sometimes for different reasons. I have boycotted Amazon absolutely for many years. If a friend wants to give me a gift, I ask per
The Intercept
StopAntisemitism Takes Credit for Getting Hundreds Fired. A Music Teacher Is Suing.
Known for targeting celebrities like Ms. Rachel, the pro-Israel blacklist also goes after private individuals who post in solidarity with Palestine.
 An organization systematically finds and attacks people who criticize Israel's atrocities against Palestinians, by mislabeling that criticism as "antisemitism" and mobilizing an army of supporters to demand they be fired for that. It often gets them fired.
civicshout.com
Turn Climate Promises Into Action — Global Commitments Now
Another global climate summit has come and gone — and once again, promises were made without a clear plan to enforce them. As the BBC reports, CO...
 US citizens: call on world leaders to turn climate pledges into enforceable action and build a livable future instead of climate disaster.
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the Guardian
Italy considers hiding state flight paths after jamming of von der Leyen plane
EU member states debate how to make leaders’ flights more secure as Russia blamed for GPS loss
 Putin has been attacking EU officials' planes by jamming GPS signals in their vicinity. I think this sort of attack should be treated like the firing of missiles, shells or lasers at a plane: as a warlike act which justifies warlike defense. To avoid unnecessary escalation, it would be wise to limit these defensive acts to efforts to prevent or block the