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‘Reverse Midas touch’: Starmer plan prompts collapse in support for digital IDs
Net public backing for scheme has fallen to -14% after prime minister’s announcement, according to polling
 As Britons considered Starmer's plan for mandatory digital ID cards, they have mostly turned against it. Hooray! Now they only need to make sure he can't impose that law against public opposition.
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Stop Feeding Surveillance Tech!
A company called ShadowDragon is using its tools to pull personal information about us from hundreds of everyday websites like BabyCenter, Etsy, an...
 US citizens: call on companies to stop feeding data to Shadowdragon's massive surveillance.
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Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens
Masoud Pezeshkian says subsidence is also ‘a disaster’ in city of 10 million, which consumes quarter of Iran’s water
 Global heating is drying up the region of Tehran, and the president of Iran says it must move the capital (which has 10 million inhabitants) to another region. The article fails to mention global heating and population growth as causes of this problem.
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Trump’s H-1B visa fee is a death sentence for US healthcare | Eram Alam
Trump’s $100,000 visa fee will gut the immigrant workforce that keeps US hospitals – and patients – alive
 The persecutor's proposed increase in employers' fees to get a visa to hire a foreign worker would make hospitals shut down. It might be a good idea to ramp up US medical education and teach more Americans to do medical jobs. But such training takes years - it can't happen between now and next year. To make a success of this, the US would need to increase training capacity and spend years
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Asylum seekers on Nauru going hungry despite government spending $1.5m a year for each person
The Australian government is spending millions of dollars a year to house asylum seekers, yet many say they can not afford food and are forced to s...
 Australia's offshore immigration prison on Nauru does not give prisoners enough money to buy food. And they face violent persecution by the locals.
When I hear the word "chairman" I imagine a lion tamer.
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Autism should not be seen as single condition with one cause, say scientists
Those diagnosed as small children typically have distinct genetic profile from those diagnosed later, study finds
 Extending the term "autism" to cover such a range of different syndromes seems to be an overgeneralization.
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Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group backed by her father during the McCarthy era
In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support
 *Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group backed by her father during the McCarthy era*: The Committee for the First Amendment.
Richard Stallman will give a talk in Helsinki on Oct 9: Free software, Crucial for Freedom in a Digital World It will run 14:00 to 16:00 in Haaga-Helia University in Pasila. Specifically, Ratapihantie 13 Helsinki, in the auditorium on the ground floor. Admission is gratis and there is no need to register.
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Washington backing plan for Tony Blair to head transitional Gaza authority
Reported proposal for international body to oversee Gaza for up to five years counters UN-backed plan for faster transition to Palestinian rule
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 The US government has proposed a plan to give Gaza autonomy over a span of five years I trust Tony B'liar almost as little as I trust the saboteur in chief. A plan with a trustworthy administrator would be much better. At the same time, I think that this plan might lead to a just