Thursday, May 09, 2019

What ethical or intellectual justifications exist for treating the lives of animals as inherently inferior to human life and thus justifiably exploited and extinguished for human benefit?

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Episode Three of “Animal Matters”: What Are the Philosophical Premises For Why Animal Life Has No Value or is of Less Worth?

As we learn about the widespread, industrial torture and slaughter of animals, how will we continue to ethically and intellectually justify these industrial practices?

The flurry of media reports this week about private investment in China’s increasingly sprawling surveillance state left out a prominent investor: Hunter Biden, the former vice president’s son.

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Chinese Fund Backed by Hunter Biden Invested in Technology Used to Surveil Muslims

The flurry of media reports about private investment in China’s increasingly sprawling surveillance state left out a prominent investor: Hunter Biden.

If you want an email account that’s actually private, one solution is to run your own email server from your house. This way, if governments want to secretly ask your email provider for a copy of your inbox, they’ll have to ask you. Until Helm, this wasn’t possible for most people.

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Avoid Surveillance with Helm, a Home Server Anyone Can Use to Keep Emails Truly Private

Helm is a well thought out product that's as easy to set up as a smartphone. It's $500 and $100/year.

“We have failed. This experiment, this global capitalist experiment, this experiment of industrialization and burning fossil fuels rampantly is an utter, abject failure,” says Dahr Jamail, author of the new book “The End of Ice.” He believes it is time to start adapting.

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A War Reporter Covers “The End of Ice” — And It Will Change the Way You Think About Climate Catastrophe

"It’s possible to reach a place of acceptance and inner peace, while enduring the grief and suffering that are inevitable as the biosphere declines.”

In 2017, senior Republican Rep. Ed Royce gave a speech on the House floor imploring his fellow lawmakers to maintain support for the Saudi Arabian-led war in Yemen. Much of it was scripted by a lobbyist for Saudi Arabia.

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GOP Lawmaker Gave Pro-War Speech on Yemen — by Reading Saudi Lobbyist’s Talking Points Verbatim

Rep. Ed Royce spoke on the House floor against ending U.S. support for the Yemen war. His talking points were scripted by lobbyists for Saudi Arabia.

A new report from PAX, a Dutch peace organization, both illuminates how profitable it can be for multinational corporations to manufacture Armageddon and provides a roadmap for taking the money out of mass death.

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How to Dismantle the Absurd Profitability of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear weapons are more than just a terrifying threat to every living thing on earth. They’re also a terrific way to make money.

Because Ady Barkan is determined to make the world a better place until his dying breath, he is doing something truly remarkable. Few among us would have the selflessness to make our last trip a journey to the U.S. Capitol to testify before Congress, writes Shaun King.

HE WAS TREATED ABYSMALLY BY THE GOP REPS ON THE COMMITTEE OF COURSE

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Ady Barkan Is Making What Is Likely His Last Long Journey — and it’s to Testify in Support of Medicare for All

Imagine you were told that you could make one last flight, one more long trip, before you died.

When a person dies, No More Deaths/No Más Muertes volunteer Scott Warren believes, some extra-physical element of them remains, dwelling in the place where they passed. In the last six years, Warren has communed with the dead no fewer than 16 times in the desert outside Ajo, the tiny Arizona border town he calls home.
No More Deaths/No Más Muertes activist Scott Warren was charged with three felony counts of harboring and conspiracy for providing food, water, and a place to sleep to two undocumented men over three days last year. He could serve up to 20 years in prison. interc.pt/2DP9B7D (video: Laura Saunders)

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Scott Warren Worked to Prevent Migrant Deaths in the Arizona Desert. The Government Wants Him in Prison.

Thousands of migrants have died crossing the desert in Arizona. The U.S. government is prosecuting activists who try to save lives and recover bodies.

As in so many other episodes involving Erik Prince over the last decade, his involvement in the Trump-Russia scandal is a result of his relentless ambition, combined with his snake-oil salesmanship and his ability to gain entry to rooms with genuine power.

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How Erik Prince Used the Rise of Trump to Make an Improbable Comeback

Erik Prince now offers a complete mercenary supply chain: anything from military hardware to social media manipulation in partnership with Project Veritas.

Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children.