(The Guardian) Volunteers in blue uniforms begin escorting Palestinian children past Israeli settlers to school Now the international observers are gone ‘The soldiers are acting differently, the settlers are acting differently.’
(The Guardian) Human Rights Watch blames police inertia and government failures for lack of justice for those affected
(the Guardian) tl;dr : immediate dramatic drops in residues of harmful pesticides
Ars Technica “Yes, @VFEmail is effectively gone,” VFEmail founder Rick Romero wrote on Twitter Tuesday morning after watching someone methodically reformat hard drives of the service he started in 2001. “It will likely not return. I never thought anyone would care about my labor of love so much that they’d want to completely and thoroughly …
The Guardian, Comment is free, by George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/12/eu-soviet-union-european-elections-george-soros “Europe is sleepwalking into oblivion and its people need to wake up before it is too late.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/10/plummeting-insect-numbers-threaten-collapse-of-nature More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, the analysis found. The rate of extinction is eight times faster than that of mammals, birds and reptiles. The total mass of insects is falling by a precipitous 2.5% a year, according to the best data available, suggesting they could vanish …
I definitely won’t be buying an HP printer again. https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html https://boingboing.net/2017/09/14/repeat-offenders.html Besides-which HP merrily profits from the Occupation. https://globalexchange.org/2014/03/04/hp-profiting-from-the-occupation/
The CNN site is always full of trashy clickbait headings. Today, “The princess who could be PM”, “Delta and Coke thought these flirtatious napkins were clever”, “Scary video shows bus flip hitting ice”, “Why Ariana Grande won’t be at the Grammy Awards”. Even when the story might actually be worth looking at, they sometimes use …
Though they’d generally like to be paid more, most Americans give their employers the benefit of the doubt when it comes to compensation, believing companies do what they can to pay employees well. https://qz.com/work/1542840/survey-most-americans-say-employers-do-their-best-to-pay-well/