Vancouver city councillor defends wearing controversial thin blue line police patch Former police officer Brian Montague was pictured wearing the patch during a walking tour in Gastown https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/brian-montague-vancouver-councillor-thin-blue-line-1.6691770
Monthly Archives: December 2022
no excuse for this
“Third air bag death confirmed, owners urged to get repairs “Stellantis and U.S. safety regulators have confirmed that an exploding Takata air bag inflator has killed another driver. “The company and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reiterated warnings to owners of 274,000 older Dodge and Chrysler vehicles to stop driving them until faulty inflators …
certainly this is the first and only time this has ever happened
Officer allegedly used law enforcement system to get woman’s name after he saw her shopping A Connecticut police officer is out on bond Wednesday after allegedly accessing the Connecticut On-Line Law Enforcement Teleprocessing System to illegally obtain information on a woman he saw while on an assignment, KTLA sister station WTNH reports. https://ktla.com/news/officer-allegedly-used-law-enforcement-system-to-get-womans-name-after-he-saw-her-shopping/
Cop15: Lula calls on rich nations to give more to protect Earth’s ecosystems
the USA has been the biggest contributor, we need to take the charge in helping to make things right. we’ve already proven that we can cut usage greatly. remember the beginning of the covid pandemic when pollution levels were historically low around the world? here’s a reminder. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/15/cop15-lula-calls-on-rich-nations-to-give-more-to-protect-earth-ecosystems-aoe
absolute legend
“MacKenzie Scott’s Unrestricted Gifts Transform the Organizations That Receive Them, Study Finds “As of last spring, MacKenzie Scott had donated nearly US$13 billion in unrestricted gifts to 277 nonprofit organizations, transforming the ways the grantees function and reshaping philanthropy in the process, a new study shows.” https://www.barrons.com/articles/mackenzie-scotts-unrestricted-gifts-transform-the-organizations-that-receive-them-study-finds-01670888181
Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl’s incurable cancer
“A teenage girl’s incurable cancer has been cleared from her body in the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine.” https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63859184
ReFresh Spot
“In December 2017, after the release of the No Place to Go report, the city opened a facility called the ReFresh Spot. Run by the non-profit Homeless Healthcare Los Angeles and funded through the mayor’s office, it contains seven toilets, six showers, and 24 washers and dryers. The space receives about 17,000 visits per month. …
almost 2000 people died
homeless on the streets of Los Angeles between April 2020 and March 2021. about a third from drug overdoses. oh the irony that ronald & nancy reagan are directly responsible for most of this statistic.
fascinating article
about scavengers and their important place in the health of the planet https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20221206-why-we-should-value-scavengers
he’s not wrong
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/dec/09/us-world-climate-collapse-nations