LRADs and Sound Cannons Are NOT Safe. Here's How To Minimize Their Effects.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqIvak-4Ek&t=530s
If the police or military are aiming a LRAD at you, LEAVE THE AREA IMMEDIATELY TO PREVENT PERMANENT HEARING DAMAGE. Otherwise, here are some ways to minimize the effects...
Let’s be safe out there, protesters. Solidarity.
Doth the sinner repent?
Blair (remember Brown was his chancellor) loosened gambling laws, although to be fair, Brown was credited with killing off Blair’s super casinos. A small thing given the deregulation of gambling.
A ‘decent’ piece, but as a Scot I find it interesting he can't bring himself to mention the action our country has taken on child poverty or the effect it has had, limited as it is.
Apparently, this didn't go out, earlier...
Payment Processor: Thinking about how we might create an independent payment processor
https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/07/27/payment-processor.html
Roughing out a federated payment processor that can resist censorship, but lacks a huge piece.
#harm #letsfix #project
Since I need to do this manually, if anybody knows of a "third-party confirms a financial transaction" system, this might be doable.
Countries must prevent harm to the climate system and tackle fossil fuels to ensure the right to life.
"...The international court of justice (ICJ) said countries must prevent harm to the climate system and that failing to do so could result in their having to pay compensation and make other forms of restitution."
"The unanimous opinion covers a wide range of matters under international law. It says states are liable for all kinds of activities that harm the climate, but it takes explicit aim at fossil fuels. It says that a state’s failure to take appropriate action to protect the climate system from greenhouse gas emissions, including through the production and consumption of fossil fuels, the granting of fossil fuel exploration licences or the provision of fossil fuel subsidies, “may constitute an international wrongful act which is attributable to that state”.
"The court said a clean, healthy and sustainable environment was a precondition for exercising many human rights, such as the right to life, the right to health and the right to an adequate standard of living, including access to water, food and housing."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/23/healthy-environment-is-a-human-right-top-un-court-rules
#climate #UN #ICJ #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels #harm #consumption #reparations #restitution #justice #law #HumanRights #Pacific #RightToLife
https://www.europesays.com/2262604/ How green finance rules could harm NZ farming: Dr Jacqueline Rowarth #could #Dr. #facts #FARMING #Finance #green #harm #how #Jacqueline #NewZealand #NZ #rowarth #Rules
"According to the Invasive Species Council, about 75% of Australia’s invasive weeds started as garden plants." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/jul/06/gazania-daisies-invasive-species-council-australian-nurseries
#gardens #horticulture #industry #weeds #dumping #invasiveSpecies #regulation #consumers #Bellingen #Syngonium #Gazania #beach #coast #wildlife #harm
But the #legislation that #Republicans passed through the #Senate Tuesday stands apart in its #harm to the #budget, analysts say. Not only did an initial analysis show it adding at least $3.3 trillion to the #NationalDebt over the next 10yrs—making it among the most expensive bills in a generation—but it would also reduce the amt of #tax #revenue the country collects for decades. Such a shortfall could begin a seismic shift in the nation’s fiscal trajectory & raise the risk of a #debt #crisis.
Many class action lawsuits related to data breaches get dismissed for lack of standing when plaintiffs cannot show concrete injury or imminent harm. Or when they do allege concrete harm like fraud or IDtheft, they may have trouble showing it was due to that specific #databreach and not any of a gadzillion other breaches that have occurred.
In Webb v. Injured Workers Pharmacy, the lower court dismissed the suit because it didn't think the plaintiffs made a clear enough showing of tracing the harm to the breach.
The appellate court reversed and remanded.
After that, the case settled for more than $1M.
The sentencing of Cassius Turvey’s killers shows courts still struggle to deal with racism
"The brutal homicide of 15-year-old Noongar Yamatji boy, Cassius Turvey, by a group of white men revealed the racial schisms in Western Australian society. Turvey was walking home from school in October 2022 when he was abruptly beaten to death."
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https://theconversation.com/the-sentencing-of-cassius-turveys-killers-shows-courts-still-struggle-to-deal-with-racism-259541
#FirstNationsPeoples #children #violence #harm #RacialViolence #murder #SystemicRacism #cars #motorists #CarMinds #AustralianPsyche #Australia
IMPACT: 170 patients harmed as a result of Qilin’s ransomware attack on NHS vendor Synnovis:
https://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/national/25248263.170-patients-harmed-result-cyber-attack/
This updates numbers reported in January. HSJ article is behind paywall though.
Shamed New Zealand pornographer Michael Pratt speaks from US prison cell https://www.byteseu.com/1106194/ #20plus #admitting #after #agents #apologises #appearing #bayer #broken #causing #Cell #Charges #exclusively #faces #Finally #from #fugitive #Global #harm #herald #inside #into #Kurt #Michael #new #NewZealand #notorious #pedlar #porn #pornographer #pratt #Prison #reports #Scores #shamed #silence #speaking #speaks #special #spent #trafficking #tricked #US #Videos #where #women #years #zealand
Tik Tok - a shite mine
Who would have though it - but no one will be held responsible for the harm it causes.
"Bigger cars
mean bigger costs for everyone else. Larger vehicles – no matter how they are powered – generally impose bigger costs on society than smaller cars."
"Now, SUVs and light commercial vehicles comprise almost 80% of the market. Four in five new vehicles sold in Australia today are an SUV, ute, van or light truck. Drivers of SUVs and pick-ups should pay more to be on our roads. Here’s how to make the system fairer."
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https://theconversation.com/drivers-of-suvs-and-pick-ups-should-pay-more-to-be-on-our-roads-heres-how-to-make-the-system-fairer-252381
#cars #SUVs #roads #RoadDamage #harm #TrafficJams #congestion #Bellingen #SpacialJustice #pedestrians
Wood for the trees, Jonathan Green, November 2023
https://www.themonthly.com.au/november-2023/essays/wood-trees
#biodiversity #ecosystems #NativeForests #IndigenousPeoples #wildlife #EPBCAct #SamuelReview #extractivism #degradation #LoggingIndustry #mining #harm
National Environmental Standards
Create new, legally enforceable national environmental standards to deliver better environmental protection or continue with the big quarry model this term?
"Nature doesn’t negotiate. Nature is a system of systems, and if we take too much from it those systems begin to break down – usually irreversibly."
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https://theconversation.com/its-a-hard-job-being-environment-minister-heres-an-insiders-view-of-the-key-challenges-facing-murray-watt-256465
Samuel Review
https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/epbc/epbc-act-reform/standards
#EPBCAct #BiodiversityCrisis #Biodiversity #Ecosystems #FirstNations #restoration #nature #extractivism #harm #LoggingImpacts #mining #water #extraction #FossilFuels #ClimateDisruption #destruction #governance
Australia where the beach is just another road -
dangerous driving on beaches.
"Operation Sandstorm, police issued 272 infringements for speeding, drink and drug driving and defective vehicles over an eight-day period." >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/driving-fines-noosa-beaches-queensland-police-sunshine-coast/105263496
#CarsOnBeaches #beach #SUVs #drivers #traffic #harm #biodiversity #wildlife
Extreme heat - harm from fossil fuels
Will it ever be possible to sue anyone for damaging the climate?
"Cost of emissions from five major Australian resource companies more than $900bn, study finds"
"Five of Australia’s biggest fossil fuel producers could be on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars in damages after a US research team developed a method to link individual companies to specific climate harms and put a dollar figure to the impact. US researchers link BHP, Rio Tinto, Santos, Whitehaven Coal and Woodside Energy to specific climate harms over three decades."
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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/05/cost-of-emissions-from-five-major-australian-resource-companies-more-than-900bn-study-finds
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #FossilFuels #liability #litigation #AttributionSci #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #harm #Australia
“Splendour in the Mud”:
Climate breakdown and car dependency put an end to commercial drive-in music activities
A “report found 85% of festivalgoers had been affected by either floods, storms, heatwaves or the threat of bushfires at an event they had attended in the past 12 months.”
The “Splendour in the Mud” festival left tens of thousands of motorists bogged and stranded in torrential rain. Extreme heat from greenhouse gas emission is also eliminating the ‘drive-in’ model for outdoor mass gatherings.
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https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/apr/30/climate-crisis-could-kill-off-australian-music-festivals-report-warns
The end of the car dependent music festival? >>
https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/08/26/train-in-vain-the-end-of-the-car-dependent-music-festival/
#ClimateBreakdown #GHG #cars #traffic #congestion #CarDependency #FossilFuels #harm #DriveIn #MassGatherings #industry #festivals #NoisePollution #EnvironmentalDamage #soil #RiskManagement #PublicHealth #PublicSafety #outdoor #ExternalisedCosts #TheGreatOutdoors #ExtremeHeatwaves #floods #storms #splendour
If you have to be #shady or if you have to tell others to be quiet about your #abusive choices - you are an #abuser who wants to avoid #consequences for your own poor #choices with intentionally trying to #harm others(women under age 60 are their insecurity target, men are safer). It is on you & no one else.
“𝙾𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚎𝚜𝚗’𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚘𝚙𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚎 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚖𝚊𝚕𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚝𝚘 𝚍𝚘 𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚝 𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚖. 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝚊𝚋𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎 𝚘𝚏 𝚎𝚖𝚙𝚊𝚝𝚑𝚢 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚞𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚊𝚛𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚏𝚏𝚒𝚌𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝.”
― 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘔. 𝘉𝘭𝘰𝘸
