Notices by nedhamson (nedhamson@campaign.openworlds.info)

Tree-planting schemes threaten tropical biodiversity, ecologists say | Biodiversity | The Guardian

Monoculture tree-planting schemes are threatening tropical biodiversity while only offering modest climate benefit, ecologists have said, warning that ecosystems like the Amazon and Congo basin are being reduced to their carbon value. Amid a boom in the planting of single-species plantations to capture carbon, scientists have urged governments to prioritise the…

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/10/03/tree-planting-schemes-threaten-tropical-biodiversity-ecologists-say-biodiversity-the-guardian/

Antioch Police Officers Arrested in Scathing Indictment https://www.theroot.com/uh-ohhh-the-fbi-just-put-some-antioch-cops-in-handcuf-1850752000 (Northern California outside of San Francisco) Nine officers across two police departments in East Bay, Calif. were arrested by FBI agents Thursday after being indicted by a federal grand jury. Of those officers were the slimy Antioch cops exposed for calling Black people gorillas, n-words and all types of degrading insults in their texts.

Oklahoma Shuts Down Reparations for Tulsa Race Massacre Survivors https://www.theroot.com/oklahoma-shuts-down-reparations-for-tulsa-race-massacre-1850743202

Opinion: Elon Musk just X’d out the sharing, caring ethos of the internet once and for all – Los Angeles Times

Twitter's user-friendly blue bird got replaced by a user-frightening black X, a lot like the skull-and-crossbones on cartoon bottles of poison. Fitting, right? — Read on www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2023-07-26/twitter-x-elon-musk-bird-logo

http://nedhamsonsecondlineviewofthenews.com/2023/07/26/opinion-elon-musk-just-xd-out-the-sharing-caring-ethos-of-the-internet-once-and-for-all-los-angeles-times/

@another_katt @novid Was only person in a computer store wearing mask... at least no one seemed to mind :)

40% of US foodborne restaurant outbreaks traced to sick workers https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/foodborne-disease/40-us-foodborne-restaurant-outbreaks-traced-sick-workers (Me: Mask up and wash hans folks!!!)

Georgia School District Book Removal Violated Civil Rights https://www.theroot.com/the-georgia-school-district-that-removed-books-with-bla-1850462060

...The federal government believes the removal of these books may have led to a “hostile environment” and could have violated students’ civil rights. The district has agreed to provide “supportive measures” to students who were affected by the book removals...

‘Arcturus’ COVID Variant Spreading in U.S., Bringing A New Symptom With It – NBC Chicago https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/arcturus-covid-variant-xbb-116-cdc-pandemic/3119677/
While it does have a higher transmissibility rate than previous strains, the variant "Arcturus," also known as omicron subvariant XBB.1.16, stands out for bringing along a new COVID symptom - conjunctivitis, known as red or pink eye, which is often combined with itchiness.

Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian ambulance in north of the West Bank injuring a woman occupant https://english.pnn.ps/news/45881