Interesting Links for 27-06-2024

[andrewducker]

1. Frequent misconceptions about Assange

(tags:rape espionage JulianAssange )

2. Denmark to charge $100 per cow in world's first carbon tax on farming

(tags:co2 globalwarming tax farming cows )

3. One Year Since Germany's Nuclear Exit: Renewable Capacity Expands, Electricity from Fossil Fuels Significantly Reduced

(tags:nuclearpower germany electricity renewables )

4. Supreme Court wipes out anti-corruption law that bars officials from taking gifts for past favors

(tags:corruption USA )

5. Joe Biden pardons 1000s of veterans convicted under gay sex ban

(tags:LGBT gay USA politics law democrats )

Comments

[mountainkiss]

My first thought was “how will the cows raise the funds?”

#4 Well!

[lsanderson]

You certainly can't expect publish officials to live n our modern society on the paltry salary public officials are paid! Why, Supreme Court judges only make a couple hundred thousand a year, which is chump change to a good corporate lawyer. Take Judge Thomas, for example, where would he be without a few trips a year? In his free motor home?

[fanf]

Do they get a tax rebate if they feed the cows seaweed to reduce their emissions? 🤔

[calimac]

I trust you've seen John Oliver's new piece on the UK election and 14 years of Toryism. There was little in it that was new to me - even less to you, of course - but the way he puts it was hilariously straightforward.

I have just one question about it: in the clip of Cameron's speech, who is this guy? I don't recognize him, and Oliver doesn't say.