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Film studio from Oscar-winning director aims to stir up ‘populist anger’ over climate crisis
Yellow Dot Studios produces short-form videos to inform with ‘genuine, righteous anger’ and ‘laugh-out-loud comedy’
 https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=S2XTGteritE https://iv.datura.network/watch?v=0O95kvMKPeQ Funny parody commercials tell the straight truth about global heating. Please don't watch them from YouTube itself. For instance, here's the URL for the parody Chevron commercial. And here's the one where a climate scientist explains the issue to a right-wing know-nothing.
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Diplomats fear growing power of Iranian factions that want nuclear weapons
Warnings that war in Gaza and Iran’s lack of cooperation on its nuclear programme are strengthening hand of hardliners
Glossary
 Concern that some factions in Iran want nuclear weapons. But there is nothing we can do to discourage that, not any more. The wrecker's aggression destroyed the non-nuclear deal and made it impossible to restart.
Foreign correspondents increasingly refused permits, visas, access in India
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on India’s administration to stop arbitrarily exploiting its procedures for issuing journalist visas and pe...
 RSF: Foreign correspondents increasingly refused permits, visas, access in India. This is part of the slow but steady move to eliminate democracy and human rights, which can be seen across the board in Modi's rule.
The Lever
Shadow Landlords Strike Back
Backed by real estate money, Gov. Kathy Hochul refused to make public the secret, problematic companies that own a wide swath of New York.
 New York Governor Hochul gets funds from big investors in Manhattan real estate, and modified a public records law to let them continue to conceal their identities from the public.
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Tens of thousands of pro-Palestine protesters march through London
Attenders reiterate call for ceasefire in Gaza and condemn PM’s comments linking protests to ‘extremism’
 A large protest in London condemned the bombardment and siege of Gaza and demanded imposition of a cease fire. The speakers rebuked the Tories who had baselessly and arbitrarily claimed that protesters were "extremists", seeking to justify repression of these protests.