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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Extremely Muddled G.O.P. Logic Behind Moore v. Harper</strong> - In the oral arguments, anyway, it looked like the Four Seasons Total Landscaping of legal cases. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-extremely-muddled-gop-logic-behind-moore-v-harper">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Kyrsten Sinema and the Fantasy of the Political Lone Wolf</strong> - Surely there’s some electoral calculation behind the Arizona senator’s decision to leave the Democratic Party, but the timing is especially confusing. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/the-political-mystery-of-kyrsten-sinema">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Whom Do Credit-Card-Rewards Programs Really Reward?</strong> - The Durbin-Marshall bill targets a system of inflated fees that swell the profits of the country’s biggest banks. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/whom-do-credit-card-rewards-programs-really-reward">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The Big Potential of Karen Bass’s Homelessness Agenda</strong> - If all Bass does as mayor of Los Angeles is smooth out the absurdly parochial and bureaucratic nature of city politics, she will have achieved a major victory. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-big-potential-of-karen-basss-homelessness-agenda">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A Fraught Coming of Age in Ulaanbaatar, in “Snow in September”</strong> - Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s short film follows a teen-age boy through the troubling fallout from an intimate encounter with an older woman. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/screening-room/a-fraught-coming-of-age-in-ulaanbaatar-in-snow-in-september">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-vox">From Vox</h1>
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<li><strong>This DC party invite shows all the money to be made off the Ukraine war</strong> -
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Ukrainian servicemembers unload a plane carrying Javelin missiles, an American-made portable anti-tank missile, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 1. | Sergei Supinsky/AFP via Getty Images
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A Ukrainian Embassy reception, sponsored by America’s biggest weapons makers.
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The invitation said the quiet part out loud.
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The Ukrainian Embassy hosted a reception last week in honor of the 31st anniversary of the country’s armed services. Events like this are part of the social calendar of Washington’s smart set, with hobnobbing diplomats, think tankers, journalists, and US officials. Guests took photos with the Ukrainian ambassador. Even Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley <a href="https://twitter.com/paulmcleary/status/1601186072452796416">showed up</a>.
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But there was something so overt it led some observers to laugh out loud at the gathering’s invitation.
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The logos of military contractors Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt & Whitney, and Lockheed Martin were emblazoned on the invitation as the event’s sponsors, below the official Ukrainian emblems and elegant blue script that said the Ukrainian ambassador and defense attaché “request the pleasure of your company.”
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“It’s really bizarre to me that they would put that on an invitation,” one think tank expert told me. “The fact that they don’t feel sheepish about it, that’s interesting,” explained an academic. (Both spoke on the condition of anonymity and regularly attend embassy events in Washington.)
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<img alt="The invitation to the 31st anniversary of the Ukraine’s armed services, held at the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington, DC." src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/czVFN7yOa3FE1_KAt6a4X6Pviuw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24293748/invitation.jpg"/>
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A copy of the invitation obtained by Vox.
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That Ukraine and those US military contractors have a strong relationship isn’t surprising. America’s allies and partners around the world bought some <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2022/10/us-arms-sales-rebound-back-to-50b-in-fiscal-2022/">$50 billion</a> in US weapons last year. These four companies produce some of the most high-profile missile defense systems and anti-tank missiles that President Joe Biden has sent to Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded in February. Neither is it surprising that Ukraine’s government, which says its country has already suffered hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, might not want to deplete its coffers.
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But the explicit sponsorship indicates how intimate major military contractors have become with Ukraine, and how much they stand to gain from the war.
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The invitation is a clear expression of how the war in Ukraine has been good for business. As Ukraine fights a defensive war against Russia’s brutal invasion, Ukrainians in Washington have been pushing for the US to send Ukraine more weapons. So far, President Joe Biden’s administration has committed a substantial <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/us-finalizing-plans-send-patriot-missile-defense-system-ukraine-officials-2022-12-13/">$19.3 billion</a> of military assistance since February.
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That aid has been integral to Ukraine’s success on the battlefield; their armed forces first repelled Russia’s advances and then <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/9/11/23347304/ukraine-russian-war-kharkiv-liberation">launched counteroffensives</a> that have <a href="https://www.vox.com/world/2022/11/9/23449707/kherson-russia-retreat-ukraine-war">retaken much of the territory Russia initially claimed</a>.
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No one wanted to talk about the party invite, however. A senior official from the Ukrainian Embassy in Washington confirmed that the companies’ logos appeared on the invitation but declined to speak on the record. They directed me to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense, which did not immediately respond. Lockheed declined to officially comment and deferred to Ukraine House, an embassy-linked entity that was also listed on the invitation. Raytheon also declined to comment. Emails to Northrop Grumman and Pratt & Whitney were not returned.
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Even some US supporters of Ukraine say the overt sponsorship is a bad look. “Sustaining American popular support is absolutely essential for Ukraine’s continued defense,” Matt Duss, a Carnegie Endowment for International Peace fellow who previously advised Sen. Bernie Sanders, told me. “So Ukrainian diplomats should probably think harder about how it looks for them to be throwing parties with the defense contractors who are making bank off of this horrible war.”
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$19.3 billion of US security assistance to Ukraine, briefly explained
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The Biden administration has ramped up military aid to Ukraine to an unprecedented degree. It’s had an <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/24/inside-the-us-effort-to-arm-ukraine">undeniable effect</a> on the battlefield.
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It’s also been good business for US defense contractors. Among the biggest winners are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman. Each of their stocks has climbed since Russia’s invasion, with Lockheed up <a href="https://www.google.com/finance/quote/LMT:NYSE?sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0iPTZnvz7AhVThIkEHZL4AxoQ3ecFegQIJBAa&window=5Y">about 38 percent</a> this year.
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Contractors have accelerated production to backfill the weapons the US has been sending to Ukraine. The Javelin missile, for example, has become a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/09/18/ukraine-war-meme-fundraising/">meme</a> in Ukraine. It’s so in-demand that Lockheed said it will go from manufacturing <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jim-taiclet-transcript-face-the-nation-05-08-2022/">2,100 a year to 4,000</a>. The Biden administration has been using what’s called a presidential drawdown authority to quickly source high-end weapons from American stocks and get them into Ukraine, and then use congressional funding to replenish those.
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“You’re making it possible for the Ukrainian people to defend themselves without us having to risk getting in a third world war by sending in American soldiers fighting Russian soldiers,” Biden <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2022/05/03/remarks-by-president-biden-on-the-security-assistance-to-ukraine/">told</a> employees at Lockheed’s Troy, Alabama, factory in May. “And every worker in this facility and every American taxpayer is directly contributing to the case for freedom.”
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Lockheed also produces<strong> </strong>the high-tech defensive systems that protect Ukrainian cities under Russian’s aerial bombardment. In appeals to Washington, Ukraine has sought Lockheed’s High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS). The US has sent Ukraine 20 of the missile defense systems and is working to produce another 18, which will cost about $1.1 billion, according to <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/industry/2022/12/02/lockheed-gets-himars-contract-to-replenish-stock-sent-to-ukraine/">Defense News</a>. Lockheed also makes another precision missile system that has been sent to Ukraine; last month, the US Army awarded Lockheed <a href="https://www.c4isrnet.com/industry/2022/11/14/lockheed-wins-521-million-order-to-replenish-us-army-rocket-stockpile/">$521 million</a> of contracts to refill its own supplies, which had been sent to Ukraine.
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“We are confident in long-term growth as domestic and international demand for a wide range of our products and services remain strong,” CEO James Taiclet <a href="https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/18/lockheed-martin-lmt-q3-2022-earnings-call-transcri/">said</a> on the company’s October earnings call.
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Raytheon, for its part, just won a <a href="https://www.defensenews.com/land/2022/12/01/raytheon-wins-12-billion-surface-to-air-missile-order-for-ukraine/">$1.2 billion contract</a> for six surface-to-air-missile systems. The company co-produces Javelin missiles and also makes Stinger missiles, which the US awarded a $624 million contract for in May — the first in two decades, according to the <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/44be1176-4fd9-4a15-bbd8-1f4dbd74fb3f">Financial Times</a>. “Over the first 10 months of the war, Ukraine has consumed as many Stinger anti-air missiles as Raytheon makes in 13 years,” the trade publication Breaking Defense <a href="https://breakingdefense.com/2022/12/at-this-years-reagan-defense-forum-defense-primes-not-tech-firms-took-starring-role/">noted</a>. Pratt & Whitney, an aerospace company whose logo also appeared on the embassy invitation, is one of Raytheon’s subsidiaries.
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In its most recent <a href="https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/25/raytheon-technologies-rtx-q3-2022-earnings-call-tr/">earnings call</a>, Raytheon CEO Greg Hayes described a “significant global demand for advanced air defense systems, especially in Eastern Europe, as the Russians and Ukraine conflict, unfortunately, continues.”
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The entire military industrial base has been facing supply chain issues resulting from the Covid pandemic and microchip shortages. But Northrop Grumman, a leading producer of ammunition, could stand to gain long-term from the ongoing war in Ukraine. “One is the growth that we’re seeing in munitions and particularly that demand which we expect to grow even more with the conflict in Ukraine,” CEO Kathy Warden <a href="https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2022/10/27/northrop-grumman-noc-q3-2022-earnings-call-transcr/">said</a> on an earnings call.
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Arming Ukraine is a good narrative for these companies, especially after coming under intensive criticism for selling bombs to countries like Saudi Arabia, which have reportedly been used to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/arms-deals-raytheon-yemen.html">kill civilians in Yemen</a>. And an embassy event for Ukraine is an opportunity for military contractors to show that they support the so-called arsenal of democracy.
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Military contractors support many research institutions and nonprofits in Washington, but that sponsorship tends to be more subtle. Their names appear in donor rolls or on the final page of a report — not on an invite below an ambassador’s name.
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“I’ve never quite seen this kind of public embrace of a country and the weapons contractors as is happening with Ukraine,” Bill Hartung, a researcher at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, told me. “I can’t imagine another situation where the contractors would sponsor an event for a country that they’re arming in the middle of a war.”
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“It’s one thing to support Ukraine to defend itself, which I think is certainly legitimate,” he added. “But I think the companies want to go beyond that. They want to cash in on this reputationally.”
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<li><strong>Elon Musk’s Twitter journalist purge has begun</strong> -
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<img alt="Elon Musk and Twitter" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/OJUczjlEu_39OZ2q35CmtaqJyzI=/0x0:4572x3429/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71756320/1243763385.0.jpg"/>
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Twitter CEO and owner Elon Musk
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The move seems connected to a debate over an account that tracked the whereabouts of Elon Musk’s jet.
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Twitter has suspended the accounts of several high-profile journalists, many of whom have been reporting on Elon Musk’s controversial takeover of the company.
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So far, the journalists who have been suspended include Donie O’Sullivan from CNN, Drew Harwell of the Washington Post, Ryan Mac of the New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, and Micah Lee of The Intercept. The sudden purging of journalists seems to contradict Musk’s stated commitment to<a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/16/23461217/elon-musk-twitter-fired-employees-free-speech-contradictions-joke"> protecting freedom of speech</a> on Twitter.
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“I was very baffled. I thought people were trolling,” said independent journalist and former Vox reporter Aaron Rupar, recounting when he started getting messages from other journalists telling him he’d been suspended. Overnight, Rupar lost access to his 790,000 followers. He said he received no warning before being booted. “You basically have to comply with the whims that change day-by-day of the owner of the platform, that seems pretty unsustainable. It almost seems kind of spiteful.”
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Several of the journalists who posted have been suspended, including Rupar, had recently posted <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/technology/twitter-private-jet-accounts-suspended.html">about the debate over Elonjet</a> — a Twitter account that tracked the whereabouts of Musk’s private aircraft using publicly available flight data. Musk has argued that the account was jeopardizing his physical safety and changed Twitter’s rules to ban the sharing of “live location information” in order to suspend the account. Elonjet’s 20-year-old account owner argued that the information about Elon Musk’s jets are already public — “If someone wanted to do something, they could do it without me,” <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/technology/twitter-private-jet-accounts-suspended.html">he told The New York Times</a>. Some journalists, such as Rupar, had recently tweeted out links to Muskjet’s alternate Facebook account.
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Twitter’s head of Trust and Safety Ella Irwin <a href="https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1603571850709045249?s=46&t=lWM43s6nSHt0UAFExmIWvw">told The Verge’s Alex Heath</a> that Twitter “will suspend any accounts that violate our privacy policies and put other users at risk,” and that “we don’t make exceptions to this policy for journalists or any other accounts.”
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On Thursday evening, Elon Musk replied to a tweet about the suspension of former MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann and said that he has given reporters a “7 day suspension for doxxing. Some time away from Twitter is good for the soul.” Doxxing is a term used to describe when people post private information about others online.
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Musk recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-shares-video-of-crazy-stalker-who-climbed-vehicle-carrying-moguls-son/">tweeted that a “crazy stalker”</a> followed a car carrying his young child, X, and jumped onto the hood of the car. Musk said he is taking legal action against the 20-year-old owner of the Elonjet account for allegedly jeopardizing his family’s safety.
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Many journalists on Thursday night expressed concern about Twitter’s decisions. The move could prompt more reporters or the media outlets they work for to leave Twitter and try using alternate platforms, such as Mastodon, Discord, and Post.
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“It’s very shady,” said Washington Post tech columnist Taylor Lorenz, who said her account hasn’t been suspended in this wave, despite worries from some of her followers that it might have been. “I don’t understand how news organizations are going to continue to use this platform if they are censoring journalists.”
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CNN and The New York Times both sent statements to Recode condemning Twitter’s suspension of their reporters accounts, and said they are asking the company for an explanation.
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“The impulsive and unjustified suspension of a number of reporters, including CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, is concerning but not surprising,” said a spokesperson from CNN in an emailed statement. “Twitter’s increasing instability and volatility should be of incredible concern for everyone who uses Twitter. We have asked Twitter for an explanation, and we will reevaluate our relationship based on that response.”
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“Tonight’s suspension of the Twitter accounts of a number of prominent journalists, including The New York Times’s Ryan Mac, is questionable and unfortunate. Neither The Times nor Ryan have received any explanation about why this occurred,” said a spokesperson for The New York Times in a written statement. “We hope that all of the journalists’ accounts are reinstated and that Twitter provides a satisfying explanation for this action.”
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Rupar said he tried to appeal his Twitter suspension using the platform’s automated system for doing so, but the link was broken.
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“I think it is a cautionary lesson here for outlets and individual journalists. It’s good to diversify to other platforms. It will have a chilling effect of anyone criticizing Elon.”
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<em>Peter Kafka contributed reporting to this story.</em>
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<li><strong>World leaders are racing to protect nature — but the definition of one word is tripping them up</strong> -
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Delegates confer on targets of the draft global biodiversity framework at the COP15 meeting in Montreal, Canada, on December 4. | Mike Muzurakis/International Institute for Sustainable Development
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Want to protect the planet? First, we need to agree on what “conservation” means.
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MONTREAL, Canada — Top officials from more than 190 countries are meeting this week and next to solve one of the world’s greatest and most consequential challenges: the rapid <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/10/12/23399105/biodiversity-loss-wwf-living-planet-index">decline of wildlife and ecosystems</a>. Saving them will protect the many benefits they provide, from cleaning the air and water to pollinating our crops.
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At the meeting, known as <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/12/4/23483960/cop15-biodiversity-conference-montreal-convention-on-biological-diversity">COP15</a>, delegates are expected to sign an important agreement called the Global Biodiversity Framework, which is like the <a href="https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/6/1/15724162/trump-paris-climate-agreement-explained-briefly">Paris climate agreement</a> but for nature. It includes more than 20 targets for countries<strong> </strong>to achieve within the decade, covering everything from pesticide use to farm subsidies.
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While delegates have had years to prepare for COP15 — which some of them say is the most important biodiversity meeting, ever — there’s a lot they still don’t agree on. How much money will rich countries give to developing nations? Should governments phase out subsidies that harm the environment or redirect them toward activities that help restore ecosystems? Should this comma in the agreement text go here or there?
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There’s even disagreement about something that forms the very basis of COP15 and the broader environmental movement: what the term “conservation” means.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Sk0dJT6PG9QuqYCwURwABEy6I4o=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24293284/370A1921.jpg"/> <cite>Mike Muzurakis/International Institute for Sustainable Development</cite>
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Delegates at the UN’s major biodiversity conference, COP15, try to come to an agreement on goals that countries should reach by 2030, on December 13 in Montreal.
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To some environmental advocates, conservation means that a given area restricts most human activities to maintain some historic diversity of species. If a park in New York state, say, has 100 kinds of birds from one decade to the next, that might be considered conserved land. But to others — including some Indigenous groups — conservation is more about the process of stewarding the land and their spiritual relationship to it. Under this perspective, “conserved” often means that people are using the land’s resources and have a deep respect for them.
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This debate matters today because a key part of the draft biodiversity framework is a goal to “conserve” at least 30 percent of all land and water on Earth by 2030 — a target known as 30 by 30. In the coming days, delegates are almost certain to sign it into law under a UN treaty called the <a href="https://www.vox.com/22434172/us-cbd-treaty-biological-diversity-nature-conservation">Convention on Biological Diversity</a>. But even then, questions will remain due to the ambiguity of the word: What will the law mean for Indigenous lands and other areas that fall outside of national parks?
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As nations look to conserve 30 percent of their land, what counts?
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The term conservation appears all over the biodiversity framework, but it carries the most weight in 30 by 30. That’s one of the highest-profile targets — and among the most controversial, partly because it’s not clear what will count toward 30 percent.
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Most environmental advocates agree that formal protected areas, such as national parks, count toward any measurement of conserved lands, according to Brian O’Donnell, who leads the Campaign for Nature, an environmental group advocating for 30 by 30. These areas — usually recognized by national governments — tend to restrict human activities like mining or construction that might harm the plants and animals that live there.
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There’s also another newer and somewhat confusing category of lands, known as OECMs, that advocates also agree should count toward the target. Short for “other effective area-based conservation measures,” these are areas that people use or live in, such as military bases, that have demonstrable benefits for wildlife or ecosystems. (Side note: There’s a frustrating amount of <a href="https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2022/11/17/23460525/nature-based-solutions-climate-change-cop27">acronyms and vague technical terms</a> in biodiversity policy, which is perhaps one reason why it can be challenging for delegates to agree on anything.)
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Together, protected areas and OECMs cover about 17 percent of all land and a bit more than 8 percent of the ocean, according to the World Conservation Monitoring Center (WCMC), a UN agency that manages a <a href="https://www.protectedplanet.net/en">global protected area database</a>. WCMC has long been the official indicator of progress toward spatial targets like 30 by 30.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/Q9OODBu0HY-WwPmqI3dWSrgPotw=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24294045/370A1714.jpg"/> <cite>Mike Muzurakis/International Institute for Sustainable Development</cite>
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A sign outside of the COP15 venue in Montreal.
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Delegates at COP15, on December 8 in Montreal.
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But some environmental experts are also pushing for a third category to count toward 30 by 30: lands managed by Indigenous territories and local communities. As much as <a href="https://www.iisd.org/articles/deep-dive/indigenous-peoples-defending-environment-all#:~:text=Indigenous%20lands%20make%20up%20around,effective%20stewards%20of%20the%20environment.">80 percent</a> of the world’s remaining biodiversity is on these lands, yet many of them are not considered formally “conserved” — largely due to an old-school view of nature as “pristine” land without people. (Some Indigenous territories could be considered OECMs if they demonstrate positive benefits for biodiversity; more on that below.)
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That view is now changing, which could make hitting the 30 percent target a whole lot easier.
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A simple solution to achieving 30 by 30: grant Indigenous people land rights
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Indigenous territories and local communities cover <a href="https://www.vox.com/22518592/indigenous-people-conserve-nature-icca">more than 30 percent</a> of Earth’s surface already, according to some estimates. So, in a sense, if you consider them as conserved, the land portion of Target 3 would already be met.
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“The demand from Indigenous peoples is for Indigenous territories to be recognized outright on their own terms,” Jennifer Corpuz, a Filipino Indigenous lawyer and key negotiator for the International Indigenous Forum on Biodiversity (IIFB), told Vox. “If we count those, we’re there. We’ve essentially reached the target.”
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This approach is appealing to Indigenous advocates who are <a href="https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/how-indigenous-people-are-fighting-to-stop-the-biggest-land-grab-in-history/">concerned</a> that 30 by 30 could come at the expense of Indigenous land rights — because the historic definition of conservation didn’t include people. On many occasions, they’ve been <a href="https://grist.org/global-indigenous-affairs-desk/how-indigenous-people-are-fighting-to-stop-the-biggest-land-grab-in-history/">kicked off of their land</a> in the name of wildlife conservation. (The current text of the biodiversity framework emphasizes the importance of respecting Indigenous land rights.)
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“When we talk about conservation, especially for Indigenous people, it’s a history of displacement, evictions, and rights violations,” Corpuz said. “It’s a very loaded topic with a very mixed history.”
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“Just give us those rights and we can continue to conserve these areas,” added Ruth Spencer, who works with a community organization in Antigua and Barbuda and is also a member of the IIFB. “Just leave us alone in our territories.”
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/_OOBH5yvkKYw1DqxUeoe40jQ4IQ=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24293301/GettyImages_474201671.jpg"/> <cite>Chris Minihane/Getty Images</cite>
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A member of a Maasai Indigenous group in Kenya.
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Still, O’Donnell says, to count Indigenous lands as “conserved” and as part of the target, there still must be some way to measure how those areas protect biodiversity. “Outcomes are essential,” he said. “Or else, what are we doing here?” (There’s a very wide diversity of lands governed by Indigenous people and local communities, some of which are more industrialized than others.)
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Some Indigenous advocates push back against that idea, Corpuz said, because measuring outcomes requires a lot of work and money. That’s one reason why Indigenous groups don’t want their lands identified as OECMs, she says, because it comes with a burden of scientific reporting (and the OECM framework often “obscures” Indigenous land ownership).
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This brings us to another thorny issue at COP15: If you’re going to require Indigenous groups, local communities, and developing nations to measure biodiversity (or restore their lands), you have to pay them for it, Indigenous advocates say.
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Measuring animals
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When environmental advocates talk about conservation, it’s also not always clear, exactly, <em>what</em> they are conserving — and for whom. Is it the plants and animals themselves, and if so, are some more important than others? And important why? Because they provide benefits to humans? Because they have spiritual value?
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Alongside questions of Indigenous land management, this is a key part of the 30 by 30 debate. As nations look to conserve more land, scientists emphasize that it must be the <em>right </em>30 percent. To many, that means ensuring all different kinds of ecosystems are represented by networks of conserved areas, from the tropical forests to the tundra, and that wildlife has a means to travel from one conserved area to the next.
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“When we talk about 30 by 30, we’re talking about a certain amount of habitat, but which places we pick are critically important,” said Paula Ehrlich, president and CEO of the E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation.
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<img alt=" " src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/-y_opQu3M6p3cQjCnKPLaUQ1brc=/800x0/filters:no_upscale()/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24293308/GettyImages_1242004489.jpg"/> <cite>Ernesto Benavides/AFP via Getty Images</cite>
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A paradise tanager in the Cordillera Escalera mountains natural reserve in Tarapoto, Peru, on July 11, 2022.
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Ultimately, COP15 and the biodiversity framework are unlikely to result in a single, clear definition of conservation. Yet the idea to include lands managed by Indigenous people and local communities as part of it has received a lot of support — revealing an important way that the environmental movement is changing.
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More than ever, Western ecologists are recognizing that they can’t continue to set vacant chunks of nature aside, partly because few natural landscapes are devoid of human life. “You can’t have 8 billion people on the planet without some consideration of spaces that are not developed for extraction or recreation but used by people,” said Andrew Gonzalez, a professor of conservation biology at McGill University. “We’re in them.”
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<em><strong>Clarification, December 15, 5:40 pm</strong></em><em>: In a previous version of this story, OECMs, or other effective area-based conservation measures, were described as a designation and a classification. They are not officially designated or classified; they are identified and reported within a framework.</em>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Big Bash League | Adelaide strikers dismiss Sydney Thunder for world record low score of 15</strong> - Adelaide Strikers were restricted for 139 for 9 in their 20 overs.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>FIFA picks Morocco to host Club World Cup in February 2023</strong> - The 2023 FIFA Club World Cup will be one of the last seven-team editions for continental champions with an expanded 32-team tournament planned to start in 2025</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Rehan Ahmed to become youngest England test player during final match against Pakistan</strong> - Ahmed will be 18 years, 126 days when he takes the field on December 17 in the third and final test, 23 days younger than the current record holder for England, Brian Close.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Azhar Ali set to retire from Test cricket after England series</strong> - The 37-year-old Azhar has so far scored 7097 runs from 96 Tests at an average of 42.49.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Russia launches new deadly strikes across Ukraine</strong> - Three people are killed and power is down in several cities as civilian infrastructure is targeted.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Lyon fire: Ten dead, including five children</strong> - Four people are in a critical condition after the fire in an apartment block near Lyon.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Boris Becker: Former Wimbledon champion released after serving eight months of prison sentence</strong> - Boris Becker is released from prison after serving eight months of his sentence for hiding £2.5m worth of assets and loans to avoid paying debts.</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Stability AI plans to let artists opt out of Stable Diffusion 3 image training</strong> - Artists must register and manually flag matched images in the LAION database. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904587">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Belkin makes MagSafe iPhone mount for desktop owners who want a better webcam</strong> - The first version of the mount was only sized to work with MacBooks. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904940">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Big Tech sues California, claims child-safety law violates First Amendment</strong> - Suit claims “guessing wrong” about young user harms could cost companies $20B. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1904923">link</a></p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</h1>
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He first explains the basics to his wife, and then says: “One thing is super important: Whenever you shoot something, you must claim it right away. Or else if someone else gets to the kill, they might claim it. So if you want deer meat in the fridge, make sure you’re quick to claim it.”
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Of they went to their deer boxes to see if some deer would show up. In a matter of minutes, the hunter hears his wife’s gun. He wants to make sure she claims her kill like he’s told her, so off he goes to investigate.
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He finds his wife arguing loudly with another man. By the time he gets there, the man is looking panicked, and has put both hands in the air, saying: “Sure lady, fine, whatever, if you insist, this is YOUR deer. But can I please take my saddle off your deer before you take it away?”
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I don’t know why, she said she wanted an ex box.
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A nun, badly needing to use to the restroom, walked into a local Hooters.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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The place was hopping with music and loud conversation and every once in a while ‘the lights would turn off.’
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Each time the lights would go out, the place would erupt into cheers.
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However, when the revelers saw the nun,the room went dead silent. She walked up to the bartender, and asked, ’May I please use the restroom?
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The bartender replied, ‘OK, but I should warn you that there is a statue of a naked man in there wearing only a fig leaf.’
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‘Well, in that case, I’ll just look the other way,’ said the nun.
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So the bartender showed the nun to the back of the restaurant.
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After a few minutes, she came back out, and the whole place stopped just long enough to give the nun a loud round of applause.
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She went to the bartender and said, ‘Sir, I don’t understand. Why did they applaud for me just because I went to the restroom?’
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‘Well, now they know you’re one of us,’ said the bartender, would you like a Drink?’
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‘No thank you, but, I still don’t understand,’ said the puzzled nun.
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‘You see,’ laughed the bartender, ’every time someone lifts the fig leaf on that statue, the lights go out.
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Now, how about that drink?”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/orgasmic2021"> /u/orgasmic2021 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zn7mc5/a_nun_badly_needing_to_use_to_the_restroom_walked/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/zn7mc5/a_nun_badly_needing_to_use_to_the_restroom_walked/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What’s wrong with grown adults that regularly mess up they’re/there/their?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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Their stupid
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>A man walks into a bar.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF --></p>
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He sucks at limbo.
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