US health institutions no longer dependable

Canada warns that US government institutions should not be trusted for medical advice.

I've urged my clinics and my state government to refer to something reliable rather than US institutions such as the CDC.

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Venezuelan oil focus

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US intervention in Venezuela

It is unlikely that the US intervention in Venezuela will have a simple resolution.

The wrecker and his henchmen have stated no plan for what to do next, which suggests that whatever they do will make an even bigger mess.

The US used to intervene militarily often in weaker countries in the Americas.

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Self defense

The US government is expected to claim that its attack on Venezuela was justified self-defense by pretending that smuggling of drugs — mostly not even from Venezuela — constituted making war on the US.

The US will surely veto any effort in the Security Council to oppose this act of US aggression. But demonstrating the weakness of the UN in restraining the great powers from making war will be nothing new. The UN's effectiveness for keeping peace has long been limited, and it will remain limited, but it is not zero.

What will be next? Maybe China will attack Taiwan.

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Urgent: Require environmental impact statements on data centers

US citizens: call on the US government to require comprehensive environmental impact statements from proposed data centers. Don't let them lock in fossil fuels.

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Urgent: Fully staff Federal Election Commission

US citizens: call on the corruptor to fully staff the Federal Election Commission.

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Urgent: Stop news media presenting oversimplified statements about inflation

US citizens: call on news media to stop presenting oversimplified statements about inflation and its effects.

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Arbitrary denial of US visas to five Europeans

The bully's henchmen arbitrarily ordered denial of US visas to five Europeans who campaign against online hatred. One of them, Imran Ahmed, lives with his wife in the US as a permanent resident, and they want to jail him and deport him. A judge ruled he is entitled to a court hearing about that.

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Robert Reich on American Bar Association and American Medical Association and saboteur in chief

Robert Reich asks why the American Bar Association and the American Medical Association have not taken action against lawyers and medical professionals who violate the ethical rules of their professions obeying the saboteur in chief.

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Working Americans and Medicaid

Most of the Americans that magats seek to kick off Medicaid for "not working" do in fact work, but the difficulty of proving this over and over will kick them off anyway.

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Israel doesn't bother to lie about killing journalists

*Israel used to lie about killing journalists; now it barely bothers to do so. What happened?*

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Banksy image on side of court building

*Court staff cover up Banksy image of judge beating a protester.* Banksy painted in on the side of a court building.

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(satire) Condoms cause autism

(satire) *RFK Jr. Warns Mistress That Condoms Cause Autism.*

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Right-wing extremists trying to eliminate equal rights

Right-wing extremists are trying to eliminate all vestige of the 20th century ideas of equal rights for non-whites, for non-Christians, and for women.

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Waymo driverless taxis during power outage

When part of San Francisco had a power outage, and traffic lights shut off, Waymo driverless taxis (which are not "autonomous") were commanded simply to stop at intersections. That was better than driving normally without traffic lights, but it blocked intersections and they stayed blocked.

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Crisis Intervention Training for cops

Crisis Intervention Training for cops, teaching them how to treat someone having a drug overdose, makes for a decrease in overall deaths from drug overdose.

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Cyrillic letters as "funny" stand-ins for other letters

Writing Cyrillic letters as "funny" stand-ins for similar-looking letters in the Roman alphabet is annoying to some people whose languages use that alphabet. And it has no wittiness to make up for that.

I too look down on mockery of the Cyrillic alphabet, or of umlauts. Not as strongly as Viv Groskop does, but enough to give me a low opinion of whoever did it. Likewise for mockery of Chinese characters and Indian alphabets. The first time someone did these things, it may have been clever, but nowadays it is merely silly and trite.

I was just a little more clever when I pronounced Toys-Я-Us as if the Я were Cyrillic — as Toys-Ya-Us. I wasn't the one who chose to write it that way, rather I mocked the company by pronouncing its name in the correct way which it probably did not expect.

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Plain text transfer of confidential documents

European institutions including hospitals and courts have been using a company called Zivver to transmit and save confidential documents and records. Investigators report finding that documents are sent to Zivver's server in plain text, and encrypted only on the server. That is fundamentally insecure and untrustworthy.

However, things have got worse. Zivver was recently sold to a US company, so now the US government can access all those documents, including before they are encrypted.

Making it even worse, the executives of that US company are associated with Israeli Intelligence. So the Israeli government can get that access too.

Europe should insist that purchasers of companies that hold European people's personal data be European companies, with no exceptions.

But this is a secondary issue compared with how bad Zivver itself did. Even before Kiteworks purchased Zivver, Zivver was offering fundamentally weak security, which no one should have accepted.

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Threats of military trial of Senator Kelly

Secretary of Politicized Justice Hegseth threatened a military trial of Senator Kelly (a former Navy officer) for reminding the US military that it is lawful to disobey an illegal order, but the Pentagon shows no particular interest in prosecuting Americans who committed war crimes in Vietnam.

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Maximum temperature reduction managed by carbon capture

A new report says that worldwide, the maximum [temperature] reduction that carbon capture and storage could manage for the atmosphere would be 0.7C, far short of the 5C to 6C industry and governments claim.

In effect, CC&S is a distraction that enables planet roasters to reduce the social pressure to reduce their greenhouse emissions.

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