Monday, June 13th, 2022

Time	Event
8:35p	Republican lies aims to drown out hearings A loud cacophony of Republican lies aims to drown out the hearings about the corrupter's attempt to steal the 2020 election. (Comment on this)
8:35p	"Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuel 'Gold Rush'" *Response to Global Energy Crisis So Far? A Planet-Wrecking Fossil Fuel 'Gold Rush'* that could make global heating disaster inescapable. *Oil and gas companies likely underreporting methane emissions leaks, new investigation shows.* (Comment on this)
8:50p	You can't sue border thugs The Supreme Court ruled that you can't sue a US border thug for injuring you, or for retaliating deviosly against you for filing a complaint. (Comment on this)
8:50p	Iran removing International Atomic Energy Agency cameras Iran is removing cameras installed for the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor nuclear processing sites. This means that the non-nuclear deal with Iran is on the verge of death. Iran is dealing it the final blow, but Biden's timidity shares responsibiliy for the failure. If he had cancelled the sanctions that the wrecker added, maybe the deal could have been made. Biden avoided a bogus criticism and instead brought on himself a real and important failure. (Comment on this)
8:50p	Former Bolivian president Áñez convicted Former Bolivian president Áñez has been convicted of leading the coup that removed president Evo Morales and sent him into exile. The US is accused of supporting the coup. (Comment on this)
9:35p	Starbucks CEO not going to negotiate in good faith with union The CEO of Starbucks said he will never negotiate in good faith with the union that now represents workers at hundreds of its cafes. (Comment on this)
9:35p	WTO prioritizes business-supremacy over Covid-19 medicine access *WTO Negotiations Prioritize Institution's Reputation Over COVID Medicines Access.* They seem dead set on cntinuing the patent and secrecy obstacles that prevent vaccinating everyone against Covid-19. The WTO is fundamentally bad because it is a business-supremacy treaty, designed to suppress democracy and give businesses power over over people and their democratic institutions. What gives rise to the WTO's repuitation? It is a battle between the plutocratists, driven by the profits of the companies that the WTO primarily serves, and the defenders of democracy who attack the WTO. I'm proud to be on democracy's side. The article falls into the trap of using the term "intellectual property," which was promoted by businesses to create a presumption of legitimacy for ten or more different laws that the WTO pressures governments to submit to. These laws all tend to be more or less plutocratist, but they are so different in their manner of operating that generalizing about them all makes it hard to criticize any one of them. Please join me in never using that term. (Comment on this)
9:35p	Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity *How will the White House ensure that powerful interests do not turn the Americas Partnership for Economic Prosperity "into another corporate-dominated, wildly unpopular trade exercise?".* The goal of "mobilizing private investment" sounds like an excuse for more neoliberalism and trickle-down Reaganomics. If that's what it is, we should kill the whole thing rather than allow that. The other goals seem good, more or less, but "building on the foundation established by our [so-called] free trade agreements" has to be bad. We must weaken or eliminate those business-supremacy treaties. (Comment on this)
11:20p	Film censored by extremists' bullying The film, The Lady of Heaven, that was censored by bullying in the UK was made by Shi'ite Muslims. The bullies that censored it were led by an extremist Sunni Muslim. The bullies used the film the way Republicans use abortion, masks, or discussion of queer gender roles, and the way some progressives use cancellation of people who don't toe the line -- as opportunities to show their power and make others afraid. (Comment on this)
11:20p	CEO rebukes tired pilots for refusing to fly Pilots are supposed to refuse to fly when they are too tired to fly safety. The CEO of Wizz Air rebuked the company's pilots for doing this "too often." Airline regulations should be changed so that that CEO is forbidden to be an executive in any airline. (Comment on this)

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