Sunday, January 29th, 2023

Time	Event
10:47a	Military crimes, Myanmar *Rohingya and Myanmar coup survivors launch legal complaint in Germany against junta.* Their accusations include war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide (against the Rohingya, I presume). I can imagine a verdict of guilty, but in practice, what could the court do to a foreign government? There are already sanctions against it, but since the Burmese state has China's backing, I don't think more western sanctions would make much difference. (Comment on this)
10:47a	Carbon offsets, AU A climate defender urged Australian local councils to cut their own emissions, rather than spend millions on overseas carbon offsets.* Aside from a few peculiar exceptions, Australia's government seems to be very serious about reducing emissions. I hope it adopts a strict policy to limit the sale and purchase of carbon offsets, wildlife offsets, and any other sort of offset. (Comment on this)
10:47a	Big pharma, pricing Pfizer recently raised the prices of 100 drugs in the US. To wipe the bad taste of this from Americans' minds, its PR operation publicizes that it will provide the drug at lower price to some patients in poor countries, and that it is still limiting world-wide production. (Comment on this)
10:47a	Urgent: Facebook, Twitter, fact-checking US citizens: call on Facebook and Twitter to fact-check disinformation from the wrecker if they allow him to post at all. (Comment on this)
11:17a	Urgent: Stop SCAM PAC Act US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Stop SCAM PACs Act. (Comment on this)
11:17a	Urgent: Democracy in Israel US citizens: call on Biden to push back on the Israeli government's antidemocratic measures. (Comment on this)
11:32a	Urgent: Ban Roundup US residents: call on the EPA to ban Roundup. If you have disabled the page's JavaScript, you may get a blank response after signing. That does not mean anything is wrong;your signsature has probably been sent in properly. The blank screen has text that is rendered invisible by CSS; if your browser gives you a way to disable the CSS in the page (as Icecat does), that should make the text appear. (Comment on this)

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