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Medicare provisions
Biden proposes to increase the Medicare tax on the rich so as to provide
sufficient funds for
Medicare until 2050.
International pharmaceuticals
Big Pharma has convinced the US government to strive to the utmost
to
prevent Americans from buying prescription medicines
abroad to save money.
Medicines are more expensive in the US because the US governent has
a decades-long tradition of helping Big Pharma gouge. Their pretext
is that people would import opioids that way, but few people try that. |
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Police as thugs, Louisville, KY
An investigation found that the Louisville thug department has
systematic tendencies toward thuggish behavior,
especially towards
blacks.
The article linked to just above displays symbolic bigotry by
capitalizing "black" but not "white". (To avoid endorsing bigotry,
capitalize both words or neither one.) I denounce bigotry, and
normally I will not link to articles that promote it. But I make
exceptions for some articles that I consider particularly important.
That article is one of the exceptions.
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War crimes news
The US military is allegedly refusing to give the
International Criminal Court
evidence
of Putin forces war crimes.
That action is discreditable in itself, but the motive is even more
discreditable: to protect US soldiers accused of war crimes from
someday being prosecuted by the ICC.
The right way for a country to prevent its soldiers from being
prosecuted by the ICC is for the national government to prosecute
those war crimes. The ICC exists as a backup method for cases
where countries fail to prosecute their own war criminals.
The US supports the right side of this conflict, but it supports
the wrong side in others, including the war in Yemen.
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Political unconstitutionality, GA
Repression in Atlanta: protesters held a rally with music, about a
mile away from the site where Cop City is supposed to be built. Thugs
accused
them of "domestic terrorism" for acts of vandalism which there is
no evidence those people had anything to do with.
This reminds me of the Haymarket martyrs.
This calls to mind the absurd charges that fascists such as Putin
and Modi
use to crush dissent.
These thugs are sending a message: "We are fascists with the power.
We spit on truth, justice, and law."
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Freedom of speech
A 2020 article about the need to
defend freedom of speech
even for those
we oppose is just as pertinent today.
Do keep in mind that "the president" criticized in this article was
the bullshitter, not Biden.
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| 2:32p |
Interest rate macroeconomics
Robert Reich: raising interest rates is
not effective for reducing
spending
nowadays because most of the spending is done by rich people
who are profiting from the interest rate increases.
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Urgent: Denounce Exxon
Everyone:
denounce Exxon
for keeping its research about global heating secret.
People often mispronounce the name "Exxon".
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| 2:46p |
International pharmaceuticals by US mail
Big Pharma has convinced the US government to strive to the utmost
to
prevent Americans from buying prescription medicines
abroad to save money.
Medicines are more expensive in the US because the US government has
a decades-long tradition of helping Big Pharma gouge. Their pretext
is that people would import opioids that way, but few people try that. |