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Urgent: Act for insulin
US citizens: Support the
Insulin for All Act.
The name of that proposed law is badly formulated, since we don't want
everyone to take insulin! Most people don't need to.
The Capitol Switchboard numbers are
+1-202-224-3121,
+1-888-818-6641 and
+1-888-355-3588.
If you phone, please spread the word!
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US export terminals for natural gas
The US is building many export terminals for natural gas.
The excuse for them is the war in Ukraine and the short-term shortage
of available fossil methane, but they won't be finished until 2025.
After that, their owners will use them to lobby for permission
to extract more gas. |
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National reckoning about Iraq war
*It Is Time for a National Reckoning About the Iraq War.* |
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Tax-free retirement and inheritance accounts
The Tories are about to hold a vote on giving rich people permission
to put any quantity of money into a tax-free retirement and inheritance
account.
This would be a big tax cut for the rich. |
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Additional data on Wuhan live animal market
China has released additional data collected in the Wuhan live animal
market in the investigation of Covid-19 in December 2019. |
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Rwanda's prisons
The Tories still want to send all unauthorized immigrants to prison in
Rwanda. The US judges Rwanda's prisons as cruel and life-threatening,
and the general censorship (including imprisoning journalists) in
Rwanda makes it hard for people to push to change those conditions.
Look at how hard it is to change cruel prison conditions in the US,
where the press is mostly free; in Rwanda it must be impossible. |
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Large sums of money to restart Palisades Nuclear plant
A company that undertook to decommission the Palisades nuclear power
plant now seeks large sums of money to restart it instead.
The campaign to oppose this asserts, based on the plant's history of
problems, that the plant is decrepit and particularly unsafe. |
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Australia's proposed indigenous voice to parliament
Does Australia's proposed indigenous voice to parliament carry "authority"?
This article describes the proposed agency in sufficient detail to
show that it would communicate indigenous concerns directly to
parliament (that is, give advice) but would not have authority over
parliament's decisions. The description seems clear to me. If I were
Australian, I would vote yes to that.
However, the article says that changes demanded by right-wingers would
have "reduced the authority of the voice’s advice." The use of the
word "authority" in regard to it makes me wonder if there is a crucial
misunderstanding at work here — if the words "advice to parliament"
would be interpreted as implicitly giving the voice some sort of
authority over some aspect of parliament's decisions.
That would make non-aboriginals second-class citizens in Australian
democracy.
If I were Australian I would want an explanation of what "authority"
means in this context. Is it a real issue or just a poor choice of
words? |
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Urgent: Continue participation in ERIC
US citizens: call on state legislatures to continue participation in
ERIC, an organization of states which help each other reconcile their
voter lists. |
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Tories assessments of disabled
The Tories say they will end their inhumane policy of having
bureaucrats arbitrarily disbelieve doctors' assessments that some
specific person is disabled and needs specific kinds of state aid.
Such policy decisions can transform a capable and independent person,
perhaps employed despite a disability, into a helpless cripple. That
change often entails no alteration in the person in question: a change
in how society treats per is enough.
Is this really the cruelest social policy of modern times? I don't
know. Australia's off-shore immigration prison, which the UK is
planning to imitate, could give it strong competition.
Don't believe this promise until it really happens. Tories often say
they will make a change for the less cruel and then don't actually do
it. |
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Urgent: Investigate Speaker McCarthy
US citizens: call on the House Ethics Committee to investigate Speaker
McCarthy for giving Tucker Carlson the complete security video of the Jan 6
attack. |
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