Thursday, June 29th, 2023

Time	Event
11:03a	Bogus Johnson disses establishment Bogus Johnson was judged to have violated the ministerial code by taking a private job with only half an hour's notice to the pertinent parliamentary committee. But this committee has no power to punish him. Starmer appears to have broken a similar rule when he left government service. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Bullshitter audio seems admissible Tape of the bullshitter gives the lie to his claims about a secret military document. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Kenyan slaves to SAU kafala system Kenyan women who survived domestic slavery in Salafi Arabia testified and demand Kenyan government action to protect Kenyans who work there. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Nursing strike hit UK legal glitch UK union-hampering laws imposed a deadline on the nurse union's strike vote so that it did not receive enough ballots for a valid result. I have not seen anything which explains just why or how that particular deadline was imposed, or whether the union could now try again with more time for members to vote. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Important Julian Assange update *Time is running out for Julian Assange. If MPs do not act, how can they say they value free speech?* (Comment on this)
11:04a	Doctors' strike, England *Senior doctors in England vote to strike over pay.* "Consultant" in the NHS means a specialist who takes overall responsibility for treating selected patients. Nothing like a "consultant" in business. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Prigozhin exiled to army base Prigozhin and some of his troops have arrived in Belarus. The rest of the Wagner troops seem to be in Ukraine. (Comment on this)
11:04a	High Court did check and balance states *Supreme Court Rejects Independent State Legislature Theory.* The "Independent State Legislature Theory" claimed that state legislatures could decide how to decide arbitrarily how the state's electoral votes would be cast in a presidential election, disregarding the state's constitution and immune to correction by the state's courts. This was obviously absurd, given that the state legislatures are created by the state's constitution. However, brazen right-wing legislators that sought to force a right-wing victory will try anything and see if they can get away with it. (Comment on this)
11:04a	Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act, UK The Pregnant Workers' Fairness Act has been enacted. *The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act requires that employers with more than 15 workers provide "reasonable accommodations" to people who are pregnant, postpartum or have a related medical condition,* (Comment on this)
11:04a	Gas wells leaking a decade, AU Fossil fuel company Santos owns "decommissioned" offshore fossil gas wells that are leaking bubbles of methane. It says that stopping these leaks is "not feasible." Is that really true, or is it a bogus excuse not to seal them? If it is true, this is all the more reason not to allow any more fossil gas wells to be made. (Comment on this)

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