| Time |
Event |
| 8:18a |
Foreigners crackdown, PAK
Pakistan is systematically deporting Afghans that lack visas, even
people
who face repression
if sent back to Afghanistan.
There is no excuse for deporting people to where they face repression.
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| 8:18a |
Rail v truck, AUS freight
Australia's rail freight industry group calls for measures to shift
freight back to trains,
from trucks, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to avoid the other damage
that truck traffic does (to roads, and to lungs).
That could be wise — but the group snuck in a call to increase
efficiency by eliminating some safety precautions. I hope Australians
are aware of what such corner-cutting caused in the US — for
example, the disastrous
derailment in East Palestine
and the workers who have to
fight for sick leave.
If trucks get an unfair advantage from not being charged for their
environmental cost, adding charges or taxes should be a fine way of
moving freight back to trains. Investment in track and facilities are
legitimate methods, too. But the safety of the public and train
workers should not be treated as mere capital to invest.
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| 8:18a |
The "wellness" consumer force
*Wellness … presents collective social ills as
problems for the
individual to solve
through some alchemy of consumer behavior.* Some will benefit, by chance or the placebo effect;
meanwhile, the main effect is distractive.
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| 8:18a |
Urgent: ETHICS Act can ban congressional members' stock trading
US citizens:
call on Congress
to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks, by passing the ETHICS Act.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:18a |
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| 8:18a |
Jabalia massacre analysis
Analyzing
the Israeli attack
on the Jabalia refugee camp, which killed at least 195 noncombatants who were sheltering there.
The article compares what Israel says about the attack with other facts observed afterwards.
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| 8:18a |
Urgent: Keep int'l criminal out of int'l civilian diplomacy
US citizens: call on the Senate to
reject Elliot Abrams
as an advisor for US diplomacy.
Considering the sort of advice he has given in the past, it is a mistake
to suggest anyone listen to him now.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 8:47a |
Netanyahu invokes HAMAS
Arguing that a long-term peace between Israel and Palestine requires
defeating the extremists
on each side, whose reciprocal violence helps the other side's extremists stay in power.
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| 9:03a |
Manaus, Amazonas historic drought
Drought in the Amazon no-longer-rain-forest has
reduced the Rio Negro
to a trickle.
This endangers the human inhabitants. I expect it endangers the animals and plants, too. Humans are more
adaptable than most species, but the way they adapt to disappearance of their niches can be awfully destructive.
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| 9:48a |
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| 9:48a |
Urgent: Reject secret commissions on SS and Medicare
US citizens:
call on Congress
to reject secret commissions intended to cut Social Security and Medicare.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 9:48a |
Urgent: Hold medical insurance companies accountable
US citizens:
call on Biden
to hold medical insurance companies accountable for their practices in
Medicare Advantage, including predatory marketing tactics, treatment
denials, shrinking networks, and over-billing Medicare by billions of dollars.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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