Friday, January 5th, 2024

Time	Event
7:33p	Revolution against neocolonialism Arguing that several coups in Africa are a real revolution against neocolonialism. I don't have enough knowledge of those countries to come to a conclusion about this issue. However, it raises questions that the article does not address. For instance, all three of those countries are menaced by Islamist rebels, some of which are basically predatory kidnappers. France was supposedly going to help the governments suppress them, but that did not succeed. How do the coup governments plan to deal with this? What is their attitude towards Russian influence? Is this a replacement of one foreign sponsor with another -- geopolitics still at work? (Comment on this)
7:33p	Fake insurance entries US medical insurance companies typically have official lists of the clinics and doctors in their "network". These are often padded with lots of fake entries, which give the false impression that they give patients lots of choice. (Comment on this)
7:33p	Thug body cameras The wearing of body cameras by thugs in the US has mostly failed to make them accountable for their violence, partly because thug departments often edit the videos or conceal them entirely. (Comment on this)
7:33p	Racial bias in traffic stops Statistical evidence of traffic stops in California shows evidence of racial bias. In effect, thugs expect disprivileged groups to be committing crimes more often, but in fact that is not true. This bias is a serious injustice. I wish the article did not display its own bias by the 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 practice it. But I make exceptions for some articles that I consider important -- and I label them like this. (Comment on this)
7:33p	SpaceX The NLRB accused SpaceX of firing workers for criticizing Musk. (Comment on this)
7:33p	HAMAS leader assassinated Israel appears to have assassinated a HAMAS leader who lives in exile in Lebanon, and has hinted at the intention to do a lot more such. I don't see anything wrong with this. HAMAS is a murderous terrorist group, so killing its leaders (or its footsoldiers) is simply war. I am skeptical that Israel could defeat HAMAS this way, but there is nothing particularly evil about trying. The moral issue about Israel's war against HAMAS is that it is killing thousands of civilians in Gaza, and putting all the survivors in grave danger. That's what Israel must stop. (Comment on this)

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