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Saturday, February 24th, 2024

    Time Event
    3:57p
    Name calling: terrorist, antisemite

    Distinguishing support for Palestinians from support for terrorism is the mirror reflection of distinguishing condemnation of Israeli government actions from antisemitism. Lobbying for Israel's policies campaigns to erase both of those distinctions.

    3:57p
    Universities rally for worker's unions

    *Twenty-five US universities face calls [by students, teachers and staff] to cancel Starbucks contracts [on account of its union-busting].*

    3:57p
    A national president and drug gangs, HND

    Former president Hernández of Honduras is on trial in the US for accepting bribes from leaders of drug gangs.

    His corruption was bad for Honduras, as corruption always is; but if the alternative was a destructive "War on Drugs", what he did may have been less harmful. But it would be better to legalize and tax the transshipment of drugs than to take bribes to look the other way.

    3:57p
    Frozen embryos ruled "children", AL

    A court decision has made in-vitro fertilization effectively illegal in Alabama, by ruling that the destruction of a frozen embryo constitutes "killing a child." As a result, to carry out IVF there is now too risky.

    This is the sort of lunacy that religion leads to. And if this decision stands, it would be a short step further to rule that abortion is murder.

    In addition, the world desperately needs to reduce the human population through humane means, so as to decrease the disaster that global heating is starting to produce. Discouraging IVF is a legitimate contribution to that. The good thing to do, if you want to raise a child, is to adopt one. That will not increase the world's population, and it will help someone who is otherwise likely to suffer.

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