| Time |
Event |
| 7:53a |
Giant pandas, Adelaide zoo, AUS
Don't pander to China's "panda diplomacy" — China uses these
cute-seeming animals to extract diplomatic
concessions that have
real importance.
I've posted
about this before.
China doesn't give or sell pandas,
it
only lends them for a limited time, and any offspring belong to
China. So China can demand concessions from countries that have
pandas and don't want to relinquish them.
Oddly enough, Taiwan has some pandas which it actually owns.
If Taiwan can produce some baby pandas, it could undermine
China's panda diplomacy.
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| 12:53p |
Boeing's quality-control errors, sources
Robert Reich: Tracing Boeing's frequency of bad manufacturing and maintenance to its use of
top-down management which prioritizes increased
profit over
all other goals.
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| 12:53p |
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| 12:54p |
Penury and child poverty, UK
Penury in Britain is spreading among the citizens.
It
is visible in malnutrition, theft of food, and homelessness.
The Tories have been ramping up the poverty, in small steps, for 13 years, but they managed to
disguise it. Now it is visible everywhere and cannot be disguised,
Corbyn would have found ways to so something about poverty — for instance, through
a
customs union with the EU.
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| 12:54p |
Climate conduct racketeering, conspiracy
*Public Citizen […] proposed the idea […] to
prosecute
[fossil fuel] companies
for millions of deaths due to climate crisis.*
*Each year, extreme temperatures take 5 million lives, while
400,000
people die
from climate-related hunger and disease.*
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| 12:54p |
Electoral deceit, Maduro govt, VEN
Maduro's government in Venezuela has barred an
opposition
leader from running in elections, after she won an election, and now has arrested her
campaign staff, accusing them of bizarre plots, more extreme than what
the wrecker does in the US.
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| 12:54p |
Climate disruption, upheavals, W. Africa
* A searing heatwave that struck west Africa in February was made 4C hotter and 10 times more
likely by human-caused global heating,
a study
has found.*
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| 12:54p |
Electoral deceit, Modi govt, IND
An Indian
opposition
party leader has been arrested on corruption charges one month before the election.
I can't say it is impossible that there is a valid reason for charges, but given Modi's general
tendencies. I think this is more likely to be a dirty trick.
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| 12:54p |
Weaponizing space, UN
*US and Japan push
for ban on nuclear weapons in space with UN security
council resolution.*
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| 12:54p |
Urgent: Gouging by Medicare Advantage
US citizens:
call on Biden
to end the gouging of private Medicare Advantage insurance plans.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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| 12:54p |
Urgent: Unlawful spying in Section 702
US citizens:
call on Congress
to reject the extension of dangerous,
unlawful spying under Section 702.
We may have already won this one, but it is not certain yet.
Signing this is still important.
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 12:54p |
Urgent: Condition military aid to Israel
US citizens:
call
on Biden to condition US military aid to Israel on Israel's allowing US humanitarian aid to
reach people in Gaza.
If you phone, please spread the word!
White House: +1-202-456-1111
and (TTY/TDD) +1-202-456-6213
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