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Birth trauma scandal
In the UK before Tory budget cuts, medicine for pregnancy and birth
was adequate, except for some disprivileged groups. Budget cuts have made it
generally
horrible, leading to injuries.
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Ex-Trump aide
A Maga Maggot joked about giving homeless people counterfeit money to
get
them arrested. "How broken must you be to do this and think it's funny?", someone commented.
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Age of streaming services
It is sad to see how little respect people get whet they complain
after companies changed them for mere access to a remote copy of
something, and then put
limits even on that access.
The author of this article bends over backwards to excuse companies for doing
something that is inherently abusive. He grants moral authority to the laws
companies have obtained so that they have power over people. He presupposes that
companies deserve whatever power they can get governments to impose.
When you get a copy of anything that has been published, no one is entitled
to the power to control whether, when or how you can use it. No one is entitled to
the power to make it disappear.
Digital
Restrictions Management (DRM) is an injustice and ought to be a felony.
When people defy that through forbidden sharing, don't call that
"piracy".
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Border force
Australian border thugs stretched the lax Australian law to demand the
passwords to
unlock travelers' phones.
That they do this arbitrarily, without court orders, is an offense
against the rule of law. That they pretend it is "random", which
clearly it is not, is a lie that shames the entire Australian government.
Of course, Australia is not the only semi-free country that does this, and non-free
countries such as China do far worse. That is no excuse for Australia.
It is amusing, though, to see the complaining passenger complain that
it is unthinkable to travel without a
device that will snoop on him.
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Zionist as a slur
The US left has largely come to define "Zionism" as the political philosophy of
the
apartheid system that Israel applies to occupied Palestine.
The danger is that valid condemnation of Israel's actual policies and
behavior may lead to a sort of anti-Zionism, the opposite or reversal
of each aspect of Zionism. This tends to transform the conflict into
one which admits of no resolution other than the destruction of one of
the two sides. That would be a horrible mistake.
I support the existence of Israel, which has the obligation (like every country) to
respect human rights and democracy, alongside a
state of Palestine which would (like every country) have the same obligation.
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Oil $7tn bigger since Paris
*Banks have given almost $7tn to fossil fuel firms since Paris deal,
report reveals.*
Almost all of those trillions has been invested in plunging headfirst
into making climate disaster worse.
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Insurance as a sham
*[Life] insurance companies in Australia are fighting for access to
these test results.* The tests show
how
likely a person is to die from some cancers.
It is obvious why insurance companies want these data: to charge more to people who
have the harmful gene variants. The reason that practice is harmful is not so obvious
but it is important: life insurance is presumed as part of the state social safety
net. If you have dependents, you need life insurance.
Life insurance was developed back in the day when states hardly had a social safety
net. In a country with a good enough state system, life insurance becomes
unnecessary. That is the real fix.
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OSHA rules being blunted on worksites
US employers are required to protect workers from falls, which can be done with
standard methods. They are also required to report such incidents to workers'
compensation. But often
they
don't do either one, and it is hard to make them.
The US legal system is generally inadequate for enforcing workers' rights of whatever
kind. That includes union-related rights, the right to get paid one's wages, as well
as the right to proper safety measures. If the US enforced workers' rights against
their employers the way it enforces the laws that mainly benefit the rich, American
workers would, practically speaking, have far more rights.
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Urgent: Global minimum tax on billionaires
US citizens: call on Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to endorse a
global minimum tax on billionaire wealth
ahead
of the G20 summit.
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Gaza pier rolling trucks of food
The US-built pier in Gaza
has
begun operating, but it lacks the capacity to replace the land crossings that Israel has now blocked.
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