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The US progressives liberals who voted for Biden as the lesser evil have a lot to explain.
Biden is over-seeing a new US practice of transferring asylum seekers and migrants expelled under public health order Title 42 by plane to southern Mexico without any opportunity to plead their asylum case.
“Removal from the US to southern Mexico, outside any official transfer agreement with appropriate legal safeguards, increases the risk of chain refoulement – pushbacks by successive countries – of vulnerable people in danger, in contravention of international law and the humanitarian principles of the 1951 Refugee Convention,” Matthew Reynolds, the UNHCR representative to the United States and the Caribbean, said in a statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/aug/11/us-migrant-flights-un-refugee-agency-concerns
Although not technically UBI, I think it is related
Instead of scrapping the furlough scheme at the end of next month the TUC is calling for wage subsidy experiment which would protect workers against recessions, a new wave of the pandemic or the transition to a green economy by having 80% of their wages guaranteed by the state.
Despite all those reassuring diplomatic soundbites we got from the US press releases, US officials are now preparing for Kabul to fall “within 90 days”
Greek Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi warned of a possible refugee crisis.
https://www.dw.com/en/afghanistan-us-warns-kabul-could-fall-within-90-days-live-updates/a-58827143
America, the land of litigation.
But the UK legal system has an equally notorious reputation of being overly-expensive for the poor to use.
“The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid…” George Bernard Shaw.
Call it what you will…agroecology or regenerative farming but there is no denying that industrial Big Ag is being challenged.
It is a lot more than vegan versus Meat-eating
There are already more than 1,700 organic farmers across the UK registered with Soil Association Certification, covering almost half a million hectares of farmland. As well as using fewer pesticides, organic farms have more wildlife and store more carbon in their soils, reducing climate emissions.
David Boies, the lawyer of Virginia Giuffre, said, Ms Giuffre intends to send a message to rich and powerful men that the alleged behaviour “is not acceptable and that you cannot hide behind wealth and power and palace walls”.
A very big OOOPs…of course, I meant Randy Andy
Many believe the Royals no longer have a privileged existence in the UK. They are attempting to dupe us into thinking they are just ordinary people like Harry and Meghan.
I wonder why Andrew’s ex has been invited to Balmoral
Does Saudi Arabia do the work of Israel?
A court in Saudi Arabia has delivered verdicts against 69 Palestinians and Jordanians, handing jail terms of up to 22 years to some in a wave of arrests by Saudi authorities on a group of long-term Palestinian and Jordanian residents in the kingdom on alleged links with an unnamed “terrorist” group.
Hamas condemned the sentences handed out on Sunday, calling them “unjust” and saying those sentenced had done nothing to harm Saudi Arabia.
We shouldn’t always overlook the role of individuals.
Some CEOs have messiah complexes that they believe they can solve the problems of capitalism. Are they servile servants to the system or genuinely hold that they possess sufficient power to steer policies.
The connection between food production and global warming is clear.
Bill Gates uses his philanthropy to advance his own beliefs and to manipulate governments to follow his ideas.
https://socialistbanner.blogspot.com/2021/08/the-real-green-revolution.html
I note that I did not see on the BBC website and the Guardian does not feature it as a lead headline that Prince Charles is now being sued by Virginia Giuffre for his sex with her when she was under the legal age of consent.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/aug/09/virginia-giuffre-sues-prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein
Silence is complicit in the cover-up
As to be expected, capitalism is not charged with being culpable but the blame being put down to “humanity”
We can expect using human beings as the scapegoat will be the strategy of the corporations…you and I will be the culprits, not the CEOs
The IPCC report is out and the blog’s response
https://socialismoryourmoneyback.blogspot.com/2021/08/it-is-your-future.html
Blaming China for the climate crisis
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-57483492
Ignoring it was the USA who left the Paris Treaty
