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If it was China then it would be seen as a serious security threat.
The Philippines is set to convert its underdeveloped Thitu Island into a major military logistics hub in the South China Sea, a plan that could give the United States a new beachhead.
Pro-Life?
The US has the highest maternal death rate among similarly developed countries and is the only industrialized nation where such deaths are rising.
In Texas the maternal mortality rate is above the US average, at 18.5 deaths per 100,000 live births. Black women in the state are “disproportionately” affected, accounting for 11% of live births but 31% of maternal deaths.
A state maternal mortality and morbidity review committee found discovered that nearly 90% of such deaths were preventable.
Texas kicks new moms off Medicaid after 60 days, leading to delayed and less preventative care.
Black mothers are three times more likely to die than our white counterparts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/30/texas-maternal-mortality-crisis-black-women-medicaid
A march against abortion and euthanasia drew in thousands in Croatia’s Zagreb on Saturday, with feminist groups staging smaller counterdemonstrations.
https://www.dw.com/en/anti-abortion-protesters-stage-a-walk-for-life-in-croatia/a-57713168
Organizers of the sixth annual “March for Life” said they were calling for “protecting every human life, with no discrimination” towards fetuses and the elderly.
Abortion is currently legal until the 10th week of pregnancy in predominantly Catholic Croatia.
“We also need the bankers and executives. Why? Because we have only 10 years to cut emissions by half. We cannot change the economic model in 10 years… If you can get private banks, central banks and financial institutions on side, you can cut the flow of fossil fuel investment very fast.”
Johan Rockström, one of the world’s most influential Earth scientists as director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
Still committed to reforming capitalism to fix the climate.
But now just nine years to do so.
“Rather than acknowledge the seriousness of our situation, we instead continue to participate in the fantasy of net zero. What will we do when reality bites? The time has come to voice our fears and be honest with wider society. Current net zero policies will not keep warming to within 1.5°C because they were never intended to. They were and still are driven by a need to protect business as usual, not the climate. If we want to keep people safe then large and sustained cuts to carbon emissions need to happen now. That is the very simple acid test that must be applied to all climate policies. The time for wishful thinking is over.”
https://theconversation.com/climate-scientists-concept-of-net-zero-is-a-dangerous-trap-157368
“I can’t breathe, sir. I can’t breathe,”
“Shut the fuck up.”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/27/manuel-ellis-tacoma-three-officers-charged-death
Weekly Worker has an article worthy of a read
https://www.weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1349/end-zionist-oppression/
It will make little difference but Michelle Bachelet, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, has said, “Air strikes in such densely populated areas resulted in a high level of civilian fatalities and injuries, as well as the widespread destruction of civilian infrastructure.” she added if deemed to be indiscriminate and disproportionate in their impact on civilians. “Such attacks may constitute war crimes.”
Also guaranteed to be ignored by the pro-Hamas left is her statement that the tactics of locating rocket launchers in densely populated civilian areas, and firing rockets which were indiscriminate and fail to distinguish between military and civilian objects, “..constitutes a clear violation of international humanitarian law…”
While we in Britain focus on our insular politics and await a future public enquiry the media ignores a WHO report on the global failings already published. A lengthy read but full of detail.
Hancock’s Half Hour – Dodging every direct question about sending the elderly to care homes without any testing
Some are saying that this is Biden’s search for WMD pretext.
The assumption being made is that the police unions can be influenced by being in the AFL-CIO.
There are thousands of different police forces in the USA with no central police union but as many as there are law enforcement agencies.
Has any police union, for instance, been sympathetic to the ‘defund the police’ campaigns?
We support unions because we recognise them as the necessary counter-weight to organised capital in determining wages and conditions. There is no doubt that police unions perform admirably at this. So did many of the mafia-controlled unions and the Communist Party-controlled ones.
I have offered a similar position as yourself
But I wonder if such an analysis applies today to the USA?
Listening to the committee proceedings. The Cummings evidence has crucified the Health minister, Hancock, as incompetent and deceitful. How can he survive?
As we all fully expected, Biden approves the sale of weaponry to Israel despite the appeals of some of his colleagues.
On May 21st, Boeing was secretly granted an export license for the sale of Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Small Diameter Bombs,— two kinds of laser-guided munitions that were used by Israel on Gaza.
3 July Morales’s plane, en route from Moscow to Bolivia, is forced to land in Vienna after other European countries refused it airspace, suspecting that Snowden was on board. Bolivian vice-president Alvaro Garcia says Morales was “kidnapped by imperialism”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/23/edward-snowden-nsa-files-timeline
