Almost 1/3 of all Americans now have medical debt, as most medical insurance plans push more and more of the cost onto the patient.

European countries' medical systems have been getting worse, too. A French friend told me that the medical system there is much stingier now — but it still beats the US by a large margin, even though it costs less.

I suspect that is due to the fact that the US operates mostly in medical insurance run by private companies, and most of them are unscrupulously greedy.

A study found that the reason why UK cops use tasers more often against blacks than against whites (it's a fact that they do so) is because they perceive a black as more threatening than a white would be.

Another cause is that they think of a taser as a way to "make people obey."

Biden made a rule that *all arms transfers to foreign governments be subject to rigorous and continual examination of the recipient’s record on the Geneva conventions and other global norms for conducting warfare.* But, in order to overlook the mass killing of civilians in Gaza, he is not following the rule in Israel's case.

*Fossil fuel phase-out [alpne] will "not avert climate breakdown without protections for nature."*

That means protecting *carbon sinks such as forests and wetlands.*

Republicans in Congress, investigating Hunter Biden, demand that he testify privately. He says that he will testify only if it is public.