Immigrants in California are going without food and medical care for fear of being denied residency for accepting them.

Nepal tried to protect Nepalese women from effective enslavement as domestic workers in Persian Gulf countries by prohibiting Nepalese from going there for such jobs. But it didn't stop them, and made them even more vulnerable once there.

Nepal's embassy could give them new passports and fly them back to Nepal. But since Nepal is so poor, maybe cannot afford the flights.

Is there a chance or organizing ship they will take them to India, perhaps once a month? They might have to wait a few weeks on the ship, but it would be better than being stuck in Kuwait as a slave.

The world powers could make these Gulf countries change their policies, if they got together.

In a few decades, the problem may solve itself — those countries probably won't exist any more, due to global heating and sea-level rise. If we can stop them from exporting oil and causing global heating, those countries may stop hiring foreign workers.

Bloomberg raised funds for a Republican congresscritter in 2018.

Nils Melzer, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, explains how the legal process against him was rigged from the start and violated legal norms over and over.

Why he is concerned about this case:

The case falls into my mandate in three different ways: First, Assange published proof of systematic torture. But instead of those responsible for the torture, it is Assange who is being persecuted. Second, he himself has been ill-treated to the point that he is now exhibiting symptoms of psychological torture. And third, he is to be extradited to a country that holds people like him in prison conditions that Amnesty International has described as torture. In summary: Julian Assange uncovered torture, has been tortured himself and could be tortured to death in the United States. And a case like that isn’t supposed to be part of my area of responsibility?

Melzer also explains how the legal procedures against Assange in Sweden and the UK were run corruptly all along, violating all norms of justice.

He also explains painstakingly how the Swedish state fabricated charges against Assange, twisting what the two women actually said. Rather than pursuing "justice" for them — supposed "justice" which they did not want — the Swedish state only used them as an excuse for bullshit.

(satire) *the Nevada State Democratic Party announced Friday that it had addressed election security concerns by upgrading to a new system of electronic voters.*