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FBI probe of Racial Justice Activists

mardi 15 août 2023 à 12:03

*Lawsuit Targets FBI Probe of Racial Justice Activists.*

San Francisco approved driverless taxis

mardi 15 août 2023 à 12:03

San Francisco approved driverless taxis for commercial service, ignoring objections that they drive over fire hoses and cut crime scene lines, and also delay various sorts of emergency vehicles.

They also do lots of surveillance. And since you can't hail one on the street, or get it with an ordinary phone call, they surely imitate Guber's injustice by identifying the customer and making per run nonfree software.

HCA hospitals pushing patients to hospice

mardi 15 août 2023 à 12:03

*Doctors and patient families say HCA hospitals push [patients into hospice].*

Staff are sent to convince patients, and those making choices for patients, that treatment is futile and they should give up on aiming for survival.

Businesses choosing health care

mardi 15 août 2023 à 12:03

Most US doctors are now employees of businesses, in many cases very large private-equity exploitationist businesses. And these businesses decide whether a patient gets to see a doctor at all.

The article's main topic is that some of the MD employees are responding to this by unionizing. I applaud that — but that won't necessarily help the patients.

It may not help the doctors at the deep level, because the corporate power that stops doctors form treating patients properly is unbearable to many of them. They quit, or they become mentally ill, and some commit suicide.

We need to restore management by people committed to medicine rather than profit, and likewise break up the large chains. But how?

One way is to establish a national medical system that will cut the profit out and thus provide medical treatment to everyone.

Food supply likely to be hit before 1.5C

mardi 15 août 2023 à 12:03

*Global heating likely to hit world food supply before 1.5C, says UN expert.*