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Sunak decries ‘intimidation’ by protesters amid row over chaotic Gaza vote
PM speaks out over MPs’ safety, saying it is ‘unacceptable’ for politicians to feel intimidated
2023: November - February Political Notes
 UK ministers accuse protesters of trying to intimidate MPs with threats. Indeed, a democracy must not tolerate that. Some senators reported that threats to their lives and their families' lives convinced them not to vote to convict the insurrectionist after his second …
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War and peace: those words are forbidden in Russia today | Elena Kostyuchenko
My mother plaits camouflage nets for soldiers, and when we try to talk about what’s happening in Ukraine we end up shouting, says Elena Kostyuche...
 A Russian journalist, exiled abruptly when Putin attacked Ukraine because she was reporting from there, describe how his repression in Russia is so intense that it tears apart families.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/retirement-crisis Sanders Report Warns Nearly Half of Older Americans "Have No Retirement Savings."
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People displaced by climate crisis to testify in first-of-its-kind hearing in US
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas
 People displaced by climate crisis to testify … Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hear how climate is driving forced migration across the Americas.
[2/2] … prohibition usually causes. However, a government that can succeed in blocking vapes being shipped in could succeed in blocking mifepristone being shipped in.
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‘No intention of stopping’: New Zealand online vape seller vows to ignore Australia’s new import ban
Health department rejects seller’s taunt ‘new rules don’t apply to us’ and points to ‘escalated enforcement action as appropriate’
 Australia is trying to crack down on the importation of vapes. A foreign seller that ships to Australia is defying the restriction. Prohibition of addictive dangerous drugs tends to cause various forms of harm. Which can be worse than the harm caused by the drug itself. However, this prohibition does not criminalize users, so maybe it will avoid the worst harms that …
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Wisconsin’s extreme gerrymandering era ends as new maps come into force
Although state is one most competitive in US, Republicans had been guaranteed control of legislature for over a decade
 Wisconsin's extreme gerrymandering era ends as new maps come into force.
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Hundreds jailed for coming to UK in small boats to claim asylum, says report
Study says prosecutions include children and victims of trafficking and torture
 The UK has jailed hundreds of refugees for traveling to the UK without prior approval, including victims of trafficking and torture. Their aim was to ask for asylum. This is part of a global tendency for countries to make it effectively impossible for people without plenty of money to ask for asylum there.
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112 dead in chaotic scenes as Israeli troops open fire near aid trucks, say Gaza officials
Israeli military denies shooting into large crowds of hungry people and says most were killed in crush or run over trying to escape
 http://www.dci-palestine.org/israeli_forces_use_palestinian_child_as_human_shield_in_gaza Israeli army firing at a crowd of hungry Palestinians near some aid trucks caused a total of 400 casualties. Israel says its soldiers never shot at the crowd, but witnesses there say people were shot. The Israeli army has a decades-long tradition of lying …