*"Bitter Blow" to Biodiversity and Health as EU Pulls Proposed Pesticide Rule.*

Private equity is gobbling up large parts of the US nursing home business. This puts patients in danger since private equity can amass lots of money, create an oligopoly, and get away with abuses.

The study suggests that "regulation may be needed." I will take a stronger stand and call for firm limits — perhaps even prohibiting private equity combinations from owning home nursing businesses.

I've also proposed prohibiting private equity from buying up lots of rental housing.

*World "not prepared" for climate disasters after warmest ever January.*

Unprecedented disasters have just occurred in California (extreme rains) and the Valparaíso region (wildfires entering a major city).

Julian Assange's final hearing is Tuesday, February 20. A rally that day at noon is at the State House in Boston. We're hoping Rep Jim McGovern will send a statement to be read by his staff and are asking other big speakers, and will also want our regulars to speak. We'll do our best to get press there.

Furthermore in Boston, on Saturday, February 10, starting at 11:00 there will be a two-hour "postcard party" for asking each the 441 members of the US House of Representatives to sign onto H Res 934 to drop the charges against Assange.

Julian Assange's final hearing is Tuesday, February 20. A rally that day at noon is at the State House in Boston. We're hoping Rep Jim McGovern will send a statement to be read by his staff and are asking other big speakers, and will also want our regulars to speak. We'll do our best to get press there.

Furthermore in Boston, on Saturday, February 10, starting at 11:00 there will be a two-hour "postcard party" for asking each the 441 members of the US House of Representatives to sign onto H Res 934 to drop the charges against Assange.