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Reports of torture of male prisoners in Olenivka prison

mardi 9 août 2022 à 22:48

Anna Vorosheva was a prisoner in Putin's Olenivka prison, and reports on the torture done to male prisoners there. As for female prisoners, they were not tortured but were treated degradingly in many ways.

The article excuses the Putin forces of setting off an explosion a week ago, inside the prison, which killed around 50 prisoners. If Putin keeps refusing investigators access, it will be his word against the satellite photos; but refusing access is a reason to disbelieve his word.

Fake news about leftest Kenyan politician

mardi 9 août 2022 à 22:48

* Special [UK Foreign Office] unit spread fake news about leftist [Kenyan] politician, Oginga Odinga, seen as threat to British interests in 1960s.*

Ruling on refusing emergency contraception

mardi 9 août 2022 à 22:48

A judge ruled that refusing to give Andrea Anderson emergency contraception wasn't discrimination based on sex.

That conclusion makes sense to me: it didn't fall under the heading of "discrimination" because there is no reason to believe the pharmacist would have treated a male patient differently. In my view, it was an injustice for the pharmacist to refuse to fill her prescription, but it was a different kind of injustice.

There is something in the article I don't clearly understand. Did the jury award Anderson $25k in damages (under some other rubric), or not? If it did, that could be a very good outcome: perhaps sufficient to convince those pharmacies not to let this happen again. But if so, I'd like to understand the reasons for it.

*First-of-Its-Kind Greenwashing Lawsuit Targets Gas Giant for Methane Lies.*

lundi 8 août 2022 à 06:17

*First-of-Its-Kind Greenwashing Lawsuit Targets Gas Giant for Methane Lies.*

Actually, it wasn't what we normally called a "gas giant" — it was on the small rocky planet we inhabit.

The wrecker's officials approved plans for coal mining which failed to uphold environmental requirements.

lundi 8 août 2022 à 06:17

The wrecker's officials approved plans for coal mining which failed to uphold environmental requirements. Environmentalists sued, and Biden's officials defended the wrecker's plan.

Fortunately, a court ruled against the plans, but why defend those plans? Whether or not they were lawful, they were clearly bad.