2025: May - August Political Notes
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the Guardian
How three Uyghur brothers fled China – to spend 12 years in an Indian prison
Arrested in 2013 on India’s Himalayan border after fleeing Beijing’s ‘genocide’ against Muslims in Xinjiang, the siblings have been impriso...
2023: July - October Political Notes
 Three Uyghur brothers have been jailed in India for 12 years, without a trial, for crossing the China-India border unknowingly since there was nothing to say it was a border. The greatest danger to them is that India may expel them to China, which
The Intercept
ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
 Newly elected Representative Grijalva of Arizona accuses deportation thugs of spraying her with pepper spray, and a video supports the claim, but a magat official insists that it never happened.
the Guardian
‘The only idea around’: will Labour return to a customs union with the EU?
The desperate search for economic growth is pushing the party to confront the issue that dare not speak its name
2025: January - April Political Notes
 Labour is considering bringing the UK partly back into the EU by negotiating a customs union. Corbyn advocated a customs union with the EU when he was head of the Labour Party.
the Guardian
Trump’s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him | Dana Frank
Obama, Trump, and Biden stood by their man in Tegucigalpa for the eight vicious, destructive years he was in power
2016: July - October Political Notes - Richard Stallman
 *[The wrecker]'s pardon of an ex-Honduran president is shocking. So is the history of US support for him [in power].* Hillary Clinton encouraged the coup in which he stole the presidency. Presidents Obama and Biden gave him support, as well as the wrecker.
Trump’s Monument to Corruption
And one of the first things to do when sanity and legality are restored
 *The giant [White House] ballroom is [the corrupter's] monument to corruption.* Countries are donating to it as bribes for goverment favors.
the Guardian
DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons
Memo says the policy shift, which advocates call ‘reckless’, was designed to align with one of Trump’s anti-trans orders
 *DoJ moves to eliminate sexual abuse protections for LGBTQ+ people in prisons.* In effect, magats want to threaten those prisoners with rape.
the Guardian
Deceiving women into sexual relations ‘part of work’ for spycops, inquiry told
Whistleblower says senior managers did not forbid intimate relationships and advised him to use condoms
 About Peter Francis, former police undercover infiltrator of protest movements, who became a whistleblower to expose that antidemocratic practice.
The Intercept
ICE Denies Pepper-Spraying Rep. Adelita Grijalva in Incident Caught on Video
Heavily armed tactical teams fired crowd suppression munitions at the Arizona lawmaker and protesters, claiming she was leading “a mob.”
 Newly elected Representative Grijalva of Arizona accuses deportation thugs of spraying her with pepper spray, and a video supports the claim, but a magat official insists that it never happened.
the Guardian
Bombed Chornobyl shelter no longer blocks radiation and needs major repair – IAEA
Drone attack that Ukraine blamed on Russia blew hole in painstakingly erected €1.5bn shield meant to allow for final clean-up of 1986 meltdown site
 The Putin forces blew a hole in the Chernobyl reactor disaster shield, which was meant to contain radioactive materaials in the old wreckage. The damage makes it impossible to proceed to clean up the reactor.