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US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones The Verge / Lauren Feiner / Mar 21, 2024 Surprised this wasn't posted yet

The way the Republicans dog walked him and always get what they want. Spineless pos

Germany's upper house, the Bundesrat, cleared the way to partially legalize cannabis on Friday. The law is supported by the government and had already passed in the Bundestag, but it could have been derailed by Bundesrat, which is made up of delegates from Germany's 16 state governments. Some representatives in the chamber argued about negative consequences of the law, and a motion on Friday to send the law to a mediation committee threatened to delay the enforcement of the law. However, the motion did not receive enough votes, clearing the way for cannabis to become legal on April 1. https://www.dw.com/en/germany-approves-partial-legalization-of-cannabis-from-april/a-68641043

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Prosecutors in Queens have added more alleged sex crimes to an already lengthy list of charges faced by gastroenterologist, Dr. Zhi Alan Cheng. The latest accusations, contained in a third indictment against Cheng, involve a 48-year-old woman who says, in November of 2021, she was sedated for a colonoscopy inside New York-Presbyterian Hospital Queens only to wake up and find Cheng sexually abusing her. https://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/queens-doctor-rape-zhi-alan-cheng-new-york-presbyterian/5225504/?amp=1 You can't trust anyone out there I hope his victims find peace and can learn to trust medical professionals again.

The affected livestock shared a pasture and pond with backyard poultry that had previously been infected. The first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in domestic livestock in the United States during the 2022-24 HPAI outbreak has been confirmed. The World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH) reported that neonatal goat kids on a farm in Stevens County, Minnesota, had been showing unusual neurological signs. That same farm was the site of a backyard poultry flock infection, which was confirmed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) on February 27. x

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From eonline.com So, ATRL, do you think this event was just a poorly planned disaster, or is there possibly a deeper, darker side to it all? P.S. While I'm here, can you guys change the colour for the prefix selection while making a post? It's nearly impossible to see on dark mode

#FreeHer

Time is passing like a solar eclipse! We're officially three weeks away from the "Great North American Solar Eclipse" in which some lucky cities across the US, Mexico and Canada will be able to witness the Moon casting a shadow on Earth, blocking the Sun completely during a few minutes. Have you bought your eclipse glasses yet? Where will you be watching from? Post your pics when the day comes, on April 8! Cities with 100% sun coverage: Find out start times and sun coverage percentage of your city: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/map/2024-april-8

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These transfers are classified as sales, but very few of them meet that definition in the conventional sense. The vast majority are funded through State Department grants. Biden made just two of these publicly funded sales to Israel public, and the only reason he did is because he had to. Section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (AECA) requires the president to notify Congress when a proposed arms sale exceeds a certain value. The notification threshold depends on the type of matériel (for “significant military equipment” it’s $14 million; for other military articles and services, $50 million; for military construction services, $200 million), but also the recipient. For NATO countries and South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and Israel, the notification thresholds for these three categories are considerably higher ($25 million, $100 million, and $300 million, respectively). While Biden is loud and proud about arming Ukraine, he prefers to arm Israel in secret. The quantity of sales since October 7 is case in point. By spreading his military support for Israel across more than one hundred sales, Biden kept pretty much all of them “under threshold” per the AECA, thereby avoiding congressional and public scrutiny. Biden might have picked up this trick from his predecessor. Donald Trump exploited the same loophole to dodge oversight on arms deals with Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, whose intense and indiscriminate bombing of Yemen at the time had created a direhumanitarian crisis. Keeping these transfers out of public view makes it easier for Biden to cast himself as Humanitarian of the Year in Gaza while going great lengths to help Israel destroy it. Biden’s series of food airdrops suggests he’s bravely trying to fix a catastrophe beyond his control. Administration officials perpetuate this narrative by insisting the president has no leverage over Israel. “There is a mistaken belief that the United States is able to dictate to other countries’ sovereign decisions,” State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller recently said. Full article: https://jacobin.com/2024/03/biden-weapons-israel-gaza-palestine