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Informed Comment

Why Isn’t the Media Reporting on Trump’s Growing Dementia?

A few weeks ago, at a rally in Nevada, Trump told his followers that boat manufacturers are now required to use electric engines. He claimed that someone at a boat company in South Carolina told him, “It’s a problem, sir. They want us to make all-electric boats.” (There is no such requirement.)

Trump then said the South Carolinian warned him “the boat is so heavy it can’t float. Also, it can’t go fast because of the weight.”

Trump continued:

“So I said, ‘Let me ask you a question,’ and [the South Carolinian] said, ‘Nobody ever asked this question,’ and it must be because of MIT, my relationship to MIT — very smart. He goes, I say, ‘What would happen if the boat sank from its weight? And you’re in the boat and you have this tremendously powerful battery and the battery is now underwater and there’s a shark that’s approximately 10 yards over there?’

Why Isn’t the Media Reporting on Trump’s Growing Dementia? by Robert Reich | July 8, 2024 – 6:23am | permalink

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— from Robert Reich’s Substack

Israel

20 Striking Images of Protest Against Israeli Democracy Under Siege – Mother Jones

Since late January, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have been loudly protesting an impending judicial overhaul by the nation’s new right-wing government. The most controversial part of the proposal gives the Knesset, Israeli’s parliament, the power to overrule supreme court decisions with a simple majority vote, which means the nation’s top court would be unable to strike down objectionable laws. It would effectively, as one Israeli news report put it, “neuter” the court.

Opponents say the changes, if allowed, will “endanger the entire legal system” and cement the power grip of the ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who faces a corruption charge. (The Knesset already has approved another rule stating that a prime minister may only be removed from office for physical or mental unfitness.) Since the changes were proposed, Israelis have taken to the streets en masse to register their displeasure.

Source: 20 Striking Images of Protest Against Israeli Democracy Under Siege – Mother Jones

Israel

Common Dreams- HRW Says Israel Designed Entry Rules to Further Cut Off Palestinians From Outside World
Omar Shakir HRW

HRW Says Israel Designed Entry Rules to Further Cut Off Palestinians From Outside World

“By making it harder for people to spend time in the West Bank, Israel is taking yet another step toward turning the West Bank into another Gaza, where two million Palestinians have lived virtually sealed off from the outside world for over 15 years.”

Source: Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community | Common Dreams

COVID-19

COVID cognitive decline more widespread than thought, say researchers at Australia’s first long-COVID clinic – ABC News

COVID cognitive decline more widespread than thought, say researchers at Australia’s first long-COVID clinic – ABC News

COVID cognitive decline more widespread than thought, say researchers at Australia’s first long-COVID clinic – ABC News

team has found something startling.

Cognitive decline widespread

Around one quarter of the ADAPT study’s participants were experiencing noticeable cognitive decline a year after getting COVID.

Israel

Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation

Activists from several left-wing Israeli groups gather for a photo in front of a bulldozer ahead of a protest against the Homesh outpost, May 28, 2022. (Oren Ziv)

Jews protest like Palestinians but don’t get shot why is that?

In contrast to the actions of the radical left in the West Bank, however, only Israelis participated in this protest. “It is clear that if Palestinians tried to do such a thing, they would encounter live ammunition,” said Mills. “We are taking advantage of our privilege here.”

Source: Israel’s peace camp is taking up bulldozers to fight the occupation

Scott Morrison

Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

Scott Morrison

The ‘let it rip for Christmas’ COVID policies urged by Scott Morrison and Dominic Perrottet have come home to roost where they were always going to – on the elderly. More than 100 aged care homes are now in Tier 0 severe lockdown, the number suffering COVID outbreaks nearly doubling in a week. Rather than “opening up” for family Christmas, thousands of elderly Australians are confined to their rooms today, having a solitary Christmas lunch, denied all visitors, not even allowed to share the meal with their peers. On behalf of the distressed residents, their worried families and the shockingly stretched aged care workers, I invite the Prime Minister and NSW Premier to “stare down” the virus and take “personal responsibility” for a few weeks in solitary confinement, without a personal photographer for company. The tragedy of Christmas 2021 for the residents and staff in aged care facilities has been (almost) unreported.

Source: Aged spend Christmas alone, thanks to PM and Perrottet

Israel

Tamimi teen slipped into coma due to Israeli prison neglect | The Electronic Intifada

Dozens of Palestinian detainees have died due to medical negligence since Israel began its military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip in 1967.

via Tamimi teen slipped into coma due to Israeli prison neglect | The Electronic Intifada