The purveyors of American evangelical grievance politics have now set their sights on Australia's public health system. Can't tolerate anything but a for-profit healthcare system, even outside the U.S.
US pharma lobby pushes for tariffs yet again. Can Australia afford to keep PBS cheap? - SBS News
| SanAndreasX said: The purveyors of American evangelical grievance politics have now set their sights on Australia's public health system. Can't tolerate anything but a for-profit healthcare system, even outside the U.S. US pharma lobby pushes for tariffs yet again. Can Australia afford to keep PBS cheap? - SBS News |
Another reason why Canada does not want to become a fascist state. Public health system will be axed no doubt, as well as cheaper alternatives for regular medications. And the government negotiates maximum prices for medications through the PMPRB Patented Medicine Prices Review Board.
It would be nice if prescriptions were free here as well, but that's only for 25 and under and 65+ here. (with some restrictions)
University student suing Trump administration faces deportation
A Cornell University research student suing the Trump administration to stop deportations of pro-Palestinian foreign students has been ordered to surrender to immigration authorities for deportation.
The Guardian news reports that Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and The Gambia, first became aware he was being targeted for deportation when unidentified law enforcement officers came to his home seeking to detain him.
The visit took place just days after the lawsuit was filed.
In a statement published to social media, Taal’s lawyer, Eric Lee, said the government’s actions were unconstitutional.
“We are outraged, and every American should be too. We urge the population to defend the right to freedom of speech against the urgent threat of dictatorship by exercising that right actively and vigorously,” he said.
U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library
Expelled South African ambassador to the US says ‘cannot sacrifice the Palestinians’
Ebrahim Rasool, the South African ambassador to the US who was declared persona non grata by the Trump administration, has been greeted by crowds at the airport welcoming him home, with some admirers waving Palestinian flags and chanting “Free Palestine”.
“As we stand here, the bombing [in Gaza] has continued and the shooting has continued, and if South Africa was not in the [ICJ]), Israel would not be exposed, and the Palestinians would have no hope,” Rasool said after arriving in Cape Town.
“We cannot sacrifice the Palestinians … but we will also not give up with our relationship with the United States. We must fight for it, but we must keep our dignity.”
US President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month cutting all funding to South Africa, which has filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention in its war on the Gaza Strip.
Rasool speaks to journalists after his arrival at Cape Town International Airport
Deport everyone who dare speak up
Mahmoud Khalil’s wife says husband punished for pro-Palestine activism
In an interview with CBS News, Noor Abdalla – the wife of Columbia University student activist Mahmoud Khalil, who has been detained by the Trump administration due to his support for Palestine – says that her husband is being attacked by the United States government because he wants US support for Israel’s war in Gaza to end.
“It’s so simple: he just does not want his people to be murdered and killed he doesn’t want to see little kids’ limbs being [blown] off,” she said.
Asked about claims by the administration of US President Donald Trump that Khalil’s actions were “aligned” with Hamas, open-ended language that civil liberties advocates have raised alarm over, Abdalla said the claims were “ridiculous” and “disgusting”.
Abdalla, who is eight months pregnant, also described the moment her husband was arrested earlier this month.
“My husband was taken away from me in the middle of the night,” she told CBS News. “It was one of the most terrifying times of my life. I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anything scarier than that.”
Abdalla fears Khalil will miss the birth of their first child.
She said she has been forced to take on a role she never wanted, answering questions that she feels are often unfair, trying to change public perception, according to CBS.
“It gets offensive when you’re constantly having to say, ‘I’m not this. I’m not this’,” Abdalla said. “It kind of brought back a lot of things that I experienced growing up in the United States. In New York the other day, me and my husband were walking and someone said, like, called me a terrorist. So, it’s like constantly throughout my whole life. I think most Muslims in this country can relate to that. It doesn’t matter what I say; that’s what they think of me, and that’s what they’re going to think of me.”
Immigration lawyers say detention of Khalil part of troubling push by Trump administration
A US federal judge has ordered that Mahmoud Khalil be removed from an immigration detention centre in Louisiana and be brought to a court in New Jersey, closer to his home in New York City, in order to for him to continue his fight against the US government’s efforts to deport him.
Immigration lawyers who were interviewed in a CBS News report (on the arrest of Khalil) said that this is a new and very troubling trend being pushed by the administration of US President Donald Trump, using a technicality to essentially violate the First Amendment rights of those here in the United States, especially those who do have legal authorisation to be in the country.
Blackmail, the tool of the Trump administration
US education secretary says Columbia University ‘on track’ to recover funding
Linda McMahon says that the US university could have federal funds unfrozen if it continues to accept pro-Israel policy changes sought by the administration of US President Donald Trump.
“She [the university’s interim president Karen Armstrong] wanted to make sure there was no discrimination of any kind. She wanted to address any systemic issues that were identified relative to the anti-Semitism on campus,” McMahon said in a TV interview on Sunday.
Armstrong said on Friday that the university would cede to Trump’s demands, which include putting the Middle East studies department under “academic receivership”, placing it under greater outside control.
Asked if $400m in frozen grant funds would be restored, McMahon said things were on “the right track now to make sure the final negotiations to unfreeze that money will be in place”.
US alleges Columbia’s Khalil covered up his work for UNRWA
The Reuters news agency is reporting that the US government, in a court brief on Sunday, alleged that the Columbia University student withheld that he worked for the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in his visa application and claims that should be grounds for deportation.
UNRWA, which provides food and healthcare to Palestinian refugees, has become a flashpoint in Israel’s war. The US had previously halted funding to UNRWA after Israel claimed that 12 of the agency’s employees had been involved in the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7.
According to Reuters, the US court notice also accuses Khalil of leaving off his visa application that he worked for the Syria office in the British embassy in Beirut and that he was a member of the group, Columbia University Apartheid Divest.
Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent and a permanent resident of the US, is being held at a detention facility in Louisiana.
At the time of his arrest, the US government accused him of “leading activities aligned to Hamas”.
A judge has ordered Khalil not to be deported while his lawsuit challenging his detention, known as a habeas petition, is heard in another federal court.
Some background
In 2022, Mahmoud Khalil immigrated to the U.S. on a student visa to attend SIPA. Khalil married his wife, Noor Abdalla, in New York in 2023 after a seven-year long-distance relationship. Abdalla is a U.S. citizen and a dentist. Khalil then received a green card in 2024.
Between June and November 2023, Khalil worked as a political affairs officer with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in New York.
Israel started its smear campaign against UNRWA early 2024, then moved to oust UNRWA in the second half of 2024, all based on no/fake evidence. The US however was all to eager to stop funding UNWRA since early 2024.
Anyway Khalil hadn't even worked for UNWRA yet when applying for a Visa. And for his green card, he worked for UNWRA in New York...
As for his British government work:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/13/mahmoud-khalil-columbia-british-government-work
A detained Columbia University graduate threatened with deportation after the Trump administration claimed he poses a risk to US foreign policy is a former employee of the British government who was extensively vetted before working at the embassy in Beirut.
Andrew Waller, a former British diplomat who worked with Khalil at the UK office for Syria, a diplomatic mission housed inside the British embassy in Beirut, described Khalil as a thoughtful individual and highly valued colleague during his government service.
“This is a naked example of the US administration arresting someone for their political opinions, and I think the British government should be exercised about this,” he said.“He is a former British government employee who was vetted and well liked.”
This sets an even more dangerous precedent if the Trump administration gets way with his deportation.
But Her Emails!
Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 24 March 2025
WASHINGTON—The White House is narrowing its approach to tariffs set to take effect on April 2, likely omitting a set of industry-specific tariffs while applying reciprocal levies on a targeted set of nations that account for the bulk of foreign trade with the U.S.
President Trump has declared his April 2 deadline to be “Liberation Day” for the U.S., when he will put in place what is called reciprocal tariffs that seek to equalize U.S. tariffs with the duties charged by trading partners, as well as tariffs on sectors like automobiles, pharmaceuticals and semiconductors he repeatedly said would be enacted on that day.
Those sector-specific tariffs, however, are now not likely to be announced on April 2, said an administration official, who said the White House is still planning to unveil the reciprocal tariff action on that day, though planning remains fluid. The shift was first reported by Bloomberg.
The focus of the reciprocal action now looks to be more targeted than originally thought, according to people with knowledge of the planning, though it will still hit countries that account for most of the U.S.'s imports.
The administration is now focusing on applying tariffs to about 15% of nations with persistent trade imbalances with the U.S.—a so-called "dirty 15," as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put it last week. Those nations, which Bessent said account for most of the U.S.'s foreign trade, will be especially hard hit with higher tariffs, said people with knowledge, though other nations could be given more modest tariffs as well.
Targeted nations are expected to be close to those laid out by the U.S. trade representative in a Federal Register notice last month, which directed commenters to focus on nations with trade imbalances with the U.S., like the G-20 nations and Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, the European Union, India, Japan, South Korea, Mexico, Russia, Vietnam and more, said a person with knowledge of the plans.
Though it will hit most imports coming into the U.S., the administration's "dirty 15" approach is still a narrower one than many observers anticipated when Trump ordered federal agencies to design reciprocal tariffs in February, directing them to evaluate trading relationships with virtually every U.S. trading partner.
White House Narrows April 2 Tariffs - WSJ
Trump Says Countries That Purchase Oil From Venezuela Will Pay 25% Tariff
See ya next week when Trump changes his mind once again because he doesn't have a clue what he is doing.
Usha Vance, energy secretary Chris Wright, and national security adviser Mike Waltz are in Greenland to threaten their sovereignty again.
Greenland leaders lambast US delegation trip as Trump talks of takeover - Reuters
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