Adrienne Martin and Stephanie Petersen

US: Americans Know Where a Privatised NHS is Leading! (2.1.2026)

The Americans have only got themselves to blame (I exclude my US comrades who are ill and injured – if it were up to me – you would receive free healthcare NOW) – but we in the UK possess a working-class which fought a brutal World War to put an end to health poverty. Now, my US relatives (yes – they exist) – used to come to the UK to receive “free” healthcare until one of the UK governments put an end to that perk (my father’s sister married a US soldier stationed in the UK – and went to live in Seattle). Now, when a health issue hits, they have to sell a plot of land to raise the funds to pay for operations and treatments. However, just as in the UK – with a restricted NHS – we have to endure various health issues just because there is no money. We literally “save-up” our illnesses until we can no longer take the pain – or the malady becomes life-threatening. Even then, for many there is no avenue of treatment available. As usual, the workers carry-out all the labour, produce all the profit, and receive very little of the earned benefits. We die of starvation surround by an ocean of food, we freeze surrounded by endless houses, and we die of medical neglect surrounded by first-world hospitals stacked with the most advanced drugs and trained experts. Trained experts that receive huge salaries from the very workers they refuse to treat – due to (fascistic) governmental dogma!

US: Seattle Police Officer – Daniel Auderer’s – “Disgusting” Remarks on Indian Student – Jaahnavi Kandula’s – Death Spark Outrage! (16.9.2023)

“We have taken up the matter strongly with local authorities in Seattle and Washington State as well as senior officials in Washington, D.C., for a thorough investigation and action against those involved in this tragic case,” the Consulate General of India in San Francisco said in a post on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

The Seattle Police Department’s traffic collision investigation squad later reported that Dave struck Kandula at approximately 63 mph (101 km/h) in a 25 mph (40 km/h) area, and Kandula was thrown approximately 138 feet (42 meters).

In a statement this week, the police department said that the recording was identified by an employee “who was concerned about the nature of statements heard on that video.”

The video was sent to the city’s Office of Police Accountability “for investigation into the context in which those statements were made and any policy violation that might be implicated,” the statement said.

The King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is now conducting a criminal review of the crash.

Black History Month: Celebrating the Life of Wantez Jamel Tulloss! (2022)

A Chinese language sources states: ‘According to the video, at around 6:30 pm on January 31 (Monday), Amazon Engineer living and working in Seattle – ethnic Chinese Wang Shengnan [王胜南] (who is known in the West as ‘Emma Shengnan Wang’) was wearing a black jacket and KN95 mask whilst walking on the street with a shopping bag in hand. Wantez Tulloss – after first noting she is ‘Chinese’ – slowly approached Wang Shengnan from behind, dropped the bag he was carrying to get a better grip of the baseball bat he was carrying with both hands – before smashing Wang Shengnan across the back of the head! Wang Shengnan fell to the ground helplessly, blood flowing from her ears, and then Tullos ran away with his bag. Tullos kept hold of the bat as he brought himself a slice of pizza to celebrate what he had just done…