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FBI gag orders

mercredi 7 décembre 2016 à 01:00

A series of court decisions have made "national security letter" secret subpoenas less secret and easier to challenge.
We need to give the state power to subpoena specific information with specific grounds. To keep them from becoming oppressive, we must insist on narrow and specific subpoenas only, with concrete justification each time.

Trump suing to prevent recount

mercredi 7 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Trump has sued to prevent the recount in Michigan.
Trump is now the avowed enemy of free and fair elections.

Keeping jobs in the US

mercredi 7 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Trump's method of "keeping Carrier's jobs in the US" was to offer the company a tax subsidy.
As Sanders put it, the company "took Trump hostage and won" -- a victory over the US government.
We can't afford to pay thousands of companies to keep jobs in the US. We can afford to make them pay to move jobs out of the US.

Renouncing banking secrecy

mercredi 7 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Andorra has yielded to pressure and ceased maintaining banking secrecy for EU citizens.
It may still be a tax haven for rich Americans.

Foreclosures

mercredi 7 décembre 2016 à 01:00

Steve Mnuchin, the foreclosure king.
Several big US banks were guilty of fraudulent foreclosures during several years after the financial crisis.
It seems that Mnuchin's bank took that one step worse, buying up old mortgages in order to foreclose houses based on similar invalid justifications.