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Obama's support to Clinton

mardi 2 août 2016 à 02:00

Obama says Clinton will be more of the same.

Right-wing Democrats, since Bill Clinton, have supported plutocratist policies such as business-supremacy treaties and assumed the working Americans that opposed them had "nowhere else to go". That worked because Republicans supported the same bad things, even harder.

Now that Trump says he opposes them, they have "somewhere else to go".

Since Trump has no scruples about lying, they are making a mistake in expecting him to sincerely oppose business-supremacy treaties. As his choice of Pence shows, he is happy to make a deal with the Republicans who support them. We have no idea what Trump would really do.

Debt collection

mardi 2 août 2016 à 02:00

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is planning to regulate how debt collectors can demand payment, and set up a way to contest the debt.

Contraception funds under threat

mardi 2 août 2016 à 02:00

A project to provide contraception to poor women around the world is running short of funds, because states are redirecting foreign aid to support refugees.

Most common age of a sex offender

lundi 1 août 2016 à 02:00

The most common age for someone to be labeled as a "sex offender" is as a teenager. So the system of "registered sex offenders" causes tremendous suffering, and most of them don't need to be "protected" from.

Having sex is normal behavior for teenagers. In the US, they may be labeled as "sex offenders" for life because of this. Then they are not allowed to go near children — so they can't live with their families any more.

Broken Britain

lundi 1 août 2016 à 02:00

Yes, Britain is broken — in particular, because of businessmen that get away with injustice. What enabled them to get away with it? Plutocracy.