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Urgent: Ban tar sands oil export

lundi 25 juillet 2016 à 02:00

US citizens: call for a ban on tar sands oil export.

Obama says black lives matter

dimanche 24 juillet 2016 à 02:00

"Obama says Black Lives Matter. But he doesn't ensure they do."

Treatment of women as property

dimanche 24 juillet 2016 à 02:00

A Pakistani star whose videos outraged religious prudes refused a demand from her brother to stop making them. So he murdered her.

The patriarchal treatment of women as property of their families was found in many societies. Look up Verginia in Wikipedia for an ancient Roman example — but you don't see many of these "honor" killings in Rome nowadays. Most societies have reformed and at least partly shed their patriarchal past.

We should demand that Pakistanis and Pakistani expats condemn this practice firmly enough to make their compatriots feel ashamed of it.

Foia requests

dimanche 24 juillet 2016 à 02:00

A judge ruled that the US Department of Justice "uses aged computer system to frustrate Foia requests."

T-mobile trying to bribe customers

dimanche 24 juillet 2016 à 02:00

T-mobile is trying to bribe its customers to give up on network neutrality by making a special exception to data limits for the Pokemon Go game.

Since the data limits exist only for adjusting what they charge, there is no difference between "We will charge less for B" and "We will charge more for A and C."