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UK's contempt for disabled shown in art

samedi 9 avril 2016 à 02:00

Disabled artists in the UK use their art to show what the state's contempt for the disabled means.

Australian government spending and taxes

samedi 9 avril 2016 à 02:00

The Australian government found a cute way to shift the blame for insufficient spending and taxes onto the states — so taxes won't be raised, and hospitals and schools will continue to run short.

Control over a cultural practice

samedi 9 avril 2016 à 02:00

Indigenous people do not have a right to demand "return" of everything that they gave or sold to Europeans, nor a right to control all the ideas of their culture.

No one has a right to a monopoly over a cultural practice. An Australian indigene has no more right to enforce ownership over a style of artifacts, or all its examples, than an American has the right to enforce ownership over jazz, rock or rap. And people have the right to make fusions of these with other styles, too.

If you don't like those fusions, don't watch or listen to them.

Brazilians rally to defend against coup

samedi 9 avril 2016 à 02:00

"We won't accept a coup": Brazilians rally to defend president Rousseff even though they were not her supporters.

Mass surveillance in retail stores

samedi 9 avril 2016 à 02:00

Many physical retail stores have stopped ordering products for ordinary sale. Instead, they tell customers to order the product on the internet, then show a government photo ID to pick up the product.

This is a massive surveillance system. I won't use it, and I hope you will reject it too. Don't reward or encourage surveillance!

When I buy things, I absolutely refuse to give any personal information. The store has a right to my payment. If the store demands more, I say "no sale".