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No guns for domestic abuse convicts

vendredi 17 juin 2016 à 02:00

Why being on a "watch list" should not disqualify a person from buying guns (or anything else).

However, there would be no such problem with barring those convicted for domestic abuse from buying guns, or continuing to own guns. That would have disqualified the Orlando murderer. It would also save lots of women from being shot by their spouses or lovers.

labor flexibility protests

jeudi 16 juin 2016 à 02:00

Tens of thousands protested the new "labor flexibility" law in Paris.

Once a state begins trying to compete with other countries to woo companies by allowing them "flexibility" to treat workers worse, it joins those countries in a race to the bottom -- exactly what plutocrats want.

The British elite

jeudi 16 juin 2016 à 02:00

The British elite call on Britons to reject the "European elite" so that the British elite can have full power over them.

A threat to leave the EU might be useful for Britain if done by a government led by Corbyn.

George Monbiot: the UK's plutocratic system is even worse than the EU's plutocratic system.

WHO Olympics conclusions

jeudi 16 juin 2016 à 02:00

WHO concluded that the Olympics probably won't cause Zika to spread more than it would otherwise have done.

Mass murder Orlando was hate crime

jeudi 16 juin 2016 à 02:00

Surveillance agencies prefer to present the Orlando murders as Islamist terrorism rather than as an anti-gay hate crime, because the former suits their agenda of control.

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