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Prison guards terrify prisoner

jeudi 13 août 2015 à 02:00

Prison guards in Alabama terrified a prisoner with a snake. One was fired, but got another such job nearby.

UK to have unofficial national ID card

jeudi 13 août 2015 à 02:00

The UK plans to make life intolerable for refugees denied asylum. Landlords will be imprisoned for renting to them.

UK citizens are already being denied housing in a pilot project.

In effect, this means the UK will have an unofficial national ID card.

Fossil fuel subsidies

jeudi 13 août 2015 à 02:00

G20 Countries Pay Over $1,000 Per Citizen in Fossil Fuel Subsidies.

Thugs

jeudi 13 août 2015 à 02:00

A thug in Alabama was recorded proposing to murder a "nigger", and was not even fired.

The US applies "zero tolerance" to students but bends over backwards to be forgiving to thugs.

Public campaign funding

jeudi 13 août 2015 à 02:00

Sanders advocates public campaign funding to take election power away from the oligarchy.

The US has public funding for presidential campaigns, but the amounts are small; plutocrats can give a lot more. Thus, plutocrat-supported candidates reject the public funding in order to accept the larger funds from plutocrats.

However, the government could provide so much funds, controlled by success in getting small donations from many people, that the plutocrats could not compete.