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New home rental companies

lundi 25 mai 2015 à 14:00

New home rental companies package houses as a kind of stock shares. They act like bullies whenever a tenant is even a day late in paying rent.

Illegal to criticize

lundi 25 mai 2015 à 14:00

Ukraine has made it illegal to criticize past national liberation groups which fought against the Soviet Union, and fought sometimes for the Nazis. These groups helped kill tens of thousands of Ukrainian Jews.

Of course, any law making it illegal to criticize some group, person, belief or practice is incompatible with human rights. Making it illegal to criticize communism, or capitalism, are equally wrong.

Amtrak

lundi 25 mai 2015 à 14:00

Republicans are starving Amtrak to force privatization.

I will not campaign for Amtrak because I condemn its surveillance. In fact, I refuse to use Amtrak until it sells tickets anonymously and I hope you will do the same.

Jail banksters

lundi 25 mai 2015 à 14:00

Jailing banksters for their crimes is difficult, but Iceland proves it can be done.

If the system makes it too hard to assign responsibility for bankster crimes to individuals, we should change it to make that easy.

NSA meddling makes servers vulnerable

lundi 25 mai 2015 à 14:00

A vulnerability in HTTPS servers was due to NSA meddling that weakened some of the software.