Detroit is planning to evict 1/7 of its population for not paying property taxes. They are too poor to pay.

This surely has some relationship to the bankruptcy of Detroit and the state-imposed nondemocratic city management.

In effect, the State of Michigan plans to impose mass homelessness for the sake of the creditors. If lackeys like that could not be found to implement the policy, the creditors would be stymied. All these lackeys, from the appointed city manager to the functionaries that order evictions to the thugs that carry them out, should be sentenced to homelessness so people passing by can spit on them.

I admire the lady who threatened to strip her house of every usable thing if it were foreclosed. The next logical step would be to wreck foreclosed houses — or squat in them.

According to IMF data, the total economic benefit from "reduced trade barriers" amounts to about 5 dollars a year per worker. 43 cents a month, more precisely.

This benefit is the purported justification for knocking down wages and working conditions, and the suppression of democracy through international "trade tribunals".

These results confirm that we must demand abolition of the WTO and all the subsequent "free trade" treaties.

Most Muslim countries deny religious freedom to its citizens. Here's a list of countries

that forbid ceasing to be a Muslim:

Afghanistan, Bahrain, Comoros, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritania, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, UAE, Yemen.

In addition, the situation in Morocco is unclear; there is no law punishing this, but there is a fatwa threatening to kill.

Some parts of Northern Nigeria have adopted Muslim law. They are not supposed to apply it to non-Muslims, but it is not clear that Muslims there can safely stop.

For further reference.

I think countries should require immigrants and permanent residents to affirm, in a video for publication, that the principle of religious freedom applies to everyone, and that it includes the freedom to leave any religion as well as the freedom to join any religion.

The sloppy antirationality of New Age thinking proved to be fertile ground for dishonest business.

US drone attacks often kill civilians, but the state tries to duck the issue. When, by luck, one of the victims turned out to be an American prisoner of the Taliban, the US had to admit it, which shone a spot of light on this.

Drones plus secret policies for using them add up to secret wars.