US citizens: call on Congress to pass the Tobin tax (a tiny tax on financial transactions).

Congress and Obama are planning to make medicare pay doctors more, necessary because many doctors are refusing medicare patients, but the cost is being placed on patients.

One reason schools for non-rich Americans do a bad job is that they are not given enough money.

Although the schools in poor districts get too little, it still adds up to a large sum. This enables the plutocratist politicians to say, "Look how much money we've wasted on failing schools" as an excuse to underfund them even more.

The UK wants to show it is really serious about stopping modern slavery by sentencing perpetrators to life in prison.

Since it is an economic crime, such a heavy sentence is neither called for nor necessary. I'm sure most people would refrain from trying to enslave workers if they expected to be sentenced to five years in prison for it.

The crucial point is "expected to be". Even life imprisonment can't deter criminals if they are confident they won't be caught. To be effective in reducing enslavement, what is needed is a series of measures to put migrants on guard against enslavement, and to detect enslavement when it occurs. Also, changing laws that stop slaves from escaping, as the UK just decided not to do.

San Francisco thugs (prison guards, not police this time) forced prisoners to fight each other in order to bet on the results, on pain of being tortured.