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Using TTIP to bully the EU

samedi 6 septembre 2014 à 14:00

The TTIP is providing an excuse for companies to bully the EU to accept GMO food imports.

Modern free exploitation treaties, since the one that created the WTO, are harmful by nature. Politicians that endorse the project of making a new free exploitation treaties have their hearts in the wrong place.

Policies that keep poor people out

samedi 6 septembre 2014 à 14:00

US inner-ring suburbs such as Ferguson are full of blacks, partly because other suburban towns have adopted policies to keep poor people out.

Zoning laws are a big source of injustice, and play a major role in the high cost of renting housing in the US. I think we need to invalidate some aspects of zoning laws in a broad fashion.

Data brokers

samedi 6 septembre 2014 à 14:00

A new data broker offers to pay people directly for their personal data.

Datacoup's existence by itself will not eliminate ordinary data brokers; something more is required. Supposing that something more appears, and other data brokers disappear, how much better will this be?

I would not give any data to the services that Datacoup works with. In fact, the only one of them I might consider using is Twitter, precisely because one doesn't have to give real personal data to it.

Therefore, I would not be interested in making such data available for a mere $10 or $100 or $1000 a month.

Israel plans more houses in colonies

samedi 6 septembre 2014 à 14:00

Israel has announced plans for 300 more houses in its colonies in Palestinian territory.

Children facing physical violence

samedi 6 septembre 2014 à 14:00

60% of the world's children face regular physical violence, in many cases from their parents.