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Urgent: Penalize US contractors with a history of cheating

vendredi 11 juillet 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: Call on Congress to penalize US contractors with a history of cheating workers out of their pay.

Of course, there should not be so many contractors' employees — their numbers have been swollen due to privatization. Most of that privatization was perverse. We should reverse perverse privatization, moving the work back to civil service workers.

UK documents about its cooperation with CIA kidnapings

vendredi 11 juillet 2014 à 14:00

UK documents about its cooperation with CIA kidnapings were destroyed by "water damage".

They could be telling the truth. Maybe they flushed these papers down the toilet — that would certainly lead to "water damage".

Don't be shocked that the US spied on American Muslims

vendredi 11 juillet 2014 à 14:00

"Don't be shocked that the US spied on American Muslims. Get angry that it justifies spying on whomever it wants."

Turkey ordered to pay compensation to two journalists

vendredi 11 juillet 2014 à 14:00

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Turkey to pay compensation to two journalists that were imprisoned for a year with no grounds. However, they are on trial for publishing information about a supposed coup plot.

New UK nuclear plant at the cost of a tremendous subsidy

vendredi 11 juillet 2014 à 14:00

The UK plans to build a new nuclear plant at the cost of a tremendous subsidy, including buying the power for decades at an artificially high price.

I think the "compelling power" that won parties' support for this deal probably emanates from someone's money, but that gives me no clue about how.