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ISPs have been cutting investment for 7 years

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

As major US ISPs threaten to stop investing if we don't let them discriminate on the internet, they have been cutting investment for 7 years.

US women that advocate gun control

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

US women that advocate gun control are persistently harassed and threatened by gun nuts.

Gluten-Sensitivity

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

A very careful scientist rechecked his own discovery of gluten-sensitivity and found the problem does not really exist.

Obama regime calls public-interest policies "trade barriers"

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

The Obama regime calls various countries' public-interest policies "trade barriers". These policies protect health, privacy and financial stability.

The US should adopt many of these measures, but you can't expect that to be done by someone who favors "free trade".

I sent a message to Senator Markey's office opposing the TPP, and received a message saying that he judged trade treaties in terms of gain or loss of US jobs. While that may have made sense back when trade treaties affected mostly the amount of exports and imports, it is absurd today. Nowadays the main effect of trade treaties on employed people is that they help the executives and owners get a bigger share and pay the workers worse. The treaties also attack our rights by abolishing public-interest policies and giving business more power. Finally, they undermine democracy by giving business lobbies an additional lever to use.

So I phoned his office and said the senator was too soft on trade treaties.

You can phone your elected officials, too.

Obama regime's approach to Snowden's reports

dimanche 18 mai 2014 à 14:00

The Obama regime's approach to Snowden's reports: "la la la I can't hear you."