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False testimony against Assange

mardi 6 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Sigurdur Ingi Thordarson, a former Wikileaks volunteer, has admitted he had given the FBI false testimony making false accusations against Julian Assange.

The article shows how the US indictment against Assange repeats some of Thordarson's accusations.

He initially offered his fabrications to the FBI to try to get out of possible charges for embezzling money from Wikileaks. In 2019,the FBI gave him immunity from prosecution on other charges in exchange for this testimony against Assange.

The article reconciles the US assertion that the push to indict Assange started only under the bully, with the evidence that the efforts to indict Assange started while Obama was president.

Surprise medical bills

mardi 6 juillet 2021 à 02:00

New US regulations attempt to check the practice of surprise enormous medical bills.

Online tickets

mardi 6 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Some events sell tickets only online, and allow only the person that purchased the ticket to use it.

Aside from excluding people who can't personally purchase a ticket that way, this system does something even worse: it violates the privacy of everyone that attends.

Since you're not going to be compelled to attend, refuse!

Deep sea animals

mardi 6 juillet 2021 à 02:00

As people learn more about animals of the deep sea, we might start overfishing them without understanding that we are doing so.

Global minimum tax deal

mardi 6 juillet 2021 à 02:00

Oxfam denounced the global minimum tax deal because of its designed-in loopholes.