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PFAs identified

samedi 5 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Hundreds more products that contain PFAs have been identified.

Ban on smoking in apartments

samedi 5 décembre 2020 à 01:00

*San Francisco to ban tobacco smoking in apartments.* Even if you live alone, you will be required to go out to the street to smoke, to protect you from second-hand smoke. Even if you have mobility problems and can't actually do it.

Tobacco is very dangerous, and it is important to encourage people to quit. But this rule is extreme.

Definition of antisemitism

samedi 5 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Arab academics and writers condemn antisemitism, then point out the distortion in the IRHA's definition for antisemitism and why that definition must be rejected.

Federal Reserve has failed

samedi 5 décembre 2020 à 01:00

Ellen Brown: The Federal Reserve has failed to boost the economy. It lends to private banks, but they can't find very many businesses or individuals who want loans and could pay them back. Public banks can get away with a bigger risk level on each loan and still win through.

It seems to me that this is even more strongly an argument that we need more direct stimulus payment to individuals.

Blacklist backfires

samedi 5 décembre 2020 à 01:00

The Democratic Party's blacklist on campaign operatives that worked for progressive primary challenges seems to have backfired in an ironic way: with losses in the November election.