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Power rather than health

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

*Wisconsin proves it: Republicans will sacrifice voters' health to keep power.*

Disregarding the law about cancellation

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Airlines are disregarding the EU law which says they must offer customers a refund when they cancel a flight.

Perhaps it is a good idea to offer them a compromise, but that compromise must be accepted by the public, not imposed by the airlines. The broader voucher program proposed in the article could be a good solution, but giving putting these customers at the head of the companies' creditor lists could also be part of the solution. That way, the customers might not get all they are owed, but at least the stockholders will be the first ones to lose.

5G threat

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Online misinformation about 5G wireless has inspired many acts of vandalism against base systems in the UK.

I've read that the safety of the frequencies used by 5G wireless has not been established. It should have been thoroughly tested before the decision to adopt those frequencies, but the uncertainty does not constitute evidence for the claim that it is dangerous.

The known dangers of 5G wireless are the same as the dangers of 4G and 3G: every portable phone helps the phone network track the users' movements (except the Librem phone when its radio is switched off), and every portable phone can be remotely converted into a listening device (except the Librem phone).

US banks and US oil companies

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Big US banks want to buy assets of US oil companies.

This could make it harder to crank those oil companies down to zero, because they won't need to go looking for funding.

However, it could also reinvigorate the boycott of JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citigroup — a boycott which started ten years ago to punish them for causing the recession.

Shortage of ventilators

vendredi 17 avril 2020 à 02:00

Canada (like the US) moved mountains to produce equipment for World War II. Why accept a shortage of ventilators, or any product, necessary to put an end to Covid-19?

With our governments in thrall to billionaires, one is compelled to suspect that the billionaires have a plan to profit by not making enough.