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Human rights and brexit

samedi 14 septembre 2019 à 02:00

If Britain leaves the EU, the EU laws that guarantee many human rights will cease to apply there.

The article lists a few specific areas, but the problem is not limited to those. Many other human rights would also become vulnerable.

Death and poverty

samedi 14 septembre 2019 à 02:00

With increased inequality of wealth, the US suffers increased inequality in life expectancy. Poor people die younger.

Mental illness monitoring

samedi 14 septembre 2019 à 02:00

The bully wants to monitor everyone in the US diagnosed with mental illness (almost 100 million) in a vain effort to detect the few who will commit massacres.

It won't have much of the intended effect, but it is a great excuse for extending repression. Many of your friends and colleagues have a mental illness, but you don't know how numerous they are because they don't let on.

Harris and face recognition

samedi 14 septembre 2019 à 02:00

Kamala Harris declines to support a ban on use of face recognition by the government.

Instead she supports "regulation" that would make little practical difference.

Trump Hotel

samedi 14 septembre 2019 à 02:00

(satire) Trump Under Fire For Forcing Astronauts To Stay In Irish Trump Hotel While On Specialized Space Mission.