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Urgent: Social Security Expansion bill

vendredi 5 juillet 2024 à 14:24

US citizens: call on Congress to pass Bernie Sanders's Social Security Expansion bill.

Prison-like asylum conditions

vendredi 5 juillet 2024 à 14:24

The UK's "living accommodation" for asylum seekers on former Wethersfield air base feels like a prison. They are permitted to leave, but it is so isolated that in practice it is not feasible for them to go anywhere useful to go or where people they know live.

This unprison was approved, despite its evident drawbacks, risks and dangers, because supposedly it would be cheaper, but it ultimately cost far more than the estimates. Much like a nuclear power plant.

Ultimately, how did the cost of housing asylum seekers there compare with the usual cost? What is the usual cost?

Boeing prosecuted with reported plea deal

vendredi 5 juillet 2024 à 14:24

The US is prosecuting Boeing for fraud, but reportedly is offering a plea bargain that will let it off the hook with little punishment.

Biden is encouraging somewhat more prosecution of lawbreaking corporations, but that does not go far enough. To restrain corporations effectively from dangerous crimes, we should prosecute the individual executives who decided to break them.

Presidential immunity

vendredi 5 juillet 2024 à 14:24

A more precise description of the new presidential immunity from prosecution: *core executive functions of the presidency have absolute immunity from prosecution, official acts of the presidency are presumptively immune, and unofficial acts carry no immunity.* However, in addition, *official acts cannot be used as evidence at all to bolster a criminal case.*

Each part can help a corrupt president to engage in conspiracies against laws and the Constitution, including those that the corrupter tried in 2020 and those he threatens to carry out if he wins or steals the presidency again.

The judge in the corrupter's trial for violating campaign finance laws (crimes he committed before he was president) has delayed the sentencing, to consider whether any of the evidence in the trial mentioned subsequent "official" acts.

*Sotomayor says, in stark dissent, ruling makes president "king above the law".*

90% Gazans displaced

vendredi 5 juillet 2024 à 11:42

The UN agency OCHA estimates that 90% of the people of Gaza have been displaced at least once by the fighting since October.

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