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Chronic pain

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Saboteur Sessions wants people that have surgery, or chronic pain, to suffer without remedy.

Erasure of publications

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

The European Commission's plan for quick and "efficient" erasure of publications that are forbidden by censorship laws, and even those alleged to violate some terms of service, is just a hair's breadth away from arbitrary censorship without legal checks or limits.

"EU Commission’s Recommendation: Let’s put internet giants in charge of censoring Europe." The DMCA takedown system in the US has been used many times for political censorship. This system could be even worse.

Baltimore police damages

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Amazingly, Baltimore will refuse to pay damages for the lawsuits that criminal thugs are about to start losing. The thugs will be personally on the hook.

As they always should be.

Antisemitism in Poland

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Poland's law censoring statements that criticize "the Polish nation" for participation in the holocaust spurred present-day antisemitism in Poland, as well as more of the false, exaggerated criticisms of Poles during World War II that the law aimed to stop.

Occupied Poland was deadly hell, so we should not be surprised that some Poles responded with great heroism and others with great depravity. Jan Karsi's book, Story of a Secret State, presents the heroism. In this article we see Karski's presentation of the depravity. Alas, anti-Semitism provided an easy path to depravity.

Most nations with a long history have crimes in that history. The US has crimes at least as big as Poland's. To deny the crimes is self-delusion. Poles, like Americans, must recognize them and work to prevent future crimes.

Kushner's business interests

mardi 6 mars 2018 à 01:00

Kushner's web of business interests make him an easy target for foreign influence.

He's also an easy target for rich Americans, whose influence is even more dangerous. The days when rich and non-rich people had a common interest, what you might call a "national" interest, are far behind us.