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Funds for disabled people

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The Tories' welfare system is so determined to cut the funds for disabled people that the assessors lie to fabricate an excuse.

The job of assessor would naturally attract people who enjoy callously saying no to someone in need, but that alone can't account for 250 reports that an assessor lied. Clearly the cause is pressure from the bosses of the companies that the assessors work for.

Privatizing a public activity is an invitation for a company to cut corners and do a bad job.

The Tories are making disabled people come in for interviews about putting them to work, even if they are too sick to get out of bed.

Fossil fuel health effects

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Fossil fuel use and global heating effects are injuring, even killing, millions of people.

Violence from fake news

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Fake news in Facebook has been used to stir up violence in several countries.

Interviews with Taliban

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Interviews with Taliban, which have been growing stronger for years. One says that many former prisoners of the Afghan state forces are so ashamed of the way they were tortured that they volunteer to be suicide bombers.

Darkest dream of totalitarianism

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

"The darkest dream of totalitarianism is now our daily life, carried in our purse and pocket... Every first person feels ever more alone and lost... What if truth is the precarious hinge that holds freedom and progress together?"