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Wells Fargo overcharging

samedi 2 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Wells Fargo overcharged hundreds of business customers for brokerage services. This happened because it gave its employees incentives to cheat.

Honduras election

samedi 2 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The opposition candidate Nasralla had a tremendous lead in the presidential election in Honduras; then the election computers mysteriously went down and the military's candidate asserted he was the winner.

Something similar happened in Mexico in a presidential election in the 1990s.

Hondurans should not allow their election to be stolen.

Deporting long-term residents

samedi 2 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The UK is deporting people who came there lawfully in the 1960s and have lived there ever since. Some of them were brought as children.

Gift to banks in tax attacks

samedi 2 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The big US banks would get a 28-billion-dollar gift from the SCROTUS tax attacks.

SCROTUS are rushing in the hope of hiding the bill's consequences from the public.

That's what they did in their previous attempt to take medical coverage from millions of Americans (which this bill also would do).

In case you don't know what this bill would do, here are descriptions.

Campaign for school vouchers

samedi 2 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The Koch brothers are spending heavily, and secretly, on an ad campaign for school vouchers in Arizona.

Americans have nearly always rejected school vouchers, which are a scheme for states to direct public money into religious education. The plan is typically designed so that a school voucher would not offer enough money to pay for an unsubsidized private school. (Those would remain limited to wealthy parents.) Thus, the only schools that the vouchers would enable parents to select would be religious schools, subsidized by a church.

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