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Attack on the right to protest

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

South Dakota Republicans are attacking the right to protest.

Feinstein and insurance companies

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

Senator Feinstein persistently opposes single-payer medical care. Perhaps her reason is that she depends on money from insurance companies.

Leapforce

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

Google outsources the checking of its algorithmic classifications to a company called Leapforce. The company just cut all its full-time workers to part-time, cut their wages, and discharged many of them.

It did this in a strange way — a new, replacement company has been started up which is hiring only some of the workers, and it seems the company Leapforce will be shut down.

The article doesn't explain the motive for doing it that way, but I suspect it is an end run around US labor law — essentially, a way to cheat some of the workers.

Obama's shame

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

As I suspected, the US federal claim that even an insignificant falsehood in a citizenship application is grounds to revoke citizenship was first presented under Obama.

It is to Obama's shame, and Holder's that neither of them objected to this. Of course, neither do the troll and Sessions.

Sale of neonicotinoid pesticides

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

WalMart and TrueValue have or will stop selling neonicotinoid pesticides and plants grown with them.

I expect that farms use a lot more neonicotinoids than home gardeners, but this is a significant step forward.

Too bad our government is so submissive to business that it can't take necessary decisive action that large companies oppose. It reduces us to begging companies to stop doing wrong.