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Obama's medical insurance

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Some SCROTUS now say that years of campaigning based on repealing Obama's medical insurance plan was a sham.

You can't assume they are telling the truth about anything, including this. Maybe they seriously intended to repeal it, but never thought it through; now perhaps they'd rather say they never meant it than say they were defeated.

Terrorists are made in prison

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Uri Avnery: Terrorists are often made in prison.

We'd be safer if we put fewer people in prison. Perhaps it is impossible to eliminate prisons, but we could make them smaller.

Arab journalists in US assassination target list

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Two Arab journalists are suing to be removed from the official United States assassination target list.

They say that they were included in the list by an algorithm. In effect, by a killer robot. Here's more info.

What this shows is that an "unbiased" algorithm does not necessarily imply it is doing the right thing.

Immigrants

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

US cruelty towards immigrants now extends to arresting them when they visit a government office to apply for permanent residency, accompanied by their US-citizen spouses and children.

Gorsuch

dimanche 2 avril 2017 à 02:00

Democrats ask Gorsuch to help them find out who is funding the political ad campaign in favor of his nomination.