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Foreign businessmen tortured in the UAE

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

The UAE tortured foreign businessmen into confessions, and they are likely to be sentenced to death.

Gentrification of black neighborhoods

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

As banks gentrify old black neighborhoods, the Koch brothers are funding efforts to cover up the history of blacks in the US — of slavery, and the civil rights movement.

Tories like to UK doctors

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

Some UK doctors paid to attend a meeting with the health minister Tory liars moved the meeting and told them it had been cancelled.

What else would you expect from a Tory? The Tories are lower than vermin.

Massive surveillance by ISPs

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

Many organizations have called on the FCC to ban ISPs from collecting personal data about customers and making them available to anyone else.

What they propose would be a step in the right direction, but it does not go far enough. It would still permit massive general surveillance by ISPs on behalf of Big Brother.

For democracy's sake, we must stop considering this kind of "solution" as a real solution. Regardless of what entity collects the data, it is Big Brother's use of the data that threatens democracy.

ISPs should be forbidden to keep any records of a user's internet contacts, except when ordered by a specific warrant.

Lobbyists for the chemical industry

mardi 16 février 2016 à 01:00

The Union of Concerned Scientists reports on how lobbyists for the chemical industry have undermined government efforts to protect the public, as well as research on toxicity.