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Guantanamo torture

jeudi 22 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Guantanamo guards forced Mohamedou Ould Slahi to dry his toilet with his uniform and sleep in it.

Temp workers not given living wage

jeudi 22 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Temporary workers supplied by labor agencies never get a living wage.

I think it's a good idea to fine businesses that use agency workers for more than 120 hours a month for 3 successive months for any particular kind of work. If a business needs that much work, it should hire regular staff to do the work.

However, we should also disconnect funding for social programs from employment. A business should pay tax based its gross income, with a small deduction for each full-time worker employed.

Thugs fire tear gas at children

jeudi 22 janvier 2015 à 13:00

A powerful official in Kenya has taken a school's playground; thugs fired tear gas at the children when they protested.

Apparently this is a standard modus operandi for corrupt politicians in Kenya, and the school just happened to be the one that got victimized this time.

Thugs can disarm and arrest without killing

jeudi 22 janvier 2015 à 13:00

When blacks carry what looks like a gun, thugs shoot them dead on sight. A white woman drove around shooting at people, even pointing her gun at a thug, and the thugs managed to disarm and arrest her without killing her.

Bravo, but if they can do this with whites, they could do it with blacks too — if they tried.

Florida prisoners murdered

jeudi 22 janvier 2015 à 13:00

In Florida, an alarming number of prisoners died suspiciously after telling relatives, "The guards are going to kill me." In some cases the murders were witnessed.