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Jewish National Fund

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

The Jewish National Fund was established to acquire land in Palestine for Jews to settle. Initially, with Turkey and then Britain ruling the area, it did this by buying land from its owners. But under Israel's rule, it can fabricate excuses to cheat.

National Guard at polling places

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

Nevada Republicans have proposed to scare away voters from disprivileged groups by stationing National Guard troops around polling places, as well as more ordinary methods of rigging the election.

Arrested for stealing diapers

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

The New York City thug department boasted of arresting 23 people for stealing diapers. The average amount each stole was around 80 dollars' worth -- which is not a large amount nowadays. It looks like these people were stealing due to desperate poverty.

X-Mode

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

The data broker X-Mode bought location data about 20,000 people collected by around 100 different malicious apps.

This shows how much it has become true that you must expect all non-libre programs to mistreat their users. There are surely a few exceptions, but that's no reason to allow this level of mistreatment to continue.

The way to stop it reliably is to get rid of nonfree software.

US encouraging people to stop wearing masks

lundi 21 février 2022 à 11:20

The US is making a mistake by encouraging people to stop wearing masks now. There are still many new cases.

The only way it would be wise to stop insisting people wear masks indoors or close to other people is if protecting oneself with an N95 mask is so reliable that one no longer needs to be concerned about whether the people around one are wearing masks themselves.