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Protests in France

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

French thugs fired rubber-coated steel bullets at protesters. 77 protesters have suffered grave head wounds. 15 of them have lost an eye.

Sometimes thugs aim directly at the heads of protesters, which indicates the attempt to try to cause a grave wound. Thus should

The violent protesters are also doing wrong. Wanton destruction is not only wrong, it also bring the protest movement into disrepute. In the US, protest groups used to appoint marshals to keep order and prevent violence. Europe needs to do this, too.

Kamala Harris

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

Kamala Harris, as attorney general of California, went hard on sex workers and internet freedoms, and easy on thugs and prisons.

I would find it hard to vote for her for president, but I plan to avoid the need to decide by supporting Bernie Sanders for president.

Watch out for Democratic "centrists" encouraging Democrats to support some other candidate because perse is nonwhite, female, or a billionaire.

Women's March

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

The Women's March focuses on visibility, not the political work to advance women's rights.

Therapy for blindness

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

A gene replacement therapy for an inherited form of blindness has received approval.

Professions as businesses

dimanche 10 mars 2019 à 01:00

Treating professions as mere businesses comes at a cost to society.

Supposedly, calling patients, clients and students "customers" was going to make them "king", empowered. But that's not what really resulted.

With modern surveillance-based business methods, the customer is the puppet king who reigns symbolically, whose every act is managed and controlled by the "servants". The extreme case is the medical business today in the US, where hospitals and doctors look for every opportunity to trick and cheat the customer.