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Rebuilding and fleeing

vendredi 24 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Some Puerto Ricans are trying to build an autogenerated recovery, but others are fleeing to refugee camps in Florida. Some suspect that the American oligarchs want to depopulate the island so as to turn it into an expensive corporate-owned resort.

Rationing medical care

vendredi 24 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The private US medical system indirectly rations medical care, but some socialist medical systems (in capitalist countries) offer luxurious treatment to everyone that needs it.

'Trafficking' accusation

vendredi 24 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The confused term "sex trafficking" undermines the campaign against the grave crime of enslavement and forced prostitution, by identifying that crime with the practice of paying for sex.

A Republican official who made a bogus accusation against Latin American immigrants in general — that they would traffic "children" into the US for prostitution — is now being criticized for supposedly doing that very thing himself. However, when you look at the details, he was not accused of enslaving or trafficking anyone. Rather, he is accused of nothing more than offering to pay for sex, to someone who was a minor. (No word on whether the official even knew that.)

I warned before that the term "sex trafficking" was apt to lead to injustice. Now we see it in action.

The term's confusion will undermine efforts to stop enslavement and trafficking of both adolescents and adults.

Tax attacks and real estate

vendredi 24 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The SCROTUS tax attacks could cause a recession if they knock down real estate prices by up to 17%.

Demolishing apartments

vendredi 24 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The Israeli army plans to demolish 140 apartments before Israeli courts have a chance to rule on whether to demolish them.

The supposed grounds for demolition are that the apartments are too close to the annexation wall. Well, who decided to put the wall there? Not the Palestinians.