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Museum of racial inequality

dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Montgomery, Alabama, was a major hub of slave trading. Now a museum of racial inequality is opening there.

Blasphemy

dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 02:00

A Christian man with the misfortune to live in Pakistan has been sentenced to death for the "blasphemy" of ridiculing Muhammad.

To criminalize ridiculing some person, whether live or dead, is an offense against human rights.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which includes 57 countries, campaigns to impose prohibition of blasphemy on the whole world. It is thus the biggest overt enemy of human rights in the world. Sad to say, it has convinced/pressured many countries to prohibit making statements that "offend the feelings" of believers in any religion.

Not even living people have the right to prohibit hurting their feelings.

Regulatory capture

dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 02:00

An EU agency said that glyphosate was safe, copying "dozens of pages" from Monsanto's submission to that effect.

The issue here is not possible plagiarism, it is regulatory capture.

When thugs kill people

dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 02:00

A thug points out that the fact that Justine Damond was white and female does not make her killing more heinous.

I agree. When thugs kill blacks, when thugs kill men, in general that's just as bad.

Russia joins in air attacks in Syria

dimanche 17 septembre 2017 à 02:00

Russia has joined in making air attacks in Syria that also kill civilians. Like the US, Russia does not acknowledge that they occur.