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Flint residents' water bills

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

The imposed government of Flint has threatened to seize the homes of people who have not paid their exorbitant water bills.

Those bills are for water that has to be filtered since it still has too much lead.

The government of Flint is nondemocratic; the people of the city cannot replace it. It was put in place by the Republicans that dominate Michigan as a whole. Naturally it acts to oppress, since that is its purpose.

Network neutrality

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

SCROTUS have proposed a law to bar the FCC from requiring any kind of network neutrality.

Advertisements and snooping

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

US law has been used before to keep advertisements and snooping out of certain areas of our lives.

Let's do it again!

(It is regrettable that the article refers to publications as "content".)

Global heating

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

There was no "hiatus" in global heating. Rather, denialists seized on the way science handles a minor anomaly in important data by proposing and testing various explanations for it.

We don't need to know exactly where the water rose over the seawall to recognize a flood. We shouldn't need to know every detail of how the temperature of the ecosphere is rising to recognize that it's going to swamp our world, nor that the only way to prevent that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions a lot.

Troll tries same bogus economics as Reagan

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

The troll is trying to follow the same bogus economics that Reagan followed: the idea that tax cuts will lead the rich to increase investment and produce growth, a little of which will "trickle down" to the rest of us.

It isn't good for the budget or the country, but it's great for dooH niboR.

The US has had plenty of growth since Reagan. None of it reached the non-rich; the rich kept it all. What we need now is not growth, it is to take our fare share from the rich.