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Event |
| 4:38p |
Biden pardons most death sentences
*Joe Biden commutes sentences of 37 out of 40
federal
death row inmates.*
He has commuted their sentences to life in prison.
It is unfortunate that he left out three of them. Their crimes were
grave — but no one deserves to be killed, not even a criminal who has
committed heinous crimes. A CEO who has killed thousands of innocent
people for profit deserves a long prison term, not execution.
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| 4:38p |
Urgent: regulate fracking
US citizens:
call
on Congress and state governments to regulate fracking more
strictly, to protect Our Health and Environment
If you phone, please spread the word!
Main Switchboard: +1-202-224-3121
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| 4:38p |
Starbucks union-workers now on strike
Workers are on strike in
50
Starbucks stores.
A few years ago, there was a strike in a Starbucks store in Boston.
I
stopped by and offered to join the picketing, but that was
impossible, because their ways to make the arrangements required the
volunteer to run nonfree software.
It would have been easy for them to work for their cause without
working unknowingly against the cause of computing freedom. But there was
no way to get them interested in making such a change.
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| 4:38p |
US military budget as corruption
*Sanders
Explains Why He's Voting Against the New $850 Billion Pentagon
Budget.*
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| 4:38p |
Ironic danger of voting for disruption
On the fundamental folly of
electing
someone radical for the sake of "shaking things up".
You are likely to find perse
"went to far" with radical changes you
did not expect — and they make put your country in an inescapable
trap.
A friend of mine spoke in fall 2016 of voting for
the bullshitter to
"shake things up". He changed his mind once he saw what the
bullshitter did when in office — but by then it was too late for the
US to reclaim the Supreme Court from its radical erasure of protections
for the non-rich and the non-powerful.
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| 4:38p |
Defying religious censorship, IRN
An
interview with Iranian filmmakers who made a film which is
acclaimed outside Iran — they are on trial for it. They
intentionally defied the religious censorship rules because they
condemn the religion-imposing regime.
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| 4:38p |
Lawsuits stifle political dissent, US
*Trump and allies are waging
campaign
against media to stifle dissent, say experts. Lawsuits against
Iowa paper and settlement with ABC signal beginning of aggressive
legal action to silence critics.*
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