Why Can’t Hillary Clinton Stop Lying?
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/08/why-hillary-clinton-keeps-lying/493841
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Why White People Don’t Use White Emoji
Light-skin-tone symbols are used far less often in the U.S. than their darker counterparts. Does shame explain the disparity?
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/white-people-dont-use-white-emoji/481695
#emojis #unicode-
“Every time I use an emoji, I have to make a choice: Do I use a colored racemoji, and draw attention to my ethnicity (even when it’s not pertinent), or do I use a default emoji, which may misrepresent me altogether?” he wrote in an email. “It’s disempowering because people of color are uniquely burdened with this choice.”
(...) White people don’t have to use racemoji or risk denying their identity, as Mukerjee does; the default works fine. Perhaps the squeamishness on the part of whites has more to do with the acknowledgement that only white people hold this special privilege; to use the white emoji is to express a solidarity with people of color that does not exist.
So it becomes a self-reinforcing cycle.
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C’est l’affichage unicode quand il n’y a pas de police spécifique ou de logiciel d’interprétation. Soit le caractère + la couleur en gris.
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Racism and ’Racial Conflict’ in America - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/racism-commentary-obama-trump/481329... some of the difficulty in talking about race today is attributable to the unhelpful euphemisms of “racial conflict,” “racial tension,” and other phrases that suggest an equal amount of instigation across racial groups, if not a perfectly balanced battle.
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Pentagon report justifies deployment of military spy drones over the U.S.
▻http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/03/09/pentagon-admits-has-deployed-military-spy-drones-over-us/81474702Le #Pentagone reconnait avoir déployé des #drones d’espionnage aux USA
▻http://www.menara.ma/fr/2016/03/09/1853269-le-pentagone-reconnait-avoir-déployé-des-drones-despionnage-aux-etats-
The Rapid Rise of Federal Surveillance Drones Over America
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-rapid-rise-of-federal-surveillance-drones-over-america/473136On Wednesday, USA Today reported that the Pentagon “has deployed drones to spy over U.S. territory for non-military missions over the past decade,” citing a report by a Pentagon inspector general who declared that the flights are “rare and lawful.”
That’s the narrative that officials speaking on behalf of the federal government keep conveying––that the instances of aerial surveillance over U.S. soil are safe, legal, and rare.
But it isn’t so.
There are too many federal, state, and local agencies with too many surveillance aircraft to pretend any longer that aerial spying is rare. There is too little oversight to presume all these government entities are acting legally. As for safety, Americans know neither what sort of aerial-surveillance data has been archived nor how secure it is. And security researcher Nils Rodday learned that he could successfully hack into professional drones and take over their operations on a $40 budget.
The ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation are trying to draw attention to these issues; the Department of Justice has issued its own guidelines on domestic drone use. But there’s still not much public discussion, debate, or oversight of domestic drone surveillance.
My sense of public opinion is that Americans don’t particularly want to be spied on from above. By keeping various aerial-surveillance programs hidden or very quiet, the government will continue to achieve a rapid fait accompli unless it is stopped.
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Vigilant Solutions and the Spread of Police Surveillance - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/01/vigilant-solutions-surveillance/427047Throughout the United States—outside private houses, apartment complexes, shopping centers, and businesses with large employee parking lots—a private corporation, Vigilant Solutions, is taking photos of cars and trucks with its vast network of unobtrusive cameras. It retains location data on each of those pictures, and sells it.
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The vast scale of Vigilant’s operations is detailed in documents obtained through public-records laws by the New York Civil Liberties Union. “Last year, we learned that the NYPD was hoping to enter into a multi-year contract that would give it access to the nationwide database of license plate reader data,” the civil-liberties group announced Monday in a blog post linking to the document. “Now, through a Freedom of Information Law request, the NYCLU has obtained the final version of the $442,500 contract and the scope-of-work proposal that gives a peek into the ever-widening world of surveillance made possible by Vigilant.”
The NYPD has its own license plate tracking program. It nevertheless wanted access to the Vigilant Solutions database as well, “which means,” the NYCLU notes, “the NYPD can now monitor your car whether you live in New York or Miami or Chicago or Los Angeles.” The NYPD has a long history of spying on Muslim Americans far outside its jurisdiction. And both license-plate readers and the information derived from them have already been misused in other jurisdictions.
More abuses seem inevitable as additional communities adopt the technology (some with an attitude expressed with admirable frankness by an official in a small Florida city: “We want to make it impossible for you to enter Riviera Beach without being detected.”)
Washington is accelerating the spread of the technology.
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« La prochaine fois, le feu »
▻https://renverse.ch/La-prochaine-fois-le-feu-466Retour sur les émeutes de Baltimore de 2015.
"▻http://www.drewangerer.com/baltimore-unrest"
"▻http://www.forbes.com/sites/dandiamond/2015/04/28/why-baltimore-burned"
"▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bal-educators-endorse-black-guerrilla-family-gang-leaders-book-2013042"
"▻http://www.slate.com/blogs/crime/2013/04/24/black_guerilla_family_how_a_gang_took_over_baltimore_s_jails.html"
"►http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-brutality-of-police-culture-in-baltimore/391158"
"▻http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/2-500-people-injuries-baltimore-jail-article-1.2217561"
"▻http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2013-05-09/news/bs-md-ci-homicides-20130509_1_northwest-baltimore-gun-violenc"
"▻http://www.wsj.com/articles/delawares-biggest-city-struggles-with-high-murder-rate-1424376328"
"▻http://www.city-journal.org/2015/eon0428hm.html"
"▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bs-bz-economic-impact-riots-20150501-story.html"
"▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/bs-md-freddie-gray-march-pressers-20150425-story.html"
"▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-freddie-gray-gang-threat-20150427-story.html"
"▻http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci-baltimore-riots-gangs-analysis-0429-20150428-story.html"
"▻https://libcom.org/library/black-particularity-reconsidered-adolph-l-reed-jr"
"►http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/06/field-notes/baltimores-fire-next-time"
"▻http://jefklak.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Laprochainefoislefeu_JefKlak_site.pdf"
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#Snowden and the #NSA - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/the-vindication-of-edward-snowden/392741
Edward Snowden’s most famous leak has just been vindicated. Since June 2013, when he revealed that the telephone calls of Americans are being logged en masse, his critics have charged that he took it upon himself to expose a lawful secret. They insisted that Congress authorized the phone dragnet when it passed the U.S.A. Patriot Act, citing Section 215, a part of the law that pertains to business records.
That claim was always suspect. The text of the law does not seem to authorize mass surveillance. A primary author and longtime champion of the law avows that Congress never intended to authorize the phone dragnet. And nothing like it was ever discussed during an extensive, controversy-filled debate about its provisions.
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excellent — l’auteur a un business model rigolo ici ▻http://thebestofjournalism.blogspot.fr
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#Nonviolence as compliance
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/nonviolence-as-compliance/391640 #Baltimore #USA“When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse”
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Freddie Gray Is Only the Latest Apparent Victim of Baltimore Police Violence - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/04/the-brutality-of-police-culture-in-baltimore/391158
Jose Luis Magana / ReutersYears of abuses are every bit as egregious as what the Department of Justice documented in Ferguson, Missouri, and as deserving of a national response.
Conor Friedersdorf Apr 22, 2015
In Baltimore, where 25-year-old Freddie Gray died shortly after being taken into police custody, an investigation may uncover homicidal misconduct by law enforcement, as happened in the North Charleston, South Carolina, killing of Walter Scott. Or the facts may confound the darkest suspicions of protestors, as when the Department of Justice released its report on the killing of Michael Brown.
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Un exemple flagrantissime de différence de traitement
Avril 2015, après que les #drones étasuniens aient tué deux civils occidentaux,
Autopsie d’une bavure américaine au Pakistan | Richard Hétu | États-Unis
▻http://www.lapresse.ca/international/etats-unis/201504/24/01-4864040-autopsie-dune-bavure-americaine-au-pakistan.phpAprès avoir présenté ses excuses d’une voix émue, Barack Obama a accepté hier la « pleine responsabilité » d’une attaque de drone qui a tué accidentellement deux otages en janvier au Pakistan, dont un Américain détenu par Al-Qaïda depuis 2011.
Octobre 2012, après que les mêmes drones aient abattu un autre civil occidental, plus jeune (16 ans), musulman, d’origine yéménite et aussi innocent que les sus-nommés,
How Team Obama Justifies the Killing of a 16-Year-Old American - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/10/how-team-obama-justifies-the-killing-of-a-16-year-old-american/264028Asked about the strike that killed him, a senior adviser to the president’s campaign suggests he should’ve “had a more responsible father .”
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▻https://twitter.com/Belalmd12/status/591286139970924544
▻https://twitter.com/Belalmd12/status/591287686494695425Drone strikes kills American and Italian hostages in Pakistan. Obama: “I profoundly regret what happened.”
The US killed 128 people in faulty strikes to kill a Taliban leader. Attempts to kill 41 men resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,147.
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These Are the #Emails #Snowden Sent to First Introduce His Epic NSA Leaks
Six months before the world knew the National Security Agency’s most prolific leaker of secrets as Edward Joseph Snowden, Laura Poitras knew him as Citizenfour. For months, Poitras communicated with an unknown “senior government employee” under that pseudonym via encrypted emails, as he prepared her to receive an unprecedented leak of classified documents that he would ask her to expose to the world.
▻http://www.wired.com/2014/10/snowdens-first-emails-to-poitras-
My personal desire is that you paint the target directly on my back. No one, not even my most trusted confidant, is aware of my intentions and it would not be fair for them to fall under suspicion for my actions. You may be the only one who can prevent that, and that is by immediately nailing me to the cross rather than trying to protect me as a source.
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Mozilla’s Chief Felled by View on Gay Unions - NYTimes.com
▻http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/03/eich-steps-down-as-mozilla-chief/?emc=edit_th_20140404&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=67617143
On Thursday, Brendan Eich, who has helped develop some of the web’s most important technologies, resigned under pressure as chief executive of Mozilla, the maker of the popular Firefox web browser, just two weeks after taking the job.
The reason? In 2008, he donated $1,000 in support of Proposition 8, a California measure that banned same-sex marriage.
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C’est un peu embarrassant parce que on ne sait pas ce qui pourra désormais être reproché à d’autres acteurs de la communauté Mozilla. Tu as soutenu une association pro ivg, Tu as filé une donation à un syndicat, ...
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oui +1 je suis d’accord... Même chose à propos de la diplomate française qu’un soldat israélien a malmenée il y a quelques mois. C’était une militnte activement anti-ivg
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Mozilla’s Gay-Marriage Litmus Test Violates Liberal Values
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/04/mozillas-gay-marriage-litmus-test-violates-liberal-values/360156The forced resignation of Brendan Eich will have a chilling effect on political discourse.
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Ex-CIA, NSA, FBI and GCHQ Employees Urge Former Colleagues to Blow the Whistle
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/ex-cia-nsa-fbi-and-gchq-employees-urge-former-colleagues-to-blow-the-whistle/282287Says a portion of the letter:
Hidden away in offices of various government departments, intelligence agencies, police forces and armed forces are dozens and dozens of people who are very much upset by what our societies are turning into: at the very least, turnkey tyrannies.
One of them is you.
You’re thinking:
● Undermining democracy and eroding civil liberties isn’t put explicitly in your job contract.
● You grew up in a democratic society and want to keep it that way
● You were taught to respect ordinary people’s right to live a life in privacy
● You don’t really want a system of institutionalized strategic surveillance that would make the dreaded Stasi green with envy – do you?Still, why bother? What can one person do? Well, Edward Snowden just showed you what one person can do. He stands out as a whistleblower both because of the severity of the crimes and misconduct that he is divulging to the public – and the sheer amount of evidence he has presented us with so far – more is coming. But Snowden shouldn’t have to stand alone, and his revelations shouldn’t be the only ones.
You can be part of the solution; provide trustworthy journalists – either from old media (like this newspaper) or from new media (such as WikiLeaks) with documents that prove what illegal, immoral, wasteful activites are going on where you work.
There IS strength in numbers. You won’t be the first – nor the last – to follow your conscience and let us know what’s being done in our names. Truth is coming – it can’t be stopped. Crooked politicians will be held accountable. It’s in your hands to be on the right side of history and accelerate the process.
Courage is contagious.
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On explique les échecs de l’emploi de la force comme on explique ceux de l’austérité : ce n’était pas suffisant.
War on Terror Hawks Can’t Fail, They Can Only Be Failed - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/12/war-on-terror-hawks-cant-fail-they-can-only-be-failed/281939On Sunday, Dianne Feinstein, the head of the Senate intelligence committee, and Mike Rogers, the head of the House intelligence committee, appeared on network television, where they announced that terrorists have gained ground in recent years.
Among their claims:
– We’re less safe than we were two years ago.
– Islamist groups are winning the minds of the disenfranchised in the Middle East and Asia.
– There has been “a rise in fatalities from terrorist-related activities.”
– The enemy has “increasingly specialized and dangerous technology,” including powerful bombs.
– “Terror groups had already tried, on four separate occasions, to send these newer, more deadly explosives into the United States.”
– “Al Qaeda as we knew it before is metastasizing to something different.”Got that? When it comes to terrorism, they say you’re no better off than you were two years ago. As a result, these two legislators have declared recent national security policy a failure, insisted on mass firings for cause in the national security bureaucracy, and called for a new approach to counterterrorism.
Ha! Just kidding. Even though they think we’re less safe now, and that the enemy is more dangerous, they favor continuing or intensifying current policy, and they aren’t calling for any resignations at the CIA or the NSA or the DOD or the White House or anywhere else.
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Feinstein, Rogers: War on Terror a Huge Failure
▻http://wemeantwell.com/blog/2013/12/07/feinstein-rogers-war-on-terror-a-huge-failureWe are a stupid, violent people. America is indeed an exceptional nation, exceptional in that it exists in a bubble, emerging only to lash out at others. Inside the bubble, rational thought and reasoned discussion have ceased, the air sucked out of them. [...] We have simply stopped thinking.
Having stopped thinking, we fall into the comfort zone of repeating things like a mentally disabled child happy to spend hours walking in circles. Not quite for comfort, not quite for safety, just simply because it is what we were doing and so we keep doing it. We convince ourselves that the answer to failed policy is to keep repeating that policy. We ignore the empirical evidence of our failure– there it is people, the things done to make us safer have not made us safer– to twist logic into meaning we must keep doing what has already failed.
Does that make sense? If it does, forget about a career in Washington.
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The Leadership Trait That Barack Obama and Dick Cheney Share - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/the-leadership-trait-that-barack-obama-and-dick-cheney-share/276916How is it that President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who appeared on Fox News Sunday defending the NSA’s vast surveillance program, find themselves on the same side of so many highly controversial national security debates? They subscribe to different ideologies, belong to opposing political parties, and differ dramatically in background and temperament.
Their grassroots supporters are deeply at odds. They see America’s role in the world differently, speak about it differently, and made dramatically different judgment calls on the Iraq War, perhaps the most consequential foreign-policy decision undertaken in the years after 9/11 (certainly the most costly). So what explains the once surprising number Cheneyesque national-security policies Obama has, by now, embraced?
There is, of course, no single explanation: policies adopted by the Bush Administration constrained Obama in certain ways, and everyone who heads the executive branch shares some incentives.
But I do think a significant explanation is underappreciated.
For all their substantial differences, Dick Cheney and Barack Obama share one leadership trait: they trust their own judgment so thoroughly, and value it so highly, that they recklessly undermine all institutional and prudential restraints on their ability to exercise it whenever they see fit. Indeed, like Kobe Bryant at the end of a playoff game, they both harbor a barely suppressed, supremely arrogant belief that behaving in this way is their responsibility, or even their burden.
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All the Infrastructure a Tyrant Would Need, Courtesy of Bush and Obama - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/06/all-the-infrastructure-a-tyrant-would-need-courtesy-of-bush-and-obama/276635To an increasing degree, we’re counting on having angels in office and making ourselves vulnerable to devils. Bush and Obama have built infrastructure any devil would lust after. Behold the items on an aspiring tyrant’s checklist that they’ve provided their successors:
- A precedent that allows the president to kill citizens in secret without prior judicial or legislative review
- The power to detain prisoners indefinitely without charges or trial
- Ongoing warrantless surveillance on millions of Americans accused of no wrongdoing, converted into a permanent database so that data of innocents spied upon in 2007 can be accessed in 2027
- Using ethnic profiling to choose the targets of secret spying, as the NYPD did with John Brennan’s blessing
- Normalizing situations in which the law itself is secret — and whatever mischief is hiding in those secret interpretations
- The permissibility of droning to death people whose identities are not even known to those doing the killing
- The ability to collect DNA swabs of people who have been arrested even if they haven’t been convicted of anything
- A torture program that could be restarted with an executive order
Even if you think Bush and Obama exercised those extraordinary powers responsibly, what makes you think every president would? How can anyone fail to see the huge potential for abuses?
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In fine form, Bruce Schneier blasts #Obama's administration’s mass #surveillance and secrecy cult - then openly calls for whistle-blowing... Weighty opinion, ballsy message !
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/print/2013/06/what-we-dont-know-about-spying-on-citizens-scarier-than-what-we-know/276607
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Will the Border Ever Be Secure Enough for Immigration Hawks?
El Paso is the safest city in the U.S., the Border Patrol is bigger than ever, and illegal crossings have reached a 40-year low — among other surprising facts.
▻http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/02/will-the-border-ever-be-secure-enough-for-immigration-hawks/273386
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Le testament politique du #libertarien Ron Paul
Ron Paul’s Last Speech to Congress : 30+ Strangely Ordered Questions - Conor Friedersdorf - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/ron-pauls-last-speech-to-congress-30-strangely-ordered-questions/265263– Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?
– Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
– Why can’t Americans manufacturer rope and other products from hemp?
– Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the Constitution?
– Why is Germany concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the FED for her in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy beginning to wane?
– Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
– Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
– Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?
– Why should there be mandatory sentences—even up to life for crimes without victims—as our drug laws require?
– Why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes?
– Why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize AIPAC ?
– Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure and violates the people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?
– Why do we sacrifice so much getting needlessly involved in border disputes and civil strife around the world and ignore the root cause of the most deadly border in the world-the one between Mexico and the US?
– Why does Congress willingly give up its prerogatives to the Executive Branch?
– Why does changing the party in power never change policy? Could it be that the views of both parties are essentially the same?
– Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central banks get bailed out in 2008 and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?
– Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money out of thin air creates wealth?
– Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?
– Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?
– Why is there so little concern for the Executive Order that gives the President authority to establish a “kill list,” including American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?
– Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
– Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people in government can do it for them?
– Why did we ever give the government a safe haven for initiating violence against the people?
– Why do some members defend free markets, but not civil liberties?
– Why do some members defend civil liberties but not free markets? Aren’t they the same?
– Why don’t more defend both economic liberty and personal liberty?
– Why are there not more individuals who seek to intellectually influence others to bring about positive changes than those who seek power to force others to obey their commands?
– Why does the use of religion to support a social gospel and preemptive wars, both of which requires authoritarians to use violence, or the threat of violence, go unchallenged? Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world’s great religions.
– Why do we allow the government and the Federal Reserve to disseminate false information dealing with both economic and foreign policy?
– Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes all rights relative to the dictates of the majority?
– Why should anyone be surprised that Congress has no credibility, since there’s such a disconnect between what politicians say and what they do?
texte complet :
►http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2012_cr/ronpaul.html
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Politics - Garance Franke-Ruta - Can Google Predict the Impact of Racism on a Presidential Election? - The Atlantic
►http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/06/can-google-predict-the-impact-of-racism-on-a-presidential-election/258322
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