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    Labour has reaffirmed its plans to rid the UK of zero-hours contracts.

    Zero-hours Contracts Have a Devastating Impact on Career Progression Labour has reaffirmed its plans to rid the UK of zero-hours contracts. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell pledged at the Labour Party conference to ban the controversial contracts “to make sure every employee has a guaranteed...
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    78% of the drug arrests are for a gram or less of Marijuana. Where's the $1.3b cocaine ship?

    A research from the University of North Carolina shows how phony the war on drugs is. 78% of the arrests are for a gram or less, mostly of weed. I can imagine the direct and collateral losses that are caused by this silly situation. These figures imply also that the big drug cats rarely get...
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    Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage a dirty war that killed 30,000

    Argentina Military Helped By US In Dirty War, Declassified Archives Reveal The archival documents were the fourth and final batch of 43,000 declassified U.S. telegrams, military records, intelligence and confidential memos given to Argentina following an extraordinary 2016 agreement between...
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    40 million slaves in the world today

    How Many People Are Enslaved In The World Today? Walk Free, the International Labor Organization and dozens of other state and nonstate actors came together in 2016 to form Alliance 8.7. In 2017, the coalition jointly estimated there were some 40 million people enslaved worldwide. However...
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    Why do innocent suspects confess to crimes they did not commit?

    In the US, over 25% of people later exonerated by DNA evidence made a false confession. Why Do Innocent Suspects Confess To Crimes They Did Not Commit? The secret? The Reid interrogation technique. Suspects are so intimidated that they lose their mind's coherence. Well, democracy is not only...
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    In his clash with G7 nations, Trump is either using advanced game theory, or he is simply adrift

    The recent trade tariffs decisions of the Trump administration are surprising. They are unexpected and unprecedented, in a way that is keeping observers puzzled. The pro-Trump side is cheering them as brazen actions that will make America great again; whereas the other side is fearing a...
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