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posted by martyb on Friday December 16 2016, @11:14AM   Printer-friendly
from the redundancy++ dept.

Heard on CBC radio from Toronto/Ottawa and also just posted to BBC --
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38324045

A special archiving event is being held in collaboration with Archive's End of Term project. Since 2008 this has saved US government websites at risk during government transitions.

Canadian "guerrilla" archivists will be assisting a rushed effort to preserve US government climate data.

Environmentalists, climate scientists and academics are collaborating to protect what they view as fragile digital federal records and research.

They want the data saved before Donald Trump takes office.

The CBC report interviewed a Canadian scientist who described some of the scientific data that was lost during the Harper government.

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  • (Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:49AM

    by butthurt (6141) on Saturday December 17 2016, @01:49AM (#442320) Journal

    > "Transgender"

    Care to put that into a complete sentence? Are you asserting that transgendered people don't exist?

    > "Hands up don't shoot" ... that never happened.

    Perhaps it didn't happen; however there were witnesses who said it did. It's reasonable to entertain the idea that it happened. What's the connection to the Democratic Party? Are you implying that only Democrats are open to the idea that the police might wrongfully use force?

    > "Racist!"

    Care to put that into a complete sentence? Are you asserting that racism don't exist?

    > "Everyone deserves a living wage!" what will we pay them with? "the government can print more money!" what about inflation? "that will never happen!"

    From the Democratic Party platform:

    Democrats believe we are stronger when we have an economy that works for everyone—an economy that grows incomes for working people, creates good-paying jobs, and puts a middle-class life within reach for more Americans. Democrats believe we can spur more sustainable economic growth, which will create good-paying jobs and raise wages. And we can have more economic fairness, so the rewards are shared broadly, not just with those at the top. We need an economy that prioritizes long-term investment over short-term profit-seeking, rewards the common interest over self-interest, and promotes innovation and entrepreneurship.

    We believe that today’s extreme level of income and wealth inequality—where the majority of the economic gains go to the top one percent and the richest 20 people in our country own more wealth than the bottom 150 million—makes our economy weaker, our communities poorer, and our politics poisonous.
    [...]
    The system is not working when we have a rigged economy in which ordinary Americans work longer hours for lower wages, while most new income and wealth goes to the top one percent. [...]

    Democrats believe that the current minimum wage is a starvation wage and must be increased to a living wage. No one who works full time should have to raise a family in poverty. We believe that Americans should earn at least $15 an hour and have the right to form or join a union and will work in every way we can—in Congress and the federal government, in states and with the
    private sector—to reach this goal. We should raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour over time and index it, give all Americans the ability to join a union regardless of where they work, and create new ways for workers to have power in the economy so every worker can earn at least $15 an hour. We applaud the approaches taken by states like New York and California.

    We also support creating one fair wage for all workers by ending the sub-minimum wage for tipped workers and people with disabilities.

    Democrats support a model employer executive order or some other vehicle to leverage federal dollars to support employers who provide their workers with a living wage, good benefits, and the opportunity to form a union without reprisal. The one trillion dollars spent annually by the government on contracts, loans, and grants should be used to support good jobs that rebuild the
    middle class.

    --
    https://web.archive.org/web/20160722204846/https://www.demconvention.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Democratic-Party-Platform-7.21.16-no-lines.pdf [archive.org]

    Nothing about printing money in there. It's about having employers pay their workers, and about directing existing government spending toward companies that pay their workers fairly.

    Muslims shoot up a gay nightclub... "White Male Conservatives did it!" Muslims do it again. "White Males!" Muslims do it again. "We must import more Muslims!" And there is no Bigger Religion than Islam right now.

    Omar Mateen was one person. Apart from your post, I've not heard him described as a "white male conservative." If he were, which parts of that description would you dispute? Besides the Pulse night club in Orlando, which others have been attacked? I'm not aware of any. Are you merely saying that others among the ~1.7 billion Muslims in the world have committed heinous crimes? Would you consider Dylann Roof a "white male conservative"?

    As for "importing more Muslims" I'll quote again from the Democratic Party platform:

    [...] we will expand opportunities for DREAMers to serve in the military and to then receive expedited pathways to citizenship. We will fight to end federal, state, and municipal contracts with for-profit private prisons and private detention centers. In order to end family detention, we will ensure humane alternatives for those who pose no public threat. We recognize that there are vulnerable communities within our immigration system who are often seeking refuge from persecution abroad, such as LGBT families, for whom detention can be unacceptably dangerous.

    We reject attempts to impose a religious test to bar immigrants or refugees from entering the United States. It is un-American and runs counter to the founding principles of this country.

    [...] Given the immense scale of human suffering in Syria, it is also imperative that we lead the international community in providing greater humanitarian assistance to the civilian victims of war in Syria and Iraq, especially displaced refugees.

    As I understand it, offering asylum to refugees is the obligation of every country. Also, the United States has contributed to the chaos in the Middle East; Mr. Obama, Ms. Clinton and some Democratic members of Congress—even Mr. Sanders—had a hand in that. To give asylum to the resulting refugees is only proper.

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