Democracy Now! 2024-08-27 Tuesday
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🗓️ 27 August 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Headlines for August 27, 2024; Palestinian Healthcare Workers Chained, Starved, Sexually Abused: New HRW Report on Israeli Prisons; What Is RealPage? DOJ Sues Software Firm Using Algorithm Enabling Landlords to Fix High Rents
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| 0:00.0 | From New York, this is Democracy Now. |
| 0:17.0 | We were subjected to severe torture and my little finger was broken. |
| 0:25.0 | I was repeatedly subjected to hitting on the head, causing bleeding multiple times. |
| 0:30.0 | There was almost daily torture in the Israeli prisons. |
| 0:33.2 | When prisoners' cells were raided daily, they were severely beaten every day. |
| 0:37.8 | We say this with full certainty, and we lived through it with great bitterness. |
| 0:42.4 | Human Rights Watch is calling on the international... and we lived through it with great bitterness. |
| 0:42.5 | Human Rights Watch is calling on the International Criminal Court |
| 0:46.2 | to investigate Israel for arbitrarily detaining |
| 0:49.7 | and torturing Palestinian health care workers. |
| 0:52.9 | We'll go to Ramulloch to speak with the co-author of the new report |
| 0:56.8 | on the harrowing experiences of eight doctors, nurses, and paramedics |
| 1:01.6 | recently held in Israeli prisons. |
| 1:04.0 | Then sky-high rents and a housing shortage |
| 1:08.0 | are major issues in the elections here in the United States. |
| 1:13.0 | Some corporate landlords collude with each other |
| 1:18.0 | to set artificially high rental prices, |
| 1:22.0 | often using algorithms in price fixing software to do it. |
| 1:29.1 | It's anti-competitive and it drives up costs. I will fight for a law that cracks down on these practices. |
| 1:37.0 | Rent going up, one company's algorithm could be why. |
| 1:42.0 | We'll speak with the ProPublica reporter whose explosive |
| 1:45.9 | investigation into Real Page helped prompt a Department of Justice lawsuit. |
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