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Question what they are told

mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The UK says that children who question what they are told, or criticize government policy, are terrorist suspects.

Food supply

mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Humans' food supply is dangerously biologically concentrated: three-quarters of our food comes from 12 species of plants and five of animals, What's more, the number of different varieties of the plant species is decreasing.

Antisocialist opposition

mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 01:00

The antisocialist opposition won the election in Venezuela.

People were very unhappy with the shortages, which were caused by foolish government policies; for instance, subsidies for the prices of certain foods, which encouraged people to smuggle them into Colombia, and currency exchange controls.

I fear that the antisocialists will eliminate the programs that Chavez set up for education and medical care. Subsidizing food for the poor is necessary, and the problems come from the system that the socialists set upl but I expect the antisocialists to end the subsidies so as to make life hard for the non-rich.

Emissions tax

mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 01:00

Sanders has endorsed a carbon emissions tax.

This is the way to let the market decide just how and where to reduce emissions.

Designed to be addictive

mercredi 16 décembre 2015 à 01:00

If you "can't put down" a mobile device, that's because it was designed to be addictive.