The UK has returned to social stratification almost impossible for a non-wealthy child to overcome.

I conjecture that part of the cause is that the Labour Party ceased, over 20 years ago, to try to represent the working class. When rich people encouraged changes to ensure their children would dominate other children, no one had the power to prevent it.

However, industrial globalization probably contributed too.

A similar development has occurred in the US, but some details are different. For instance, it is based on wealth rather than class.

Obama put 4 billion dollars towards financing advance in renewable energy.

Unfortunately, this may include biofuels. Biofuel in the US means ethanol made using petrolium-based fertilizer, which is not really renewable and doesn't reduce greenhouse emissions.

Renewable energy competes with fossil fuels. Removing 4 billion dollars of subsidy from fossil fuels would be almost equivalent to 4 billion in support for renewable energy.

In most scientific fields, five companies control most publication of articles.

We need to get rid of these companies, for the sake of science.

Why are there so many thugs, and so few police officers? Because thugs punish anyone that shows concern over killing the innocent.

Canada's right-wing government is applying Republican-style voter ID to rig the coming election. It has also made it harder to investigate the sabotage that may have made the difference in the previous election.