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British adults in poverty

vendredi 20 mars 2015 à 13:00

1/4 of British adults before middle age are delaying having children because the costs of living are too high.

Fewer births is a good thing, but there are better ways to achieve that than by pushing many people into poverty.

Destruction of ancient relics

vendredi 20 mars 2015 à 13:00

The effects of global heating are destroying ancient relics from Chile to Siberia.

Australia's right-wing government

vendredi 20 mars 2015 à 13:00

Australia's right-wing government claims that it can't afford to support so many old people, so it will have to hang them out to die.

The argument is fallacious, as usual, and surely based on the assumption that tax rates on the wealthy will be kept low.

Venezuelan supermarkets taking fingerprints

vendredi 20 mars 2015 à 13:00

Some supermarkets in Venezuela now check purchasers' fingerprints.

This applies to public supermarkets in provinces near the frontier, where there is a lot of smuggling. The smuggling occurs because the state subsidizes certain commodities for the sake of the poor. It would be better to switch to a system like US food stamps.

CISA is worse than CISPA

vendredi 20 mars 2015 à 13:00

CISA is much worse than CISPA — think of it as PAT RIOT Act 2.0.