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Urgent: Reject the TPP

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 13:00

Everyone: call on world leaders to reject the TPP.

Global heating refugee denied asylum

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 13:00

Ioane Teitiota, from Kiribati, was denied asylum in New Zealand as a global heating refugee.

He asked for asylum because his home is certain to become uninhabitable due to rising sea level. The court denies the danger. It is clear that he is probably safe in Kiribati this year and next year. It is equally clear that they will be inundated.

Reportedly growth of coral is enlarging some of the islands at present. However, in a few decades the coral will be killed by ocean acidification, and the islands won't be able to grow after that.

Will people be accepted as climate refugees when inundation gets closer?

What about the millions who live at low elevations in Bangladesh?

US banks threaten to charge for savings accounts

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 13:00

US banks threaten to charge for savings accounts because interest rates are so low.

Why are they so low? To promote "economic growth" of the sort that benefits companies but not workers. The effective way to promote true economic growth is with deficit spending, but Republicans have blocked this since 2010, so the Federal Reserve uses "quantitative easing" as a substitute that doesn't quite work.

Corporate lobbying sabotaged negotiations to curb global heating

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 13:00

The world media don't mention the massive corporate lobbying effort that has sabotaged negotiations that were supposed to curb global heating.

Thug proved to have lied

mercredi 27 novembre 2013 à 13:00

A thug who is proved to have lied, claiming he heard Andrew Mitchell call another thug a "pleb", will face prosecution.

Thugs often lie to put someone in the wrong; they think they are privileged to do so. I am glad that they get prosecuted when they do this to a powerful politician. I wish they got prosecuted when they do this to other people.