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Blocking pipelines

mercredi 15 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Cities in the Pacific Northwest are using zoning laws to block fossil fuel pipelines.

Polish neo-Nazis

mercredi 15 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Polish neo-Nazis call for killing Muslims and the government smiles.

UK austerity

mercredi 15 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Many Britons will demand exit from the EU as long as UK austerity leaves them at a disadvantage compared with workers coming from other EU countries.

The root of this problem is that the EU favors business, on the balance, over workers. In an imaginary labor shortage, a Europe-wide labor market could pressure businesses to compete to offer high wages and benefits, but in the real circumstances the effect is to help businesses push wages down.

UK welfare cuts

mercredi 15 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The latest UK veiled welfare cuts are pushing many families into losing their homes or going without food.

You shouldn't have a third baby, or a first baby, if you would need public assistance to take care of it. However, punishing children for being born in such families makes no sense, either in terms of justice (the children didn't choose) or in terms of future well-being (making them grow up stunted, physically or mentally, is bad for society as well as for them personally). Discouraging burdensome reproduction has to be done in other ways.

Destroying world wonders

mercredi 15 novembre 2017 à 01:00

From the Everglades to Kilimanjaro Global Heating Is Destroying World Wonders.