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Tropical diseases in the US

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Spreading poverty in the US, together with the lack of a proper medical system, is allowing "tropical" diseases to spread in the south of the US.

Global heating is probably contributing to the change too.

Exaggerated crime reports

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Officials acknowledge that exaggerated reports of crime in New Orleans just after hurricane Katrina interfered with rescuing people, and led to murders by thugs.

It also provided the excuse for thugs to prevent a large group of poor and/or black people from crossing a bridge to get out of New Orleans.

Marauders and plunderers

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

The "marauders and plunderers" are not the refugees who flee to Europe, it's the companies and governments that create the crises that make them flee their homes.

Occasionally the common people play a partial role by having more children than their lands can stably support. However, it's not always their fault; global heating is reducing the number many lands can support — in Syria, for instance.

Modren Taylorism

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Computerized work tracking is being applied to the modren workspace.

When these practices were applied to factory work in the early 20th century, a practice called "Taylorism", workers fought back … and unionized.

You will have to unionize too!

That means you must support candidates that will make it easier to form a union and give unions more clout against employers.

Shell oil spill

mercredi 19 août 2015 à 02:00

Obama gave Shell full approval to create oil spills in the Chukchi Sea and convert it into the Upchukchi Sea.

They must figure that floating ice will cease to be a danger once they have melted it all.