Big US banks are lobbying against a proposed rule that would stop them from managing retirement funds any more if they are caught committing crimes in doing that.
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Big US banks are lobbying against a proposed rule that would stop them from managing retirement funds any more if they are caught committing crimes in doing that.
Next year's climate conference will be hosted (and run) by the UAE.
The UAE is a repressive regime that recognizes human rights only when that pleases the emirs, so protest will be crushed and most activists kept out, as happened this year in Egypt.
In addition, the UAE is a big oil exporter, which means that next year's event will be even more corrupted by global heating denialists than this year's.
The UAE spends lots of money to manipulate the US government and policies.
If any powerful countries really want to make progress in defending the climate, they should denounce the UN climate conferences as corrupt betrayals, refuse to attend, and organize a new kind of event. But maybe they are corrupted enough to be content with this corruption.
*Global heating to drive stronger La Niña and El Niño events by 2030, researchers say.*
These events already cause havoc — droughts and fires in some places and times, floods in others. Global heating is likely to make them worse.
Proposing a system for acquiring property on celestial bodies and objects which avoids the bad outcome that the early space travelers claim everything.
My view of property rights is very different from an antisocialist's. People are not inherently entitled to own any kind of property, but a system of property rights can be beneficial on the margin for people in general. In normal circumstances, where no one is in penury, it is useful for individuals to own clothing, books, furniture, bicycles, food, and so on, and maybe even houses. I mean "useful" in the sense that in those circumsances the system of property rights benefits everyone. This presumes that overall economic system protects people from poverty, so that every individual gets to own a reasonable amount of those things.
However, property rights must not be absolute. If the system does push someone into poverty, "property rights" can't justify keeping that person in penury. If you need food to survive, you are entitled to "steal" some, with a few special exceptions such as taking the food some other penurious person was about to eat, or taking a farmer's seed corn.
That said, the temporary property rental system proposed in the article linked to could be a useful method to add to a system of non-absolute property.