Urgent: Stop giveaways to Wall Street
dimanche 28 décembre 2014 à 13:00US citizens: tell Congress to stop giveaways to Wall Street.
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US citizens: tell Congress to stop giveaways to Wall Street.
Global heating is disrupting butterflies, so that caterpillars mature in the autumn and can't survive the winter as adults.
The UK gave 1.5 billion dollars in subsidy to all sorts of power plants just for existing and doing what they were going to do anyway.
The subsidy was supposed to be an incentive to bring new generating capacity on line, but it did none of that.
Since a large fraction of this generating capacity uses fossil fuel, that fraction of the subsidy is subsidy for continuing to use fossil fuel (rather than building renewable capacity).
The US government asks courts to order computer companies to remotely give access to people's computers — when the companies have power (through back doors) to do so.
The defense is to use free software that probably does not have a back door, rather than proprietary software that almost certainly does have one.