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Ban on GMOs in Kaua'i overturned

vendredi 29 août 2014 à 14:00

The ban on GMOs in Kaua'i was overturned in court.

Urgent: Call for protection of monarch butterflies

vendredi 29 août 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: call for protection of monarch butterflies, whose numbers have fallen by 90%.

Please don't distort the formerly useful word "decimate". It means killing ten percent of something. (The Romans used this as a punishment for military units that mutinied and then surrendered.) What we have done to the monarch butterflies is far worse than decimation.

Urgent: Call on Burger King to drop tax dodging plan

vendredi 29 août 2014 à 14:00

Everyone: call on Burger King to drop its tax dodging plan.

New coal electric plants in Europe

vendredi 29 août 2014 à 14:00

New coal-fired electric plants in Europe threatens to wipe out all its savings in CO2 emissions.

If solar power and more advanced batteries catch on, these plants will be lost investments. I suspect that the owners are getting a subsidy to build them, or a loan from the state that will never be repaid if the plants become unnecessary.

War on drugs in Australia

vendredi 29 août 2014 à 14:00

In an Australian state, one party proposes to escalate the war on drugs.

I think it is a bad idea to use methamphetamine, but the war on drugs does worse harm than the drugs.