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EU will limit production of biofuels from food crops

dimanche 15 juin 2014 à 14:00

The EU will limit production of biofuels from food crops.

Unfortunately, the limit is too high, and would allow the amount of food diverted for fuel to increase.

Urgent: Authorize federal contract workers to unionize

dimanche 15 juin 2014 à 14:00

US citizens: call on Obama to authorize federal contract workers to unionize.

Blaming the disintegration of Iraq on Obama

dimanche 15 juin 2014 à 14:00

US mainstream (i.e., right-wing) media are blaming the disintegration of Iraq on Obama for pulling out the Bush forces, rather than on Bush for sending them in.

Obama sets himself up for such criticism by failing to condemn Bush for sending them in.

As Obama considers some sort of military intervention in Iraq, McCain has the gall to claim the Bush forces won the war there.

They didn't win in any military sense. They made Iraq calmer by paying support to the non-jihadi Sunni leaders thus separating them from al-Qa'ida, after which the Iraqi government refused to give US troops immunity from prosecution for war crimes and the US removed them rather than allow them to be prosecuted when they commit war crimes.

"Blueberry pomegranate"

dimanche 15 juin 2014 à 14:00

Coca Cola Company (perhaps its subsidiary Minute Maid) is passing off Apple and Grape juice as "blueberry pomegranate", while POM makes dubious health claims about real pomegranate juice.

Air war against ISIS

dimanche 15 juin 2014 à 14:00

Obama says he might conduct air war against ISIS, but only if there is a workable plan for reconciliation between the various ethnic groups in Iraq.

This may serve as a reason for the US not to intervene. But even if a plan looks workable on paper, it may be pure fantasy.