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Pakistani agencies' cooperation with CIA on drone attacks

samedi 26 octobre 2013 à 14:00

Leaked documents show that Pakistani agencies cooperated with the CIA on drone attacks while the government of Pakistan denied this.

Australian leader's endorsement of brutal colonization

samedi 26 octobre 2013 à 14:00

Australian leader Abbott endorsed Indonesia's brutal colonization of West Papua.

Australian gov't tries to detract attention from cause of fires

samedi 26 octobre 2013 à 14:00

The thoroughly fossil Australian government is burning a straw man to distract attention from a painfully hot fact: pumping greenhouse gases into the air makes for ever worse forest fires.

On a given day, causing "bushfire weather" does not imply causing a fire. However, over any length of time, causing more bushfire weather implies causing more fires.

The carbon budget

samedi 26 octobre 2013 à 14:00

The world's global heating negotiations won't dare confront the crucial point that there's a limited budget of carbon that we can afford to emit.

When Figueres says that allotting part of the carbon budget to each country "would presume that there is no advance in technology [to reduce emissions]", that is an error. It is just the opposite: if the US is allowed to release X more tons of CO2, and through advanced technology it cuts the CO2 release of a certain activity in half, it could therefore do twice as much of that activity.

Boycott of products from Israeli settlements

samedi 26 octobre 2013 à 14:00

French advocates of boycotting Israel have been prosecuted and acquitted for this, over and over.

A Liberal Zionist calls for anti-occupation Jews to support boycotts, divestment and sanctions too.