Obama has taken the side of the vulture capitalists against Argentina and all indebted countries.

Some "slow" forms of greenhouse gas feedback, disregarded in IPCC models, could have a substantial impact during this century. The IPCC's worst case (continuing to increase fossil fuel usage as now) could lead to 8C of heating instead of 6C, by 2100.

10% fewer births are being recorded in Greece now than 4 years ago.

To some extent, this is because poor women can't afford the fee for registering a birth. How self-defeating it is for a country to charge for that! To some extent, the lack of prenatal care causes miscarriages. To some extent, people are deciding not to have children.

It is generally good when people have fewer children, but inducing that decision by imposing general poverty is horrible.

People find all sorts of excuses to sneer at people who get welfare payments, often they are based on questionable suppositions.

Right-wing media encourage people to blame real or imaginary "welfare cheats" to distract people from the big cheaters: rich people that pay to change laws so they can leave the rest with an ever-shrinking fraction of society's wealth.

US phone companies are citing general policies of secrecy rather than confronting their failure to oppose PAT RIOT Act collection of phone call records.