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The Israel Project

samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 02:00

The Israel Project (a lobbying group to support Israel's occupation and siege of Palestine) sets up pages for various causes (women's rights, protection of the environment, others) so as to associate their campaign with those causes. It veils its relationship with those pages.

Since the article mentions the six-day war, I should point out that Egypt had already attacked Israel by blockading shipping to Elath. A blockade, whether of Elath or Gaza, is recognized as an act of war.

Tax attacks and wages

samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Economic records such as tax payments show that the Republican tax attacks resulted in no significant increase in wages.

George Soros on bailouts

samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 02:00

George Soros writes that he urged Obama to make bailed-out banks hand over part ownership rather than giving them loans. He argues that Obama's decision hurt the non-rich, and Americans recognized that Democrats were responsible.

Eating microplastics

samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Mosquitos eat microplastics as larvae, then grow up to be eaten by other animals, which ingest the microplastics. In this way, they move up the food chain and are ingested by humans.

There are reasons to think they can harm all the animals that consume them.

CO2 predictions in the 1980s

samedi 22 septembre 2018 à 02:00

Shell and Exxon researchers predicted in the 1980s not only the future increase in CO2 but also some aspects of the disaster that would result.