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Hungary: new law forces out Open Society Foundation

lundi 30 avril 2018 à 02:00

The Open Society Foundation has been forced out of Hungary by a new law that is explicitly politically biased.

Alabama: Monsanto chemical factory PCBs

lundi 30 avril 2018 à 02:00

Monsanto's chemical factory poisoned the town of Anniston, Alabama, with PCBs. Many of the residents are sick as a result.

Monsanto uses the power of its money to fight to avoid or delay compensation and correction.

This is one reason we should not allow companies to be that large. Suitable policies can compel them to split up. Foreign companies that are too large should not be allowed to operate directly. They could sell goods to a special importer that would resell them.

Assad chemical attack

lundi 30 avril 2018 à 02:00

Now that Assad is in control of Douma, his forces are keeping chemical investigators away saying it is too dangerous for them, while shepherding journalists on guided tours to tell them there was no chemical attack.

Some of the people say there was a chemical attack but it was a false-flag attack carried out by Islamist rebels.

It is hard to determine what parts of this are true, but if one of those stories were true, I don't think anyone would be asserting the other one. Therefore, I think that Assad carried out the chemical attack. But I can't say that is proven.

Fingerprinting in India

lundi 30 avril 2018 à 02:00

India is showing the world that massively fingerprinting citizens puts them at risk — of theft, and of future tyranny.

Oil pipeline protesters in WV

lundi 30 avril 2018 à 02:00

People in West Virginia are living in trees to block an oil pipeline.

The local effects will be bad for them, but the contribution to global heating will increase the resulting deaths by an amount that increases every year.