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Expelled reporter

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

Indonesia expelled a BBC reporter for an erroneous tweet that criticized the quality of food sent for malnourished children in Papua.

Her error was to confuse food imported for sale in stores with food aid. She corrected the error later.

Errors are to be avoided. However, to interrogate and expel journalists for what they publish — even for errors — is much worse than an error.

Coping with droughts

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

To cope with the future droughts that global heating will cause requires changes in both physical systems and legal systems.

One thing it may require is to give people water priority over agriculture. Those who try growing water-intensive crops that take water from people must be shown they are asking to lose.

Total solitude

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

Modern patterns of living push old people into lives of total solitude. Cohousing could help people avoid this fate.

Automated and internet sales are part of the problem. How about discouraging those?

Biometrics for air travel

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

The UN demands that all countries set up databases for personal information about air travelers, including biometrics.

It doesn't require all countries to collect any particular kind of biometric, but that injustice is likely to follow.

Urgent: Remove Rep. Nunes

mardi 6 février 2018 à 01:00

US citizens: call for removing Rep. Nunes as head of the Trump-Russia investigation.

He doesn't want answers, only to cover them up with lies.