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Suing pipeline protesters

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Right-wingers are suing pipeline protesters, calling them a terrorist conspiracy.

Biofuel for airplanes

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

The EU has a big plan to make more biofuel for airplanes, and it would cause big harm.

Biofuels produced by growing crops for fuel already cause harm; they drive up the price of food, and they increase carbon emissions.

Temer's corruption

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

Brazil's president Temer weakened the law against slavery to buy support from agribusiness, so that it would vote its congresscritters to protect him from trial for some of his corruption.

His maneuver succeeded; Brazil remains ruled by corruption.

We should not use the word "reforms" when referring to his plans. The only thing Temer wants to do is dooH niboR.

Fortune 500 tax dodging

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

At least 73% of the Fortune 500 companies used tax havens to dodge taxes, in 2016.

The "paradise papers" might demonstrate that the percentage is even higher.

Source of poverty

mercredi 27 décembre 2017 à 01:00

"The lie that poverty is a moral failing was buried a century ago. Now it’s back."

People who attributed poverty to bad luck are not entirely wrong. The reason why x% of the population are poor is bad social policies. The reason why person A is part of that x% rather than person B is chance.