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Gun control

mardi 3 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Musician Caleb Keeter learned, under fire, that having your own guns was useless for stopping a massacre.

How do you shoot someone who is firing from inside a 32th-floor window? You'd have trouble even aiming at the right window, while being shot at.

Philip Morris's foundation

mardi 3 octobre 2017 à 02:00

The WHO denounced Philip Morris's recently established foundation for nicotine-promotig research.

“There are many unanswered questions about tobacco harm reduction, but the research needed to answer these questions should not be funded by tobacco companies.”

Planned strike

mardi 3 octobre 2017 à 02:00

A general strike is planned in Catalonia as a protest against repression by the police.

I would not assume that most of the people that didn't (or couldn't) vote on Sundau were supporters of independence.

I think that people who supported independence were more motivated to vote.

Yacht clubs reducing plastic waste

mardi 3 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Yacht clubs are organizing to reduce plastic waste and promote renewable energy.

Global heating, earthquakes, tsunamis

mardi 3 octobre 2017 à 02:00

Global heating can cause earthquakes in Greenland due to reduction in weight of the ice sheet. When they are underwater, they will cause tsunamis.