Portland, Oregon, is paying prisoners one dollar a day to throw away the possessions of homeless people.

Prisoners should be paid a decent wage for any work they do, other than taking care of the prison itself. To pay them a dollar a day drives down wages for non-prisoners, and that over time converts some of them into prisoners.

Then there is the issue of clearing camps made by homeless people rather than making enough housing for them. The article doesn't explain why the homeless people left their tents and photos behind, but my guess is that thugs forced them to.

The opposition candidate in Kenya claims that the election was rigged.

I wonder what the exit polls say.

After Shakila Zareen survived being shot by her husband in Afghanistan, she was accepted as a refugee by the US. The troll cancelled this.

Perhaps that's because the husband she is fleeing is connected to the Taliban.

A bureaucracy is a machine assembled out of human parts. When the humans make it their goal to avoid even the tiniest risk in one direction, they invite horrible errors in the other direction. Sad to say, this is what's happening in many countries' immigration policies.

Genetically modified salmon is now sold in stores in Canada.

Each GMO raises its own specific issues. In the case of this particular genetically modified salmon, the danger is that the genes might get into wild salmon populations.

Growing them inland in another continent might make them safe. But genes have a record of flowing where scientists said that could not happen. The flows occur through pathways that are very improbable, but they happen once in a rare while and once may be enough. Moving production to Canada would eliminate one level of barrier, a foolhardy act.

"Indigenous peoples are the best guardians of world's biodiversity."