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Facebook agrees to censorship

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 02:00

Facebook has agreed to censor publications to Vietnam's specifications.

(Please don't refer to publications as "content".)

US business with Russia

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 02:00

The US has put sanctions on doing business with Russia, but a loophole permits JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs to continue.

Childhood stress

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 02:00

Doctors are starting to measure the phenomenon that childhood stress tends to cause medical problems that take many years off people's lives.

The US is causing childhood stress for millions of children in some other countries. Meanwhile, right-wing antisocialist policies are causing child stress for millions of children in the US.

If saying hello to each student on entering the classroom makes a big difference to the class, this is one example of why large classes will tend to be bad classes, no matter how capable and assiduous the teacher is.

Desperation of Americans

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 02:00

The election of Obama, and that of Trump, both reflect that Americans are desperate for politicians that will serve the public rather than the rich.

In each case they didn't get it. (To be fair to Obama, he tried to go further on medical insurance, and was blocked by Republicans and business lobbying.) The general point is that the US political system is no longer a democracy.

Sanders recognizes this, which is why he aims for a "political revolution".

Preventing extinction of vaquita porpoise

jeudi 4 mai 2017 à 02:00

The only way to prevent extinction of the vaquita porpoise is to catch all 3 of them and move them to protected waters.