EDF wants to extend the life of a 40 year old nuclear reactor which has cracks in it. So, what do you think that’s about? Money. EDF can patch the reactor to get another decade out of it and all the revenue that comes with it. That is small marginal investment for large incremental cash …
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Category:2 Geopolitics
In my lifetime, we’ve wiped out half earth’s wildlife
And more than doubled the weight of humans (not including all our stuff). Will they all be gone when my children are my age? The latest edition of the Living Planet Report is not for the faint-hearted. The Living Planet Index (LPI), which measures more than 10,000 representative populations of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and …
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Hong Kong is not the Middle East, but …
These pictures make me sad. Hong Kong people are wonderful and in a decade of living there I never felt threatened, not even in Kowloon’s Walled City (admittedly that was in the early 1990s). I believe people are still peaceful, but they are not careless and they want justice and equity, just like everyone else. …
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Standing up to bullies … works?
A senior legal investigator was fired by the FED for standing up to Goldman Sachs and her bosses at the FED. She got fired for doing her job. What happened? She highlighted the corruption in the FED and Goldman Sachs which was protecting bosses and their cash at the expense of Goldman Sachs clients and …
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Irish anglers being fished by the state
Sorry, did I say fished? I meant something else … A two-day International Conference ‘Celebrating River Restoration in Ireland and Europe’ organised by MulkearLIFE and hosted by the project’s coordinating beneficiary Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI) took place in Limerick this week. The project received € 1.7 million in public money. Local anglers tried to protest …
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Is Amazon destruction your fault?
Sadly, the truth is that we are all to blame. We demand the paper or burgers or whatever it is for which the tropical woods are consumed. Ok, so you want to deny it or ignore it. That’s OK. Today. But tomorrow we’re all going to have to face the truth. Sooner or later we’ll …
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We’re 20 years away from catastrophe, says PricewaterhouseCoopers.
“Low Carbon Economy Index,” a report released by the accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, has numerous stark warnings. Sadly they are unlikely to be heeded by those that matter – big companies, governments and people like you and me – because those are the culprits identified in the report. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers report, “the gap between …
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Homegrown Knowledge
Here’s a 15 minute video on Monica and Eddie’s homeschool. Monica and Eddie are being bullied by the state although they have strong community support (look at the comments on YouTube). The video shows what they are being prosecuted for doing … it’s mad!
10% of girls under 20 are raped. Is this civilisation?
About 120 million girls around the world – slightly more than one in 10 – have been raped or sexually assaulted by the age of 20, a UN report says. The children’s agency Unicef also says 95,000 children and teenagers – most of them in Latin America and the Caribbean – were murdered in 2012 …
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Stand up to bullies …
Monica and Eddie are amazing people. They work hard and do good. They have raised 6 children of their own and fostered others. They have successfully home-schooled their children. Now, when the Irish state asked them to fill in forms, they refused. Partly because it was an unnecessary bureaucratic pain – everyone knew their exemplary …
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