The red giant's plastic problem (tags)
A tattered Coca-Cola flag flutters on the beach of Ixia on Rhodes: every year, the beverage company produces more than 100 billion single-use plastic bottles. Many of them end up in the sea...In a few years, there is likely to be more plastic swimming in the oceans than fish.
There are successful examples of non-violent, civil resistance in history. This spares human lives and, when things go well, achieves its goals at least as well as acts of war could. Ukrainian pacifists are trying to show a way out of the spiral of escalation.
Larry Everest on Iran, Douglas Fischer on climate change, Jennifer Pizer on Prop 8, statement from Revolution newspaper on Haiti.
The Abolition of the Unemployed (tags)
Researchers urge freedom instead of full employment. With a bsic income, the unemployed would have the freedom to seek for employment that suits them. No one would force them to accept any work. Basic income is a way to solve the dilemma of jobs destroyed by higher productivity.
Police chief pleads guilty to drunken driving (tags)
The police chief in Centerville, Nolan Clark, 26, has pleaded guilty to a charge of drunken driving.
Toilet Paper Vs. National Security (tags)
To be truthful, I've must admit I've never had reason to contemplate the possibility that toilet paper would come to be considered as a threat to our national security. Apparently the SS now finds itself so wrapped in paranoia, that in order to protect the most widely despised Moron in modern history, they need resort to making it up as they go. Making mockery of the Constitution as it suits them....