Category: Général / General
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Beyond All Privacy Rights
Apple is strongly objecting to a court’s order stating that the company must help the F.B.I. access the phone of one of the San Bernardino shooters. What if the government asks us for something we simply do not have, and something we consider too dangerous to create? Should a back door be built into devices…
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Trump: the Ultimate Alpha Male
AP Photo/Carlos Osorio Trump is running an exceptionally visceral campaign. As Donald Trump’s GOP opponents regroup in South Carolina, they are running into a new political phenomenon: Trump is riding on a wave of adulation. Rarely has a presidential hopeful emerged like Donald Trump, who consistently touts his resume and plans for the nation in…
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Farmers will grow what people will buy!
Consumers can make more informed choices. (Brennan Linsley/Associated Press) Making the changes necessary to fix the problems in both our agriculture and in our diets requires a fundamental shift in attitude. Some of today’s major agricultural problems, such as pollution, greenhouse gases and soil erosion began decades ago, with government incentives that rewarded production of…
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Trump Power
“Despairing white middle-class has long yearned for a white knight to fight for it against the global economic elite.” – Trump is that white knight. Trump, to enter the race to the GOP nomination, from a billionaire real estate mogul, has entirely reinvented himself and could soon attempt another transformation. In words and deeds, he…
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The radical idea that’s gaining momentum at the Paris climate talks
PARIS — More and more voices at the U.N. climate change conference are standing up for at least trying to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, rather than the more commonly cited 2 degrees C. It’s a dizzying goal: The world is already at about 1 degrees Celsius of warming, with about 400…
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Climate change is going to make inequality even worse than it already is
A general view on the chimneys of the Hsieh-ho Power Plant in Keelung, northern Taiwan. EPA/DAVID CHANG In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists demonstrate the full ramifications of a widely accepted theory about climate change: that it will almost certainly have a disproportionate impact on the poor. Climate change won’t…
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A surprising new factor that could make global warming worse
Amazonian tropical rainforest near Manaus, Brazil. (Image credit: William Anderegg) A surprising new study pinned down the climate factor most strongly tied to variations in terrestrial carbon storage: that is, the ability of plants and other features of the Earth’s surface to take up carbon, thus preventing it from going into the atmosphere. Scientists are…
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Trump to make an announcement very soon
“A lot of people are going to be very happy.” Saturday August 30, Donald Trump promised to make an announcement “very soon” on whether he will rule out running as an independent candidate. For a few weeks now, State Republicans parties have been trying to put the squeeze on the billionaire businessman, who has yet…
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An uncertain fall for Hilary and the Democrats
Hilary cursed by a shaky handling of the e-mail controversy The Democratic Party, whose presidential race has been overshadowed by Donald Trump and the Republicans, heads into the fall with its nomination contest far less certain than it once appeared. As the Democratic National Committee looks up at its summer activities, members are left with…
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The Trump Reality Show
Trump: “I deliver ratings!” Trump is now transforming the battle for the United States presidency into a TV reality show. Trump’s allegations against illegal Mexican immigrants, his insults directed toward Fox News’s Megyn Kelly and his confrontation with Univision’s Jorge Ramos were bound to get some attention from the media. Trump delivers ratings; Trump is…
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