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Police and justice for the people
It’s obvious that the rioters, those who burn, steal and commit violence, are criminals who must be tried and sentenced in accordance with the law. There’s a lot of drug trafficking in the suburbs. But when the police catch a trafficker, that trafficker is very often released because the justice system can’t take it anymore.…
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Stop the all-concrete approach
Concrete dominates today’s buildings. And yet it has major shortcomings. It consumes a lot of water and energy, produces a lot of CO2 and lasts only 80 years at best for reinforced concrete. What’s more, it doesn’t provide sufficient protection from the heat, leading to excessive increased use of air conditioning, which in turn exacerbates…
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Fair trade and organic farming
I’ve heard a lot of good ideas about fair trade and organic farming, but I have a few thoughts and reactions. First of all, I think it’s excessive to imagine a substantial change based on consumers paying more. In most European countries, our producers are paid a pittance by the middlemen because they are able…
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Protecting water
We recently received instructions to save water. We all agree that water is a precious resource that must be preserved. Why aren’t the big water consumers targeted by these measures? Intensive corn, cotton and soya farming (including in deserts and devastated forests), concrete buildings, golf courses or clothing manufacturing consume a lot of water. What…
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Peru, biodiversity in danger
The biodiversity in Peru is enormous and unique, 3000 to 4000 varieties of potatoes, 52 varieties of corn, 163 varieties of tomatoes, 7590 varieties of flowers that exist only there, 4400 varieties of butterflies, 3 varieties of cocoa, avocados, cotton. We use only a few varieties of each crop in Europe. If these were to…
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The Senate, the power to piss people off
When you type “abolish the senate” in google, you realize that many countries want to abolish it. It is high time to replace it with the popular initiative referendum, which is a better tool for exercising control over the people’s representatives in parliament, for example. These representatives could be selected at random. The Senate prevented…
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4-day workweek
– New Zealand Prime Minister opens door to 4-day working week – World Economic forum: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/05/new-zealand-jacinda-ardern-4-day-week-pandemic-productivity/ – 70+ reasons why switching to four-day workweek is better – CDN: https://cdn.shortpixel.ai/client/q_glossy,ret_img,w_768/https://theundercoverrecruiter.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/infographic-4-day-workweek-1-768×4545.jpg – Microsoft experimented with a 4-day workweek, and productivity jumped by 40% – Business Insider: https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-4-day-work-week-boosts-productivity-2019-11 – ‘The old ways of working are outdated’: Unilever is experimenting with a 4-day workweek – Fortune: https://fortune.com/2020/12/01/unilever-four-day-work-week/ – Spain wants to make…
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Will you get what you expect from Trump? Chaos is unpredictable
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They make Putin laugh
Donald Trump is an agent of Putin who has enough leverage on him. Therefore, the White House decisions over the last 4 years have been in favour of Russia at the expense of the United States interests. This is the simple truth as explained by ex head of FBI counter-espionnage Peter Strozk. Peter Strzok: What…
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Protect the voters
Trump tells his supporters to become poll watchers with a baseless claim about fraud at voting locations – CNN: https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/08/politics/donald-trump-poll-watchers-north-carolina/index.html Trump’s promotion of armed militias risks stoking civil war | Trudy Rubin – The Philadelphia Inquirer: https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/kenosha-trump-kyle-rittenhouse-portland-antifa-20200901.html Voter intimidation – ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_pdf_file/kyr-voterintimidation-v03.pdf Brennan Center for Justice: https://www.brennancenter.org Selma to Montgomery March – HISTORY.COM EDITORS: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/selma-montgomery-march…