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Virginia has sneakily allowed adoption agencies to discriminate against gay couples.

If you are in Virginia and thinking of having a baby which would be adopted, have an abortion instead!

Businesses in Central America support drug legalization.

That would be a big step forward but we need it in the US as well.

The Israeli hawks' lobby wants the US to change its policy so as to go to war to stop Iran from developing even the capability to make nuclear weapons.

Wal Mart subcontracts operations to other companies, which sometimes rob their workers.

Climate scientist Peter Gleick says he obtained the Heartland documents by pretending to be someone else.

This affirms that the documents are genuine, except perhaps for the one which Gleick says he received anonymously and sought to validate. However, he says that the other documents agree with that one in substance.

Obama's plans to revive US manufacturing sound good but the methods he proposes are too weak to achieve the goal.

In Homs, hospitals have been turned into torture chambers and doctors that treat wounded protesters are punished brutally.

When it says that "The men torturing him weren't even trying to get information," it falls into the common but erroneous belief that torture is a means of getting information. Torture is a system for getting false confessions, or simply for venting hatred; the supposed desire for information is a pretense.

The US Trade Representative boasts that the TPP negotiations are fully transparent (but only if you're a lobbyist for big business).

The secretive process is part and parcel of the malicious purpose of this treaty.

A proposal to give whales a legal right to life and freedom.

I might support this. It's a lot more reasonable than offering such rights to a 3-month human fetus.

Shows presenting dolphins would be able to continue if the dolphins stay and perform voluntarily. Sometimes dolphins are willing to do that.

Soot from industry in Asia is falling on Himalayan glaciers and making them melt faster.

Environment scientists say drastic action is needed to avoid eco-disaster.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that putting an economic value on nature is not enough — it is necessary for people to love the world's ecosystems.

If that is really necessary, it would require the elimination of corporations (psychopaths).

The Russian heatwave of 2010, which destroyed a large amount of the harvest, became 3 times as likely due to global heating.

In other words, it could have happened without global heating, but probably would not have happened.

Canada is making blustery threats to deter Europe from recognizing the heavily polluting effects of tar sand oil.

Canada's tar sand oil is more dangerous than Iranian nuclear weapons. If Iran builds nuclear weapons, it could very well never use them. If Canada is allowed to finish developing its tar oil export capability, it will attack the world immediately.

Nations threatened with attack (by inundation, drought or agricultural plagues) by Canada's planned weapon would do well to plan preemptive military intervention to prevent Canada from finishing its deployment.

The UK government, which was elected condemning the surveillance state, plans a tremendous increase in surveillance.

Some Americans may be subject to gratuitous drug tests in order to collect unemployment benefits.

No one should be required to take a drug test, not in connection with employment, and much less in connection with any benefits from the state.

They are not a good solution to any real problem.

US police using tasers have killed 500 people since 2001. Most of these people were unarmed and not threatening anyone.

The taser is not a "nonlethal weapon". It is a sometimes-lethal weapon.

Morocco arrested people for handing out leaflets calling for a boycott of the elections.

This also shows the danger of laws that forbid anonymous public statements.

Over a million people protested in Spain against plans to attack workers' rights..

ACTA is part of a multi-decade, worldwide copyright campaign by governments working for corporations to impose injustice.

One step in resisting their demands is rejecting their propaganda terms. Why say "copyright protection" when it is shorter and easier to say "copyright"? Copyright lawyers use the word "protection" because it spins the copyright issue their way. Since they are the "experts", their way of speaking is prestigious, so others imitate it in order to sound prestigious.

While Republican liars call Obama "socialist", he is actually less socialist than any recent president — and much less socialist than the American people.