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Kevin DiVico

UK police/spies colluded with giant construction firms to build illegal blacklist datab... - 0 views

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    Today's lead story in the Observer is a maddening and excellent investigative piece revealing that for three decades, the UK's biggest construction companies worked with British police and spy-agencies to build illegal dossiers on whistle-blowers who complained about unsafe working conditions and trade-unionists. The victims of these investigations -- thousands of them -- were economically ruined as the firms conspired to keep them from being hired at any job-site, and saw to it that if they were ever hired, they were promptly fired.
Kevin DiVico

BBC News - Climate change threat to Arabica coffee crops - 0 views

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    "Climate change could severely reduce the areas suitable for wild Arabica coffee before the end of the century. That is the conclusion of work by a UK-Ethiopian team published in the academic journal Plos One. It supports predictions that a changing climate could damage global production of coffee - the world's second most traded commodity after oil. "
Kevin DiVico

Ultrafast Trades Trigger Black Swan Events Every Day, Say Econophysicists - Technology ... - 0 views

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