Last updated: Friday, February 26, 2022 [Amerika’s major political parties, Congress and Supreme Court are controlled via corporate & oligarch money. We must forbid such bribes and foster principle-based purpose-functionality in government agencies. We must eliminate bribes of media (for biased coverage) and of congressmen (for votes) so all conduct is within the framework of gov't funded elections.]
BIGGEST PROBLEM: It’s time to think clearly and act so our children won't see all beautiful life dying. SOLUTION: Tax above-average income and wealth progressively @ up to a 90% tax-rate to fund life remediation.
Aggregated News & Opinion Recent posts in bigger type.
Health Care & Environment
PROBLEMS: Corporate influence enables life-threatening pollution & highest-profit health care.
Nation States PROBLEMS: Nation-states, especially the biggest ones, have high risk of inept leadership change, making them a danger to the world. Many are increasingly corrupt, so change (as profiled below) is needed. [Ref.: The world is waking up to this!]
Virtual Nations [An editorial promoting an anti-despot/fascist ideal]
Instead of NATION-STATE-POLITICIANS essentially owning and controlling people (and their descendants ad infinitum) in "their" Nation State, wouldn't it be better if adults world-wide could contract with UN-certified professional agencies to perform nation-level fiduciary functions (certifications being updated at least annually).
— State, City and county governments would continue unchanged —
With Johnson & Johnson’s one-shot vaccine close to distribution in the US, the end of the pandemic seems a big step closer. But not everything will return to normal right away
by Jessica Glenza and Alvin Chang | The Guardian | 21.02.26
Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the US Capitol in Washington DC on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Roberto Schmidt/AFP/Getty Images
Of the 14 Californians charged in connection with the pro-Trump riot, three are from the wealthy LA county enclave
Lois Beckett in Los Angeles | The Guardian | 21.02.26
A voter completes his ballot inside a privacy booth at a polling station inside Knapp elementary school on election day in Racine, Wisconsin, 3 November. Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters
New state data shows removal of almost 17,000 eligible voters ahead of 2020 election could have been disastrous
Sam Levine and Alvin Chang in New York | The Guardian | 21.02.26
A healthcare worker checks on patients inside an oxygen tent outside the emergency room in Huntington Park, California, on 29 December 2020. Photograph: Bing Guan/Reuters
The hill of Lycabettus after rare heavy snowfall in Athens, Greece, this month. Further weakening of the AMOC could lead to more intense winters across Europe. Photograph: Angelos Tzortzinis/AFP/Getty
Decline in system underpinning Gulf Stream could lead to more extreme weather in Europe and higher sea levels on US east coast
Fiona Harvey Environment correspondent | The Guardian | 21.02.26
A prescribed burn at Cedar Grove in California. Studies have shown how frequent fires reduce the levels of nutrients in soil. Photograph: Tony Caprio/Nature Ecology & Evolution
Butterflies had bad year after four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging and extreme climate conditions
The butterflies’ population covered only 2.1 hectares (5.2 acres) in 2020, compared to 2.8 hectares (6.9 acres) the previous year. Photograph: Luis Acosta/AFP via Getty Images
Coronavirus pandemic meant the envoys and their families had to travel home in an unconventional way
In normal times, most diplomats can expect to end a foreign posting with an official – if not always fond – farewell from their hosts and a comfortable journey back to their native country....
Justin McCurry in Tokyo and agencies | The Guardian | 21.02.26
Ban on violence against children will only apply in Islamabad, but campaigners hope rest of the country will follow suit
A rally against child abuse in Islamabad, Pakistan. The new law against corporal punishment for children comes after years of lobbying. Photograph: BK Bangash/AP
Shah Meer Baloch in Islamabad | The Guardian | 21.02.26
Tanya Selvaratnam describes her relationship with Eric Schneiderman as one of ‘entrapment, isolation, control, demeaning, and abuse’. Photograph: Tanya Selvaratnam
Tanya Selvaratnam describes alleged intimate violence by Eric Schneiderman in the form of ‘entrapment, isolation, control, demeaning, and abuse’
Warning: this article contains descriptions of alleged abuse
Surge in armed militancy in north of country has led to widespread breakdown of security
A rally in December in protest against the kidnapping of schoolchildren in the north-western state of Katsina. Photograph: Kola Sulaimon/AFP/Getty Images
"When people vote in the midterms, you're not gonna be able to say, 'Well I'm sorry we couldn't raise the minimum wage because the parliamentarian ruled that we couldn't do it.'"
by Jake Johnson, staff writer | Common Dreams | 21.02.25
Lineup at annual gathering features former president’s allies – and Trump himself – suggesting his dominance is undiminished by his election loss
David Smith in Washington | The Guardian | 21.02.25
International & Futurism PROBLEMS: Capitalists, Islamists, Fascists and Mafias cause immorality, barbarity & war. SOLUTIONS: UN, InterPol and International Criminal Court must be fully enabled. FYI: All people are mixed-race
Economics & Corrupting-Capitalism PROBLEMS: Tariff & tax policies, banking/financial deregulation, monopoly/racketeering & antitrust dis-enforcement all help the Very Rich while harming The Public. [26:55 video ‘This Is Neoliberalism’]
Justice Matters PROBLEMS: Political Judges and States Attorneys, too little enforcement of anti-trust laws and white-collar crimes, over-prosecution of the poor. OPED: Commute death sentences and allow assisted suicide.
Eyad al-Gharib found guilty of aiding and abetting a crime against humanity
....A few weeks shy of the 10th anniversary of Syria’s revolution, the verdict in his case in Koblenz marks a groundbreaking moment of justice for the hundreds of thousands of people who have disappeared in the regime’s state-run torture system....
Bethan McKernan in Istanbul | The Guardian | 21.02.24