*Russian drone attacks on civilians in Ukraine are war crimes, UN report concludes.*

* Humanity has failed to limit global heating to 1.5C and must change course immediately, the secretary general of the UN has warned.*

Bill Gates warned the world that it had better get global heating back down to under 1.5C as soon as possible, to avoid disastrous tipping points.

Greg Palast writes of repeated US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela to steal its enormous oil reserves.

He also compares Maduro, an election cheater like the corrupter, with Chavez, who win honestly.

The perverter tried to appoint a new US attorney for northern New York State, but the Senate did not approve him. So the perverter invented a new job title (which does not specifically require Senate approval) and appointed him to that new job, giving him the same authority.

Is this a general security hole for a malicious president to bypass senate approval for officials in the executive branch?

Brazilian thugs raided a shanty town in Rio de Janeiro, arrested many young men that they accused of drug trafficking, then murdered them on the spot.

Is this the influence of Bolsonaro and the bully?