The Salafi Arabian ambassador to the US, in 2001, gave lots of money to a man who arranged the US visit of some of the September 2001 hijackers, and may have given the money to them. He got additional money by way of his wife and the ambassador's wife.

Some of Puerto Rico's loans, which were the occasion for a Greece-style destructive "rescue", were usurious — Puerto Rico borrowed 4 billion dollars from the big banks, and will have to pay 33 billion dollars in interest.

A bankruptcy, to drop those loans, would be justice for the banksters as well as justice for Puerto Rico.

The Labour Party has imposed a heavy fee for voting in the coming leadership election. I suppose this is to exclude the rabble, so that the decision will be made by the well-to-do members of the party.

A part of the Turkish armed forces attempted a coup against President Erdoğan's government.

Reportedly some of the military units involved in the coup fired tank shells at civilian protesters, with many deaths.

A military government would be tyranny. The Erdoğan regime is tyranny. Which one would be worse is a question I am unable to judge. However, the secular opposition seems to have decided that the military coup would be worse.

An appeals court ruled that the US Navy must avoid using sonar that can injure marine mammals' hearing.