The US Energy Information Administration projects that fossil fuel use will hardly diminish by 2040. In other words, it projects humanity will make climate disaster inevitable.

That could happen, but only a fool will state it as a prediction rather than trying to stop it.

New York City was forced to stop systematically searching blacks on the street and stop infiltrating informers into Muslim communities. The result: less crime than ever.

Sad to say, New York City has not abandoned massive surveillance in general. That keeps getting worse. I fear that they are setting up to track everyone around the streets by face recognition, using the surveillance cameras that are supposedly to "protect" us.

For US right-wingers, inflammatory speakers are responsible for violence, but only if they are leftist or criticize those with privilege and power.

In just two years, Illinois took $72 million from people without convicting them of a crime. Many of those people were not even charged.

In countries with "advanced" economies, over 2/3 of the people had no increase in income in the decade from 2005 to 2014.

This is dooH niboR at work, because the richest .1% got a big increase.