The European Parliament is voting on a proposal to ban arms sales to Salafi Arabia, which is using the arms to impose horrible suffering on Yemen.

Salafi Arabia pretends that its enemies the Houthis are "terrorists" that Europe needs to fight, but the Houthis are only interested in controlling Yemen. They are no friends of Sunni terrorists such as al-Qa'ida.

Many web sites are blocking connection through Tor, or making users answer a CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA typically requires nonfree Javascript software. Thus, these sites demand that you either (1) let them track your location or (2) run a nonfree program. Either one means mistreating you. I refuse to do those things — I would rather not access those sites.

I hope you will join me in rejecting them.

Bill Gates says there will be a "clean energy breakthrough" that will solve the global heating problem.

Mr Bill's faith in future technology is touching, but it's lunacy. Such a breakthrough may or may not happen. Our plans for avoiding global heating disaster must not depend on it.

Fortunately, we can avoid disaster even without any breakthrough — if we have the political will to make a forced march to sustainable energy. If, that is, we do not justify laziness by assuming that a "breakthrough" will make it easy.

When an ice age ends, the Earth heats up — but nearly as fast as we are heating it now.

As Rivers Run Black in Peru, Indigenous Tribes Left Cleaning Big Oil's Disaster.