*Hundreds of thousands of young climate activists have said they will continue “protesting in the streets in huge numbers” against fossil fuels.* *The UK government plans to give police even more power to lock us up. But it won’t stop us: this is about humanity’s future.*

The UK government is criminalizing, one by one, all methods of protest that might effectively draw attention to a cause. But the young people who know that global heating is likely to kill them before they get old realize that surrendering to the authoritarian state is not a sane option.

The danger of Brazil's insurrectionists is not over yet.

• Hyperextremist: Extremist even by comparison with most extremists.

  For instance, while most Republican congresscritters are extremists, the 20 or so who threatened to wreck the US's credit status if they don't get their demands, thus doing something morally equivalent to terrorism, are extremist even by comparison with the rest. I call them "hyperextremists."

• Hypoextremist: Extremist, though a little less so than most extremists.

  All Republican now in the House of Representatives are extremists, but a fraction may be a iittle less rabidly so than the rest. Rather than exaggerate by calling them "moderate," I use the term "hypoextremist" for them.

Next rally for Julian Assange will be *Saturday, January 21, 11:30-12:30, at Park St Station.*

A report claims that banks must prepare now for fossil fuel assets to crash in value. That means governments must require banks to do this.

The article seems to call for going further than that — for giving those investors special privilege by protecting them from losing money. That would make the rest of us reward the fossil fuel companies with more money for decades of lies and cheating. An acceptable solution has to make the cheaters pay.

I don't recognize the groups that are behind this report. It may be true, or it may be an attempt to spare fossil fuel interests from losing any of their billions.