A big spill of mine waste in Canada has led to repercussions against the mine.

Uri Avnery: Eyeless in Gaza.

Ferguson thugs' previous caper: they arrested the wrong man, jailed him even after they became aware of this, kicked him in the head, then charged him with the crime of damaging thug department property (bleeding on their uniforms).

Maybe he didn't bleed on their uniforms at all — the thugs later said they had made it up.

These thugs committed perjury. Why are they not in prison for that?

The UK government has blocked publication of the report into the cause of horsemeat in the "beef", because it will point the finger at the government's cuts in inspecting food.

The deeper cause, which the report may not mention, is the EU's deregulation that makes it easy to ship meat from one company to another, in different countries, in a long sequence. Make the supply chain long enough, and there is sure to be a cheater in it at some point.

The US wants to do both of these things: undermine inspections and deregulate meat imports.

Fraud is profitable, so when business determines the laws, it often legislates for fraud.

Algorithmic filtering can affect history, not just hide history. Facebook's filtering algorithm suppressed news about the thug riot in Ferguson until after it became national news.