One journalist's struggle to find out about US military operations in Africa. AFRICOM won't admit where its bases are or what countries it is fighting in.

Prime Monster Sunak was educated in an elite school that teaches rich boys to be greedy but not at all compassionate.

He keeps a lot of money in a secret account in the Cayman Islands so that no one can tell what he invests in. This means he has continual opportunities for insider trading.

*Former Uber lobbyist Mark MacGann … called on European lawmakers to take on the "disproportionate" and "undemocratic" power held by tech companies* such as Uber.

*He recalled the "almost unlimited finance" executives had to lobby and silence drivers with legal disputes.*

* MacGann said it would be unfair for drivers to be required to hire expensive lawyers and go to labour courts to prove they were employees.*

I agree with what he said, but he surely did not mention the injustice of requiring customers to run a nonfree app on a nonfree operating system (iOS or Android), and identifying themselves to pay. This adds up to tracking the public's movements — something that a free society must ensure no one can do.

New York City responded to increased violent crime in the subways by pushing out homeless people who were living there.

Does this make sense? I wonder what fraction of violent crimes in the subway are committed by homeless people. My guess is that it is minuscule, because the factors that could make you homeless have little to do with the factors that could make you violent. My guess is that this is simply a way to "arrest the usual suspects" and show that you're "doing something about it."

If the city's night-mayor has any evidence to the contrary, I'd like to see it.

I also guess that an increase in the number of cops patrolling in the subway will change little, because criminals that commit crimes for profit and can think about it will simply commit their crimes where no cop is present. However, the patrols might result in catching more of the criminals who are mentally incompetent to plan like that.

San Francisco decided to build another public toilet. The project will cost 1.7 million dollars and take 13 years to finish.

Building dedicated public toilets as separate facilities is a surrender to business. The cheap way to address this need is to require all restaurants, whenever open, to permit any orderly person to enter and use the toilet. If a restaurant complains about the cost of fulfilling this requirement, just invite it to move to a place with less pedestrian traffic.