The anti-sharing industry is trying to push search engines into "voluntary agreements" to censor links to sharing sites.

The IPCC will warn governments that it's getting too late to save Earth from over 2C of heating.

The other explanations advanced by denialists have been refuted.

To have a good chance of avoiding catastrophe, we need to fight hard to defeat the denialists.

Opposition newspapers in Venezuela say they are going to be shut down by a shortage of newsprint, which has to be imported, because they are not allowed to buy dollars to buy it with.

It would wrong to shut down opposition this way, but it may not be political, because even the government is running into the paper shortage. Venezuela has stopped issuing passports because it has no paper to make them with.

I went to Venezuela in June and observed peculiar shortages. For instance, there was no butter, though cream cheese was available. There was no short pasta, but there was spaghetti. I can't understand what could make it possible to import or make spaghetti but impossible to import or make penne, but that's how it was.

Why can't all forms of paper be made in Venezuela? It has plenty of trees and land for tree farms.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau caught JP Morgan cheating customers and made it pay them back $300 million, plus a fine.

The fine was not large enough; it should have equaled the restitution.

As the rate of non-bankster crime falls, US states are bound by contract to keep the private prisons full.

Here's more detail.

Since the banks and the banksters are not prosecuted, this policy is ineffective against the most harmful crimes.

I think privately run prisons should be banned entirely. Prison guards must be accountable to the state.