(Satire) *Enlightened Judge Sentences Murderer To Ego Death By Means Of Ayahuasca.*

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Global heating is slowing down the Atlantic's north-south currents,

This will tend to make northern Europe cooler and the Caribbean even hotter. It will also mean even more floods in Eastern Australia, and increasing drought in the US southwest.

Canada is planning to establish a new intelligence agency to study the threat from right-wing extremists in the US -- especially in case they get political power again.

*Canada's Big Banks Are Secretly Supporting Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion.*

The banks are TD Securities, RBC Capital Markets, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, BMO Capital Markets, Scotiabank, and National Bank of Canada. All these banks say they are committed to climate defense, but it seems to be lip service only.

If you have money in any of these banks (even if in a different part of it), I urge you to move it out, and tell the bank why.

In the UK, two million people are suffering from long Covid -- 3% of the population.

In the US, the fraction is

around 6% of the population.

It is not clear whether these two measurements are comparable, or what the difference might mean.

What is clear is that governments that yield to public pressure to "stop protecting us and let us ignore the danger" are making a terrible mistake.