(satire) *Texas Passes Mandatory 24-Hour Waiting Period Before Police Can Engage Active Shooters.*

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Global heating effects are making dust storms occur much more often in the Middle East.

The US wars of the 21st century can't be won because these interventions' main effect is to terrorize the civilian population. The US government tries actively to hush this up.

Greenpeace will fight to block the development of a new oilfield in the UK.

Horribly, the US continues to sell oil leases to oil companies. Meanwhile, China and India are still building coal-fired generators. This prepares death for people who will be alive in a few decades.

Does that mean it is a waste of time to fight to stop one large oil field in the UK? Not at all. Every megaton of oil left in the ground is an important step.

Information is emerging about the whereabouts of the civilian dead of Mariupol. The total number is perhaps 20,000, perhaps 50,000, but some bodies are impossible to identify, or even to find.

Let us not forget that that Putin intentionally prevented evacuating the civilians from Mariupol to safety in Ukraine until the Putin forces were in a position to forcibly take thousands to Russia.

I understand the worry of not knowing whether someone you love is alive or dead. I am perplexed by the idea that your late husband might be "a missing person" if you saw him dead before you fled.