Some small towns in Ukraine are being shelled into ruins by the Putin forces.

They are located near the edge of the rebel areas. The Putin forces have not been able to capture them, as the inhabitants are resisting furiously.

In Kharkiv they are constantly attacking civilian targets.

*Biden Urged to Prevent 'Catastrophe' by Reversing Seizure of Afghan Funds.*

*Sky News journalists evacuated after being shot at by Russian "death squad".*

In the interests of balance, I have to remind people that the Bush forces did something comparable in 2003 when they fired at the building that housed the Baghdad office of Al-Jazeera.

Five giant agribusiness companies pledged at Cop26 to reduce deforestation. A week later they lobbied to weaken the EU plan to do that.

Brett Solomon: *THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT, real-world benefits to having an accepted and recognized identity. That’s why the concept of a digital identity is being pursued around the world, from Australia to India… I am nevertheless convinced that digital ID, writ large, poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered. Worse, we are rushing headlong into a future where new technologies will converge to make this risk much more severe.*

In 2015 I proposed that the remedy is to prohibit systems that systematically collect personal data. That solution is drastic, but nothing less will do.