Norway talks a good game of climate defense leadership, but it continues to develop large new oil fields that can cause global disaster.

A German organization connected with BioNTech and Pfizer is trying to bully South Africa into abandoning its effort to reverse-engineer the Moderna vaccine and manufacture vaccines there.

The article digresses onto the topic of patents, but that's a different issue. It is purely an issue of legal threats; morally, there should not be patents in the field of medicine.

Republicans are using recall elections to knock out popular Democratic officials, hoping Democrats won't have money to campaign, and that most voters (who elected the Democrats) won't notice there is an election outside the usual schedule.

(satire) *Tech Leaders Justify Project To Create Army Of AI-Controlled Bulletproof Grizzly Bears As Inevitable Part Of Progress.*

*We know how to save the endangered koala — it starts with protecting habitat.*