Michael Mann's book, The New Climate War, describes how planet roasters have abandoned denial of the climate crisis and turned to distraction, and blaming millions of individuals for succumbing to the social pressures that the roasters have set up.

Hie disagrees partly with Thunberg, saying that we should not despise the compromise policies recently adopted by governments. They are inadequate, but they are motion in the right direction.

When a powerful organization leads and pressures weaker and disorganized people to do something harmful, both the organization and the individuals are morally culpable -- but if we want to make an effective change, we must above all attack the organization.

*What should we make of the US assurances regarding how Assange would be treated if extradited?* They are worthless, because they rule out only a few special kinds of torture. Torture and brainwashing are standard practice in US prisons.

New Zealand will legalize the practice of testing the illegal drugs that people plan to take, to assure them that the drugs have the expected contents and dose.

New York City will open supervised injection sites, but no testing as yet.

When the FBI tries to recruit a non-US-citizen as an informant, it first offers positive inducements; but if those don't persuade per, they may start harassment of per, even per friends too. The put Aswad Khan on the no-fly list, then put his friends on it too; this terrorized everyone who knew him, so they broke off contact and left him isolated.

This behavior is what I would have expected from the KGB. It hurts that my country is guilty of it. The secrecy and arbitrariness of the no-fly list must be eliminated.

I foresee that Khan will be compelled to turn, for friendship and business, to Pakistanis that are hostile to the US. The FBI has left him no other way to go. His friends must feel resentment to the US also.

Fungi in the soil that connect plants sequester lots of carbon in soil, but modern agriculture and global heating are destroying them.