Covid-19 restrictions could exclude some poor countries from the coming Cop26 climate conference.

Thousands of homes in Ireland were built with stone that crumbles. The state, typically plutocratic, is offering the victims who built the homes only partial compensation. They can't afford the rest.

US marshalls beat up and whipped prisoners who were handcuffed.

The thugs also knocked down, handcuffed and beat up a middle-aged woman, a house-sitting friend of the family, whom one of the prisoners called to for assistance.

The prisoners face grave charges, and arresting them may have been just. However, gratuitously hitting and whipping them in the process, and injuring them, was not excusable. Nor was beating up the house-sitter.

California has prohibited companies from using NDAs to stop employees from talking about harassment or discrimination at work.

Is this really limited to employees only? What about other workers, such as temps, gig workers, and other "independent contractors"?

The other unjust kind of NDA is that which covers generally useful technical information. My experience with MIT's Xerox laser printer taught me that it is wrong to sign a nondisclosure agreement covering generally useful technical information such as software. and I determined _never_ to agree to them. I have never made an exception for any software or knowledge I have.

Occasionally I have agreed to a nondisclosure agreement for software knowing that I would never get a copy pf that software, so the agreement would be void. After all, it's nonfree software, so I do not want to run it!

Estimating deaths from Covid-19 from statistics on excess deaths seems to be more accurate than following various governments' statistics. It leads to figures from 7 million to 18 millions.