*Moratorium on Deep Sea Mining [endorsed] at Global Biodiversity Summit.*

This was not a binding decision, but may help lead to a real decision.

Church of England bishops condemned the proposed law that would constitute "criminalisation of Good Samaritan."

The US has prosecuted people for giving food and water to unauthorized immigrants and to homeless people.

*Philippines' Duterte accused of stifling scrutiny in senate probes.* Specifically, he prevents the Senate from questioning executive branch officials.

The bullshitter did this too.

Iran has agreed to let the IAEA resume monitoring its nuclear sites.

Maybe it was bluffing to show the US it has to take the non-nuclear deal seriously. I hope the US does so.

Facebook told a subcontractor to pull the union representative (of subcontracted janitors) off work on Facebook's building. That was because he organized a protest against Facebook's demand to work so fast that it made people work overtime unpaid. This is likely to be tantamount to firing him, though perhaps with a legal loophole.

This is one more reason why subcontracting should be limited by law to small numbers of workers doing small total amounts of work.

Not every business is nasty to workers like this, but no business deserves rights the way humans do. Subcontracting generally gives workers less power over their work (pay, schedules, working conditions), even as it reduces the accountability over the business in regard to the work they do for customers. It benefits the business but harms everyone else. So let's forbid it, except for small cases where a full-time employee would simply not make sense.