Al Qa'ida is jubilant about the Taliban's victory, but PISSI and its offshoots condemn and hate the Taliban.

The US is trying to block the Russia-Germany Nord Stream 2 pipeline, but not for the obvious reason: that it will encourage global heating. Rather, the motive is to make that gas travel through Ukraine and thus provide income to Ukraine.

I wouldn't say that goal is bad, but it misses the point. No matter how that gas gets to Europe, it will be burnt there and contribute to global heating. And some of it will leak, and since it is mainly methane, that leak will contribute even more to short-term global heating.

In addition, it will give Putin income. Putin is not as dangerous as global heating, but he is dangerous nonetheless.

*Polish appeals court overturns ruling against [Polish] Holocaust historians.*

The judged said that the "courtroom was not the right place for a historical debate." Bravo!

I know almost nothing about my ancestors, before my grandparents; but I expect that if you could identify them and their families, and watch them in a time machine, you'd see someone commit a grave wrong. I expect that is true of everyone, and it is not something to get worked up over. I wonder why Ms Leszczyńska is so concerned about it.

A judge invalidated a ConocoPhillips plan for extracting oil from Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve.

The company claimed that the extraction would not endanger the survival of polar bears. That was false: global heating and the consequent melting of Arctic ice endangers their survival, and any project to extract additional fossil fuel will exacerbate that.

Dunleavy's statement is based on an implicit defeatist premise: that we will fail to cut down the use of fossil fuels and suffer catastrophe, so why not compete to sell more oil now?

Alaska's coasts are being eroded rapidly by the loss of ice, and residents are losing their homes, but I guess he does not care.

Senator Paul encourages people to spread and catch Covid-19. His wife owns stock in a company which makes a treatment that helps with severe cases. Is that a conflict of interest?

I don't claim that he has encouraged the spread of Covid-19 in order to profit from that stock. I expect that he is motivated mainly by a callous political strategy. But this does show he knows that the disease is dangerous and likely to spread.

His wife bought the stock in February 2020, showing attentiveness to investment opportunities. It also means that they concealed the purchase for about 18 months. If he reported it now for an "annual disclosure", wasn't there a similar annual disclosure in 2020?