A captain in the Belarus army showed the press a secret order that told the army to attack protesters. He has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

Some real biologists say there is not yet sufficient evidence to rule out the possibility that Covid-19 leaked from a lab.

Morally, I don't think it makes much difference. Everyone makes mistakes.

People are raging about the treatment of the corpses of the people who were killed when the Philadelphia thug department dropped a bomb on the MOVE house.

I think this is a side issue, and a distraction from the real moral issue, which is how they died, and why.

They died by murder. The Philadelphia thug department killed 11 people, gratuitously — it could easily have let them live. This is the issue that matters. Living people are important in their own right; living people (which they were) have rights. Corpses don't.

I don't believe that corpses deserve any special sort of "respect." That goes for all corpses, includes my corpse when it some day exists. I've signed papers for it to be used for scientific or medical purpose, because that's a constructive use. You can do that too!

Let's not shift our moral focus from respect for people's rights to respect for taboos.

*Will Movement for People's Vaccine Open Doors to Larger Revolt Against Big Pharma?*

We can't possibly know the answer to that question, but it would be good if that happens.

*Suspected Russia-led cyber campaign targets Germany’s Green party leader.*

The motive is her opposition to the proposed Russia-to-Germany gas pipeline. That pipeline would boost both Russian influence in Europe, and use of fossil fuels, and that effect would last a long time.

Since the pipeline is almost finished, I wonder if withdrawal of support for it will come too late.