*Forget 2030 or 2040, Says Greta Thunberg, World Must 'Reduce Our Emissions Right Now'.*

I think she is right, as a general point. Targets in the future serve as an excuse not to make big efforts right away.

I think that Covid-19 did great harm to the climate strike movement. It distracts people's attention to a threat that, ultimately, is not as big. And it prevents the large demonstrations that made climate strike influential.

I hope it won't be too long before it regains its influence. Civilization's survival depends on that.

Daniel Everette Hale has pled guilty to whistleblowing: giving a reporter secret information about US drone assassinations.

A whistleblower claims that a UK agency whose job is to check for misconduct by thugs did the opposite: it spun its report about recent protests in Bristol so as to justify increased repression of protests.

*This anti-protest bill risks making the UK like Putin's Russia.*

Israel has vaccinated a large fraction of its population, and Covid-19 transmission is dwindling. The main danger of Covid-19 in the future will be from variants spreading in Palestine.

Israel is responsible for public health in territories it occupies or besieges. That means it must provide vaccine to the Palestinians. Now that is also crucial for Israel's public health — so its refusal is vindictiveness carried to the point of self-destruction.

I think the US should offer to donate vaccine for everyone in Palestine if Israel does not.

Meanwhile, I wonder if people in Israel who refuse to run nonfree programs, and therefore can't run the "green pass" app, are being excluded from much of society's activity. Is that really true? Is there no other way to demonstrate that you have been vaccinated?

The wrecker's ultimate act of sabotage was a proposed rule to let drug companies raise prices unreasonably. Shockingly, Biden does not seem to plan to cancel it.