A government inquiry accused elite British troops in Afghanistan of shooting young Afghan men while they were in asleep in bed, and of making a practice of "executing Afghan males of fighting age".

The corrupter's "testimony" in his civil trial for business fraud gives few pertinent facts, because it focuses on venting contempt for the judge, the attorney general, and the idea that he should be judged according to the laws that apply to everyone else.

With this approach he managed to "win" one presidential election, and is trying to steal the subsequent one. Naturally he persists in it. Judge Engoron threatened to cut off his testimony if he persists in giving no pertinent information.

Georgia has stretched its RICO law into repression of "Cop City" protesters.

When the federal RICO law was first adopted, and used against the Mafia (which was its stated purpose), I read about it and concluded it created a danger of repression because its criteria were too lax. They were not designed to carefully allow prosecution only of organized crime gangs, while protecting other activities such as protest campaigns.

When a criminal law carries long sentences and can be stretched to cover protest campaigns, it will be used against protest campaigns -- in other words, for repression. That is now happening. The danger of the RICO laws is real.

A just society needs to punish extortion and protect protests. How will we fix RICO laws to draw a line carefully between them?

Sacramento thugs stopped an 8-year-old passenger in a car, and his mother who was driving the car, at gunpoint. She was terrified they would shoot him.

It turns out they had mistaken the boy for someone else who was older and accused of serious crimes. Everyone makes mistakes, but this kind of mistake creates a danger of killing someone.

I speculate that the fact that the boy and his mother are black made incorrect recognition more likely, and led the thugs to react with fear and suspicion that could have been deadly.

Berry Creek was a village of fairly poor people, which was burnt up by a violent wildfire. Hardly anyone there had insurance, so now they don't have houses either. There is also no longer a gas station or an elementary school.

This looks like what low-income Americans can expect in the age of climate disaster.

Socialist policies to help poor people hit with disasters will help for a while. As long as the rich have plenty, taxing them will make it possible to spare poor people from being crushed by disaster costs.

But some day society as a whole won't be able to afford the cost of recovering from disasters, no matter how we redistribute that cost. There will be no remedy then.

What we should have done was acted to prevent things from getting that bad. However, the planet roasters had the political power and stopped society from doing this.