The fatal apartment building fire in London was caused by fraud and deceit, facilitated by deregulation, and promoted by plutocratist disdain for the lives of people who are not rich.

The first reaction of the organizations that owned other buildings with similar fire hazards was to dump the cost of retrofitting on the occupants of the flats, who couldn't possibly have paid it. I hope that these revelations (which surely apply to other buildings that use the same firetrap material) will put the burden onto organizations that are actually responsible.

Australian soldiers in Afghanistan stand accused of premeditated murder of civilians and prisoners in cold blood, and covering it up afterward.

Also competing for who could kill more civilians as they ran away. And torture for the fun of it. All based on evidence.

A confused article speaks of grapes that carry end-user license agreements.

The confusion is to conflate patents with shrink-wrap licenses.

Plants can be covered by patents. If so, propagating them is patent infringement. But that has nothing to do with putting a label on a bag purporting to impose restrictions on the purchaser. From what I recall, that is not legally valid in the US, except for software.

* We are witnessing a criminal tragedy as wealthy billionaires, sequestered in protective bubbles and private jets, are dispatching essential workers into the line of infection fire with inadequate shields and protections.*

*Sturgis motorcycle rally in South Dakota led to a Covid-19 outbreak in Minnesota, new report says.*

State governors may want to block roads for a time when a spreader event is going on in an adjoining state.