*This is my message to the western world — your civilisation is killing life on Earth.*

It is a justified rebuke to civilization, but limiting it to "western" is not fair. Civilization is global; civilization in Asia is involved too.

*[One] fifth of nations at risk of ecosystem collapse, analysis finds.*

China is luring Chinese people to adopt the official state payment app, which is even more Big Brotherish than the private payment apps they mostly use now.

Protect your country from going down that path — insist on paying for products and transportation with cash, anonymously.

President Xi is showing the people who served as his puppet government in Hong Kong just how unimportant they are to him.

Senate Democrats have failed us by not going to the mat to block confirmation of Barrett as a Supreme Court Justice.

The hearings are useless. Democrats could show she shot someone on Fifth Avenue and the Republicans would still confirm her, just as they confirmed Kavanaugh.

With her, the court will find it easy to use some excuse to set aside the election and make the wrecker president again.

*Judges' politics absolutely sway how they decide cases. I crunched the numbers.*

*People in Gaza sifting through rubbish for food, UN head says.*