B'tselem: Israeli soldiers planted explosive booby traps at places where the children of the Palestinian town of Kufr Qaddum often play, and where people gather for their weekly nonviolent protests.

This is perhaps the most shocking form of Israeli violence against protesters, but soldiers have attacked protesters many times occasionally kill them.

(satire) *Equifax assured her that a recent drop in her credit score was unrelated to anything. “While your credit score is significantly lower now, we just want to you to keep in mind that you had absolutely no control over it.”*

The president of the UK Police Superintendents’ Association described the injustice of policing towards nonwhites as a national emergency.

The US has a long way to go before something comparable could occur.

*New Zealand [and other countries too] must cast off its worries about government debt in its Covid recovery.*

Modern monetary theory teaches that a country can increase its money supply and spend the newly created money without causing harm, provided the economy can absorb the additional currency. I think that means, in effect, provided it won't overload the productive capacity in the long term. New Zealand and other countries with their own currencies have this solution available too,

Poor Euro zone! Those countries will be crushed by the disaster of the vicious cycle of budget cuts that cause more budget cuts, required by Euro-zone rules.

US citizens: call on Congress to investigate officials' violation of the Hatch Act.