The greediest of US businesses are pushing a bill to allow broader and more absurd patents, even in medicine.

Patents do little good for society, and in some fields a lot of harm. They are especially harmful in agriculture, medicine and computing. All in all it would be better to eliminate patents entirely.

Bogus Johnson's bad decisions multiplied the deaths from Covid-19 in the UK. This was after right-wing budget cuts and privatization had weakened the country's ability to protect itself.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media help cover it up.

Slightly in Johnson's defense, I have to say that even for an honest person of good will may hesitate before the enormous step of closing nearly all businesses and activities. But Johnson did so for longer because he opposed the idea on ideological grounds.

Hong Kong's governing council had all pro-democracy members physically carried out, then voted in a new leader.

Meanwhile, accused organizers of last year's protests are on trial.

China is like the walls of a room that slowly but steadily shrink down to zero volume.

The acting king of Salafi Arabia plans to buy a popular English soccer team. Crown Prince Bone Saw aims to distract people from remembering how his agents murdered dissident Jamal Khashoggi inside the Salafi Arabian consulate in Istanbul then chopped up the body to dispose of it, as well as his intervention in Yemen that has killed thousands of people who never even criticized him.

*Private Hospitals, Now Demanding Bailouts, Lobbied to Defeat Cost-Saving Health Reform as Coronavirus Crisis Grew.*