The 1973 coup against President Allende, who tried to combine socialism with human rights and democracy, was orchestrated and supported by Republicans in the US and Tories in Britain.

This taught us to expect violence from supposedly democratic right-wing parties.

Wheels of parmigiano-reggiano cheese are now labeled with RFIDs saying where each one was produced.

I don't see anything wrong in labeling wheels of cheese, which are not a retail product, with something printed. Or even with an RFID, if it is present only at the wholesale level. But if there is any chance an RFID can get into something sold to a retail customer, it must come with directions for how to remove it. Tracking individuals even as a byproduct is unaccpetable.

If you want to be tracked, move to China!

*Twitter appears to delay links by five seconds to sites Elon Musk dislikes.*

Exiled Russian journalist Elena Kostyuchenko was warned Putin would try to have her assassinated. Recently she became strangely ill. German prosecutors are investigating this as a possible murder attempt.

*Ten years on from the slaughter of protesters in Cairo, [General al-]Sisi's record is even grimmer.*