Swiss Voters to Decide on Whether to Allow Factory Farming to Continue.

The UN will not allow countries without climate defense plans, or countries that promote use of coal, to give speeches in the coming climate summit.

These countries will still be welcome to make commitments — though I expect they won't want to — but they won't have a platform to oppose the goal.

Advances in modeling the climate now predict 6C or 7C of global heating by the end of this century — if we don't reduce our emissions.

Of course, modeling is not certain. We might "luck out" and get only 4C of heating — but that could still kill billions of people.

Giant corporations control the US major media. No surprise that the major media are pervasively uninterested in the harm big business does.

The US is suing the publisher of Snowden's new memoir, claiming it reveals "state secrets" — information that was published years ago.

It was Obama that started that absurd pretense.

I am disappointed that Snowden published the book through Amazon. Please do not buy this or anything from Amazon.

Instead, get an unauthorized copy of the e-book. When an e-book is published the way Amazon does it, the unauthorized copies are the only copies that don't oppress their readers.

There is nothing inherently wrong with the printed copies, but if you buy one in the US you are paying royalties to the US government. I wonder if that covers the copies sold in Canada, too. It might, if they are sold by the same publisher.