Olena Yahupova lived in Enerhodar when the Putin forces captured it. Perhaps because her husband is a Ukrainian officer — no other plausible explanation is mentioned — the Putin forces tortured her for days, then put her in prison for months.

Then they forced her to dig ditches and tell lies on camera. Then an officer in the Putin forces decided to release her and apparently gave orders that permitted her to go to Russia and from there to Estonia.

Some of the events in this story are puzzling — I can't see explanations for what some Russians did. But that doesn't mean they didn't do them.

The EU is investigating Amazon's use of its anticompetitive practices in advertising.

Amazon carries out auctions for ad space, and charges web sites for that. It also represents the bidders for the space, and charges them for that. Independent sellers are effectively compelled to use Amazon. So it has to be broken up.

However, laws that require proof of specific abuses before breaking up a giant company are too weak. Simply being so big as to have power over a market is ipso facto too big.

See also my proposal for a progressive tax on a corporation's gross income.

*Power companies spend millions to fight Maine's proposed non-profit utility.*

I guess that is why they are called "power" companies.

(satire) *Crypto Leaders Call For Infusion Of 20 Million Dopes To Stabilize Market.*

*We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but we’re not at war with Russian culture.*

*If even the British establishment in the midst of an existential war with Nazi Germany could see German music as more than simply "enemy" culture, but as part of a common civilization, surely we should be able to do the same today?*