Greeks blame the government for being unprepared to help save people from the wildfire.

Preparations cost money. Are the euro-banksters responsible for this?

Another cause was that people illegally built houses on land that was supposed to be reserved for escape routes. That sort of corruption is typical of Greece.

Somalia is prosecuting female genital mutilation for the first time. The victim, a 10-year-old girl, died from the operation.

Massachusetts is considering a bill to set up a system of ratings on ISPs based on how far they respect network neutrality.

It sounds nice, but with so few ISPs, it might not do a lot for network neutrality.

"Just in time" production, with no inventory, is very efficient — and terribly fragile, since it tends to convert any narrow problem into a broad stoppage.

My conclusion is that disaster preparedness at the national level includes requiring the production of everything people really need to be done the robust, old-fashioned "inefficient" way.

Our current rate of emission of greenhouse gases will lead (in a few decades) to heatwaves with temperatures of 55 C (131 F).