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South Australia has passed repressive laws against protests that might inconvenience others, and one of the politicians who voted for it says, "be grateful we won't cut your head off."

The protests that the state wanted to prevent were going to be against planet roaster companies that already kill people by the hundreds of thousands, and are working on raising that to hundreds of millions.

Buttigieg is going all-out to push for oil drilling in the Uinta basin of the Colorado Plateau, and to transport the oil long distances by train alongside the Colorado River.

He is also planning to approve tax breaks for building the line for these trains, so the owners can get a subsidy to prepare to poison the water of a large region of the US.

There is no room in the carbon budget for developing any new oil fields, no matter where the oil might be sent or how.

*It's a horribly effective [Tory] ploy: under invest in the health service, then encourage patients to blame staff for any failures.*

Some Russians claim to have started an anti-Putin armed guerrilla movement operating in Russian territory.

However, they seem to have entered Russia across the Ukrainian border, and to have picked up some US-made arms in Ukraine. So far they have attacked only government targets.

In moral terms, I think what they are doing is admirable. Their actions could help Ukraine win the war, but I think it will be difficult to increase them enough to have a significant effect.

Putin could theoretically cite this as an excuse for attacking Ukraine in some new ways. But I don't think that makes any difference. Putin never needs a real excuse for any atrocity — he invents all the bogus excuses he needs.