Everyone: call on the football team Liverpool FC to reject the sponsorship of Chinese company Tibet Water Resources Limited, which is an example of China's exploitation of Tibet.

The bully wants to be seen as resembling despots that hold military parades.

I think the way to oppose this is with a celebration of the peaceful and truly great achievements of the US, such as the Bill of Rights, the New Deal, the Marshall Plan, Social Security, Medicaid, and the Endangered Species Act. Let's oppose cruel and twisted patriotism with benevolent patriotism.

Andrew Wheeler, hoping for Senate confirmation as deputy saboteur of the EPA, smoothed the path to committee approval by corrupting two Republican senators.

The "president" of the Maldive Islands arrested judges to stop the Supreme Court from freeing imprisoned legislators.

The elected president Masheed campaigned globally to curb global heating. I suspect that oil interests helped arrange the coup against him.

If global heating goes far enough, the questions of democracy and human rights in the Maldives will cease to matter. Long before they are entirely inundated, they will be unable to support their population. The rulers, however, will probably get the chance to move elsewhere.

With global heating bringing frequent deep droughts in many regions, how could they think of using fossil fuels in ways that also need lots of fresh water? I refer to coal seam gas production.

It must take a lot of money to convince enough people not to do the right thing by insisting on renewable energy instead.

Truly long-term defense against running out of water requires defending against population increase. We must ask for everyone's cooperation in this.