"Non-lethal" bullets often cause injuries, including loss of an eye, even death.

If the shooter is close to the protesters, the bullet can easily kill. If the shooter is not close, these bullets can't be aimed carefully.

China is imposing a greenhouse gas emissions-trading scheme on power plants, and plans to extend it later to other heavy industry.

This has the potential to drive emissions down rapidly, if China manages it carefully. The EU's greenhouse gas emissions-trading scheme was mismanaged, and efforts to correct the scheme's rules have been blocked. By planet-roasters' political influence, presumably.

I expect China will do a better job of resisting the fossil fuel industry's power.

Israeli soldiers killed several protesters in Gaza, including Ibrahim Abu Thurayeh, who was disabled and sitting in his wheelchair.

The army says he "was not targeted". Apparently they were shooting wild.

The UK subsidizes arms exports so much that they can't even be much of a profit. What rational reason could there be?

Everyone: call on Governor Brown of California to pay prisoners for fighting fires the same wage that non-prisoners get.