The key witness in the trial of Jimmy Lai, in Hong Kong, had been tortured into condemning Lai.

That testimony proves no more about Jimmy Lai than the testimony of a prisoner in Guantanamo that had been tortured would prove about anyone.

However, there is a crucial difference between China and the US on this point: US courts recognize this point and won't accept testimony that was extracted by torture. Chinese courts don't care. China deals with such blow back by treating those who criticize the phony trials of political prisoners into the next batch of political prisoners, in line for phony trials of their own.

The worst evil of the charges against Jimmy Lai is not the dishonesty of the trial itself, it is the basic decision: to treat raising funds to call for democracy as a crime.

Commercial nuclear power propaganda is hiring politicians again in Australia.

As usual, it functions by being absurdly optimistic, underestimating the time and money required to bring new technology to the point of wide commercial use, drawing attention away from the future harm nuclear waste can do over a long period of time,

and misrepresenting the facts about the renewable alternatives,

The companies (and politicians) involved will use the fallacious "sunk costs" argument

to demand subsidies rather than cancellation. (Why not try — it succeeded in Britain in the past decade.)

Thus they hope to profit handsomely even if the project doesn't see widespread adoption.

Part of the EU funds given to Tunisia for a deal to impede migration went straight to the dictator's pocket.

(satire) *White Castle Announces Its Sliders A Result Of Inbreeding.*

*Prosecutors Buried Evidence and Misled the Court. Ten Years Later, They Got a Slap on the Wrist.*