The UK says that Egypt did not allow its consular officials to visit Alaa Abd el-Fattah in prison, and they don't even know whether he is still alive.

His hunger-and-thirst strike is a dying effort to rebuke Egypt's harsh repression; spreading the word about this, as the British minister did, multiplies the effect. My posting about it here will multiply it a little more.

US citizen Carly Morris traveled with her daughter to Salafi Arabia in 2019 so her daughter could spend time with her ex-husband's family. Then she found she was trapped there and unable to leave. Her ex-husband had taken their passports away.

She complained about this on Twitter, and the monstrous authorities charged her with a political crime and jailed her for talking about what they had done to her.

Don't take the risk of going to Salafi Arabia. Don't even trust a flight connection in its airports.

* Toyota, Volkswagen and Hyundai/Kia on track to make far more petrol and diesel cars than is sustainable.*

*Rapid rain bursts over the greater Sydney region have intensified by at least 40% over the last two decades.*

Such rapid increase is a sign of the age of climate calamity.

1000 Georgia voters requested postal ballots but none were sent to them.