New coal-fired electric plants in Europe threatens to wipe out all its savings in CO₂ emissions.

If solar power and more advanced batteries catch on, these plants will be lost investments. I suspect that the owners are getting a subsidy to build them, or a loan from the state that will never be repaid if the plants become unnecessary.

In an Australian state, one party proposes to escalate the war on drugs.

I think it is a bad idea to use methamphetamine, but the war on drugs does worse harm than the drugs.

The US equivalent of Iraq Body Count has found that US thugs kill about 3 times as many people as the FBI reports — around 1100 a year.

Universities were once considered a way to benefit society by spreading learning and giving the non-rich a path to advance; now they mainly maintain the elite status quo.

The UK thugs didn't bother investigating the murder of Ricky Reel, apparently for racist motives, because they were too busy investigating his family as they campaigned for a proper investigation of the murder.