*Biden Urged to Prevent 'Catastrophe' by Reversing Seizure of Afghan Funds.*

*Sky News journalists evacuated after being shot at by Russian "death squad".*

In the interests of balance, I have to remind people that the Bush forces did something comparable in 2003 when they fired at the building that housed the Baghdad office of Al-Jazeera.

Five giant agribusiness companies pledged at Cop26 to reduce deforestation. A week later they lobbied to weaken the EU plan to do that.

Brett Solomon: *THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT, real-world benefits to having an accepted and recognized identity. That’s why the concept of a digital identity is being pursued around the world, from Australia to India… I am nevertheless convinced that digital ID, writ large, poses one of the gravest risks to human rights of any technology that we have encountered. Worse, we are rushing headlong into a future where new technologies will converge to make this risk much more severe.*

In 2015 I proposed that the remedy is to prohibit systems that systematically collect personal data. That solution is drastic, but nothing less will do.

A study finds that each additional drink of alcohol, on a given day, does greater harm to the brain.