Escaped pet parrots in New Zealand, mostly brought from Australia, may breed and increase the threat to many endangered native birds.

Releasing a pet into the wild is a bad idea. If that species lives wild in your area, it may not matter. But if it doesn't. At best that pet will die. At worst it will destroy the ecosystem.

Putin seems to be planning to add 10 more years to Alexei Navalny's sentence.

Court rulings like this in Russia are as arbitrary as they were in the Soviet Union. But that should be no surprise.

What horrifies me is that there is no way to prevent megacorporations such as Chevron from doing this to people in the US.

*The US private equity firms funding dirty energy projects.*

*Belgium to give workers right to request four-day week.*

Canadian police shut down the Canadian right-wing & antivax bridge-blocking protest gently, with no violence. Once they announced they would tow the trucks and arrest the drivers, most drivers left.

Future protests will be allowed, but not blocking the road.

It surprised me how long officials permitted the protest to continue as long as they did. They have not acted against the occupation of Ottawa but say they will do it soon.