Business-dominated globalization of trade was supposed to give poor countries massive trickle-down, but it didn't. Maybe they should reject the WTO.

*Pfizer Is Lobbying to Thwart Whistleblowers From Exposing Corporate Fraud.*

Rain will be more common than snow in the Arctic, a few decades from now.

This will rapidly destroy the permafrost, and perhaps release enormous quantities of methane stored in it. That could cause a chain reaction of global heating.

Omicron was infecting people in Europe before it was reported from South Africa.

Does this mean that blocking travel from southern Africa is useless? It can't possibly keep Omicron out of Europe or the US, but it may delay the growth of Omicron cases for some period of time. Since we may be a race against the time to develop a new vaccine, that delay is important.

However, once the number of daily new cases in some non-African country far exceeds the rate at which travelers from Africa might bring more cases, continuing the ban on travel from Africa to that country will do negligible good, so it will be time to end the ban.

Union workers are energizde to fight "two-tier" contracts, which say that new workers will be treated worse than the old workers.

This practice not only locks in future cuts in pay and working conditions, it also breaks the solidarity of the union. I doubt that employers will shed even two tears about that.