Not two but three major Japanese car companies are considering merging.

I suspect this was unleashed when Republicans removed Lina Khan as head of the FTC. Those companies have enough activities in the US that (I suspect) the FTC could have blocked them from merging, and Khan had the gumption to do it. Republicans work for the rich, especially the billionaires and near billionaires, so they see concentration of business as a victory.

A victory over whom? Over their enemy — the non-rich.

GM, Ford, and Toyota are giving the corrupter million-dollar gifts as the moral equivalent of bribes.

I speculate that he has passed the word that companies that want in on the gravy train must pay these not-officialy-bribes.

A group of Islamists burned a Christmas tree in Syria. Christians protested peacefully, and a leader from HTS said the attackers were foreigners and assured the Christians they would be safe.

As they carry out this old northern European pagan custom.

The custom is ironic, but what is important is that HTS is standing clearly for peaceful relations between religious groups, and against Islamism.

A major British union requires members to sign confidentiality agreements in which they commit not to talk about harassment (or worse) suffered inside the union to anyone except the state.

Such practices abound in other sorts of organizations and businesses. The point is that unions are not immune to such injustices.

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