Australia has been rapidly building renewable electric generation and large batteries for storage. However, it is not encouraging any new investment.

I wonder if this is due to the current planet-roaster government which came in a few years ago.

UK thugs arrested over 500 Extinction Rebellion protesters in London.

The excuse in many cases was Covid-19. Of course, protesters must take care not to spread Covid-19, but did they really fail to do that? I expect Extinction Rebellion to be very careful about health.

One of their protests was blocking delivery of Murdoch's right-wing denialist almost-monopoly newspapers.

This has been labeled an "attack on the free press". If they kept it up for a long time, I would agree, but they did it for just one day.

*Navalny poisoning forces Merkel's party to ask: how do we hit back at Putin?*

Here's a suggestion: switch to renewable energy as fast as possible. It's vitally necessary anyway, and it will eliminate demand for Russia's key exports (fossil fuels).

The bully has repeatedly expressed his contempt for US soldiers that died in wars. Now he wants to punish a journalist who reported this.

About the US soldiers that died or were injured in Iraq, the bully is half right. They were duped — by Dubya. He started the war >based on lies. All the US military personnel that Dubya hijacked to make the Bush forces were duped, and Dubya is guilty of an enormous crime, against them and against Iraqis.

They deserve condolences for that, not contempt. They wanted to serve their country — it is not their fault that Dubya lied to them about what they would be doing.

The bully has contempt for them because he is heartless. He lives by duping people; to excuse this, he believes that anyone who is duped deserves to be duped.

Now he has mad veterans, many of who supported him, very angry.

Having cops in a school harms students in the UK, just as it does in the US. [pol note explaining the school to prison pipeline. Pick one that has an article that really explains. Then save that reference in the cache file for future occasions.]