Attempting to explain why the US wanted weak global trade rules from the 1940s to the 1980s, then strict rules, and is now turning back to weak rules.

The fact that the WTO cannot render judgments against countries means that businesses cannot use it to make countries eliminate good laws. However, the WTO has not been eliminated. The TRIPES agreement (Trade-Restricting Impediments to Production, Education and Science) is still in force, with its requirement for unjust patent law and unjust copyright law.

The EU's mandatory automated copyright filters are being implemented in national laws, and they will tend to support the dominance of the giant platforms such as Youtube.

*Facebook & Twitter ban pro-Trump network that reached 55 million accounts with AI-generated faces, Epoch Media Group and Falun Gong links identified.*

*Top [conman] adviser: Republicans have 'always' relied on voter suppression.*

The fact that they no longer bother to hide this testifies to their belief that they have seized power so firmly that the public does not matter.

Pakistan has sentenced Junaid Hafeez to death for blasphemy. The trial was a political abuse, since it didn't bother to prove what he actually said. But even if that had been proven, nothing can justify punishing people for criticizing a religion.

This menace is one of the reasons I have never gone to Pakistan.