San Francisco told a public library to switch off its WiFi system at night so homeless people could not come there to use it.

San Francisco seems to hold the championship for making homelessness extra painful.

*[It is] too late now to save Arctic summer ice, climate scientists find.*

*We Still Haven’t Learned the True Price of War.*

No army at war, no matter how careful and scrupulous, can avoid killing and injuring people that were not supposed to be targets. Sometimes soldiers motivated by a brutal spirit intentionally kill civilians. Sometimes an excess of zeal plays a role alongside possible bigotry.

But usually the killings that nobody ever specifically intended make up most of the civilians killed.

Since there is no way in war to prevent "collateral damage" to people's lives, every country must figure this in when deciding whether any given war is justified.

Since 1961, chemical manufacturers' labs have several times observed experimentally that some kind of PFA was toxic. The companies covered it up and claimed PFAs were safe.

The failure to report this to the EPA (once that existed) was illegal.

Interviews with civilians and rebel fighters in Burma.

The US and Europe have little influence to stop the military repression, because China supports it and Burma shares a frontier with China. Chinese neocolonialism is much like Americans neocolonialism except that China has no worries about criticism from Chinese public opinion.

The rebels refer to the military government and its army as "Bamar". That is the name of the majority ethnic group which translates in English as "Burmese". What this says to me is that the rebels think of this as a war against the majority ethnic group.

I find that quite sad. It is much easier to defeat a government conclusively than to defeat the majority ethnic group conclusively. The former can have an outcome that is good for just about everyone except the ruling elite. It is hard to do that in the latter case.