New Zealand thinks it can plant enough trees to outweigh all its greenhouse gas emissions.

That is very risky. What if the trees die? That has happened before in big tree-planting projects. It is also no example for the rest of the world to follow.

This Julian Assange rally will be at the May Day rally, Monday, May 1, at 5 pm at the bandstand on the Boston Common.

More reason to suspect that Tories have introduced voter IDs as a means to prevent legitimate voters from voting is that they plan not to report how many people show up to vote and are turned away.

That number would be an underestimate of the number actually blocked from voting. Some of them, knowing they didn't get the required ID card, will not come to the polls at all.

The people most likely to fail to get the ID card are those who can barely keep up with their work and family duties, and have little time to spare to get the ID card.

Australia plans to block the use of credit cards to pay for online gambling. This is a wise plan since it can prevent some gambling addicts from betting money they do not have.

I conjecture that any system that requires gamblers to declare their intention to gamble and then wait a while will help people avoid compulsive gambling. Perhaps other ideas can be found from that.

Right-wingers and thugs in Germany demand to imprison people for a month if they are suspected of planning annoying protests, such as blocking roads.

The protesters demand cutting greenhouse emissions faster, on the grounds that climate collapse is likely to kill them before they get old.

The thugs want to "get the situation under control" to assure an orderly march towards mass death. Orderly, that is, until it is too late to prevent collapse and the early death of most of these potential protesters is assured.

Climate disaster is likely to kill billions of people. It will not be an accident, though; big businesses of various kinds are lobbying to keep it going while they extract all possible money. (Those who profit suppose that they will be somehow safe from the disaster, though I don't see how that could be true.)

As a consequence, we can describe future climate disaster as the biggest act of mass murder of all human history, past and future. It is unlikely that there will ever again be billions of people to kill.