The European Court of Justice gave a victory to the copyright industry by equating torrent trackers with actual redistribution of copies.

The result might be to enforce blocking of torrent sites. That would be very unfortunate for people in Europe.

Aside from sharing copies between people, the only form of distribution of movies today that is not oppressive is by sale or rental of DVDs. That is just barely not oppressive, because there is free software that can play a DVD.

A decades-long right-wing campaign has produced a perverse variant of Christianity that cites the bible to argue for contempt for the poor.

The US mainstream media are trying to convince Americans to regard Corbyn as unclean and suspect.

They don't want is influence to help Sanders.

American student Otto Warmbier visited North Korea and was imprisoned for some meaningless "crimes". Recently he was allowed to return to the US, and it was discovered that he has been in a coma for a year.

I am no neurologist, but I get the impression it is unlikely he will ever be conscious again.

Were you thinking of visiting North Korea? I am curious about it, but I won't take the foolish risk of going there. I can learn about the place from what others write, and I recommend you do the same.

This sort of treatment is not limited to North Korea. US prisons have practices that systematically deny prisoners needed medical care, such as saying it is too dangerous/inconvenient/whatever to let them see a doctor, refusing to believe they are sick, or insisting they have only minor ailments rather than cancer until it is too late.

But they don't go as far as covering up for a year that a prisoner is permanently unconscious.

Forensic psychological profiling is unscientific, and useless for finding criminals, according to psychologists who have studied the practice.