Notes today

• The fifth-largest economy on earth is suing the five biggest oil companies for their climate lies. Thisis a very big deal.

Oh great! another potential government shutdown forthcoming. What could go wrong?

• The US government contends that  Google’s search engine that controls almost 90% of online queries has paid billions of dollars to maintain a monopoly.
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• G7 governments to announce bans on Russian diamond imports.

• North Koreas Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin – new best friends.

Utah Senator Mitt Romney found that some of his Republican colleagues were, like him, disgusted by Trump’s behavior but dared not say so, not because of loyalty but because they feared for their personal safety and the safety of their families.

 

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.