The main Brazilian political parties are full of corruption, and the elite-supported major media are using this to try to replace the corrupt Workers' Party with the corrupt elite-supported parties.

The judge investigating them is not acting very well either.

"What price an Olympics that protects the rights of children and their families?"

Olympic games do harm in many ways. I am glad that the people of Boston pushed away the olympics bid that was planned, and I urge the people of every city to organize against such plans.

Sheldon Adelson's Israeli Newspaper Has a Crush on Donald Trump.

The EU made a deal with Turkey about sending back Syrian refugees that arrive in Greece by sea.

The deal includes the absurd agreement to consider EU membership for Turkey just as it is being turned into an explicit tyranny. Why not Belarus, and Russia too?

China requires all digital maps to have pervasive random errors.

I suppose the US government has made accurate maps of China from satellite data, but they are not available to the Chinese. At least, not today. It would be a great propaganda coup for the US to publish them.

Is Open Street Map at work on China? Contributions would have to be made in secret, but they could be made.

The most disturbing statement in the article is that GPS devices have back doors so that China can order them to shut down or give erroneous answers. Of course, China would impose this on products sold in China; perhaps on all products made in China, such as iThings. And that would include most devices — but are there no exceptions?