Erdoğan's latest insult to Turkishness: prosecuting a visiting Dutch journalist for tweets criticizing him.

It is not clear in the article whether she was in Turkey when she tweeted them, but Erdoğan aims to intimidate people world-wide.

Perhaps the Netherlands should post a travel advisory urging people to stay away from Turkey.

Although Obama has spoken some criticism of Salafi Arabia, he insists on continuing to give it everything it wants.

That's an Obama pattern -- he does the same for the planet roasters and the banksters.

The Swiss Federal Railways will stop collecting data on who rides where using the national rail pass.

This shows governments can respond to public demand not to accumulate data. However, what about the municipal and regional transportation authorities? Do they accumulate the data on their riders' identity, as they check the passes? They too must make a commitment not to do so.

The site makes a vicious claim to use copyright to restrict making links to this page. I spit on that, and you should too. I will never sell advertising on stallman.org, but that is for my own sense of integrity, and has nothing to do with their what they claim to "permit".

The FBI had many reasons to conclude that there was little pertinent information in Syed Farook's work phone, and no reason to give for demanding access to it except that there was a part of his day that it didn't know where he was. Its argument was that any gap was a valid argument for attacking all Americans' privacy.

The euro-banksters are starting to reveal what their next set of demands for Greece will be, after the current demands.

They say that these subsequent demands will be imposed if the current "reforms" are not "sufficient to produce" a budget surplus. That is a virtual certainty, since their real effect is to cause contraction and a bigger deficit.

What the banksters are saying is, in effect, "Next year, when it is seen that the gasoline we are throwing on the fire this year has not extinguished it, here's how much more gasoline we intend to throw."

It is a good thing that they are starting to talk about this, because it means that they have abandoned their tactic of pretending that each step is the last one. When Greeks see two steps at once, the current one and the next one, maybe they will rebel.