The Canadian government has stealthily and systematically destroyed, corrupted or stopped collecting data necessary to manage Canada's economy or protect Canada's environment.

Deletion of historic data sabotages future historical research.

James Hansen says that we face a "climate emergency" because positive feedback loops can cause global heating to speed up.

Australia plans to check people's faces against national ID data bases to identify them.

This is dangerous because it is unreliable, but it would be even more dangerous if it were reliable. You can hardly trust the Australian government, with its harsh laws against whistleblowers, not to use this power for evil. What that government calls "national security" is just as likely to mean "national repression".

The FBI plans to keep fingerprints from everyone that gets a background check, and put them in a searchable database along with criminals' fingerprints.

The FBI also wants to build up a searchable face recognition data base from photos taken on the street.

This looks like the first step in a plan to track all Americans.

We must campaign to stop it.

Syriza won the Greek election, with about the same not-quite-majority as before.

Greeks may have decided not to blame Syriza for surrendering to the banksters' economic war. I think, however, that Greece will suffer more from this capitulation, over a longer period.