The overall rate of human violence continues to decline.

Even counting the contributions of PISSI, the number of people killed by violence is less now than it was 10 years ago. It has been declining ever since the second world war.

Citizens of California: phone your assembly member and call for passage of the bill to end forfeiture (i.e., seizure of assets) unless the person involved is convicted of a crime.

The bill does not go far enough: it allows the assets to be seized first and the person prosecuted later. If your car is seized and you lose your job, and thus your home, you might plead guilty so to get a place to stay in jail.

But it should still be passed, as a first step.

Everyone: call on Amazon to stop selling Glyphosate.

I urge people not to buy anything from Amazon, for many reasons unrelated to this, and I will continue to do so even if this campaign is successful.

I hope you do the same. There is no incompatibility between that and signing this petition.

US citizens: call on Obama and Congress to support more negotiations with Iran.

Osama bin Laden's colossal victory: giving US politicians a chance to unleash endless wars abroad and military tyranny at home.