Thug departments seeking military weapons and equipment stoke public fear about extremely unlikely terrorist attacks. In private, they say they will use the equipment frequently in other situations that are far less grave.

They also use this equipment to suppress protests, which is one reason it is a high priority to take it out of their hands.

Ralph Nader's advice to Bernie Sanders.

Google search is the locus of a conflict between French law and US human rights.

This problem appears for Google because it is a service conglomerate operating in many countries. Duck Duck Go does not have to worry about French law.

Perhaps the ideal outcome would be to disaggregate companies such as Google. Some of the service could be replaced by separate services communicating through published interfaces. Others are SaaSS and should be replaced by running free software on your own computer. Some systems for communication should be replaced by distributed computing on various users' computers.

Black Lives Matter protesters took the podium from Bernie Sanders, who gave them a chance to speak, but then they blocked him from speaking and insulted the Sanders supporters waiting for his address.

It is valid to call on Sanders to propose more specific actions to stop thugs from attacking blacks (and occasionally whites) for no good reason and make false accusations against their victims. However, attacking the progressives that want to do this is self-defeating.

It looked like Brazil had saved the Amazon rain forest from deforestation, but now the problem is getting worse.

It is vital to limit Brazil's population, and in the human population in general. Its growth will have to stop, soon enough; let's stop earlier, and leave some wild places in existence.