PISSI is fighting with Turkey, which is now sealing the border with the PISSI-controlled areas of Syria.

There were reports that Turkey quietly supported PISSI in the past. If that was true, it seems not to be true any more. The Turkish army is not a joke like the Iraqi army; PISSI will find it a powerful foe. Alas, the long-standing hostility between Turkey and the Kurds makes it unlikely Turkey will give the Syrian and Iraqi Kurds much help against PISSI.

The Northern Virginia Tea Party is in cahoots with well-funded fossil fuel lobbyists, but it claims to be "grass roots".

Everyone: call on Rite Aid to stop using paper made by logging the North American boreal forest.

US citizens: phone your congresscritter to oppose CISA, which is the new version of CISPA. This bill would encourage companies to "share" your personal data with Big Brother.

The Capitol Switchboard numbers are 202-224-3121, 888-818-6641 and 888-355-3588.

Everyone: call on Starbucks to reject deforestation-made palm oil.