Google proposes to give people robotic personal assistants…that spy on them.

The TPP could mean foreign banks could sue the US if it restricts financial derivatives that could cause a financial crisis, and their investors could sue the US if it declines to give the bank a bailout.

In effect, it means the US (and each signatory) would have to align each and every policy to what businesses want, or pay dearly for each divergence.

TPP stands for Treacherous Plutocratic Poison.

Hong Kong has unveiled its system for phony democratic elections, with all candidates to be chosen by China.

When this system is put into effect, I predict they will choose one bad candidate (the equivalent of Clinton) and a few horrible candidates (comparable to Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush), aiming to lure people into campaigning for the bad one. Then they will tend to convince themselves that they really agree with and support that bad candidate, like the majority of Americans whose views on issues are more progressive than Clinton's and Obama's but support them anyway.

Cory Doctorow: The regulations applied to internet services have been designed by compromises with the biggest companies, and frequently they would be impossible for any smaller competitor to meet.

French citizens: oppose the massive surveillance law.