The UK government has adopted a standard US right-wing lie: that rich people got their money by earning it and deserve to possess it.

Rich people mostly get their money by investing piles of money, and by working other people to the bone. In the past few decade they have redistributed lots of wealth and lots of income from the rest of the population to them. Now we need to redistribute it back.

A court ruled that airport thugs did wrong to arrest Nick George for carrying flash cards to learn Arabic.

Obama has dropped his inadequate proposal for reforming massive surveillance of the telephone records of everyone in the US (and elsewhere).

Wikipedia has taken the side of Gamergate, ruling that the Gamergate-supporting editors can write the pages about the women that Gamergate attacked, and banning the editors who opposed them.

Many years ago, a clique of people that don't want the GNU system to be mentioned took effective control of pages that concern the GNU/Linux system, expunging the term "GNU/Linux" from nearly all of them and banning people that tried to resist. I tried to activate Wikipedia's decision procedure but was unable to even get it started.

Activists in New York and New Jersey are trying to prevent natural gas export terminals that would encourage fracking.

The low price of oil may make it easier to prevent fracking in the US as some fracking companies are already folding.