The Hong Kong government is shutting down the democracy protest camps.

A few activists will remain to dare the state to arrest them.

People will try again later.

A copyright lawsuit demanding royalties for a small sample of music has been defeated, but the judge's criteria seem to favorable to the plaintiff, leaving copyright still an impediment to remix.

Everyone: Write to Saudi Arabia calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Raif Badawi.

Republicans threatened to shut down the US government again, and won small acts of sabotage: cancelling out Washington DC's initiative to legalize marijuana, and a little deregulation for banksters to cause future financial havoc.

The banksters were aiming for more than this. If they don't get all that now, they will try again soon enough. They have lobbyists and lawyers who will work full time for years to be able to create bubbles and pop them, swindle their clients, and fraudulently foreclose millions of people's homes.

Their first victory was blocking the US from imposing adequate regulations to prevent another crisis.

6 years of CIA attempts to obstruct the investigation of CIA torture.

Obama withheld almost 10,000 CIA documents from the Senate torture inquiry.