Facebook and Master Card will join forces to profile Master Card customers so banks can push them to spend more.

By doing this, Master Card is ratting on its customers. This reinforces the point that using a credit card enables others to take advantage of you. It also interferes with your efforts to limit your spending.

Don't be tracked — pay cash.

A thug in St Louis shot a black teenager, then claimed the teenager had fired shots with the sandwich his friends said he was carrying.

It would not be beyond a thug to plant a gun on the deceased.

A Shi'ite rebel group has taken the capital of Yemen, perhaps with the cooperation of the president.

It opposes the Wahhabi missionaries sent by Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia seems to be the root of a large part of the theocratic cruelty in the Arab world, and spreads this with the backing of the US.

Italy's prime minister Renzi pushed through a law making it easier for businesses to fire workers, hoping that in exchange the EU will avoid punishing Italy more.

These "reforms" are part of the world-wide campaign by business to set countries against each other in a competition for letting business have more power and workers less power. Step by step, business gets to do want it wants, leaving most people poor.

I doubt that the plutocrats will keep their side of this deal. Appeasing them is foolish; the more power they get, the more they can demand more power.

Former Oil Mogul Confirmed as EU Climate and Energy Commissioner.

He will surely find ways to obstruct progress in decarbonization; whoever proposed him for the post must have done so with this goal in mind. Whatever controls are set up to make sure he does his job, they can't stop him from dragging his feet.

Thus, I fear, the fossil fuel companies have neutralized the only center of political power that was sincerely trying to avert global heating. I fear that they have murdered many of those who are reading this.