A Hong Kong opposition legislator accuses the government of sending gangsters to attack the protesters.

It looks like the thugs, or some of them, cooperated with the gangsters.

Even if some of the anti-protesters are being honest about their motives, they are unpatriotic to put their immediate income above democracy. Shame on them!

Naturally, China's imposed "chief executive" cites the danger of more such nonuniformed attacks against the protests as an excuse to order a uniformed attack against the protest. That's tyrant logic for you. We should be prepared to denounce it when we see it in our own countries.

As PISSI closes in on Kobani, Turkish troops have not intervened.

Four cities have dropped their bids for the 2022 Olympic Games, because the IOC demands too much money.

The only remaining bids are from corrupt, tyrannical countries which don't care.

If the Senate continues blocking the small reform of the "USA Freedom Act", parts of it will expire entirely next year.

Let's hope so.

Obama's strategy of arming "moderate" Syrian rebels to defeat PISSI is fantasy, and even confirmed Syrian enemies of Assad say so.

Even a right-wing commentator acknowledges this.

So did Obama, not long ago. (Search the article for "fantasy".)

On the other hand, if the Turkish army is willing to fight PISSI in Syria, it could win. Since Turkey is mainly Sunni, Syrian Sunnis who fear Assad would massacre them for their sect could trust Turkey not to do that. (Turkey is no great defender of human rights, but it may be good enough for this.) This might enable the Syrian Sunnis to reject PISSI.

Other things could go wrong: the Turkish army might start fighting Kurds in Syria, for instance. But there is hope of avoiding that.

There are many problems with Obama's plan for dealing with PISSI.