US citizens: support taking away tax exemption from professional sports leagues.

The al Qa'ida affiliate in Syria has joined up with PISSI (the pseudo-Islamic state). This will simplify Obama's argument that Congressional authorization for war against al Qa'ida covers fighting PISSI.

Fighting PISSI might offer a path towards ending the fighting between Assad and the other Syrian rebels.

Protesters have again blocked an Israeli ship from unloading cargo in the port of Oakland.

Hong Kong Surprises Itself with the Exuberance And Spontaneity of Protests.

Thugs were unable to shut the protests down.

So the government withdrew the thugs.

Russia will block access to Facebook, Twitter and Google unless they register and keep all data on Russian users in Russia.

That policy would make the users safer (perhaps) from NSA spying but more vulnerable to spying by the ex-KGB. For people in Russia, the Russian state is much more of a threat than the American state, so this law oppresses them.

By contrast, the European Union has better data protection law than the US, so requiring European users' data to be kept in Europe is an improvement in their privacy.

However, that improvement will only fully take effect if the EU prevents the US from subpoena'ing user data that subsidiaries of US companies keep in Europe.