Rescuing Iraqi feminists and vulnerable women from the advance of ISIS.

A petition to grant Snowden asylum in France has got 150,000 signatures.

I would have urged French citizens to sign it, except that it is on a site (change.org) which requires use of nonfree software to sign. Since I learned about that problem, I never recommend petitions there.

Obama is considering a bombing campaign against ISIS.

I shed no tears for ISIS, but bad things could result. For instance, civilian casualties could help ISIS win support among Iraqi Sunnis. This isn't a conventional war against an army: ISIS defeated the far larger and better equipped Iraqi army because the latter had no will to fight.

Dividing Iraq into a federation of regions might enable it to have peace.

Stores ask for customers' email addresses for surveillance purposes: to unify their purchase record with their browsing record.

I don't identify myself to stores. I pay cash anonymously.

Australian PM Abbott called himself a conservationist.

I guess this means he hasn't finished destroying the ecosphere quite yet.

How many levels of falsehood are there in that claim?