Australian PM Abbott's plan to stop promoting renewable energy would amount to a 10 billion dollar gift to the fossil fuel companies he serves. And without even achieving the promised insignificant side benefit of a reduction in electricity prices.

A mob attacked a clinic in Liberia and drove out 29 people infected with Ebola.

Now they are likely to infect other people. Way to go, idiots!

The patients have been found and brought to another clinic.

Facebook is ordering users to switch to a different Messenger app which demands access to lots of personal information.

It's proprietary software, thus inherently untrustworthy, so using it is an act of folly. The same is true of Facebook's main app, and the nonfree program (in either iThings or Android) for accessing the app store where it is released.

In Android, that program is called Google Play, and it has a back door that is more or less universal.

Of course, you shouldn't be used by Facebook at all, because it extracts personal data that nobody ought to know.

Over 100 SWAT raids occur each day in the US, and most of them are for nothing more serious than searching a house for drugs.

This is accompanied by training thugs to act like an occupying army. If they expect to shoot people down, they will find opportunities to do it.

Here is data about the military equipment that the US has given to thugs.

The curfew in Ferguson was obeyed by recognized leaders and organizers, but hundreds of people stayed past midnight in pouring rain rather than let thugs chase them out of their town.

This article says the thugs did use tear gas.