Did the US or UK make a damaging leak pretending it came from Snowden?

Kucinich says, give Snowden a ticker-tape parade and abolish the NSA.

I broadly sympathize, but given how badly the banksters have mauled our country, I am not sure a ticker-tape parade is appropriate treatment for a hero.

Seabirds are threatened by global heating.

The world's general slow rise in sea level paused during 2010 and 2011 because the water was piled on parts of Australia instead.

Global heating seen as humanity's greatest-ever risk management failure.

Making all thugs wear cameras makes them considerably less thuggish.

People working for the state are not entitled to the same rights of privacy that everyone else deserves, and if there's anyone for whom surveillance is necessary, it's the thugs. So I am mostly in favor of this. However, this could lead to intrusive surveillance too.