The US cooperates with the Egyptian military in return for convenience in attacking other countries.

Note how the New York Times headline, "Ties With Egypt Army Constrain Washington," presumes that the US could not possibly forfeit Egypt's military cooperation — a considerable exaggeration compared with the facts stated.

Hong Kong's government is asking high-ranking thugs who are due to retire soon to stay on the job an extra 90 days, because of a planned Occupy protest.

This suggests to me that Hong Kong plans to repress the protest camp, as the US, UK, and other countries have done.

The UK had a housing bubble, fueled, like the US housing bubble, by enticing people into predatory mortgages, for which the capital was obtained by mortgage-backed securities. This article explains the whole process clearly.

In the US, the bubble popped and mortgage-backed securities lead to the systematic foreclosure fraud.

In the UK, according to this article, the bubble didn't stay popped; rather, the government patched it up and is blowing more mortgage funds into it.

Without the bubble's high prices, there would have been no need for so much money to pour into mortgages. Thus, I think mortgage-backed securities should be banned entirely.

However, the low rate of housing construction in the UK is also responsible.

Any Other 'Statesman' Who Negotiated Peace Like John Kerry Would Be Treated as a Thief.

Under the standards of international law, al Qa'ida is too puny to qualify as an enemy to be at war with. It is unable to carry out military operations.

Thus, the US should stop treating this as a war.

Obama misused the word "decimated", which means to kill 1/10 of the soldiers in a military unit. (It was a Roman punishment for mutiny.) Al Qa'ida has been far more than decimated.