"Biometric cars" will monitor their users in many ways, and of course the data will be warehoused for companies to hand to the NSA via PRISM.

We must insist on free software in our cars.

US national security advisor Susan Rice downplayed the effect of Snowden's revelations. We will cite this when someone says they "hurt the US".

Of course, what such officials mean by "the US" is the power of the state, not the collectivity of Americans. We Americans are "the enemy" that people like Bradley Manning are accused of aiding.

Hospital patients throw away 82,000 meals every day in the UK, because the food is so lousy they don't want to eat it. The staff say they would not eat it either.

This is the result of the budget cuts which are intended to ruin and then destroy the NHS.

The UK says that anyone carrying out a demonstration at the site where a soldier was killed will be arrested. So much for political freedom in the UK.

Whether we agree with those people's politics is beside the point.

New York's night-mayor Bloomberg, and the thug chief Kelly, are still trying to defeat the bill to limit arbitrary searches.

The bill would also increase civilian control over the New York thugs, who have been found to systematically repress human rights.

Bloomberg explicitly advocates increased racism in these searches.

Such racism is wrong, but it's a secondary aspect of the wrong. The root of the wrong is allowing thugs to search people arbitrarily.