General Electric CEO Immelt said GE executives "saw it as our task to outsource manufacturing". No wonder he condemns Sanders, and the feeling is mutual.

Assad has released an imprisoned American journalist after 4 years.

Assad didn't have the journalist beheaded, as PISSI would have done, but that is damning with faint praise.

Mass peaceful night-time political discussion meetings have spread across France.

The new government of Myanmar has freed many political prisoners, carrying out Aung San Suu Kyi's new policy.

Spanish banks will have to repay some of the charges they made to people who were foreclosed.

Unfortunately, that won't be enough to save many of these people from spending the rest of their lives excluded from all visible employment. (If they earn any money, they would have to pay it to the bank.) In Spain, they are known as "fiscally dead".

I've suggested they should do a protest on the Day of the Dead, but nobody seems to have picked up on the idea.