TransCanada has tried to delay its application to build the Keystone XL pipeline, hoping to defer the decision to the next president.

Perhaps it is betting the next president will be bought. Or perhaps it's no longer profitable. Obama may still be able to veto it if he wishes.

I often referred to Keystone XL as the "planet-roaster pipeline", because it would enable the export of a decisively dangerous amount of tar sends oil.

This does not mean that avoiding the Keystone XL will make us safe. We need to leave 80% of the world's known fossil fuels in the ground, just to keep global heating to under 2C. There are many fossil fuel projects that could roast our planet, many chances to fail.

In the real World Series, humanity vs plutocrats, humanity is losing. We need to win nearly every game from here on.

Apple censored an app to display videos presented at the Chaos Communications Congress because it did not censor presenters as Apple demands.

Apple's censorship is wrong, now as always, and designing computers as platforms for censorship should be illegal.

However, it is also wrong to make proprietary apps for the iThing. The Chaos Computer Club should do its streaming on the World Wide Web using a freedom-respecting video format.

As UK transfers its spending from poor people to nuclear power plants, more people are homeless. In once city, volunteers have organized to give them breakfast.

That will work for a while, but as the Tories continue cutting further, many of those now giving will join the hungry or the homeless.

As Aneurin Bevan said, the Tories are lower than vermin.

A thug from near Detroit shows how much violence a thug can get away with in the US. Finally he is being prosecuted.

Chelsea Manning calls for replacing the FISA court with courts that will make it their mission to resist unreasonable searches.

Limiting access to digital dossiers is not sufficient to protect whistleblowers from being identified. We need to redesign digital systems so that they don't collect digital dossiers, except about court-designated targets.