Multinational digital companies screw the rest of us out of millions of dollars in taxes. In the US, this adds up to $130 billion a year.

This is why America can no longer do things right: the wealthy in America have stopped providing funds for what America needs to do.

To the extent that international agreements about taxation get in the way of fixing this problem, states must defy the agreements and fix the problem anyway. But that requires voting out the politicians who would rather say they can't do this than dare to try.

A progressive tax on a business's gross income could help fix this.

Global heating denialism has seeped into several public school textbooks in California.

We must suspect this reflects the influence of some rich denialist, such as Exxon or a Koch brother or the Heatland Institute.

Why The Powers That Be Are Pushing A Cashless Society.

This is partly speculative, and I am not sure it is true, but it might be true.

Clinton wants more war against PISSI, never mind strategy.

She is also against fixing the problems in the US medical system which exist because of the compromises Obama made to insurance companies.

The French state has given itself the power to abolish any organization that does things that "might" prove useful to others that "endanger the public order" (for instance, criminals or protests). Organizations that promote encryption, or provide a place for people to meet and talk without being listed to, might be banned.

In addition, may be made a crime simply to look at a web site that the state calls "terrorist".

A state like this, systematically crushing freedom, does more harm over the long term than the terrorists it claims to be protecting people from — unless repression also fuels the terrorists, which is possible.