Turkey will participate in fighting ISIS.

This support is clearly useful, but even though Turkey's government is not as bad as Saudi Arabia's or Bahrain's or Qatar's, it is still Islamist and an enemy of human rights.

Australia is trying to make asylum seekers go to Papua New Guinea, including some who are gay — but they would be persecuted there.

It plans to force them to Cambodia instead.

Tasmania's proposed law, meant to crush protests against logging, will exclude places such as stores and public areas. But it will still be aimed at forests, factories, and farms, so it is still unacceptable.

China pledged to publish soon a schedule for capping and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

If China goes through with this, the US had better do it too.

Most of the increase in greenhouse gas emissions comes from China, the US, and India.

A thug in Seattle expressed his hostility to another official by giving 80 people fines for smoking marijuana, apparently illegally.