The new prosecutor of Portland, Oregon, said he will ignore the minor charges such as "interference with a police officer" that thugs like to make to harass protesters.

In revenge, the thugs are making even more such accusations.

A UN report accuses President Maduro of Venezuela of knowingly presiding over murder and torture.

I would not put it past him.

The UK is investigating charges that banks are committing "industrial-scale forgery" for fraudulent foreclosures.

Why wouldn't they? Billionaire banks got away with it in the US 10 years ago because Obama protected them from charges. Why wouldn't British banks try it too?

I hope that the UK shows more courage than Obama did. I hope it convicts individual banksters and puts them in prison for this.

In the US, blacks were more likely to have their homes stolen in this way than whites. That was due to the injustice of racism, one effect of which is to make blacks poorer in general than whites.

I condemn racism, for that aspect as well as others. But this matter is not about racism. The criminal banksters didn't know the victims, or what race they were. The victims were just names on a list to them. Their employers had nothing to do with making the loans to those homeowners, years before — they had bought the loans en masse.

I do not condemn the banks' giant fraud because many victims were black. I condemn it because it was an enormous crime against millions of innocent poor people. Many of them, whether black or white or other, couldn't replace what was taken from them.

The banks got away with the crime through corruption at the highest level, and that is why I keep referring to it, even 10 years later.

*Pro-democracy advocates are organizing more than 170 events [on Nov 4] in anticipation of President Donald Trump illegitimately declaring victory in the Nov. 3 election.* That's a good idea, but they have messed up the web site where they publish the details: it depends on nonfree Javascript code, and it is totally inaccessible in the Free World. I can't see even one word of the contents of their site, only a message saying "Enable Javascript." No way!

It is a shame that I can't (without sacrificing my freedom and principles) find an event near me, and neither can you, nor can I in good conscience post an urgent note asking everyone to look at the site and find an event to join.

This time, we have considerable notice — 18 days to go before Nov 4. Maybe this is enough time to correct the deficiency, rather than merely bemoan it.

If you are a skilled web developer, and you have a web site where you can make a page without Javascript, and run an hourly cron job on the net, please try it. See if you can scrape the data from their site and make a simple HTML file listing all the events, sorted in some natural way. Put that that page on your site, with a brief introduction saying what these events are for.

Then please email me about it, and I will post a reference to your curved mirror.

California voters: reject Proposition 22, the bow-down-to-Guber exception.

If we win on this, and eventually Uber accepts the requirement to pay its workers better, that will not make Uber (or Lyft) acceptable — it won't change their injustice to their customers. Nor the food delivery gig companies.