The prosecutors in the Assange hearing are arguing that the extradition limits in the UK-US extradition treaty do not actually limit extradition — that the subsequent extradition law makes the treaty irrelevant. Craig Murray, who as an ambassador has participated the process of passing laws to implement treaties, explains why this is backwards. The law's purpose is to implement what the treaty says.

Sanders supports ending the NSA's power to keep track of all phone calls in the US. If you do too, phone your congresscritter ASAP, since the decision will be made in the next two weeks.

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Threats of violence against civil war reenactors said that they came from "Antifa", and led to much criticism of Antifa's absurdly extreme position. Turns out this was a false-flag attack, intended to hurt the reenactors and Antifa.

Public opposition induced the backers of a planned pipeline for fracked gas, in New York and Pennsylvania, to give up on it.

Such decisions are not always final. They may propose it again, with some details changed.

How do people become billionaires? Not by investment in the usual sense. They do it by preparing to capture a windfall before someone else does. To capture the windfall does not mean earning it.