French plans for massive surveillance to catch people with unexplained wealth carry a big danger of tyranny.

The talk of "data protection" is a clear example of how that concept is bullshit, The idea is that the state collects your personal data and uses it against you. So what if the state "protects" it against some other use against you?

Perhaps it is acceptable to look at at publicly visible postings for this. But the state is surely not going to limit itself to those. I expect it will also look at "private" communications on the same sites.

The danger of snooping on people's purchases on eBay is that once the state benefits from tracking people's every purchase, it will try to force people to identify themselves in every purchase.

Colombia published supposed "proof" that Maduro, in Venezuela, was supporting Colombian rebels. But the "proof" proved to be fake, and Colombia's head of military intelligence was found to be insufficiently intelligent.

Hong Kongers declared China's big holiday, the day when the Communist Party took power, a "national day of grief".

Sanders vows, if elected, to pursue criminal charges against fossil fuel CEOs for knowingly 'destroying the planet'.

What they have done ought to be a crime. I don't know whether there is or was a law against it, though. Is it negligent homicide?

(satire) Audubon society president spends another morning in attic feeding nation’s 2.9 billion missing birds.