US citizens: tell the US Trade Representative to reject "investor-state" provisions in treaties.

Hillary's Candid Motto for Democratic Party: "Represent Banks".

Why you should use Tor.

Tepco continues building the "ice wall" to keep ground water away from the ruined Fukushima nuclear plants, despite various problems.

What I don't understand is why they want to use this untried method, rather than building a pair of solid concrete walls with a replaceable plastic filler between them.

A California highway thug beat up a homeless woman who was walking by the side of a highway, but was recorded on video by a passing citizen.

It is true we don't know what they said to each other. So ask yourself, can you imagine anything she might possibly have said that would give a thug a valid reason to beat her up? The thug may be asking himself the same question.

If you want to view the video, you can access it without free software by running the youtube-dl script with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-J-yVKxXrY as argument.

Warning: viewing that video on Youtube in the usual way entails running either Flash Player or nonfree Javascript code.