Florida thugs tased and arrested a woman as she was walking away after asking about arrests of other people.

I wonder whether she was concerned on general principles or because she saw something that looked wrong.

The loss of ice in Antarctica is big enough to affect the Earth's gravity as measured by satellites.

Melting is unlikely to continue at 500 cubic kilometers per year. The greenhouse gases we have already emitted will make the atmosphere hotter, and melting will speed up.

Moazzam Begg, former Guantanamo prisoner and now human rights investigator, was imprisoned in the UK and accused of terrorism after he went to Syria to investigate evidence of UK torture.

He has now been freed.

The UK government will violate any rights to prevent the facts about its torture from being brought out in court.

California has implemented "gun restraining orders": if you feel a relative is likely to shoot people, you can ask a judge to order his guns taken away.

Neocons hope to pressure Obama into attacking Assad as well as PISSI.

(PISSI is the Pseudo-Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.)