Many companies are now exercising "investor-state" provisions that give them more rights in other countries than the citizens of those countries.

We can call them the "unequal treaties", and all of them should be abolished.

GCHQ feared public and legal backlash if the extent of its spying on the public became known.

The head of the NSA said that the US should shut down journalism about massive surveillance.

Every NSA staffer, including him, has sworn to prevent the government from doing that.

Another earthquake caused a tsunami that hit the Fukushima area.

Fortunately it was small and did not affect the nuclear plants. But what about the next one? The cleanup will take decades. If a big tsunami comes in the coming year, it will wash away the used fuel that remains on the site. It could even cause a fission reaction if it pushes the used fuel rods, stored in a pool, together and causes criticality.

Have they built a tsunami defense dam to protect against this?

Report: Governors Engaging In Crony Capitalism Disguised As Economic Development.