The US Export-Import Bank lent over 8 billion dollars to Pemex, Mexico's state oil company.

Even if it oil extraction were not dangerous to the world, that certainly counts as corruption.

A fear-spreading city council member in Los Angeles proposed to make it a crime for an adult to enter a playground if not accompanied by children.

Doesn't that fool realize how easy it is for the hypothetical stranger-molester to arrange to bring a child? One child would pave per way to meet other children.

Nearly all adults that have sex with children are their relatives or friends of the family. What could be more natural than to bring that child in order to meet another?

It would be more logical to prohibit adults that _do_ bring children.

Fortunately the LA Times rebuked this stupid idea.

How the CIA manipulates the US media.

Part 2.

Global heating, by changing the seasons, is causing birds to arrive at their summer breeding grounds too early. Some find an absence of food.

Prisoners in US prisons are excluded from work safety standards. They can be maimed on the job due to lack of safety equipment and training, and the US government covers it up.