Much like PISSI with its beheading videos, Trump attracts support by proposing shocking actions.

His reaction is what PISSI hopes to provoke. So is the success of bigots in French elections.

Even without the cancelled Keystone XL pipeline, Canadian oil exports via the US have almost doubled since a year ago.

Several countries are forcibly handing exiled Chinese dissidents to China. They include Thailand, and even Vietnam, which is not generally friendly with China.

MDMA (Ecstasy) is already quite safe, but legalizing it would make it even safer.

Demand for ivory in China is falling, which bodes well for elephants.

The question is whether this is due to a change in attitudes or only to China's current economic slump.