UK nuclear fuel storage ponds are an accident waiting to happen.

The FBI is trying very quietly to get the power to break the security of computers in the US and elsewhere, essentially unsupervised.

Once a judge authorizes some investigation, the FBI would be allowed to break into any and all computers in the world as part of that investigation, and would be left entirely on its own in choosing those targets.

The FBI subverts various web sites to attack their visitors.

The Hungarian regime has hollowed out democracy by setting up a distorted election system, but has avoided measures that would make a lot of people angry until just now.

An official UK study finds that punitive drug laws don't even succeed in reducing the use of the prohibited drugs.

They do, however, succeed in ruining lots of people's lives; in the US mostly people from the minority groups that thugs seek excuses to arrest.

Australia has created special obstacles to investigating violence by thugs against protesters or bystanders outside the G20 meeting.

Since thugs enjoy near impunity to start with, this means they will be allowed to wreak havoc and repression.