The maker of fraudulent "bomb detectors" paid the UK government to help sell them.

The US government also acts as the marketing arm for companies such as Microsoft. In 2011 the Indian state of Tamil Nadu switched from distributing computers with GNU/Linux to distributing them with Windows, and this is suspected to be the result of a visit by Hillary Clinton.

This adds to many other reasons for not supporting her candidacy for president.

The UK press fears a system of mandatory prior censorship will be imposed.

DNA from plants humans eat gets into the human bloodstream. This adds to the reasons for concern about genetically modified plants.

It's clear that these GMOs can't be broadly toxic to humans, for the consequences would have been impossible to miss. However, problems affecting particular classes of people (perhaps depending on the details of their immune systems) are not impossible.

What worries me most is the spread of pollen. Plants do hybridize in nature.

The right to a public trial is threatened in the trial of Chicago protesters accused of terrorism.

8 years after Hurricane Katrina, the poorest neighborhood in New Orleans has only partly rebuilt.

Global heating is raising sea level. What would be considered today a 100-year-flood will in 50 years be much more frequent.