Prisoners in Guantanamo can get out, if they have strong enough al Qa'ida ties, by turning informer. On the other hand, if you were captured for being in the wrong place at the wrong time, you may never get out.

I have no objection to infiltrating al Qa'ida. Unlike the dissident movements that the thugs usually infiltrate, al Qa'ida supports neither human rights nor democracy. What does bother me is that this might be part of the motive for the oppressive practice of imprisoning people indefinitely without a trial.

Everyone: call on world leaders to reject the TPP.

Ioane Teitiota, from Kiribati, was denied asylum in New Zealand as a global heating refugee.

He asked for asylum because his home is certain to become uninhabitable due to rising sea level. The court denies the danger. It is clear that he is probably safe in Kiribati this year and next year. It is equally clear that they will be inundated.

Reportedly growth of coral is enlarging some of the islands at present. However, in a few decades the coral will be killed by ocean acidification, and the islands won't be able to grow after that.

Will people be accepted as climate refugees when inundation gets closer?

What about the millions who live at low elevations in Bangladesh?

US banks threaten to charge for savings accounts because interest rates are so low.

Why are they so low? To promote "economic growth" of the sort that benefits companies but not workers. The effective way to promote true economic growth is with deficit spending, but Republicans have blocked this since 2010, so the Federal Reserve uses "quantitative easing" as a substitute that doesn't quite work.

The world media don't mention the massive corporate lobbying effort that has sabotaged negotiations that were supposed to curb global heating.