The EU proposes to ban sale of unregistered seed varieties. Registration is so expensive that many varieties (especially for home gardeners) will disappear, along with the small seed companies that sell them.

The FBI acts as a buffer to keep Internet company staff unaware that they are working for the NSA.

Thousands Protest in Japan against New State Secrets Bill, which would punish whistleblowers severely.

There a world-wide wave of increasing government surveillance and secrecy power, as various governments preemptively attack human rights and democracy before the movement builds up to defend them.

A Republican Congressman will be sentenced to probation for buying cocaine, which he called a "disease" in his own case, but he voted to impose drug tests on Americans that get food stamps and for punishing them harshly.

Corporate Espionage and the Secret War Against Citizen Activism.

Companies implicated include Walmart, Monsanto, Bank of America, Dow Chemical, Kraft, Coca-Cola, Chevron, Burger King, McDonald