US citizens: call on the Japanese government to apologize to the women who were forced into prostitution by the Japanese Army, and give them compensation for this crime.

You'll note that I call for prostitution and associated activities to be legal, when they are done voluntarily. This is basically because there are no grounds to ban them, but the change would also help protect prostitutes from various wrongs, including the wrong of being forced into prostitution.

In the US: insist that schools and teachers should not promote (let alone require) specific brands of products to their students.

Obama's men say that he refuses to treat Congress's vote on whether to attack Syria as binding.

If Congressional opposition is strong enough, he may give way to it.

The essential point:

It's hard to imagine a more potent sign of a weak, declining empire than having one's national "credibility" depend upon periodically bombing other countries.

Budget cuts prevented measures that might have retarded the spread of the fire near Yosemite.

High radiation levels have been found near a water tank at Fukushima, and it is not clear where the radiation came from.

The company failed to notice this high level of radiation before because the measurements maxed out the meter that was used.