China is setting up total face-recognition in Xinjiang. The rest of China will surely follow.

In India, every classroom will have a video camera, so that each child can be watched by the parents of the other children. And by who-knows-who-else.

I wish we were safe from this in the US.

How Democracies Die — sometimes in a sudden coup, sometimes gradually as the institutions of democracy are subverted by a minority.

The rich minority in the US have been working for decades to destroy our democracy, and it hasn't functioned as a democracy since 20 years ago under President Clinton. Now that people are awakening to this, we will see if there is anyway to take our country back from the plutocrats.

Food shortage in Venezuela is driving people to loot stores, even steal race horses and eat them.

Some citizens of North Carolina are investigating a company that flew prisoners for the Bush regime to other countries that would torture them.

A study rejected the good and bad extremes of likely global heating in this century if we fail to cut back greenhouse gas emissions.

However, this assumes that we don't hit a tipping point. We know of several possible tipping points, and we don't know whether they can happen, or at what temperature. The methane tipping point seems to be starting to move.