This month started out with some tension when North Korea decided to go deaf-dumb-and-blind to the rest of the world, and go ahead with their planned rocket launch on April 5. The launch was officially to put a communications satellite into orbit, but is still widely considered a disguised missile test. The UN Security Counsil condemned the launch of the long-range rocket launch, saying it contravened UN bans. Turns out, North Korea doesn’t care.

Water fluoridation has been advocated by the U.S. Department of Health, the World Health Organization, and, as an effect, dental associations and national health councils all over the world. It has been argued that fluoride is a nutrient mineral that is essential for human health, and the optimum concentration is just under one milligram per litre. The WHO claims that “Any public water supplies with fluoride levels below 0.1 mg/l (ranging up to 0.3 for cooler climates) need to be fluoridated with artificial fluoride.” Yet no evidence supports that fluoride is an essential nutrient for humans, or that it has any oral health benefits.

It was been called “the most efficacious American political illustration since ‘Uncle Sam Wants You’” by the New York Times. It also got the designer sued by the world’s largest news gathering organisation, Associated Press.

The American Insurance Group is currently in the middle of what has been called a growing political firestorm, after allowing payouts of $165 million from government aid in bonuses to their executives. “People are right to be angry. I’m angry,” said president Obama this Wednesday. AIG, which has received a whopping $180 billion in a tax payer funded bailout the last six months, is now asking the people who received more than $100,000 to return half.

Oh noes, news industry. Ad revenues are plummeting, your journalists are disappearing, local television stations have insufficient resources to cover their communities, blogs are stealing your audience, nobody is paying for your content, and the Internet seems like the bully who shoved you off the top of the hill.