New York Senator Schumer, the leader of Senate Democrats, is weak in opposing the troll's saboteur cabinet nominees.

Thousands protested at his apartment calling on him to "wake up".

Contrasting the troll's lies with most politicians' and diplomat's deception: the troll uses lies to get underlings that will obey with no scruples, while intimidating everyone else into obeying from fear. And it's a strategy aimed at the short term only.

The US is heading for a shortage of potable water in 25 years or so. The price of water is rising so fast that many of US households may be unable to afford water in a few years.

We must stop letting companies pay fines to protect their executives from prosecution.

Theresa May, when minister for surveillance and repression, tried to make the NHS hand over patient data to the state, looking for unauthorized immigrants.

Now the UK has a new plan for denying medical care to unauthorized immigrants: demanding two kinds of ID before people can get treatment.