The drug mix called "krokodil" reportedly damages the user's body and brain, but feels like heroin and is cheaper, so desperate users turn to it.

From what I've read, people can use heroin for decades, fairly safely, if they can get it in a pure and reliable form: the danger comes from impurities. If registered heroin addicts could get their supply from doctors, they would be safe and nobody would use krokodil.

The US uses the no-fly list to bully people into giving information, offering to take them off the list if they report on some enemies.

This demonstrates that it has nothing to do with suspecting that those people would attack an airplane. The no-fly list is not being used to flights, merely as a handy way to harass people.

Solar and wind power vary, sometimes unpredictably, and this requires cycling fossil-fuel generators on and off more often. Modeling shows the costs of doing this are just a few percent of the savings in fuel costs.

NRA Tried To Stifle Study Showing Gun Retailers Support Background Checks.

The NSA tracks Americans' social networks, and Facebook is just one of its sources.

Thus, if you talk about your friends in Facebook, you're ratting on them. If you say that you saw John and Arthur, you tell the NSA that John knows Arthur. If John and Arthur are dissidents, or journalists, your information will help the government suppress dissent or journalism.

Don't do it!