(satire) Facebook is cracking down on false educational credentials such as "School of hard knocks".

UK law was designed to allow spy agencies to kidnap people and hand them over to dictators to be tortured.

Successive governments have covered up the details to protect the agents involved and the ministers who gave them orders. As a result, similar things could easily happen again.

Senator McConnell said that blocking the appointment of a supreme court justice for a whole year until the 2016 election was not mere partisanship but a civic duty.

Naturally this time he intends to rush the process of replacing Kennedy.

The number of prisoners in the US is so high that it directly alters elections. Groups that suffer bigotry are imprisoned unfairly more than others, even after committing similar crimes, and that costs them voting strength. Moreover, prisons placed in right-wing areas make their votes count extra.

James Schwab was a press representative for the deportation thugs who quit rather than carry out orders to lie. As he was giving a TV interview at his home, leak investigators burst in and tried to question him.

Schwab said this illustrates the way the US government tries to silence its critics.