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Nigeria's army has killed over 8000 prisoners since 2011.

That is more or less comparable with the number of people that Boko Haram has killed.

A UK jobcenter demanded Nick Gaskin come to an interview about putting him into work, or else his support would be cut off. It would be difficult for Gaskin to work, since he is paralyzed from the mouth down, and can communicate only by blinking his eyes.

Everyone makes mistakes, but if this was an error, the jobcenter compounded it by refusing to recognize and correct the error when Gaskin's family reported it. The staff had clearly been told not to accept any excuse for not coming for a work interview.

The absurd case of Nick Gaskin is significant because of the general pattern it is an extreme example of. Jobcenters are constantly looking for excuses to conclude, never mind whether it's true, that disabled people are really fit for work.

Those unemployed who are fit to work (including the many who never claimed not to be) are frequently put through hoops, like requiring them to come to the jobcenter without giving them a way to get there, and ordered to spend many hours a week applying for nonexistent jobs using computers not available to them.

The reason is clear: the state seeks excuses to cut support for the unemployed, so it keeps creating new excuses to punish them.

Activists are bringing solar panels to Gaza by boat, since electricity is limited there because Israel destroyed the generating plant.

One Palestinian member of the Israeli legislature is among the volunteers on the boats.

The same Israelis that impose the siege call him a traitor, to distract from the evil of the siege of Gaza.