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Faux candidate Deez Nuts polls nine percent in Clinton-Trump match-up

August 21, 2015 admin brazilian, filed-on-july, hillary-clinton, labor-abuses, make-their, north, the-creation, the-fictional, world

A fake U.S. presidential candidate named Deez Nuts, reported to be the creation of an Iowa teenager, has stirred a social media frenzy by polling nearly 10 percent of registered North Carolina voters in a hypothetical match-up against Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. A statement of candidacy on behalf of the fictional 2016 White House hopeful, listing him as an independent, was filed on July 26 with the U.S.

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Chinese police arrest 15,000 for Internet crimes

August 18, 2015 creative brazilian, china, communist, filed-on-july, harsh-crackdown, hillary-clinton, labor-abuses, make-their, man-typing, ministry, president, the-fictional, world

Police in China said on Tuesday they had arrested about 15,000 people for crimes that “jeopardized Internet security”, as the government moves to tighten controls on the Internet. Since taking over in 2013, President Xi Jinping has led an increasingly harsh crackdown on China's Internet, which the Communist Party views with greater importance and acknowledges it needs to control, academics and researchers say. Police have investigated 7,400 cases of cyber crime, the Ministry of Public Security said in a statement on its website