Morning links

Something to remember on this Memorial Day: governments always need a good war to grow and sustain power.  That explains the incessant provocations along the Russian border, as well as the South China Sea.  On this Memorial Day, remember all the wars-in-utero that Washington bureaucrats, politicians, and lobbyists are eager to see transpire. But US citizens will pay for the wars in blood and money, and then will be forced to suffer under the resulting power-grab by government.  Remember the stupidity of war, so that the stupid wars cease.

Here’s an idea: rescind Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize.  He’s been at war longer than any other President in U.S. history, and has set a deadly precedent in the use of drones to carry out extra-judicial killings.

What, exactly, are we memorializing on Memorial Day? Unless we’re reflecting on the tragic stupidity of most U.S. wars, the idiots who dragged the nation into them, and the soldiers who died fighting in those unnecessary wars, it becomes nothing more than propaganda for the next stupid war.  Better to abolish it, says Justin Raimondo.

David Boaz offers Memorial Day wisdom in an oldie-but-goodie from 2010

Some cops really dislike police accountability activists

Mises Institute president Jeff Diest offers wisdom and skepticism following the Libertarian Party convention

How much substance would emerge from a Trump-Sanders debate? Hint: none whatsoever.

From Politico: Does the Libertarian Party Finally Have a Chance?

From Foreign Policy: White House Blocks Transfer of Cluster Bombs to Saudi Arabia.  After having sold the Saudis millions of dollars’ worth of the deadly, cowardly civilian-killers in recent years.

From The Guardian: CIA ex-boss: secretive spooks tolerated in UK more than US.  British citizens care less about their Surveillance State than Americans do theirs.  I’m sure former NSA director Michael Hayden admires that about the Brits.  He also wishes someone would put Edward Snowden on a “kill list”.

From National Geographic: Antibiotic-resistant superbug found in US

From The Atlantic: How to avoid the post-antibiotic apocalypse

From Quartz: Why does gin and tonic taste so good?

Weekend links

Activist Post’s Kristan Harris compiles a list of the Warfare State’s rules for marginalizing and “debunking” dissent.  Those anonymous comments on social media might just be an NSA/CIA disinformation artist seeking to disrupt your ideas before they gain traction.  Seeing those suspicious, negative comments means you’re probably doing something right, and should keep doing it.

Lucy Steigerwald writes on Obama’s visit to Hiroshima, and neoconservatives’ ignorant, vitriolic response

Will Grigg writes on the latest legislative atrocity

The NSA’s strange guide to the internet

 

Raging cop challenges prisoner to a fight

The cop allegedly dragged the guy into the street and arrested him for jaywalking, then gave him the option to fight him for his freedom.  The guy didn’t fight, because he knew it was a ruse to justify getting murdered by the other cop.

Don’t we all live in fear that the cop pulling us over will be someone like this?

Morning links

Morning links