Courtesy of Houston mayor. Regardless of your opinion of vaccines, isn’t the anti-anti-vaccine hysteria a bit much? Are they worried that the arguments are so persuasive that don’t want a film like this grabbing any “prestige” by being screened at high profile events? Activist Post
Automatically blaming encryption for terror attacks must be cathartic for the political class, because it shifts the blame from them over to liberty/privacy. But Euro terrorists used burner phones to evade law enforcement, despite the outcry over encryption. Authorities already had plenty of info on the terrorists prior to their attack, and as this Tech Dirt piece makes clear, law enforcement were probably smothered under a glut of info, not a lack of it. Too much info to sift through, and a lack of will to pull the threads together in time, are more to blame for the attacks’ success than privacy.
Undercover cops didn’t identify themselves as cops, forced then-21-yr-old James King against their SUV and took his wallet. The young man understandably tried to run, thinking he was being mugged. He was tackled by the cops and beat/choked until he lost consciousness. They then tell the bystanders filming to delete the video evidence. Unbelievably, the bystanders did as instructed. No consequences means this will continue to happen. Cop Block
The Saudis are unleashing their US-made stockpile of First World weapons on a poor, Third World country. The survivors of this onslaught will not forget who made the bombs, and who funded and supported the destruction of their country, and the murder of their countrymen. Again, THIS is how terrorists are created. Why is the world ignoring it? Antiwar
It should be defended at all costs, especially when it appears unpopular to do so. See the sublime Jeffrey Tucker’s latest essay at FEE, “Must a Jew Bake a Nazi Cake?”
During a supposed ceasefire. Janes
US military pushed amphetamines and opiates on Vietnam-era troops like candy, basically inducing addiction and contributing to their PTSD after they returned home. Also Sputnik.
Blows a trillion bucks on the F35 fighter program, topples elected governments the world over, experiments covertly on American citizens, and generally makes a better case for it’s abolition than anyone else could do. It’s like Enron, or Lehman Brothers, or any other mega corp that needs a bailout. The Pentagon gets one automatically. Funding the Pentagon is really just one, gigantic, never-ending bailout of a failed foreign policy. It’s become a tool of global destabilization and could very probably ignite a massive war with China or Russia or both. Sputnik News