This missile base is located in Romania, but a second will go live in Poland in 2018.  By encircling Russia with these missile bases, US is deliberately provoking a reaction.  If Russia does strike, or some small incident is blown out of proportion and a series of retaliations occur, let it be known that the fault will lie with the US, not Russia, for inciting the most easily-avoidable major war in modern times. Reuters

Forbes.  Gifting the leftovers of the Warfare State to the minions of the Prohibition State.  The solution is the end the War on Drugs, which provides the excuse the rampant militarization of local cops.

They do it, and will continue to do it, because there are no consequences.  Cop Block

Federal judge in Florida is weighing whether to release those as well. Daily Beast

From The Guardian: “A former Republican member of the 9/11 commission, breaking dramatically with the commission’s leaders, said Wednesday he believes there was clear evidence that Saudi government employees were part of a support network for the 9/11 hijackers and that the Obama administration should move quickly to declassify a long-secret congressional report on Saudi ties to the 2001 terrorist attack.

The comments by John F Lehman, an investment banker in New York who was Navy secretary in the Reagan administration, signal the first serious public split among the 10 commissioners since they issued a 2004 final report that was largely read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia, which was home to 15 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11.

“There was an awful lot of participation by Saudi individuals in supporting the hijackers, and some of those people worked in the Saudi government,” Lehman said in an interview, suggesting that the commission may have made a mistake by not stating that explicitly in its final report. “Our report should never have been read as an exoneration of Saudi Arabia.”

What, again, was this entire War on Terror about, if our government protects the one foreign power known to have been involved in 9/11?  Perpetual war is the health of the State.