02/05/18 Morning links

Washington Examiner: California overreacts and presumes every homeschooling parent is a child abuser

Consortium News: ‘Deep State’ veterans find new homes in mainstream media

The Week: China’s Black Mirror moment Ed: The Chinese gov’t will start giving their citizens a “social credit” score, which measures each Chinese citizen’s “trustworthiness”.  Disturbing because this is our future as well.

Washington Post: Hawaii false missile threat: Fired worker says he feels bad but is not at fault

FEE: Imagine being locked up in prison because of bad forensics

BankInfoSecurity: Fitness Dystopia in the Age of Self-Surveillance

High Times: This Congressman could be sabotaging legal cannabis

Al Jazeera: Saudi-led coalition killed 68 children in Yemen: UN. Ed: Let us never again believe the ‘preemptive war for humanitarian reasons’ lie.  The destruction of Yemen and its population by the US-armed Saudi military should never be forgotten, as this is clearly one of the greatest war crimes ever committed by our own government.  That only independent news is discussing this at any length is a mind-boggling scandal.

ACLU: Congress needs to hold ICE accountable for abuses

Reason: The pernicious myth of “Chain Migration” Ed: The illegal immigrant scare has been more psychological propaganda used to construct a proto-totalitarian Surveillance State along the US border.  It’s no exaggeration at all to say that the security of our rights and privacy along the border is a good indicator for the security of our rights and privacy will be in the rest of the country within the next two decades.  In the same way that foreign theaters of war are zones where the Pentagon can test all manner of new weapons and tech, the US border provides a testing arena for total surveillance.  It also provides feedback for the ‘tyranny threshold’ that Americans currently are conditioned to accept.  Chances are, if Americans are accepting subhuman treatment at the border, they’ll accept it everywhere else, too.

Newsweek: China building AI-powered nuclear submarine that ‘could have its own thoughts’

CNBC: Over $60 billion wiped off value of cryptocurrencies as bitcoin drops below $8,000

Futurism: Florida man becomes first person to live with advanced mind-controlled robotic arm

Author: S. Smith