04/07/18 Overnight Links

Thank you for the continued page views.  For new readers, this is basically a stripped-down news-aggregation site from the point of view of an active participant in the Ron Paul Revolution. I’ll try to post around 20 stories of the day, depending on the amount of free time I have in the evening. Some nights you’ll get more, and some (like now) you’ll get less.  But they are all important for understanding the issues of the day, and offer a perspective you won’t find among more mainstream outlets. Thanks for reading.

Ars Technica: Homeland Security defends media-monitoring database, calls critics “conspiracy theorists”Ed: They want to track journalists and their sources, just like every other authoritarian government since the dawn of man

Motherboard: Facebook promises not to secretly delete more of Zuckerberg’s messages for now

CityLab: Police shootings are also gun violence

LA Times: There’s no pot of gold at the end of a trade war with China

Cato: From “opioid epidemic” to “stimulant epidemic”

FEE: Which state will be the first to suffer fiscal collapse?

Mises: Forget electoral democracy, give “demarchy” a chance

Activist Post: Fake “fake news” is a threat to democracy

Nautilus: Brain implant could help us compete with AI

Author: S. Smith