09/14/18 Links

09/14/18 Links

What. The. Heck? Popular Mechanics: FBI mysteriously close National Solar Observatory in New Mexico

The Intercept: Senior Google scientist resigns over “forfeiture of our values” in China

Techdirt: European Court of Human Rights: UK surveillance revealed by Snowden violates human rights

Activist Post: A brief history of repressive regimes and their gun laws

The Week: The case for the American bobby

National Review: Did France’s gun control hurt its resistance to the Nazis?

JIM BOVARD: Barack Obama’s return just reminds us how he fueled the distrust that led to Trump

JUSTIN RAIMONDO: Defeat the Deep State:The Deep State – i.e. the constellation of national security agencies and private actors who have directed and maintained our globalist foreign policy since the end of World War II – would have targeted Trump in any case, due to his hostility to their interventionist foreign policy. And yet I believe they would’ve gone after him anyway due to his populist outsider persona, which the self-appointed guardians of the Empire consider dangerous per se.

The bottom line is that the intelligence services of the United States, and top officials of the FBI, have indeed launched a regime change operation comparable to the dozens carried out by these very same spooks over the years from Latin America to the Middle East. Like most of these campaigns, it’s a multilateral effort, with the intelligence services of at least three “allied” countries involved. Co-authored with the Clintonistas, the Russia-gate hoax is their invention: it was the perfect pretext to conduct surveillance on a rival presidential campaign. For all the talk of “collusion,” the real colluders were the Obama administration and the Clinton campaign organization who utilized the British “former” MI6 agent, Christopher Steele, and his infamous dossier. This fake intelligence was used by the Justice Department to justify spying on Carter Page, George Pappadapoulos, and other Trump campaign contacts.”

Reason: DHS gave ICE an extra $169 billion to detain and remove immigrants last month

Author: S. Smith