01/29/18 Overnight links

World Net Daily: ‘Police State’ national ID card tucked away in immigration bill

Daily Mail: ICE now has access to a nationwide license plate database

North Jersey: NJ police brutality: millions paid in secret settlements that keep bad cops on the street and the public in danger

CATO: When our faces are our “papers”

Activist Post: 7 times the US has lost nukes that still haven’t been found

Fifth Domain: The next cyber arms race is in artificial intelligence

Daily Star: AI Army: China hiring team of robotics experts in “terrifying” military development

The Hill: Destroying, suppressing evidence is FBI standard procedure

National Review: Why trust the FBI?

FEE: Minimum wage fallout is caused by government, not business

Alternet: Magic mushrooms fight authoritarianism Ed: Abandon Big Pharma’s poison pill racket and give everyone psychedelics and weed.

Economist: Fentanyl is lethal and almost impossible to keep out of the country. Ed: Legalize clean heroin in some form and give addicts a safe place to use it, it’s the only way to stop the fentanyl epidemic.

Author: S. Smith