National Interest: Veterans are not honored by forever war
DAVID FRENCH: Another police shooting raises hard questions about police restraint Ed: Bystanders allegedly began immediately yelling that the armed guard was, in fact, the person who saved the day, right when police arrived on the scene. The police killed Jemel anyway, despite his uniform with “security” branded right on the front, and also despite the fact that other cops were already on the scene, handling the situation like adults. What explains this other than systematically poor hiring practices, where the applicants selected are the ones most eager to kill someone? It reminds me of DiCaprio’s line in The Departed: “They signed up to use their weapons.” Being a cop in the U.S. today means having wide scope for murdering someone under the guise of, “He was reaching for his wasteband”, or “I feared for my life”.
Wall Street Journal: To make a cup of coffee, it takes more than a village
The Intercept: Google’s “smart city of surveillance” faces new resistance in Toronto
Techdirt: Nice work, EU: You’ve given Google an excuse to offer a censored search engine in China
Reason: HQ2: How Amazon made governments do their bidding for free
Also Reason: Stossel: Why some capitalists are the worst enemies of capitalism
Mises: The case against Pharma patent monopolies
TAC: Bolton uses WW1-era rhetoric to promote a cruel Iran policy
Forbes: Surging wealth inequality is a happy sign that life is becoming much more convenient
High Times: LA County sheriff’s deputy allegedly faked raid to rob cannabis facility
Activist Post: National facial recognition database to use loyalty rewards to identify American shoppers
Motherboard: It’s amateur hour in the world of spyware and victims will pay the price
