The October 3rd, 2015 aerial attack on a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan left 42 people dead. The soldiers responsible won’t face criminal charges, but they have been “disciplined”. So, a thorough chewing-out is a sufficient punishment for what has all the characteristics of a war crime. Chicago Tribune
Congrats, Health and Human Services. HHS will burn through $1.1 trillion in 2016. FEE.
And it’s all the more urgent that marijuana should be legal, now that the CDC says no to opioid prescriptions for chronic pain sufferers. They’ll get them, though, legal or otherwise.
From Yahoo Finance: “…the FBI said that if can’t require Apple to create the weakened software, it may demand access to what it described as Apple’s “crown jewels” instead. Source code is the list of programming code instructions used to create the software that runs the iPhone. The code controls everything from the background colors on the screen to the most critical security protections the phone has. Apple’s secret signature is a digital “key” required to update software on all iPhones.
If the FBI got access to those two items, the bureau, or outside programming experts it hired, could try to write the security-weakened version of iOS and install it onto Farook’s iPhone without Apple’s assistance.”
ABC News. On May 26, 2015, cops raided Sky High Holistic, ransacking the place. They destroyed what they thought were all the cameras and then proceeded to help themselves to some “cookies”. They joked about kicking the amputee owner in her nub, after the knuckle-dragger was informed that the owner knew the raid was going to happen. The video may shake your faith in the pure character of “our men and women in uniform”.
From Reason: “Apple is getting the last word before Tuesday’s court date with a final brief, which does not pull punches, either rhetorically or technically. It blasts the Justice Dept. for misreading (probably deliberately) the context of previous decisions invoking the All Writs Act (legislation intended for the courts to use to force compliance to legal orders in certain situations) and trying to get the courts to completely ignore both the consequences of conscripting a private company to produce software on demand, as well as the consequences of demanding a weakening of phone security because it may help (possibly, but maybe not) the government get useful information.”
“…a violent outgrowth of chronic political dysfunction and economic underdevelopment affecting large parts of the Islamic world, exacerbated by deep-seated sectarian divisions and the pernicious legacy of European colonialism and further complicated by the presence of Israel, all together finding expression in antipathy toward the West and especially the United States.” LA Times
A complex problem, highly inconvenient for those who believe the only solution is to bomb them until the sand glows.
Yikes. The Border Patrol got their own drones a decade ago, and have since lent out their unmanned spy planes to other agencies 700 times. Homeland Security is getting its own fleet too. Congress loves the idea, and even holds something called a “drone fair” on Capitol Hill. The BATF has $600,000 worth of drones, and they have the gall to say they don’t use them. And then there was the admission last week by the Pentagon that they flew spy missions over the US. But don’t worry. You’ve got nothing to hide, right?
Breitbart, not a site I’d normally link to, but. Constant water-drinking during debates, repeating sentences, and yes, consuming a pill in public, all point to something off-kilter about Rubio. Not that he had the pill addiction of a JFK, though, or his own personal Dr. Feelgood, as Kennedy did.
Yeah, probably.