Pope Hat on Trump’s own personal Pravda, Breitbart

Hilarious.  Trump’s anti-Establishment facade is wearing thin, it’s been clear from the beginning he’s an unabashed authoritarian, and clearly cannot wait to take the reins of power.  There’s nothing “Ron Paul” about Trump.  Sometimes it seems that the majority of the people want an Authoritarian, but also need their conscience assuaged by Anti-Establishment rhetoric.  With Trump you get both.

Colorado rules that marijuana convictions obtained before legalization can be overturned

RT“The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that residents there convicted of marijuana possession before recreational weed was legalized may be eligible to have those decisions overturned.

As of January 1, 2014, adults from Colorado are legally allowed to buy up to one ounce of marijuana under the state Constitution’s recently passed Amendment 64. But with upwards of 9,000 marijuana possession cases being prosecuted each year before then, a huge chunk of the state’s population is now left wondering how the newly enacted law impacts previously decided court rulings.”

A cashless society would be a prison society

Interview with Tom DiLorenzo.  Anonymity of association is a central pillar of liberty, and protects liberty far more effectively than any politician ever could.  This is why the Political Class hates it, and why they want the public to believe that only child predators and terrorists would ever desire it.

In the interview, Tom delves into the central banking implications for a cashless society.  A cashless society is far easier to engineer by that financial Leviathan called the Federal Reserve, meaning the economy becomes far easier to manipulate in the short run for the Political Class themselves.

The Pentagon doles out billions to foreign militaries in secret. So who gets it, and how much?

From Politico.  The Pentagon spends $10 billion on something called “Building Partner Capacity”.  It’s a cheap euphemism for what amounts to doling out taxpayer billions to foreign governments in secret.

Relevant chunks: “In total, the DOD has spent at least $122 billion arming and training foreign partners in the past 15 years.

What do we have to show for it? That’s unclear. The Pentagon is the only government agency providing foreign assistance that is not required to submit an annual budget justification to Congress, so the public does not how much the DOD is spending in a given country and why. Without this baseline data, it’s difficult to evaluate whether these programs are succeeding, much less whether they are an efficient use of resources.”