REPUBLIC REBORN

News6: Oklahoma’s medical marijuana law goes into effect today

Marijuana Herald: Oklahoma Hempfest expected to be second-largest in U.S., to feature over 100 vendors

ACLU: Amazon’s facial recognition falsely matched 28 members of Congress with mugshots

TIME: 23andMe’s GlaxoSmithKline partnership raises privacy concerns

Zero Hedge: Boston Dynamics to produce 1,000 robot dogs per year by 2019

BILL KAUFMANN: How NATO became the most sacred cow in the barn

JAMES BOVARD: The government: Liability for thee, but not for me

GEORGE WILL: Today’s trade warriors don’t care about the evidence

DANIEL LARISON: The aftermath of a Saudi coalition wedding massacre in Yemen

The Intercept: U.S. secret wars in Africa rage on, despite talks of downsizing

Astronomy: Secrets of the strange stars that circle our supermassive black hole

Denis Villeneuve is remaking Dune, and that’s a good thing

KFOR: Oklahoma State Board of Pharmacy fires director amid bribery investigation

Tulsa World: The only draft of full legislation for medical marijuana removes THC limits, allows smokables. What else would it do?

High Times: Poll: Americans view marijuana as less harmful than tobacco

In New Jersey, 1 in 35 children are diagnosed with autism. That’s a 200% increase since the year 2000. Ed: A few months old, but relevant nonetheless. Something in our environment is causing this, something man-made.

Reason: Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht’s murder-for-hire charges dropped by U.S. attorney

USA Today: “My husband committed suicide when doctors restricted his pain medication”

BoingBoing: Watchdog: UK spies engaged in illegal surveillance from 2001-2012

Buzzfeed: Allegations of sexual abuse and harassment have tripled in jails and prisons across the US Ed: Almost half are committed by prison staff.

The Intercept: Bernie Sanders introduces bill to end cash bail

WSWS: Trump admin deported up to 463 immigrant parents without their children

DAVID FRENCH: The Ninth Circuit shows us how to protect gun rights

Consortium News: The case for stripping former officials of their security clearances

From Chapter 10 of the second volume of his priceless Law, Legislation, and Liberty: 

“For a proper understanding of the character of this order it is essential that we free ourselves of the misleading associations suggested by its usual description as an ‘economy’. An economy, in the strict sense of the word in which a household, a farm, or an enterprise can be called economies, consists of a complex of activities by which a given set of means is allocated in accordance with a unitary plan among the competing ends according to their relative importance. The market order serves no such single order of ends. What is commonly called a social or national economy is in this sense not a single economy but a network of many interlaced economies.1 Its order shares, as we shall see, with the order of an economy proper some formal characteristics but not the most important one: its activities are not governed by a single scale or hierarchy of ends. The belief that the economic activities of the individual members of society are or ought to be part of one economy in the strict sense of this term, and that what is commonly described as the economy of a country or a society ought to be ordered and judged by the same criteria as an economy proper, is a chief source of error in this field. But, whenever we speak of the economy of a country, or of the world, we are employing a term which suggests that these systems ought to be run on socialist lines and directed according to a single plan so as to serve a unitary system of ends.”

KOCO: Oklahoma pharmacy board to consider director’s future

Cato: The budgetary effects of ending drug prohibition

The Federalist: Liberal Ninth Circuit says open-carrying a gun is a constitutional right

National Review: Trump uses emergency powers to fix a problem he created with emergency powers

Fox News: Gunman who shot dead George H.W. Bush’s former personal doctor was wearing ‘fully-loaded backpack’, police say. Ed: A gunman on a bike going in the opposite direction shot the cardiologist in a clear targeted kill.

Reason: Georgia sheriff buys $70K Dodge Hellcat with forfeiture funds

Techdirt: UK judge says accurate journalism is an invasion of privacy in Cliff Richard case

Computerworld Australia: Australian government ‘drunk on surveillance’

FEE: Legalizing pot sales means…higher home values?

News6: Potential dispensaries in limbo as medical marijuana details still in works

Tulsa World: Open to the public: Medical marijuana working group set for first meeting at Capitol on Wednesday

Oklahoma Watch: Legalizing medical marijuana doesn’t change its status in prisons

Rolling Stone: How to survive America’s kill list

DAVID FRENCH: This shooting should sicken America’s armed citizens

ABC News: Technology’s potential to help or harm ‘almost limitless’, Human Rights Commission warns

Also ABC: Mirror, mirror: How AI is using facial recognition to decipher your personality

Whoa: Hot Air: New York using facial recognition software at bridges, toll roads

Daily Mail: New York schools to begin using facial recognition CCTV cameras

PAT BUCHANAN: Putin’s ‘Evil Empire’? A sad overstatement.

FEE: Five of Hayek’s biggest ideas

Forbes: Let’s be blunt, internet sales taxes are economy-sapping domestic tariffs

Leafly: Healing with the psychonauts: Psychedelic medicine goes mainstream

News OK: Oklahoma medical marijuana supporters cry foul over THC limits

KFOR: Pro-cannabis advocates rally at Oklahoma State Capitol

NORML executive: The case for whole-plant cannabis

Fox: Big Tobacco makes first investment in marijuana industry

The Intercept: Former Obama officials help Silicon Valley pitch the Pentagon for lucrative defense contracts

Hartford Courant: Face-scanning technology threatens privacy

Truthdig: Immigrant shelters drug traumatized teens without consent

The Federalist: Poll: Americans don’t give a hoot about so-called Russian collusion

Reason: Can bitcoin become the global monetary standard?

Tulsa World: State Question 788 takes effect this week. What do you need to know?

News OK: OSBI investigating Oklahoma Pharmacy Board executive director

EFF: California can pioneer local community oversight of police surveillance

Mises: 6 reasons why a trade war with China is pointless

FEE: Capitalism has accomplished what Marxism merely promised

The Intercept: Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for Julian Assange and hand him over to the UK. What’s next?

Boing Boing: Authoritarians used to be scared of social media, now they rule it.

Buzzfeed: A cop involved in Eric Garner’s death is facing his first disciplinary charges. 4 years later.

Techdirt: Cop costs taxpayers $60,000 and one drug bust after lying about almost everything related to traffic stop

URI AVNERY: Israelis just keep killing people and stealing land

This kind of overt corruption is what prison is actually for: NewsOK: Pharmacy board head allegedly offered official a job to sway marijuana rules Ed: What is amusing about all of this is that Julie Ezell, the former Health Department attorney accused of sending threatening messages to herself, will probably flush out all the offending players in this charade. Let’s release a few thousand non-violent offenders and make room for these idiots.

Oh yes: KTUL: Oklahoma prosecutor seeks expanded probe over text messages

KOCO: Oklahoma legislative leaders form 13-member marijuana panel

Activist Post: Thousands of scientists sign pledge against developing lethal A.I.

National Review: The Ninth Circuit protects gun rights and stops confiscation

The Federalist: No, Montenegro is not essential to U.S. national security interests

Al Jazeera: UK using child spies in police operations

CFR: The rise of China’s Security-Industrial Complex

Gizmodo: Hack can turn robotic vacuum into creepy rolling surveillance machine

Biometric Update: UK mayor contemplates using facial recognition tech to catch litterbugs

Financial Times: How police forces use data to assess risks and predict crime

The Intercept: Chaos prevails in immigrant detention centers, with children under 5 still separated from parents

Reuters: Palestinians in Jerusalem demolish own homes rather than see Israeli settlers move in

WSWS: Israeli parliament passes apartheid-style ‘Nation-State’ law

Fox: Pentagon makes massive AI push for tanks, ships, weapons, drones, and networks

FEE: What the origin of money teaches us about spontaneous order

Marijuana.com: Fake emails, felony charges, and Attorney General’s intervention: A dramatic 48 hours in Oklahoma marijuana policymaking

KFOR: Attorney general advises health board to convene special meeting to amend medical marijuana rules

 ABC Tulsa: Gov. Fallin says Board of Health should rescind medical marijuana rules

Civilized: Native American tribes won’t allow medical marijuana in Oklahoma

High Times: Cannabis illicit market shrinking, new DEA, Homeland Security numbers suggest

New York Post: Marijuana may help fight cancer

Check out the video in the article: The Federalist: Sacha Baron Cohen tried to trick this gun store owner, who wasn’t having any of it

Techdirt: ‘Smart’ TVs remain the poster child for dismal privacy, transparency and security standards

Reason: When code is speech, tech like 3D-printed guns sees greater protection from censorship

National Review: Brett Kavanaugh and the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment mess

Ars Technica: Judge slams FBI for improper cellphone search, Stingray use

The Week: Can blockchain fix America’s voting system?

NOLA: Study finds a brain on psychedelic trip looks as active as a growing baby’s: report

Good god: NewsOK: Top attorney for Health Department who resigned last Friday charged with felony after OSBI determines she sent threats to herself. Ed: She sent herself death threats and then claimed they came from disgruntled pro-788 activists. My question is why would someone in her position in power, knowing her crime would be discovered, engage in this behavior?

KOCO: Official says procedure could keep recreational marijuana off November ballot

Tulsa World: 10 things medical marijuana patients would not be allowed to do under SQ 788

The American Conservative: Cronyism in action: Government’s cozy ties to Big Tech and Big War

WIRED: Schools can now get facial recognition tech for free. Should they?

ZDnet: Tech giants, civil liberties coalition urge Congress to pass email privacy law

EFF: Undermining mobile phone users’ privacy won’t make us safer

Washington Post: How your data is used by the police, and where it goes wrong

Washington Times: “Buy America”: U.S. arms sales increase despite Trump’s tough talk on NATO, trade

Mises: The EU’s new data protection rules are already hurting Europeans

The Hill: Children are one of the War on Drugs’ casualties

The Intercept: Brett Kavanaugh repeatedly ruled in favor of the National Security State, most recently for the CIA, and against me

The Federalist: Communists brutally murdered Russia’s last royal family 100 years ago today

The American Conservative: The war on Yemen’s invisible victims

Charlotte Observer: What data on 20 million traffic stops can tell you about ‘driving while black’

FEE: The second Social Security crisis nobody is talking about

Oh no: Massive: Pulling all-nighters could permanently damage your brain