REPUBLIC REBORN

They’re not giving up on the lawsuit against Colorado’s legal marijuana. High Times

Three reasons, from Forbes‘ Steven Salzburg.

So says Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. NY Times

Music to the ears of the Military/Industrial Complex.  And you can bet they’re cranking them out at record rates, too.  This is the purpose of endless war. Antiwar

The feds are testing a new informant program that’s billed as a way to bring Muslims at risk of “radicalization” back from the brink, but will not differ at all from the myriad other spying programs in place that target Muslims.  Willing informants are usually desperate people that will say anything, and these surveillance/entrapment programs do nothing other than inflame distrust and feelings of marginalization, feelings that lead to radicalization, in the very communities the FBI is professing to want to help. Reason

And it could’ve been much, much worse. VICE

Sleep deprivation, starvation, claustrophobia induction, etc.  Psychologists James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen were apparently paid “millions of dollars” for these brilliant techniques.  Alternet

FindFace is facial recognition software that links people in photographs with their social media pages, effectively stripping them of their anonymity.  In this case, some have used it to doxx Russian porn actresses.  Imagine how our busybody Surveillance State is using this tech on us right now. Ars Technica

The minimum wage tosses the most vulnerable members of society out onto the street, as Jeff Tucker makes clear in his latest post at FEE.

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper weighs releasing an estimate on the number of Americans spied on through the NSA’s Prism surveillance program, which acts as a massive internet dragnet that surveils users of Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft products, etc.  He also admits that Snowden’s leaks accelerated the development of readily-available strong encryption. Reuters