Monthly Archives: January 2016

White House seeks to enlist Silicon Valley to ‘disrupt radicalization’

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“The White House will attempt to enlist Silicon Valley’s major technology firms in its efforts to combat terrorism on Friday when a delegation of the most senior intelligence officials fly to California to meet with executives from companies including Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, YouTube and others.  According to people familiar with the meeting, it will take place at 11am PST in a government building in San Jose, just south of where many of the firms are headquartered.  Other tech participants include LinkedIn and Dropbox, two of the people said. None of the individuals who briefed the Guardian were authorised to speak about the meeting on the record.”

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jan/07/white-house-social-media-terrorism-meeting-facebook-apple-youtube-

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Trump warns UK that banning him would be an economic mistake

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“Donald Trump is making good on his promise to ‘counterpunch’ anyone who crosses him — even if it means taking on the entire United Kingdom.  The United Kingdom’s proposed Donald Trump ban arose after Trump’s widely criticized call for a Muslim ban in the United States.  A petition circulating in the U.K. has earned more than 560,000 signatures calling for Trump to be turned away from Britain’s borders.  The Trump Organization warned that were the U.K. to take any action against its namesake, it would ‘force The Trump Organization to immediately end [investments in Turnberry] and all future investments we are currently contemplating in the United Kingdom.'”

http://theweek.com/speedreads/597743/trump-organization-warns-united-kingdom-that-banning-donald-trump-mistake

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EU Unveils Border Control That Will Act “Even If A Government Objects”

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“Brussels is to propose the creation of a standing European border force that could take control of the bloc’s external frontiers — even if a government objected.  The move would arguably represent the biggest transfer of sovereignty since the creation of the single currency. The blueprint represents a last-ditch attempt to save the Schengen passport-free travel zone, by introducing the kind of common border policing repeatedly demanded by Paris and Berlin. European leaders have discussed a common border force for more than 15 years, but always struggled to overcome deep-seated objections to yielding national powers to monitor or enforce borders.”

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-12-10/ft-shocker-eu-unveils-standing-border-force-will-act-even-if-government-objects

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Children Caught In Sweep as Feds Begin Mass Deportations

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“The coordinated raids over the weekend focused mostly in Georgia, Texas, and North Carolina, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Monday, and constituted the first wave of mass deportations that could impact up to 15,000 people. The plan was revealed just before the Christmas holiday, which many criticized as particularly inhumane timing.  According to the advocacy organization #Not1More Deportation, in the Atlanta area starting on Saturday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents ‘barged into homes, even when asked for warrants at the door, removing mothers and children as young as 4 years old.'”

http://commondreams.org/news/2016/01/04/children-caught-sweep-feds-begin-mass-deportations

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How The Feds Got All That Western Land (and Why It’s a Problem)

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“It should be no concern of people in Washington, DC — 3,000 miles away  — as to how a handful of ranchers want to use a tiny corner of land in rural Oregon. Similarly, taxpayers in, say, Ohio (a net taxpayer state) should not be paying to mitigate the effects of overgrazing by ranchers in Oregon, or to build their water projects.  There are, of course, many legal and constitutional obstacles to decentralizing land ownership, but the political obstacles are numerous as well.  The perennial conflicts in the West over land seizures by environmentalists, regulatory battles, micromanagement, and overgrazing all illustrate how much of a failure the federal land ownership scheme has been.”

https://mises.org/blog/how-feds-got-all-western-land-and-why-its-problem

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Justin Raimondo: What the Oregon Standoff Is Really About

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“While the focus among vaunted ‘civil libertarians’ is the resentencing and mandatory minimums, the fact is that the Hammonds should never have been prosecuted to begin with. Their long agony is a clear case of government persecution motivated by avarice and politics—for this is a warning to anyone who opposes the federal government’s campaign to retain and expand its ownership of huge swathes of Western land. They currently control more than 80 percent of Nevada; approximately half of California, Utah, Oregon, Idaho, Arizona, and New Mexico; 42 percent of Wyoming; 36 percent of Colorado; and 30 percent of Washington and Montana.  And they want more.”

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-is-the-oregon-standoff-really-about/

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Drone strikes in Oregon considered acceptable response by many

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“Search Twitter for ‘Oregon’ and ‘drone strike’ and you’ll find tons of people proposing to give the Malheur activists the Abdulrahman Awlaki treatment. TV host Montel Williams tweeted that the authorities should ‘put this down using National Guard with shoot to kill orders.’ ‘I hope they pull a M.O.V.E. on those terrorists in Oregon,’ wrote the author Jess Nevins, alluding to a black militant group whose Philadelphia headquarters were bombed by the police in 1985, killing 11 people and destroying dozens of homes.  Former Homeland Security official Juliette Kayyem declared on CNN’s website that the occupation in Oregon is terrorism ‘by any definition.’  Really? By ‘any’ definition?”

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0106-walker-oregon-malheur-terrorist-20160106-story.html

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Oregon Standoff: Federal Land Grab vs. the Sagebrush Rebellion

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“While the majority of rancher disputes are against the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) the US Fish and Wildlife Service has been just as ruthless–in this case expanding the wildlife refuge at the expense of neighboring ranchers. This week I’ll detail the struggle of the Hammond family, and of Ammon Bundy the protest leader. When you read the litany of federal abuse of ranching families, you will better understand why some ranchers are staging an armed resistance.”

http://www.garynorth.com/public/14709.cfm

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“This Is Government Land”: The Eternal Refrain of the Federal Occupiers

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“Whatever else one might say about the CCF, the motives animating its occupation are much more commendable than those of the squatters who illegally occupied Harney County in the 1870s. The same Regime that made ‘settlers’ and ‘county fathers’ out of the first occupiers is determined to cage or kill the CCF in the service of the same principle expressed by the execrable Indian Agent William Rinehart: ‘This is government land'”

http://www.freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2016/01/this-is-government-land-eternal-refrain.html

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2015 News Stories You Should Have Heard About, But Probably Didn’t

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“In 2015, the iron fist of power clamped down on humanity, from warfare to terrorism (I repeat myself) to surveillance, police brutality, and corporate hegemony. The environment was repeatedly decimated, the health of citizens was constantly put at risk, and the justice system and media alike were perverted to serve the interests of the powers that be.  However, while 2015 was discouraging for more reasons than most of us can count, many of the year’s most underreported stories evidence not only a widespread pattern that explicitly reveals the nature of power, but pushback from human beings worldwide on a path toward a better world.”

http://theantimedia.org/15-news-stories-from-2015-you-should-have-heard-about-but-probably-didnt/

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