“Kevin Shipp reveals IN DETAIL how the Shadow Government (CIA) destroys whistleblowers. It includes information never made public, including the personal side of what a true whistleblower must face.”
“The total reflects the emerging scale of a practice that will have lasting impacts on a generation of kids who happened to arrive in the U.S. at this particular moment.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/06/08/immigration-family-separation-children/
“The number of migrant children locked up by the federal government has surged by more than 20 percent and left designated detention facilities at near-capacity.”
“Graham, a retired colonel, has in the past supported the ability to indefinitely detain those captured under the current AUMF and has opposed limits on the president’s ability to conduct war.”
“Sites will have to pay to license the technology to match submissions to the database, and to identify near matches as well as exact ones. Sites will be required to have a process to allow rightsholders to update this list with more copyrighted works. Even under the best of circumstances, this presents huge problems.”
“California governor Jerry Brown wants to impose the state’s first-ever tax on drinking water, tacked onto monthly bills.”
Read more: http://blog.independent.org/2018/06/07/drinking-water-tax-the-last-straw-for-californians/
“Grey and black market consumers don’t get hit with stiff sales and excise taxes, and if they can still get it from the guy down the street, why pay those high, state-legal prices?”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/30/why_are_californias_legal
“In response, state regulators will temporarily stop processing new applications for marijuana licenses starting June 15.”
“That drug-sniffing dogs must die in the absence of prohibition will not become a real problem unless government chooses to make it so.”
“Alarmingly, a majority of millennials would prefer to live under socialism or communism.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/3-myths-of-socialism-debunked-by-venezuela-s-nightmare/