“Some wondered if Mario Draghi wasn’t allowing Italian bonds to tumble without ECB intervention, simply to ‘pressure’ the domestic political process against the formation of a populist, Euroskeptic cabinet.”
“The two men ensnared in Ukraine’s ‘clever’ ruse to weed out Putin’s assassins have turned out to be former Ukrainian counterintelligence officials, who despise Russia, and pledge allegiance to radical, ultra-right neo-Nazi group ‘Right Sector’.”
“The EU is voting to introduce aggressive new online copyright laws and ‘widespread censorship’ measures, which critics say could strangle new media websites and stifle satire and online meme culture.”
“Here are some lesser-known examples of the social credit system’s real-life applications, from hospitals to K-pop.”
Read more: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/china-social-credit
“Isn’t that sad that calling the police to someone’s house is attempted murder?”
“A large number of government agencies, marketing firms, healthcare organizations and IT support companies are publishing credentials via public Trello boards.”
Read more: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/06/further-down-the-trello-rabbit-hole/
“The U.S. military invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 to help the Afghanis to establish a democratic government, which they now have, with a president/executive branch and a Parliament. However, after nearly 17 years of fighting, U.S. troops are still in Afghanistan. The Afghanistan war is the longest in U.S. history. To date, 2,411 American soldiers have died in Afghanistan.”
“The administration is bombing people all over the planet, under looser rules and in the shadows.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/targeted-killing-donald-trump-style/
“The United States has been quietly funding and equipping elite paramilitary police units in El Salvador accused of extrajudicially murdering suspected gang members, according to a forthcoming United Nations report reviewed in advance by CNN.”
“It’s a jump of nearly 150% from the last days of George W. Bush’s White House.”