FBI director calls unbreakable encryption ‘urgent public safety issue’

“Tech companies and many cyber security experts have said that any measure ensuring that law enforcement authorities are able to access data from encrypted products would weaken cyber security for everyone.  U.S. officials have said that default encryption settings on cellphones and other devices hinder their ability to collect evidence needed to pursue criminals.”

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/fbi-director-calls-unbreakable-encryption-urgent-public-safety-issue/

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First France, Now Brazil Unveils Internet Censorship To Combat “Fake News”

“Police officials vow that they will proceed to implement the censorship program even if no new law is enacted. They insist that no new laws are necessary by pointing to a pre-internet censorship law enacted in 1983 — during the time Brazil was ruled by a brutal military dictatorship that severely limited free expression and routinely imprisoned dissidents.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/10/first-france-now-brazil-unveils-plans-to-empower-the-government-to-censure-the-internet-in-the-name-of-stopping-fake-news/

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2017 Was Safest Year for Cops in Nearly 50 Years—Worst For Citizens

Data from 2017 reveals that the idea that there is a ‘war on cops’ is nothing more than police propaganda, as the number of officers killed in the line of duty dropped to the second-lowest total in more than 50 years.  Conversely, there were over 1,000 people killed by cops for the fourth year in a row, according to the website killedbypolice.net, which operates a database of individuals killed by law enforcement officers.”

Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/2017-safest-year-cops-war-citizens/

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Conservatives Were Wrong about Ending Stop-and-Frisk

“I and others argued that crime would rise. Instead, it fell. We were wrong.  Major crime in New York City has continued to decline almost across the board in the four years of the de Blasio administration, to the lowest rates since New York City began keeping extensive records on crime in the early 1960s. Crime is literally off the charts — the low end of the charts. To compare today’s crime rate to even that of ten years ago is to observe a breathtaking decline.”

Read more: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/455035/new-york-city-stop-and-frisk-crime-decline-conservatives-wrong

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Will ABC really tell us what happened at Waco in 1993?

“If there was a way to characterize the government’s actions against the Davidians as something other than mass murder that has been covered-up with rigged political inquiries, government biased experts, lackey judges, official lies and the intimidation of question askers, we, the producers of WTRE could not find it.”

Read more: https://patch.com/california/brentwood/will-abc-really-tell-us-what-happened-waco-1993

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James Bovard: Why Ruby Ridge Still Matters

“If the government is entitled to effectively label certain individuals or groups or notions as public enemies, it is naive to expect due process and fair play to follow. Ruby Ridge illustrates the folly of treating noxious ideas like ticking time bombs. The vast majority of devotees of deluded dogmas will be duds — unless the government detonates the scene.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/ruby-ridge-still-matters/

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Sabotaging Peace in Korea

“It just might be that the two Koreas are figuring out a way to avoid war, much to the anger and chagrin of President Trump and the U.S. national-security establishment, who are obviously increasingly viewing war as inevitable and even in the best interests of the United States.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/01/03/sabotaging-peace-korea/

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All I Want For Christmas Is the End to Unnecessary War

“The lives of young Americans are too high a price to pay for wars driven by threat inflation, ego, or foolhardy social experiments.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-the-end-to-unnecessary-war/

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Jeff Sessions Faces Tough Cannabis Questions—From His Own Interns

“Sessions noted that more fatal accidents are now caused by drugs than by alcohol, and he said the American Medical Association ‘is crystal clear’ that ‘marijuana is not a healthy substance.’  But when the intern challenged that assertion, Sessions seemed dismissive, addressing the intern as ‘Dr. Whatever Your Name Is.’  ‘I don’t think America’s going to be a better place if marijuana’s sold in every corner grocery store,’ Sessions said.”

Read more: https://www.leafly.com/news/politics/jeff-sessions-faces-tough-cannabis-questions-from-doj-interns

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Central Planning Ignores the Needs of Women

“An American visiting the Communist Bloc in the 1980s would be aghast to find most women still doing laundry the way they had in the United States 50 years prior, without washing machines.  The communist system didn’t produce machines to make women’s lives easier for the same reason it neglected their other needs and wants. For all the complaints about the profit motive, markets incentivize people to satisfy each other’s preferences through voluntary exchange, while state-run economies provide no such incentive. There is no shortage of soaring communist rhetoric on gender equality, but that cannot make up for the pervasive and sexist shortages under central planning.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/central-planning-ignores-the-needs-of-women/

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