“The best thing Americans could ever do to end killing sprees here is to end the U.S. government’s killing sprees abroad.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/16/massacres-here-and-abroad/
“Syria’s government on Tuesday rejected efforts led by the United Nations to form a committee to rewrite Syria’s constitution, the main result of a peace congress among Syrian groups in Russia last month. Participants at the Sochi congress, a centerpiece of diplomatic efforts by Damascus’ ally Russia to end the war, agreed on Jan. 30 to set up the constitutional committee in Geneva, and to hold democratic elections in Syria.”
“I can’t help but wonder whether the North Korean people are more afraid of their government than Samsung, Nike, and other big businesses are scared of the U.S. government. I also can’t help but wonder whether it matters to a North Korean whether he dies from North Korean socialist policies or U.S. sanctions policies.”
Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/12/patheticism-u-s-sanctions-north-korea/
“Roughly two-thirds of Americans live within 100 miles of the oceans or the borders. And while the law in question specifically exempts dwellings from warrantless searches, that is the only exception.”
“The nodes were purchased by the Seattle Police Department via a $3.6 million grant from the Department of Homeland Security. Despite the victory of having the city remove the devices, it should be noted that the cost to take down the equipment will come from taxpayers.”
“Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte last week told soldiers to shoot female rebels in their genitals, the latest in a series of violent, misogynistic remarks. Since he came to power on a promise to kill all the country’s drug users and dealers, thousands of Filipinos have been shot dead, prompting the international criminal court to open a preliminary examination.”
Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-duterte-female-rebels-20180212-story.html
“In the People’s Democratic Republic of New York City, the owner of a building covered in graffiti must pay the ‘artists’ who trespassed on and defaced his property because he whitewashed their ‘work,’ a clown in a federal gown has decreed. And he must pay a lot: $6.7 million.”
Read more: https://www.lewrockwell.com/lrc-blog/courts-force-owners-pay-vandals-deface-property-kid-not/
“Freedom to quit is essential to all of these goals. I am talking here about the freedom to walk away from people and situations that are harmful to our well being.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-most-basic-freedom-is-the-freedom-to-quit/
“This final exit scan had a different feel. It was not about the airline. It was not about stopping terrorism and other mischief. It is purely about the possibility that the right of a person to exit could be denied for any reason the government happens to dream up.”
Read more: https://www.aier.org/blog/exit-scans-are-here
“A woman at the coroner’s office said — apparently incorrectly — that identification had been made through fingerprints. Another family member who talked to the coroner’s office said a woman told her Kerrigan also had been found with his identification, according to the lawsuit. Last May, Kerrigan’s family buried a man. Eleven days later, Kerrigan turned up at a family friend’s house. The friend called Kerrigan’s family to tell them he was alive. The man the Kerrigan family had buried turned out to be a Kansas native named John Dickens, who had to be exhumed before he was cremated and sent to his mother in Kansas.”
Read more: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Family-who-buried-wrong-man-sues-California-county-12611705.php