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National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks

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“The result, the report says, is a nationwide system in which ‘even a small-town sheriff in rural Georgia or Vermont could have access to a database of hundreds of millions of Americans’ images.’ Between that and E-Verify, that sheriff could easily tie a face to a Social Security account—a National I.D. measure that voters have vociferously opposed, and that was rejected when it was proposed in the 1970s.  This de facto National I.D. becomes even more expansive when combined with a number of new technologies that states are starting to roll out. Harper discusses the possible combinations of REAL ID and E-Verify with the facial and license plate recognition technologies many states are already using, either in experimental or full-fledged forms.”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/30/national-id-by-any-other-name-still-stin

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NYTimes: Loathing The Feds in the Ranchlands of Oregon

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“In the 1970s, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act shifted the focus of the Bureau of Land Management from resource extraction to conservation. The policy marked the beginning of the Sagebrush Rebellion, a grass-roots revolt among ranchers, loggers and miners against environmental laws, like the 1964 Wilderness Act and the 1973 Endangered Species Act. Rural communities believed these new restrictions and regulations undermined their prosperity and shifted the fate of small-town economies into the hands of the federal government.”

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/magazine/fear-of-the-federal-government-in-the-ranchlands-of-oregon.html

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Vegas Coroner Would Rather Pay $32,000 Than Release Shooter Autopsy

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“Clark County Nevada Coroner John Fudenberg is defying a court order to release the full autopsy report of Stephen Paddock, the shooter who caused the deadliest mass murder in the nation, killing 58 and wounding close to 700 people at a concert in Las Vegas.  A judge ordered the coroner Jan. 11 to pay about $32,000 in legal costs to the Review-Journal for refusing to release public records to the newspaper.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/31/stephen-paddock-autopsy/

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Israel Planned To Blow Up Passenger Plane In Arafat Assassination Plot

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“These were the techniques Israel used to carry out at least 2,700 assassination operations in its 70 years of existence. While many failed, they add up to far more than any other Western country, the book says.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-25/explosive-allegation-israel-planned-blow-passenger-plane-arafat-assassination-plot

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Jacob Hornberger: The Biggest Threat to Our Country

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“Why does the Bill of Rights protect us from the federal government rather than, say,  from ISIS, terrorists, illegal immigrants, drug dealers, communists, Muslims, Iran, Syria, North Korea, Vietnam, Russia, or China?  The answer is simple: Because the federal government, not those foreign entities, is the biggest threat to our country. That’s why the Bill of Rights focuses on it rather than on foreign entities.  But here’s the kicker, the one no one (except libertarians) likes to think about: The threat that the federal government poses to the country comes primarily in the form of the troops — yes, the same troops that most everyone profusely thank for their ‘service.'”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/2018/02/01/biggest-threat-country/

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Trump says it will be hard to unify country without a ‘major event’

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“Without a major event where people pull together, that’s hard to do. But I would like to do it without that major event because usually that major event is not a good thing.”

Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-says-it-will-be-hard-to-unify-country-without-a-major-event

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Trump Nuke Plan Resets the Doomsday Clock

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“The 2018 NPR eschews traditional nuclear disarmament pathways in favor of a more aggressive posture that seeks to make nuclear weapons more accessible to American policymakers when formulating deterrence.  The possibility of a tit-for-tat exchange of cyberattacks that escalates into a nuclear conflict would previously have been dismissed out of hand; today, thanks to the 2018 NPR, it has entered the realm of the possible.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-nuke-plan-resets-the-doomsday-clock/

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Pat Buchanan: Too Many Wars. Too Many Enemies.

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“Like the Romans, we have become an empire, committed to fight for scores of nations, with troops on every continent, and forces in combat operations of which the American people are only vaguely aware.  As in all empires, power is passing to the generals.  And what causes the greatest angst today in the imperial city?  Fear that a four-page memo worked up in the House Judiciary Committee may discredit Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russia-gate.”

Read more: https://www.creators.com/read/pat-buchanan/01/18/too-many-wars-too-many-enemies

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Secret Cabinet documents leaked after locked cabinets sold in Australia

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“The Australian government on Wednesday launched an urgent investigation into the loss of thousands of classified documents that were sold with two second-hand filing cabinets and later obtained by a major news outlet.  The cabinets were sold by a Canberra furniture shop at a discount price because they were locked and no one could find keys, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/secret-documents-found-locked-cabinets-sold-australia-n843201

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Fitness Tracker Apps Leak Sprawling U.S. Military Footprint in Africa

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“This has led to disclosures of the supposed locations of numerous low-profile U.S. military outposts, forward operating sites, and bases. It has raised fears about how such information might be linked to individual troops and imperil U.S. forces, while shining a light on the poor operational security habits of many U.S. military personnel based overseas.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/strava-heat-map-fitness-tracker-us-military-base/

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