“These local governments are basically extortion rackets. And the targets are usually the less fortunate.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-latest-in-local-government-pettiness/
“Of course Titanic was suspended. They tweaked a legislator in Germany, a country that bans ‘hate speech’ without defining the term, and it’s clear from the examples of Britain and France that the speech politicians hate most is that directed at them.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/01/23/government-will-protect-us-from-bad-spee/print
“Why were all members of Congress but the 22 on this committee kept in the dark about NSA and FBI lawlessness? Why didn’t the committee reveal to Congress what it claims is too shocking to discuss publicly before Congress voted on surveillance expansion? Where is the outrage that this information was known to a few in the House and kept from the remainder of Congress while it ignorantly voted to assault the right to privacy? The new law places too much power in the hands of folks who even the drafters of it have now acknowledged are inherently unworthy of this trust.”
Read more: http://www.judgenap.com/post/a-conspiracy-of-silence-assaults-privacy
“While there has been much speculation as to why no video has been released, a documentary which touches on the massacre provides an answer—the casino is playing a massive game of CYA (cover your ass), and the cops are in their pocket.”
Read more: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/protest-mandalay-bay-show-tapes/
“The anonymous left-wing activist, states Wired, posts the identities of the people whose information she gives him, along with their photographs, ‘for the public to do with what it would.’ Squire also shares her data with the far-left militia group, Redneck Revolt, where it reportedly ‘gets used in somewhat less official ways.'”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/17/professor-doxing-far-right-antifa/
“Over 50 people a day are still being arrested for it in New York City alone. Most of those arrests, predictably, are happening in communities of color. The new numbers for New York City’s 2017 marijuana arrests just came out and they hardly budged — arrests declined by about 1 percent, disappointing many advocates and attorneys who took the mayor’s word on this issue.”
Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/25/marijuana-legalization-weed-drug-arrest/
“In August 2013, men with bulldozers arrived in Tru-du-Nord, Haiti, to confiscate land for their government’s vision of growth in the region — organic bananas. There have been zero banana exports since July 6, 2016. The Haitian government has failed to maintain the property, and it is a wasteland.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/haiti-needs-capitalism-not-more-central-planning/
“Because of government offensives that toppled narco kingpins in recent years, Mexico’s drug cartels have splintered and are eager for new sources of revenue. Now, their increasingly dominant role as fuel thieves pits two of the country’s biggest industries – narcotics and oil – against one another. A May 2017 study, commissioned by the national energy regulator and obtained by Reuters via a freedom of information request, found that thieves, between 2009 and 2016, had tapped pipelines roughly every 1.4 kms (0.86 mi) along Pemex’s approximately 14,000 km pipeline network.”
Read more: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/mexico-violence-oil/
“Instant criminalization of millions of people. That’s a lot of new customers for those privatized immigration detention centers. The private prison industry, incidentally, donated handsomely to Trump’s campaign and inauguration.”
“On Jan. 10, U.S. Customs and Immigration Enforcement agents descended on 98 7-Elevens in 17 states, including California. It was a show of force that must have played well with the president’s anti-immigrant base. 21 workers suspected of being in the country illegally were arrested nationwide. The raids were nothing but political theater, intended to terrify the most vulnerable.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-ulin-7-eleven-ice-raids-20180123-story.html