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U.S. Border Crossings Have Become Authoritarian Testing Grounds

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“The border is seen by the government as a civil rights-free zone where U.S. citizens are being increasingly treated like criminals and subject to the exact same sort of degrading abuse as my brother’s girlfriend. This is something I’ve been meaning to write about for a while, and this recent experience inspired me to do so today. Many of you have no idea how bad things already are.”

Read more: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2017/12/19/u-s-border-crossings-have-become-authoritarian-testing-grounds/

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The Myth of Trump’s ‘Global Retreat’

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“Trump hasn’t forfeited America’s global leadership. On the world stage, his is a new flavor of the same dish. America is still playing the futile role of global cop, still reigns as the only superpower with a globe-straddling military presence and is still picking fights in distant regions remote to US national-security interests. The fact that it is Donald Trump at the helm of all this is fooling observers into thinking more has changed than actually has.”

Read more: https://nypost.com/2018/01/17/the-myth-of-trumps-global-retreat/

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Yes, Hawaii emergency management stuck a password on a sticky note

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“The worsitude comes in the flimsiest but all too familiar of forms: a yellow sticky note, spotted in an Associated Press photo from July, at the agency’s headquarters at Diamond Head, bearing a password and stuck to a computer screen. While there’s a press photographer in the room, obviously.  Richard Rapoza, a spokesman for HI-EMA, told Hawaii News Now that the password is authentic and was actually used for an ‘internal application.'”

Read more: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/01/18/yes-hawaii-emergency-management-stuck-a-password-on-a-sticky-note/

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Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in

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“Governor David Ige was told two minutes after a text message was issued by the Emergency Management Agency (EMA) that the threat warning was a false alarm.  But his office did not share the information via social media until about 17 minutes later.  On Monday, Mr Ige acknowledged he had failed to recall his social media ID.  The governor added that he now stored the details on his smartphone to avoid a repeat blunder.”

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-42787419

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Tillerson Blames Russia By Default For Alleged Syria Chemical Attack

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“Secretary of State Rex Tillerson blamed both Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad and Russia for carrying out a purported new chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of East Ghouta.  In the same sentence Tillerson leveled the accusation against Russia, while simultaneously pointing the finger at Assad, [thus admitting] that he really doesn’t know much at all about ‘whoever conducted the attacks’.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-01-23/tillerson-blames-russia-alleged-syria-chemical-attack-after-admitting-he-doesnt

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US says Turk offensive in Syria is ‘disruptive’ to its own open-ended occupation

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“U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis raised the matter in an exchange with reporters after unrelated meetings in the Indonesia capital with senior government officials. He made clear that while the U.S. sympathizes with Turkey’s concerns about border security, Washington wants the Turks to minimize their military action inside Syria.”

Read more: https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/politics/article/Mattis-says-Turk-offensive-in-Syria-is-disruptive-12517352.php

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Tillerson’s open-ended Syria war proves US is stuck in mideast quicksand

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“American forces went to Syria with the declared objective of pushing the ISIS terror gang out of territory it had seized there. This has been accomplished. It is an ideal moment for the U.S. to declare victory and depart. That, however, would be hauling down our flag. By Roosevelt’s logic — and evidently Tillerson’s — American soldiers should not be withdrawn from any country where they have ever been deployed.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/370344-tillersons-open-ended-syria-war-exposes-america-as-stuck-in-mideast

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Blowback: How U.S. Drones, Coups, and Invasions Create More Violence

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“U.S. and Western politicians avert their eyes from this data and this correlation; acts of terror are explained away as ‘random,’ ‘mindless,’ and, perhaps most disingenuously of all, ‘unprovoked.’ The public, either unfamiliar with secret operations carried out by the U.S. military or intelligence services, or uninformed about the brutal nature of the foreign wars fought in their name, tend to buy into this fantasy of an ‘innocent’ America hated and attacked by hordes of ‘mad’ Muslims.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/22/blowback-cia-drones-middle-east/

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Swiss Central Bank Bails Out Firm That Prints Swiss Banknotes

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“In the most ironic story of the day, the company that makes the paper that Swiss banknotes are printed on was just bailed out by the money-printing, stock-purchasing, plunge-protecting, savior-of-global equities…Swiss National Bank.”

Read more: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-12-21/unprecedented-intervention-swiss-central-bank-bails-out-firm-prints-swiss-banknotes

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Homeland Security’s Multibillion-Dollar Comedy Show

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“What does the United States have to show for tens of billions of dollars of Homeland Security antiterrorism spending by local and state governments? Michael Sheehan, former New York City deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, observed, ‘I firmly believe that those huge budget increases have not significantly contributed to our post–9/11 security.’ But the war on terrorism has been an unmitigated victory for Leviathan and politicians at every level of government.”

Read more: https://www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/homeland-securitys-multibillion-dollar-comedy-show/

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