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A large number of sign-ups were from Thailand, where increased internet censorship has forced users from mainstream platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

“Yesterday we saw 200,000+ new users. We are thrilled to provide privacy, internet freedom and digital rights for Thai netizens. This is exactly the reason Minds exists,” Minds CEO Bill Ottman said in a statement.

Some of the most notable social media users to recently migrate to Minds includes Wiroj Lakkana-adisorn, an MP for the disbanded Future Forward Party; social critic Sarinee Achavanuntakul, writer-translator Tomorn Sookprecha, satirical TV host Winyu “John” Wongsurawat, and academic Pavin Chachavalpongpun.

“We are immediately building out our translation and localization framework for Thai and many other languages. This should be finished within a few weeks. All of our project is fully open source at https://developers.minds.com and people can submit requests at https://gitlab.com/minds. They can also inspect our software to make sure we aren’t manipulating algorithms or user privacy. We already have Thai developers helping with the code and building new tools,” Ottman said.

Last year, Ottman reported that the site had about 200,000 active monthly users, so gaining 200,000+ in a  few days is an incredible win for the site.

Minds was co-founded in 2011 by Bill Ottman and John Ottman, other cofounders were Mark Harding, Ian Crossland, and Jack Ottman.

In June 2017, the company raised over $1 million in the fastest equity-crowdfunded sale at the time. Then in March 2018, Minds exited Beta and launched a white paper and testnet for its new native mobile apps and Ethereum blockchain integration.

In October 2018, Minds raised $6 million in Series A funding from Medici Ventures, an Overstock.com subsidiary. Patrick M. Byrne, the founder, and CEO of Overstock.com, also joined the site’s board of directors.

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Now that we’ve reached the second major inflection point of the 21st century–COVID-19–it would be easy to not see the newest push for a more expansive use of the Patriot Act. But it’s there in two new provisions that would dramatically strengthen the government’s ability to intrude into our digital lives.

The first amendment to the Patriot Act introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will allow the FBI to warrantlessly collect records on the web browsing and search histories of American citizens. The second amendment–a naked reaction to the Mueller investigation and FISA problems–permits AG Barr to perform an annual review of all FBI FISA submissions.

While the second amendment of the Patriot Act is ostensibly a balance check intended to control rogue FBI investigations, many civil liberty and digital privacy advocates view it as a voracious power grab by a rogue Attorney General, which happens to extend potentially lawless surveillance to all Americans and political enemies.

“Under the McConnell amendment, Barr gets to look through the web browsing history of any American — including journalists, politicians, and political rivals — without a warrant, just by saying it is relevant to an investigation,” Senator Ron Wyden told The Daily Beast.

“These amendments would pretty much guarantee the ability of an incumbent administration to spy on its political opponents without consequence.

“It is open season on anybody’s most personal information.”

First Amendment activists warn the new provisions will have a chilling effect on the media, preventing journalists and whistleblowers from exposing abuses of power.

Sean Vitka, senior policy council at Demand Progress, stated:

“These are two of the most cynical attempts to undermine surveillance reform I’ve ever seen, and they threaten to make a Patriot Act reauthorization even worse after a process that has so far successfully prevented any member of Congress from fixing the underlying bill.

“McConnell is literally trying to take a privacy safeguard designed for the press and religious groups and instead give it only to politicians and people suspected of being foreign agents.”

A bipartisan amendment demanding probable cause be shown prior to any digital surveillance was proposed by Wyden and Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) but it was voted down.

The 10 Democrats who joined GOP in defeating amendment to stop FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history: Carper, Casey, Feinstein, Hassan, Jones, Kaine, Manchin, Shaheen, Warner and Whitehorse. Joined 2 Republicans & a Democrat in not showing up to vote: Bernie Sanders

— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) May 13, 2020

While McConnell’s amendment ostensibly blocks the FBI from collecting the ‘content’ of web browsing, the interpretation of ‘content’ in the context of digital Internet searches has never been settled in court, meaning that AG Barr would be able to wield the power of his office to determine the meaning of a web search.

“These amendments would pretty much guarantee the ability of an incumbent administration to spy on its political opponents without consequence,” wrote Charles Pierce at Esquire.

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The bill was a reauthorization of the Patriot Act, but there was a privacy amendment that was added to the bill in an attempt to curtail the overreach in government surveillance. Unfortunately, that amendment narrowly failed by just one vote this week.

The amendment would have forced agencies like the FBI and CIA to obtain a warrant showing probable cause that a crime was committed in order to access a person’s browsing history, but since it didn’t pass, the surveillance activities that these agencies have already been taking part in are now reconfirmed and codified into law.

This is one of three amendments that the ACLU asked congress to add to the Patriot Act reauthorization. Some senators didn’t vote on the measure at all, including Ben Sasse and Bernie Sanders not voting.

One of the amendments suggested by the ACLU did pass, and it will allow judges ruling on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) requests to seek input from independent experts.

According to the ACLU, the amendment that passed gives a small level protection, but not as much as a warrant requirement.

The bill “strengthens the role of independent “friends of the court” to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, ensuring that the court has additional opportunities to hear the views of outside experts,” the ACLU said.

Dayton Young, director of product at Fight For the Future, told Motherboard that today’s vote proves that the true intentions of the Patriot act were to spy on US citizens.

“Today the Senate made clear that the purpose of the Patriot Act is to spy on Americans, no warrants or due process necessary. Any lawmaker who votes to reauthorize the Patriot Act is voting against our constitutionally-protected freedoms, and there’s nothing patriotic about that,” Young said.

US Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell is said to have led the charge in the vote to defeat the privacy amendment.

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No one is safe. No one is immune. No one gets spared the anguish, fear and heartache of living under the shadow of an authoritarian police state.

That’s the message being broadcast 24/7 with every new piece of government propaganda, every new law that criminalizes otherwise lawful activity, every new policeman on the beat, every new surveillance camera casting a watchful eye, every sensationalist news story that titillates and distracts, every new prison or detention center built to house troublemakers and other undesirables, every new court ruling that gives government agents a green light to strip and steal and rape and ravage the citizenry, every school that opts to indoctrinate rather than educate, and every new justification for why Americans should comply with the government’s attempts to trample the Constitution underfoot.

Yes, COVID-19 has taken a significant toll on the nation emotionally, physically, and economically, but there are still greater dangers on the horizon.

As long as “we the people” continue to allow the government to trample our rights in the so-called name of national security, things will get worse, not better.

It’s already worse.

Now there’s talk of mass testing for COVID-19 antibodies, screening checkpoints, contact tracing, immunity passports to allow those who have recovered from the virus to move around more freely, and snitch tip lines for reporting “rule breakers” to the authorities.

If you can’t read the writing on the wall, you need to pay better attention.

These may seem like small, necessary steps in the war against the COVID-19 virus, but they’re only necessary to the police state in its efforts to further undermine the Constitution, extend its control over the populace, and feed its insatiable appetite for ever-greater powers.

Nothing is ever as simple as the government claims it is.

Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of national security or protecting America’s borders or making America healthy again—rest assured, these same practices can and will be used against you when the government decides to set its sights on you.

The war on drugs turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with SWAT teams and militarized police.

The war on terror turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with warrantless surveillance and indefinite detention.

The war on immigration turned out to be a war on the American people, waged with roving government agents demanding “papers, please.”

This war on COVID-19 will be yet another war on the American people, waged with all of the surveillance weaponry at the government’s disposal: thermal imaging cameras, drones, contact tracing, biometric databases, etc.

So you see, when you talk about empowering government agents to screen the populace in order to control and prevent spread of this virus, what you’re really talking about is creating a society in which ID cards, round ups, checkpoints and detention centers become routine weapons used by the government to control and suppress the populace, no matter the threat.

This is also how you pave the way for a national identification system of epic proportions.

Imagine it: a national classification system that not only categorizes you according to your health status but also allows the government to sort you in a hundred other ways: by gender, orientation, wealth, medical condition, religious beliefs, political viewpoint, legal status, etc.

Are you starting to get the bigger picture yet?

This is just another wolf in sheep’s clothing, a “show me your papers” scheme disguised as a means of fighting a virus.

Don’t fall for it.

The ramifications of such a “show me your papers” society in which government officials are empowered to stop individuals, demand they identify themselves, and subject them to patdowns, warrantless screenings, searches, and interrogations are beyond chilling.

By allowing government agents to establish a litmus test for individuals to be able to exit a state of lockdown and engage in commerce, movement and any other right that corresponds to life in a supposedly free society, it lays the groundwork for a society in which you are required to identify yourself at any time to any government worker who demands it for any reason.

Such tactics quickly lead one down a slippery slope that ends with government agents empowered to force anyone and everyone to prove they are in compliance with every statute and regulation on the books.

It used to be that unless police had a reasonable suspicion that a person was guilty of wrongdoing, they had no legal authority to stop the person and require identification. In other words, “we the people” had the right to come and go as we please without the fear of being questioned by police or forced to identify ourselves.

Unfortunately, in this age of COVID-19, that unrestricted right to move about freely is being pitted against the government’s power to lock down communities at a moment’s notice. And in this tug-of-war between individual freedoms and government power, “we the people” have been on the losing end of the deal.

Curiously enough, these COVID-19 restrictions dovetail conveniently with a national timeline for states to comply with the Real ID Act, which imposes federal standards on identity documents such as state drivers’ licenses, a prelude to this national identification system.

Talk about a perfect storm for bringing about a national ID card, the ultimate human tracking device.

Granted, in the absence of a national ID card, which would make the police state’s task of monitoring, tracking and singling out individual suspects far simpler, “we the people” are already tracked in a myriad of ways: through our state driver’s licenses, Social Security numbers, bank accounts, purchases and electronic transactions; by way of our correspondence and communication devices—email, phone calls and mobile phones; through chips implanted in our vehicles, identification documents, even our clothing.

Add to this the fact that businesses, schools and other facilities are relying more and more on fingerprints and facial recognition to identify us. All the while, data companies such as Acxiom are capturing vast caches of personal information to help airports, retailers, police and other government authorities instantly determine whether someone is the person he or she claims to be.

This informational glut—used to great advantage by both the government and corporate sectors—has converged into a mandate for “an internal passport,” a.k.a., a national ID card that would store information as basic as a person’s name, birth date and place of birth, as well as private information, including a Social Security number, fingerprint, retinal scan and personal, criminal and financial records.

A federalized, computerized, cross-referenced, databased system of identification policed by government agents would be the final nail in the coffin for privacy (not to mention a logistical security nightmare that would leave Americans even more vulnerable to every hacker in the cybersphere).

Americans have always resisted adopting a national ID card for good reason: it gives the government and its agents the ultimate power to target, track and terrorize the populace according to the government’s own nefarious purposes.

National ID card systems have been used before, by other oppressive governments, in the name of national security, invariably with horrifying results.

For instance, in Germany, the Nazis required all Jews to carry special stamped ID cards for travel within the country. A prelude to the yellow Star of David badges, these stamped cards were instrumental in identifying Jews for deportation to death camps in Poland.

Author Raul Hilberg summarizes the impact that such a system had on the Jews:

The whole identification system, with its personal documents, specially assigned names, and conspicuous tagging in public, was a powerful weapon in the hands of the police. First, the system was an auxiliary device that facilitated the enforcement of residence and movement restrictions. Second, it was an independent control measure in that it enabled the police to pick up any Jew, anywhere, anytime. Third, and perhaps most important, identification had a paralyzing effect on its victims.”

In South Africa during apartheid, pass books were used to regulate the movement of black citizens and segregate the population. The Pass Laws Act of 1952 stipulated where, when and for how long a black African could remain in certain areas. Any government employee could strike out entries, which canceled the permission to remain in an area. A pass book that did not have a valid entry resulted in the arrest and imprisonment of the bearer.

Identity cards played a crucial role in the genocide of the Tutsis in the central African country of Rwanda. The assault, carried out by extremist Hutu militia groups, lasted around 100 days and resulted in close to a million deaths. While the ID cards were not a precondition to the genocide, they were a facilitating factor. Once the genocide began, the production of an identity card with the designation “Tutsi” spelled a death sentence at any roadblock.

Identity cards have also helped oppressive regimes carry out eliminationist policies such as mass expulsion, forced relocation and group denationalization. Through the use of identity cards, Ethiopian authorities were able to identify people with Eritrean affiliation during the mass expulsion of 1998. The Vietnamese government was able to locate ethnic Chinese more easily during their 1978-79 expulsion. The USSR used identity cards to force the relocation of ethnic Koreans (1937), Volga Germans (1941), Kamyks and Karachai (1943), Crimean Tartars, Meshkhetian Turks, Chechens, Ingush and Balkars (1944) and ethnic Greeks (1949). And ethnic Vietnamese were identified for group denationalization through identity cards in Cambodia in 1993, as were the Kurds in Syria in 1962.

And in the United States, post-9/11, more than 750 Muslim men were rounded up on the basis of their religion and ethnicity and detained for up to eight months. Their experiences echo those of 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were similarly detained 75 years ago following the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Despite a belated apology and monetary issuance by the U.S. government, the U.S. Supreme Court has yet to declare such a practice illegal. Moreover, laws such as the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) empower the government to arrest and detain indefinitely anyone they “suspect” of being an enemy of the state.

You see, you may be innocent of wrongdoing now, but when the standard for innocence is set by the government, no one is safe.

Everyone is a suspect.

And anyone can be a criminal when it’s the government determining what is a crime.

It’s no longer a matter of if, but when.

Remember, the police state does not discriminate.

At some point, it will not matter whether your skin is black or yellow or brown or white. It will not matter whether you’re an immigrant or a citizen. It will not matter whether you’re rich or poor. It won’t even matter whether you’re driving, flying or walking.

After all, government-issued bullets will kill you just as easily whether you’re a law-abiding citizen or a hardened criminal. Government jails will hold you just as easily whether you’ve obeyed every law or broken a dozen. And whether or not you’ve done anything wrong, government agents will treat you like a suspect simply because they have been trained to view and treat everyone like potential criminals.

Eventually, when the police state has turned that final screw and slammed that final door, all that will matter is whether some government agent—poorly trained, utterly ignorant and dismissive of the Constitution, way too hyped up on the power of their badges, and authorized to detain, search, interrogate, threaten and generally harass anyone they see fit—chooses to single you out for special treatment.

We’ve been having this same debate about the perils of government overreach for the past 50-plus years, and still we don’t seem to learn, or if we learn, we learn too late.

All of the excessive, abusive tactics employed by the government today—warrantless surveillance, stop and frisk searches, SWAT team raids, roadside strip searches, asset forfeiture schemes, private prisons, indefinite detention, militarized police, etc.—started out as a seemingly well-meaning plan to address some problem in society that needed a little extra help.

Be careful what you wish for: you will get more than you bargained for, especially when the government’s involved.

In the case of a national identification system, it might start off as a means of tracking COVID-19 cases in order to “safely” re-open the nation, but it will end up as a means of controlling the American people.

For those tempted to justify these draconian measures for whatever reason—for the sake of their health, the economy, or national security—remember, you can’t have it both ways.

You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government to act like a police state.

You can’t claim to value freedom if you allow the government to operate like a dictatorship.

You can’t expect to have your rights respected if you allow the government to treat whomever it pleases with disrespect and an utter disregard for the rule of law.

As I make clear in my book Battlefield America: The War on the American People, if you’re inclined to advance this double standard because you believe you have done nothing wrong and have nothing to hide, beware: there’s always a boomerang effect.

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In a worrying use of words, the team in their own press release, move from referring to those the software recognizes as being “likely criminals” to “criminals” in the space of just one sentence, suggesting they are confident in the discredited racist pseudoscience of phrenology they appear to have updated for the 21st century.

Public reaction to the project was less than enthusiastic, judging by comments left on Facebook, which included “Societies have been trying to push the idea of ‘born criminals’ for centuries,” “and this isn’t profiling because……?” and “20 percent getting tailed by police constantly because they have the ‘crime face.’” Indeed, the response was so negative that the university pulled the press release from the internet. However, it is still visible using the Internet Wayback Machine.

While the research team claims to be removing bias and racism from decision making, leaving it up to a faceless algorithm, those who write the code, and those who get to decide who constitutes a criminal in the first place, certainly do have their own biases. Why are the homeless or people of color who “loiter” on sidewalks criminalized, but senators and congresspersons who vote for wars and regime change operations not? And who is more likely to be arrested? Wall Street executives doing cocaine in their offices or working-class people smoking marijuana or crack? The higher the level of a person in society, the more serious and harmful their crimes become, but the likelihood of an arrest and a custodial sentence decreases. Black people are more likely to be arrested for the same crime as white people and are sentenced to longer stays in prison, too. Furthermore, facial recognition software is notorious for being unable to tell people of color apart, raising further concerns.

Crime figures are greatly swayed by whom the police choose to follow and what they decide to prioritize. For example, a recent study found 97.5 percent of Brooklyn residents arrested for breaking social distancing laws were people of color. Meanwhile, an analysis of 95 million traffic stops found that police officers were far more likely to stop black people during the daytime when their race could be determined from afar. As soon as dusk hit, the disparity greatly diminished, as a “veil of darkness” saved them from undue harassment, according to researchers. Thus, the population of people convicted of crimes does not necessarily correspond to the population that commits them.

The 2002 hit movie Minority Report is set in a future world where the government’s pre-crime division stops all murders well before they happen, with future criminals locked up preemptively. Even if accurate, is an 80 percent accuracy rate worth risking the creation of a dystopian Minority Report-style society where people are monitored and arrested for pre-crimes?

Phrenology, the long-abandoned study of the size and shape of the head, has a long and sordid history of dangerous racist and elitist pseudoscience. For instance, Cesare Lombroso’s 1876 book, Criminal Man, told students that large jaws and high cheekbones were a feature of “criminals, savages and apes,” and was a sure sign of the “love of orgies and the irresistible craving for evil for its own sake, the desire not only to extinguish life in the victim, but to mutilate the corpse, tear its flesh, and drink its blood.” Meanwhile, rapists nearly always have jug ears, delicate features, swollen lips, and hunchbacks. Lombroso himself was a professor in psychiatry and criminal anthropology and his book were taught in universities for decades. To Lombroso, it was almost impossible for a good-looking person to commit a serious crime.

The latest technological development from the University of Harrisburg appears to be an updated, “algorithmic phrenology,” repackaging a dangerous idea for the 21st century, all the more noteworthy because they are trying to sell it to law enforcement as an unbiased tool helping society.

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In New Jersey, Connecticut, and other major hotspots in the U.S., local officials have announced that they will be rolling out temperature-sensing drones that will send out audio messages reminding people to be cautious and follow social distancing guidelines.

These drones are made by a company called Draganfly. The company has recently distributed similar technology to authorities in Australia for their pandemic response.

Cameron Chell, CEO of Draganfly, promises that all of the data is anonymized.

“You’ll be seeing this very soon. Where it’s most critically needed is where we’re going. As it stands today, it’s not designed to identify people with the system. It’s designed to basically provide health monitoring data and be able to give us better data but make more clear decisions,” Chell told ABC7.

Chell said that these devices can actually tell if a person has a fever and can detect other signs of sickness as well.

“What these cameras can do is actually detect fever, which is very different than detecting just temperature. They can detect sneezing. They can detect your heart rate, your respiratory rate, and they can also detect social distancing. So imagine, if you will, a situation where there’s a crowd, and you want to determine what’s the infection rate of the crowd and if they are practicing social distancing,” Chell explained.

Privacy activists are concerned that this could open the door for a surveillance state that doesn’t go away. Daniel Schwarz of the New York Civil Liberties Union said that technology has a place in a crisis like this, but he worries that “constant aerial surveillance” could “fundamentally change” the country.

“There can be a place for advanced technology to support health efforts during a crisis like this one, but it should always serve a clear public health purpose. Indefinite and unwarranted mass crowd policing does not fit that purpose. Surveillance tools used during the pandemic should be scientifically justified, communicated transparently to the public, limited in their scope and duration, and should always require informed consent,” Schwarz said.

“Constant aerial surveillance combined with biased analytics would fundamentally change what it feels like to venture out in public in this country, violate our constitutional rights to freedom of association and privacy, and open the door to expanded broken windows policing of communities uniquely vulnerable to CoViD-19,” he added.

As a part of the pandemic response in China, police were given artificial intelligence (AI) helmets designed for temperature screening.

It is unclear how effective these types of devices will actually be considering the incredibly high rate of transmission through asymptomatic carriers. Studies that have explored this topic have resulted in a wide range of results, but most researchers agree that a significant amount of coronavirus carriers will be asymptomatic or will only experience mild symptoms, which means that it could be very difficult for a drone—or even a human—to determine that they have been infected.

According to Robert Redfield, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 25 percent of people infected with the virus will be asymptomatic but still able to pass the illness along to others.

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In this video I will be discussing what fascism looks like, a former UK Prime Minister committing the worst act possible, a story about police fighting other police officers and the war on drugs. Plus other things to make you critically think and inform you.

As you may know, I’ve been doing a lot of traveling lately, and unfortunately, I got sick. As a result, I just missed one of the biggest stories. That is the Catalan independence movement. In which police officers from the local Catalan and Barcelona police clashed with the national police force of Spain. These clashes took place during a vote for Catalan’s independence from the Spanish government.

It wasn’t just police officers clashing with other police but also with firefighters from the Catalan district. They got brutalized and beat by the National Spanish police who in large numbers swarmed the Catalan area to prevent the vote for independence from happening.

I have previously covered Spain’s protest movements including the “Indignados” which happened before Occupy Wall Street. I can tell you firsthand that the Spanish National Guard does not play around. They are one of the most difficult and brutal police departments in the world to deal with and I think everyone realizes that right now.

The AP is saying that over 460 people are injured so far in Catalonia. In my experiences that number won’t be even close. Many people are injured from the videos that I see online. Reports are pouring in all over social media.

This government control was not done to protect the public from protests but direct action to prevent the Catalan Independence Referendum.

Masked men from the Spanish government and national police force came in and ripped away the ballot boxes and voting booths. They ripped them away from the people for wanting to cast their votes against the Spanish government. Leaving even the elderly beaten and bloodied on the streets of Barcelona. They even went after a man and his dog.

Shocking images of grandmothers with bloodied heads and masked men taking away people. Police are detaining hundreds using the pure brute force of government repression. As this government caused, chaos continues in Barcelona there are other groups singing fascists anthems and performing Nazi salutes on the streets of the Spanish Capital of Madrid.

Google has lent their support to the Spanish government by censoring voting location applications.

U.S. president Donald Trump and other world leaders have put their support behind the Spanish government.

A government that not so long ago was an actual fascist regime. Tensions between the Spanish government and the Catalonia people have been ongoing for decades. Tensions have not been higher since the fall of Franco’s military dictatorship in the 1970s.

The main issues here are not only historical but economic. The Catalan government claim they pay nearly twelve billion dollars to the Spanish tax authorities each year. Money which they say does not go back to Catalonia.

The Spanish government claims that the numbers are more complicated and that there isn’t an official amount. They are also saying that the Catalan Independence vote is a violation of people’s voting rights and privacy. That the vote and referendum are “illegal.”

The more that you try to repress ideas the more popular they can become. The Catalan independence movement is now stronger than ever. I see growing international support for the Catalan people. This is likely only being the beginning of a conflict.

We will be keeping a close eye on this and hopefully, I won’t get sick next time.

The Kurdish people in the Middle East are also looking for independence.

I think this is a critical story since there are several countries actively involved in the Kurdish independence movement. We do not hear much about it in the US mainstream media. Just a few days ago on September 25th, the Kurdistan region held a referendum on independence with a majority (92.7%) voting in favor of seceding from Iraq. This newly established state has gained support from many neoconservative House of Representatives members including John McCain.

John McCain made a secret trip to Syria last week, and you know wherever he goes that something untoward is happening. Other Neoconservatives idealists like the Prime Minister of Israel president Benjamin Netanyahu have fully supported the Kurdish independence movement. If it happens would create a better geopolitical situation for the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Israel.

However, Iraq, Iran, and Turkey which have been at odds with those countries. That is why Israel supported the Kurdish independence movement. The president of Turkey claimed that Mossad supposedly interfered in their independence vote a few days ago. Israel denied this as usual. This is an important story to me because it could lead to another potential conflict in the Middle East. An area that is already riddled with conflict and sectarian violence.

Various religions that have helped make the Middle East the ruined place that it is today. Hezbollah leaders connected to the Iranian government are saying that this could lead to an internal war. This hasn’t happened so far, but the domestic implications are very grave.

Iraq does not want Kurdish independence because it would take away a very oil-rich area.

The Iraqi government has issued the Kurdish government an ultimatum ordering them to hand over their airports and control of the borders. If they don’t, they say they will issue an air embargo on the Kurdish region. This has sparked a closer alliance between Iraq and Iran which are will be conducting a joint military exercise. This is going to be a show of force against the Kurds. The Iraqi parliament authorized the Prime Minister of Iraq to deploy troops into the Kurdish state-controlled areas. We’re looking at a succession that could be far more violent than what has occurred in Spain.

Interestingly enough Partisan Girl who is very critical of the Kurds just had her Facebook account deleted.

There is also alleged video from ISIS members saying that they are forbidden to attack the Kurds inside of Syria and Iraq. This would make sense but hasn’t been confirmed.

What do you think about the Kurdish independence movement? Are you for or are you against it? I’m looking forward to your comments.

In more shocking and disturbing news today we are learning that former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Sir Edward Richard George Heath is being investigated. According to a police report, he abused 42 children including boys as young as 11. An official investigation by the police discovered that the head of the United Kingdom was a pedophile. This should be shocking news that someone at such a high level of government could commit such atrocious, horrible acts and then never face justice for it. Ted Heath has already passed away, and he will never face any judicial system for the horrible crimes that he has committed. Lives that he has irrevocably damaged.

It should be shocking to everyone the numbers of pedophiles within governments. People like Anthony Weiner who was just sentenced to 21 months in prison after sexually courting a 15-year-old girl on Skype and Snapchat. The story becomes more disturbing when you learn about the various complicities involving the media and the entertainment industry. Including the BBC cover-up of the Jimmy Savile pedophile scandal. We are now seeing the New York Times statements in an op-ed entitled why they “Why I admire Anthony Weiner.”

I am at a loss for words as happens so many times when doing this job. I still don’t get this. It is obvious that politicians should never be trusted. There are a lot of evil people only looking out for their best interests and often getting involved in really creepy dark magic occult stuff. This seems to happen regularly within the higher echelons of authority. Places where people appear to become addicted to power. Powers that they will do anything to keep it and expand.

We are learning that the Trump administration is now ordering Facebook to hand over private information on anti-Trump activists. The Department of Justice is demanding Facebook turn over the personal information on potentially six thousand of its users. Facebook will likely comply with this request. The federal government will have access to the personal data including private messages of nearly 6,000 users who simply liked the “Disrupt J20” page.

This is a massive overreach of power that would send Trump supporters rallying if Hillary Clinton had done the same thing. Imagine if Hillary Clinton had done this, Trump supporters would blow a gasket.

I don’t like any government authority, and I think we should all agree that this is an overstep of power. It’s crucial for Trump supporters to raise the alarms for this. If in the next election a Democrat comes in they will also have the same power and authority over you.

A report shows that the U.S. government has ruined the lives of 653242 people.

Marijuana is something that I don’t partake in, but I believe in the freedom of others to do as they wish. With cigarettes and alcohol being legal this prohibition looks as ridiculous as prohibition in the 1920’s.

A prohibition that is being run by the police state and the prison industrial complex with help from the pharmaceutical industry. It needs to end.

People need to realize that just because “your” person of choice is in public office does not mean that you should support the expansion of their powers. Since the next government official will likely be against you and that same office will use those powers against you. State interests are likely never in your best interest.

US Senator Chris Murphy pointed out that we spend six hundred billion dollars a year on the military, but we can’t get more than 500 troops and 50 helicopters to Puerto Rico. That should make you think for a little bit about where those interests lay.

I finally have some good news. The European Parliament has banned Monsanto. The E.U. has restricted Parliamentary access to Monsanto after allegations surfaced that it unduly influenced studies into the safety of many commonly used pesticides.

The Europeans did a good thing here since we know the power of Monsanto lobbyists and scientists. They have underhandedly allowed this mega-corporation to be one of the largest food suppliers of this world. Many of the American FDA directors were also former Monsanto executives. They won’t be able to buy government as they did previously.

That is the news for you today. Remember it is only ignorance that is allowing society to be the way it is right now. What will stop this ignorance is education. Empowering yourself and understanding what’s happening in this world. Changing your decisions that will make an impact.

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