A basic search will yield many photographs Trump has taken over the years with now apparent political adversaries. Does this mean, as the Newsweek article below implies, that he is really their friends? What do you think? Leave a comment below!
Article: Newsweek: A Brief History of Donald Trump and Bill Clinton’s Friendship
“Instead of standing by his own previous commitment to scale back militarization, Obama was quick to give into police pressure — proving once more that this administration’s seeming willingness to address the root causes behind the issues the United States now faces is nothing more than a slogan.”
Source: Obama Backs Off Plan to Demilitarize Police After Meeting With Lobbyists
“A core component of the U.S. CVE plan tasks teachers, social workers, and school administrators with monitoring and reporting to law enforcement on children in their care. An FBI document released earlier this year tells teachers to spy on their students’ thoughts and suggests that administrators essentially turn schools into mini-FBI offices.”
Continue reading: What Could Go Wrong With Asking Teachers To Monitor Kids for ‘Extremist’ Beliefs? | American Civil Liberties Union
“In this video, a journalist encounters a Hillary Clinton Alternate Delegate who discusses how the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton hide the fact that they want to ban all guns. In a step-by-step process, alternate California DNC delegate Mary Bayer explains the language Hillary Clinton and other Democrats will use to ban all guns.”
Continue reading: Hillary Clinton Delegate “Hillary Wants to Ban All Guns”
“While the device is still far from ready for commercial distribution, Snowden and Huang note that they hope this case study will influence how individuals perceive their personal tracking devices they carry around in their pockets — also known as cell phones.”
Continue reading: Edward Snowden Develops Phone Case to Alert Users if Their Data is Being Compromised
“Every time you enter a shopping mall, go to a department store, visit an amusement park, enjoy a live professional sporting event, or use PayPal, you are being protected by people trying to maximize profit.”
Continue reading: Private Policing Isn’t a Fantasy
Related article: How Policing Works in a Privatized City — Jeffrey A. Tucker
How many other TSA assaults, gropings and other indignities never make the news, because they’ve become routine in the police state known as the American airport?
Wouldn’t many security systems be better than the TSA monopoly?
Continue reading: Should TSA suffer the death penalty for its crimes?
“The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements with foreign governments that would allow them for the first time to serve U.S. technology companies with warrants for email searches and wiretaps—a move that is already stirring debates over privacy, security, crime and terrorism.”
Continue reading: U.S. to Allow Foreigners to Serve Warrants on U.S. Internet Firms
‘The NSA is not making any friends these days, and their latest statement on privacy-centric journalists is not helping matters much either. To be more precise, an investigation by the agency revealed how they are continuing to target the Tor network. Moreover, The Linux Journal is referred to as an “extremist forum”. Quite a strong sentiment, and possibly completely misguided as well.’
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Continue reading: NSA Labels Privacy-Centric Internet Users As Extremists
‘I’m going to suggest a solution that will sound radical, even in a country that styles itself “the land of free.” Let’s get cops off the streets, unless responding to a 911 call or serving a warrant issued by a judge. Everyone would be freer and safer, including the police officers themselves…’
‘This is by no means an anti-cop argument. The problem isn’t how they do their jobs; it’s the job we ask them to do. A free society shouldn’t be asking armed agents of the state to patrol the streets, keeping its citizens under 24/7 surveillance…’
Continue Reading: A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
“Dallas police sent in a drone (with wheels rather than wings) to blow up the suspect in yesterday’s tragic shooting. This is the first time a drone was used against Americans on US soil. He was a suspect and had not been convicted. Will this now become standard practice for our ever-more militarized police? Is it a slippery slope?”
Continue reading: Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas
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‘Ex-product manager says social media giant is run like a cult by “sociopaths in hoodies” …. A former Facebook insider has lifted the lid on the social networking giant, revealing that the company operates more like a cult and has amassed so much power that it could decide the 2016 presidential election.’
Continue reading: Former Insider: “Facebook Could Throw an Election….It’s Scary”