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The Chilly Surveillance Data Mines of the Suppressors
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

Don't indoctrinate against and fuck over other people's rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziltBdyFxDo https://cdt.org/blog/illinois-supreme-court-should-affirm-that-six-flags-vi… https://cdt.org/files/2018/07/SixFlags_BioScanner_3.jpg https://www.nyclu.org/en/news/facial-recognition-cameras-do-not-belong-scho… https://www.change.org/p/department-of-homeland-security-eliminate-the-dhs-… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8qdj37/hey_guys_the_dept_of_homel… https://www.cbsnews.com/news/orlando-international-airport-to-scan-faces-of… https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/22/17492106/amazon-ice-facial-recognition-i… https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/thought-crime-uk-un-terroris… https://asiancorrespondent.com/2018/06/vietnam-passes-law-requiring-google-… https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/8xpeyl/brett_kavanaughs_defense_o… This is one of the major root of the issue problems in America. Everyone else is accountable to the law. It seems to me that if 3 letter agencies wanted to do something that was unconstitutional, they made sure to sneak in special "exceptions" that would excuse their otherwise illegal activity. No one is the wiser because most of the bills passed are created in secret and passed and no one is able to read them. I asked my father why major bills get passed this way and he told me "it's always been this way, and it's the only way they are able to pass the bills" I don't know if this is true, but back to my point. 3 letter agencies have it in writing in bills somewhere that they can do what would otherwise be considered highly controversial and unconstitutional. These snuck in exceptions go unnoticed... Until they aren't. Like the part of a bill that allows a United States citizen to be detained indefinitely, without a lawyer, and without even a charge being brought against him. Obama signed that bill into law and said "while I am in office I will never do that to a citizen of the United States", but then signed the bill and now that is LAW. We have a new president now And we will have another after that one. That law still stands. America is slowly.. insidiously ever slowly having everything it used to be( a beacon of freedom, of justice, of conscious and helping those in need.) We have become something different. The mass of the American population are too busy working their 9-5 day jobs to try to get a understanding of what is going on in American politics right now. It's a full time job trying to make good decisions for the people of America and we have elected officials that are supposed to be doing that, but it has become NORMAL for politicians to make decisions based on what lobbyists from corporations tell them is best for the people. No one is lobbying for the people. And the people are still stuck in the belief that politicians for the most part doing right by them. It's not happening and the ones that are still good and fighting for the people are fighting an uphill battle. They are struggling and a minority and are underappreciated. No one wants to pay attention to complicated aspects of politics. Thats what our tax dollars pay for. They pay the salary of our representatives, but who do they really work for when their donations from lobbyists vastly outweighs what we pay them? It's a chore for me to even have to pay as much attention as I do, but even I can see the painting on the wall. Shits not good right now in America and I don't think even a 1/4th the politicians/city councilmen etc have a honest drive to help keep America great and fight and take a stand against corruption. I don't have all the answers. I'm just some idealist shmuck that wishes he did and that I could make a blemish against the rolling tide of corruption over taking America. The problem is just too big. It's just too god damned big. - We're all fucked. Get out while you still can people because our society is circling the drain here since 2001 or so. + Get out and go where though?

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Shopping Centers Putting Your Ass On ICE in the Chilly Surveillance Data Mines of the Suppressors
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

https://old.reddit.com/r/news/comments/8xwktc/malls_in_california_are_sendi… https://papersplease.org/

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Bitcoin ETFs: Comment Period Open at SEC, More In Pipeline
by grarpamp 11 Jul '18

11 Jul '18

https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-cboebzx-2018-040/cboebzx2018040.htm https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro/cboebzx/2018/34-83520.pdf https://www.sec.gov/rules/sro.shtml CBOE SolidX VanEck

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America Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees. That’s TYPICAL
by Steven Schear 10 Jul '18

10 Jul '18

The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations <http://rinf.com/alt-news/editorials/u-s-crushes-europe/>. America’s corporations remain blithely unscathed by not only the refugees <http://www.migrationpolicycentre.eu/publication/after-libya-syria-towards-a…> that are breaking up the EU, but also by the EU’s economic sanctions against Russia, Iran, and other allies of governments that the US regime is trying to overthrow in its constant invasions and coups. https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/07/09/america-bombs-europe-gets…

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Is Libertarianism Utopian? - Zerowedgie essay
by Zenaan Harkness 09 Jul '18

09 Jul '18

Is Libertarianism Utopian? https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-08/libertarianism-utopian Authored by Duncan Whitmore via The Mises Institute, Libertarianism – and any political position that leans towards a greater degree of freedom from the state – is opposed both ethically and economically on a number of substantive grounds. The proposition that without the state we would have inequality, destitution for the masses, rampant greed, and so on is a familiar charge which attempts to point out that libertarianism is undesirableand/or unjustifiable. A further point of opposition is that libertarianism and the drive towards it is simply utopian or idealistic, and that libertarians are hopeless day dreamers, lacking any awareness of how the world “really” works. In other words, that, regardless of whether it may be desirable, some combination of one or more of impossibility, improbability or the simple unwillingness of anyone to embrace the libertarian ideal renders libertarianism either wholly or primarily unachievable. It is this specific objection that we will address in this essay. Let us first of all recount the libertarian ethic of non-aggression, which states that no one may initiate any physical incursion against your body or your property without your consent. From this we can state that the goal of the libertarian project, broadly, is a world of minimised violence and aggression. Consequently, the questions we have to answer is whether a world of minimised violence and aggression is unachievable and, hence, utopian. …

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"Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children
by Razer 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

A friend of mine about her four year old: "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering" Rr

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Do what you love - the marshmallow test - vistas of possibility for you today - break out of your box
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Good advice at any time. Particularly good advice now. Break out of your box and do what you love. Or begin with some small steps towards doing what you love - make time for it, set aside lower priority things, live your most inspired dreams. Put off to tomorrow the small and low priority things, and do today those steps that launch you onto your ideal path in life. Why You Should Stop Caring and Start Doing What You Love https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-05/why-you-should-stop-caring-and-st…

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Good luck with that
by Steven Schear 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

The Petro is no more inherently valuable than the Bolivar. https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-07-06/venezuela-fund-housing-homeless-n…

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[WAR] USA deep state wants war in Iran, Iranian oil - prepare for propaganda onslaught - This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like
by Zenaan Harkness 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

Prepare for the propaganda onslought from the CIA, the deep state war party, their respective lackeys and ignoramusses in general. ----- Forwarded message from Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> ----- From: Caitlin Johnstone <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2018 19:09:16 +0000 Subject: [New post] This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like Post : This Is What Modern War Propaganda Looks Like URL : https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/07/05/this-is-what-modern-war-propaganda-… Posted : July 5, 2018 at 7:08 pm Author : Caitlin Johnstone Tags : hijab, Iran, propaganda, war, women Categories : Article I've been noticing videos going viral the last few days, some ( https://twitter.com/HeshmatAlavi/status/1013122527361548290 ) with millions of views ( https://www.facebook.com/Vocativ/videos/2039873829358175/ ) , about Muslim women bravely fighting to free themselves from cultural oppression in the Middle East. The videos, curiously, are being shared enthusiastically by many Republicans and pro-Israel hawks ( https://twitter.com/MsJulieLenarz/status/1014470758922416128 ) , who aren't traditionally the sort of crowd you see rallying to support the civil rights of Muslims. What's up with that? Well, you may want to sit down for this shocker, but it turns out that they happen to be women from a nation that the US war machine is currently escalating operations against. They are Iranian. Whenever you see the sudden emergence of an attractive media campaign that is sympathetic to the plight of civilians in a resource-rich nation unaligned with the western empire, you are seeing propaganda. When that nation is surrounded by other nations with similar human rights transgressions and yet those transgressions are ignored by that same media campaign, you are most certainly seeing propaganda. When that nation just so happens to already be the target of starvation sanctions and escalated covert CIA ops ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/why-you-should-be-intensely-skeptical-of… ) , you can bet the farm that you are seeing propaganda. Back in December a memo was leaked from inside the Trump administration showing how then-Secretary of State, DC neophyte Rex Tillerson, was coached on how the US empire uses human rights as a pretense on which to attack and undermine noncompliant governments. Politico reports ( https://www.politico.com/story/2017/12/19/tillerson-state-human-rights-3041… ) : > The May 17 memo ( https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000160-6c37-da3c-a371-ec3f13380001 ) reads like a crash course for a businessman-turned-diplomat, and its conclusion offers a starkly realist vision: that the U.S. should use human rights as a club against its adversaries, like Iran, China and North Korea, while giving a pass to repressive allies like the Philippines, Egypt and Saudi Arabia. > > “Allies should be treated differently — and better — than adversaries. Otherwise, we end up with more adversaries, and fewer allies,” argued the memo, written by Tillerson’s influential policy aide, Brian Hook. The propaganda machine doesn't operate any differently from the State Department, since they serve the same establishment. US ally Saudi Arabia is celebrated by the mass media for "liberal reform" in allowing women to drive despite hard evidence ( https://twitter.com/LizSly/status/998361860465352705 ) that those "reforms" are barely surface-level cosmetics to present a pretty face to the western world, but Iranian women, who have been able to drive for years ( http://realiran.org/women-driving-in-iran-things-you-need-to-know/ ) , are painted as uniquely oppressed. Iran is condemned by establishment war whores for the flaws in its democratic process, while Saudi Arabia, an actual monarchy, goes completely unscrutinized. This is because the US-centralized power establishment, which has never at any point in its history cared about human rights, plans on effecting regime change ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/stupid-ugly-swamp-monster-pretends-to-ca… ) in Iran by any means necessary. Should those means necessitate a potentially controversial degree of direct military engagement, the empire needs to make sure it retains control of the narrative ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/whoever-controls-the-narrative-controls-… ) . > Women in Iran are recording the abuse they suffer at the hands of men for not wearing religious clothing. May the good people of Iran free themselves from the shackles of the tyrannical mullah theocracy. pic.twitter.com/QWcPI5wylR ( https://t.co/QWcPI5wylR ) > > — Julie Lenarz (@MsJulieLenarz) July 4, 2018 ( https://twitter.com/MsJulieLenarz/status/1014470758922416128?ref_src=twsrc%… ) This is what modern war propaganda looks like. It will never look ugly. It will never directly show you its real intentions. If it did, it wouldn't work. It can't just come right out and say "Hey we need to do horrible, evil things to the people in this country on the other side of the world in your name using your resources, please play along without making a fuss." It will necessarily look fresh and fun and rebellious. It will look appealing. It will look sexy. And it's working. I am currently getting tagged in these videos multiple times a day by Trump supporters who are eager to show me proof that I'm on the wrong side of the Iran issue; the psyop is so well-lubricated with a combination of sleek presentation and confirmation bias that it slides right past their skepticism and becomes accepted as fact, even the one with the Now This pussyhat propaganda logo in the corner. Be less trusting of these monsters, please. The people of Afghanistan haven't benefitted from the interminable military quagmire that has cost tens of thousands of their lives. The invaders of Iraq were never "greeted as liberators" by an oppressed population. The humanitarian intervention in Libya left a humanitarian catastrophe in its wake far more horrific than anything it claimed to be trying to prevent. Saving the children of Syria with western interventionism has left half a million Syrians dead. If the Iranians do in fact wish to change their government, it should happen without crippling sanctions, collaboration with extremist terror cults ( https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/that-time-hillary-clinton-removed-john-b… ) , or the rapey tentacles of the CIA manipulating the situation. There has never been a US-led regime change in the Middle East that wasn't disastrous. 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Isn't this what psychologists call Projection?
by Steven Schear 07 Jul '18

07 Jul '18

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bis-chief-bashes-cryptocurrency-again-in-sca…

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