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Teen defends the 2nd Amendment, school orders psych evaluation [feedly]
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Teen defends the 2nd Amendment, school orders psych evaluation
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A high school senior in New Jersey was suspended from school and ordered to undergo a psychiatric evaluation after officials discovered he'd completed an anti-gun-control project for a class.
Student Frank Harvey said he completed the project last year after it was assigned by a teacher for a college readiness class.
"It was assigned by the teacher, and I got the topic, which was anti-gun control, approved by the teacher," he told News 12 New Jersey.
But when Harvey recently left a thumb drive containing the project, complete with news reports of people using guns in self-defense and pro-2nd Amendment political cartoons, the police got involved.
After police investigated and cleared Harvey—supporting the 2nd Amendment isn't a crime, after all— one would think that the non-issue would have been resolved.
Unfortunately, officials at the school escalated the situation, suspending the student and questioning his sanity.
"I've never been a violent person. I've never had detention in my life," Harvey told reporters.
The teacher is for some reason denying having assigned the project, according to the student.
Even so, it's worth reiterating that defending the 2nd Amendment isn't a crime.
Harvey has since dropped out of the school and will finish his education with a GED.
Again, one would think that the state would now be forced to drop the issue. But according to the student's mother, it hasn't.
The state department of child services was sent to the student's home this week.
"They came to my home trying to talk to my son," said his mother. "I was at work. I told my son they have no right to talk to him. He refused to speak with them and they left. I'm not sure why they came. The school likely sent them out because they didn't like how things have come out in the media.
"This is harassment. I want them to leave us alone. My son is at home studying for his GED. There's no reason for this. They're just harassing us. I'm not going to have my son undergo a psychological exam based on a teacher's lies. I'm not going let them label him. I'm not going to roll over. My son and his welfare comes first."
School officials and representatives from child services refused to comment to media.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Former Army officer says U.S. has lost control of military [feedly]
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Former Army officer says U.S. has lost control of military
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A former Army Special Operations officer says the Obama administration's inability to officially say the U.S. has a no-first-use nuclear policy is a sign that military top brass want to antagonize Russia and China.
Asked about whether he thought it was a good idea for U.S. leaders to unequivocally pledge that the nation would only use nuclear weapons in a defensive capacity, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told reporters:
"It has been the policy of the United States for a long time to extend the – its nuclear umbrella to friends and allies and — thereby to contribute to the deterrence of conflict and the deterrence of war and many of our friends and allies have benefited from that over time. And our future plans will retain for the United States the capability to meet those alliance commitments in the future."
Confused reporters asked the official to clarify whether he'd just said 'yes' or 'no.' Carter's response remained unclear.
"It has been our policy for a long time and it's part of our plans going forward," he said.
Since the U.S.'s use of nuclear bombs to end WWII, presidential administrations have made clear that nuclear technology would only be used again as a matter of last resort.
But earlier this year, Obama administration officials began discussing whether the administration should ratify the longstanding unwritten policy with an official pledge.
Senior military officials, including Carter, rejected the proposal, saying any such move would signal weakness to nuclear powers like Russia and China. Despite his desire to make decreasing international reliance on nuclear weapons part of his legacy, Obama has now abandoned the proposal.
Scott Bennett, a former Army psychological warfare officer who is now a whistleblower, said in an interview with the Iranian-backed PressTV that all of this is a sign elected officials in the U.S. may be losing control of the military.
"Essentially what I see [military leaders] doing is positioning the United States Pentagon – the Department of Defense – in a military gun road within the United States that is headed up by psychopaths and uniforms that are really blood-drunk with war for the past 15 years, setting them up for a long-term military conflict with Russia, Iran and China," he said.
Bennett called for the White House to regain control of what he sees as a military apparatus engaging in provocation of other nations for its own benefit.
"The military in the United States is now off the chain, it's not obeying President Obama, it is not obeying the United States Congress, instead you have a small cabal within the Pentagon and specifically the US Central Command commanding the Middle East theater, positioning itself for a long-term war," he said.
Bennet added that Americans should be particularly alarmed of the possibility of conflict with Russia "given the positioning of the batteries of missile silos now in Romania and Poland" the U.S. military is currently beefing up.
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Report destroys Obama, Clinton example of gun-free utopia [feedly]
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Report destroys Obama, Clinton example of gun-free utopia
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Democrats frequently cite Australia as a perfect example of how government taking away the right to bear arms can reduce criminal access to firearms. The only problem is that it can't.
Last October, the former first lady praised Australian-style gun control and said a similar mass disarmament of citizens is "worth considering" in the U.S.
She said federal gun confiscation could take place under the guise of a buyback campaign similar to the Cash for Clunkers program that accompanied the U.S. auto industry bailout.
"I think it would be worth considering doing it on the national level, if that could be arranged. After the terrible 2008 financial crisis, one of the programs that President Obama was able to get in place was Cash for Clunkers. You remember that?" she asked. "It was partially a way to get people to buy new cars because we wanted more economic activity, and to get old models that were polluting too much, off the roads. So I think that's worth considering."
Unfortunately for Clinton, a new report out from Melbourne newspaper The Age reveals that the forced Australian gun buyback in the late 1990s and subsequent gun bans in the country are doing little to keep firearms out of criminal hands.
From the report:
The notion that a military-grade weapon could be in the hands of local criminals is shocking, but police have already seized at least five machine guns and assault rifles in the past 18 months. The AK-47 was not among them.
Only a fortnight ago, law enforcement authorities announced they were hunting another seven assault rifles recently smuggled into the country. Weapons from the shipment have been used in armed robberies and drive-by shootings.
These are just a handful of the thousands of illicit guns fuelling a wave of violent crime…
The article goes on to declare "criminals are now better armed than at any time since then-Prime Minister John Howard introduced a nationwide firearm buyback scheme in response to the 1996 Port Arthur massacre."
Shootings, according to the report, have become a "almost a weekly occurrence" in Melbourne.
The National Rifle Association said of the report: "Melbourne's recent experience should serve as yet another example of the futility of gun control measures that burden the rights of the law-abiding. Given the ease with which Melbourne's criminals arm themselves despite the severity of their country's gun control regime, Clinton and Obama would be wise to look past Australia when putting together their next gun control speech."
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Why you should always carry a gun [feedly]
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Why you should always carry a gun
// Personal Liberty Digest™
People often ask why I'm such a staunch advocate for gun rights, why I believe so strongly in the 2nd Amendment, and why I close my preparedness articles with the words, "store ammo and guns." There are many answers, but one need only look at the video below from Charlotte, North Carolina for an emphatic, dramatic and traumatic one.
The riots in Charlotte show what a societal breakdown looks like… especially in urban centers. Looting, gangs, large mobs and traffic jams put innocent people in dangerous situations. Without warning, individuals and families can easily and all-to-quickly find themselves surrounded and in a dangerous spot. A gun is an equalizer.
So I urge you, dear reader, to buy a gun, get trained in its use, and practice, practice, practice. Have a spare magazine handy for situations like this one. Don't be a helpless victim.
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Thursday, September 22, 2016
Petition: Cut Obama’s pay while he campaigns for Clinton [feedly]
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Petition: Cut Obama's pay while he campaigns for Clinton
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Thousands of fed-up Americans are demanding that Congress cut President Barack Obama's taxpayer-covered salary and other benefits for any time he spends campaigning for Democrat Hillary Clinton between now and the presidential election in November.
The demand comes in the form of a Stand United petition expressing alarm that Obama plans to put his presidential duties on hold while devoting most of his time over the next month to getting Clinton elected.
The petition's creators explain:
According to reports from the White House, Barack Obama has instructed his staff to clear his calendar for the month of October this year. Obama, who is in his last four months in the White House, is apparently concerned that a Republican President would overturn his legacy. Obamacare, EPA rules against coal, green energy initiatives are all at risk for this President.
Just as Obama did when first elected to office, most opposite political party Presidents spend their first 100 days in office overturning the previous President's executive orders and memorandums. Obama would much prefer to preserve those executive mandates by helping Hillary Clinton become America's next President, and thus preserving his third term in office.
Many sitting Presidents endorse a candidate for the Presidency when their term is up; it is very rare for a President to actively campaign for someone else.
Citing "fuzzy" federal election guidelines about how much the president is allowed to rely on his taxpayer-provided travel benefits as he makes his way across the country on Clinton's behalf. FEC laws, the petition notes that the Democratic Party is supposed to "to repay the American people at a reduced rate if the travel is purely political." Without hard rules, though, the petitions creators worry that American taxpayers are getting shafted by Obama's use of Air Force One—which costs about $180,000 per hour to operate— as he travels promoting Clinton's candidacy.
Besides Air Force One costs, Obama enjoys a salary of $400,000 in addition to a $50,000 expense account "to assist in defraying expenses relating to or resulting from the discharge of his official duties."
To discourage Obama from becoming campaigner-in-chief throughout October as the nation's domestic and international troubles continue to build, the petition asks members of Congress to force the president to do his job or forego its benefits.
"We the People demand that Congress withhold President Obama's salary, pension, travel expenses, etc. for any time he spends actively campaigning for Hillary Clinton between now and the election in November. The People of the United States demand accountability for funding to public officials—all bills related to revenue must begin in the House of Representatives," the petition says.
As of this writing, nearly 50,000 Americans had signed the online petition.
Congress has the sole authority to withhold presidential pay—but members would have to provide a workaround for constitutional stipulations that presidential pay "shall neither be increased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected" if they were serious about freezing Obama's paycheck while his on the road for Clinton.
Sign the petition at Stand United.
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Practicing Christianity about to become illegal in Massachusetts [feedly]
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Practicing Christianity about to become illegal in Massachusetts
// Personal Liberty Digest™
The basic foundational tenets of the Christian religion are about to become "illegal" in Massachusetts.
This is certainly not a surprise as the elites who walk the halls of power have long been working to eliminate the notion of the one Supreme Being God from the public consciousness and replace Him with their one god – the state. In fact, I wrote before the Supreme Court issued its ruling Obergefell v. Hodges that if the court created a "right" to "gay marriage" that it would be end of religious liberty in America.
That's because the PC movement and LGBT movement and all other movements allegedly seeking "equality" are not about equality at all. They are about seeking to divide people against each other and gain special privileges for one group at the expense of others and manipulating people into surrendering more of their liberties to government.
The Orwellian Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination has decided that in order to prevent discrimination against mentally ill individuals who can't distinguish their own sex despite their ability to gaze upon their own male or female genitalia, it must sanction discrimination against the only group of people against whom discrimination is currently acceptable: Christians.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2016, Massachusetts churches and Christian organizations and private schools will be in violation of state law if they use "names, pronouns, and gender-related terms" that conflict with a person's "stated gender identity." The churches will also be in violation of the law if they do not accommodate those sick and twisted supposedly "gender-confused" individuals by allowing them to use restrooms, locker rooms and changing rooms "consistent with their 'gender identities.'"
The law applies not only to preachers and evangelists who may deliver messages from the pulpit, but also church employees, congregants and volunteers who may interact in any way with people who come in off the street. Any of these people who use gender pronouns that a "gender-confused" individual considers "offensive" will have created a "hostile environment" under the law and be subject to fines and penalties.
This is a direct assault on the Christian religion and basic Christian tenants that God created "male and female," that to engage in sexual immorality is sin that leads to death, and that man is responsible for and will be judged upon his own actions based on God's word. Even presenting a "gender "confused" individual while in the building or on its grounds with a Bible containing these tenets will cause one to run afoul of the law.
In addition to being an assault on the 1st Amendment rights (as incorporated under 20th century Supreme Court rulings) of Massachusetts residents, the law is in direct conflict with the Massachusetts Constitution which states in Article II:
It is the right as well as the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons to worship the Supreme Being, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner and season most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship.
And Article XVIII, Section 1 which states:
No law shall be passed prohibiting the free exercise of religion.
The Massachusetts Christian cannot abide by this new ruling by the commission, for he must obey God rather than men (Acts 5:29). This puts the state in direct violation of its own constitution and in an antagonistic relationship with the state's Christian citizens and religious institutions.
To participate in the fiction that a person determines his sex based on his own whims is to engage in a lie, and God abhors a liar (Proverbs 6:16-17). The Christian cannot be "tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes." But rather, the Christian is to speak "the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love." (Ephesians 4)
The apostle Paul wrote that those who "suppress the truth" or "ignore God's righteous decree" of the truth and "give approval" to those who practice sexual immorality — or to a host of other sins mentioned in Scripture — are just as guilty as those who practice it. (Romans 1 and 2 and Ephesians 4)
It is commonly said that Christians are to love the sinner and hate the sin. That is true. But that does not mean the Christian can condone, accept or participate — even tangentially — in the sin. A sin can be committed by omission as well as by commission.
Forcing Christians to do so against their will is tyranny and a violation of their rights under God's law and natural law, in addition to – as noted –violations of rights of religious liberty under both the U.S. and Massachusetts constitutions.
Massachusetts Christian churches and organizations can now expect an onslaught of lawsuits accusing them of the sophistic "crime" of "gender discrimination" as the social justice warrior class seeks to sue Christianity out of existence.
Related reading:
The government's war on Christianity
Gender confused? Ash Carter says join the military
'The general government is not to be charged with the whole power of making and administering laws'
Lawyers and minorities love socialism
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Russian newsman predicts Trump will be murdered [feedly]
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Russian newsman predicts Trump will be murdered
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A prominent Kremlin-appointed Russian TV host said during a recent broadcast that GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump will be killed by the military-industrial complex before he has the opportunity to change U.S. foreign policy.
Russian journalist Dmitry Kisiliov made the prediction during a recent broadcast on Russia 1.
"This combination, Trump's leading in the race, his ability to state things as they are, and his intention to end the recent extreme Russian-American tensions – all this puts him in a very risky situation," Kisiliov said.
"Now they may just kill him," the host added.
The "they" Kisiliov is referring to are people who stand to profit from the deterioration of the already tense relationship between the U.S. and its Cold War foe.
"The U.S. special (security) services do not need such a president. Those services promote hatred toward Russia in order to justify their existence," Kisiliov said.
He added"The American oligarchs also do not need such a president. For these oligarchs, the existing world order ensures solid and stable business. For them, a Trump who is ready to settle issues with Russia means that the finances will flow in a different direction.
"The American establishment is merciless."
The cryptic warning comes from Russian state media, so take it with a grain of salt. But as we continue to watch Democrat Hillary Clinton— the obvious choice of interventionists and warmongers— champion U.S. belligerence toward Russia, it isn't the craziest thing we've heard in a while.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2016
The world is turning ugly as 2016 winds down [feedly]
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The world is turning ugly as 2016 winds down
// Personal Liberty Digest™
I have to say that the negative reverberations in our current economic and political environment are becoming so strong that it is impossible for people to not feel at least some uneasiness in their gut. I imagine this is the same kind of sensation many felt from 1914 to 1918 during World War I and the terrible birth of communism, or perhaps in the early 1930s at the onset of the Great Depression and the rise of fascism. Some global changes are so disturbing that they send shockwaves through the collective unconscious before they ever hit the mainstream. People know that something is about to happen, even if they cannot yet clearly define it.
At the beginning of August in my article "2016 Will End With Economic Instability And A Trump Presidency" I stated that:
I believe a softer downturn will begin before the election (the U.S. presidential election) takes place, most likely starting in September. This will give a boost to the Trump campaign, or at least, that is what the polls will likely say. I would also watch for some banking officials and media pundits to blame this downturn on Trump's rise in the polling data. The narrative will be that just the threat of a Trump presidency is "putting the markets on edge.
Unfortunately, it would seem so far that this prediction was correct. Currently global markets have crossed into severe volatility after around three months of eerie calm. Why? Well, as I warned in the same article linked above as well as numerous others since the beginning of this year, the Federal Reserve is determined to continue raising interest rates into a recessionary environment as they almost always do, and equities markets addicted to cheap debt cannot tolerate even one additional rate hike from the central bank.
So far all evidence suggests that the Fed plans to raise rates again soon; I believe at the end of this month. Normally "dovish" members of the Fed have openly suggested that now is the time to hike — the latest example being voting member and head of the Bank of Cleveland, Loretta Mester. She argues that rates have remained "too low for too long," and rejected notions that lower rates are necessary to maintain stability.
This is the same kind of language Fed members used right before the rate hike in December 2015, the first rate hike in around a decade. Get ready folks, because all the naysayers that claimed another rate hike is "impossible," especially so close to the elections, are probably about to be proven wrong yet again.
My warning on an accelerating Trump campaign being blamed for weak stock markets has also come true. Already, Bloomberg is launching the meme that the idea of Hillary Clinton losing the election to Trump "because of her health" is a "landmine for vulnerable markets."
This is some incredible spin by the elitist controlled media, but again, very predictable. The globalists are setting the stage to blame the economic collapse they created on conservative movements. Clinton's "health issues" are being set up as the scapegoat for a Trump win, which conjures additional social unrest as many on the Left will argue (in the event of a Trump win) that Trump prevailed on a technicality. That is to say, the extreme Left will argue that Trump's presidency is not legitimate.
Another scenario is also possible but I think less likely — the potential for Clinton to bow out of the election due to her health, causing a rationale for a postponed election. I do not think a postponed election really serves the interests of the elites, but it would certainly trigger massive chaos if it occurred. Only in the strangest of any election year in American history could this even be thought of as a legitimate danger.
Another global indicator, oil, is tumbling yet again as all the jawboning from OPEC on a "production freeze" has failed to boost crude prices for more than a week at a time. Frankly, no one is buying the hype anymore. Those who bet on the WTI index shooting past $50 to $60 a barrel this year should have been paying more attention to alternative analysts. The only other factor that has kept oil from crashing down into the $30 range has been random inventory draws. These reports, though, are little more than a stop gap. Companies have been shifting crude to different facilities in order to create the illusion of inventory draws and higher demand. But usually within a week the reports catch up to the real supply and an inventory spike sends oil crashing down again.
Add to this the latest news that Congress has passed a bill allowing the families of 9/11 victims to sue the Saudi government for their part in the attack, and you have a recipe for a dumping of the dollar as the world's petrocurrency. Even if Obama vetoes the bill, I believe a two-thirds majority of congress will override that veto. A catastrophe in oil markets is inevitable.
Whether in oil markets or other sectors of finance and social stability, make no mistake, catastrophe is exactly what national governments are preparing for.
This is most obvious today in the European Union. The German government in their first revision of their civil defense plan since the cold war has warned the public to prepare for an unspecified event by stockpiling at least 10 days worth of food and five days worth of water. Germany is also debating the idea of placing troops on the streets to "protect against ISIS."
And Germany is not alone. French presidential candidate Nickolas Sarkozy has made some highly disturbing statements on security in a recent interview, outlining measures he believes will best protect the public from "militants." From Reuters:
France needs to get tough on militants by creating special courts and detention facilities to boost security, the country's former President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a interview published in Sunday newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
"Every Frenchman suspected of being linked to terrorism, because he regularly consults a jihadist website, or his behavior shows signs of radicalization or because is in close contact with radicalized people, must by preventively placed in a detention center," Sarkozy said in the interview.
Sarkozy, who announced last month his candidacy for the April 2017 presidential election, has said there is no place for "legal niceties" in the fight against terrorism.
Even in the face of Islamic extremism and terrorism, the concept of "detention facilities" where people are held without charge and without trial on the mere suspicion of being a danger to society should horrify anyone with any sense. The fact of the matter is, these violations of personal freedom and of due process are NEVER used for only one group of people. Totalitarian governments ALWAYS use one group as an excuse for the police state, then over time they expand the police state outwards to oppress everyone.
This is the kind of rhetoric that liberty movement activists in the U.S. fought against in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA); but it is making a resurgence in Europe and in America as well. If you think Sarkozy is a marginal example, I recommend you re-watch this interview with Gen. Wesley Clark, who argues that "radicalized people" who are disloyal to the U.S. government should be placed in internment camps. He suggests that Britain, Germany and France need to take similar measures. It would appear that they are doing just that.
Never forget that "radicalism" is an arbitrary designation, and the label can be applied to just about anyone for any reason. A trend in police state language is growing in the mainstream in the name of fighting terrorism, but the abrupt urgency in Europe is rather odd. Only a few months ago, EU leaders were using some outrageous mental gymnastics in order to avoid confronting the notion of Islamic terrorism. Now, they are suddenly concerned? Why?
I believe Europe is about to witness a catalyst for financial crisis, and they are using terrorism as an excuse to preposition martial law resources before this event takes place. They don't care about stopping ISIS, but they do care about locking down and controlling an angry citizenry in the wake of an economic downturn. If a few more terrorist attacks occur in the meantime, then hey, that only helps the elites in their efforts to pacify the public for the sake of "security."
Official preparedness warnings from Germany, for example, are of little use to the public. A mere ten days of food and five days of water is useless during any sizable crisis. But, the German government can now say that they "tried to warn people." Sarkozy's statements are the most blatant call for a police state I have yet seen from an establishment puppet politician, and this should worry people. The fact that he is being so open and honest about the end game indicates to me that a dangerous shift is imminent.
It would appear, according to EU government behavior, that whatever is about to happen globally is going to hit hardest in Europe first and then spread to the U.S. and the rest of the world. I recommend readers watch the EU very carefully over the next few months. If you have any survival preparations you have been putting off, I suggest you take care of them before the end of this year. From what I see so far, geopolitically and economically the global situation is only going to become more unstable.
— Brandon Smith
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Monday, September 12, 2016
Clinton election means crackdown on speech, says whistleblower [feedly]
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Clinton election means crackdown on speech, says whistleblower
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If Hillary Clinton makes it into the White House, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says Americans are in store for an era of "neo-McCarthyism," complete with major new restrictions on internet speech.
During an interview on Sean Hannity's conservative talk radio program, Assange said the Clinton campaign is attempting to use the U.S.'s long complicated relations with Russia to its benefit.
"What we're seeing now is Hillary Clinton and her campaign trying to whip up a neo-McCarthyist hysteria where she claims that, effectively, Donald Trump is an agent of the Russians, that WikiLeaks is an agent of the Russians, and where her campaign has also implied that Jill Stein, the Greens leader, is a Russian agent, and that the Intercept, another U.S. publication, effectively [all] Russian agents," Assange said.
WikiLeaks has created many headaches for the Clinton campaign by publishing all of the former top diplomat's released State Department emails in a searchable online database.
Clinton's efforts to portray any person or organization exposing wrongdoing on her part as a foreign agent, Assange predicts, is going to have a chilling effect on reporting and free speech.
"We have the ruling party … running around, calling the opposition leader, in fact multiple opposition readers, and the critical press, foreign agents," he said. "What kind of press climate is going to exist afterwards, especially if Hillary Clinton is elected? It will be perceived to be a validation of that hysteria."
"So the press afterwards will be cracked down upon, and online publishers, and people on social media," he continued. "It will lead to a very harsh climate where the First Amendment will be eroded."
Assange went on to note that the Clinton campaign and Democratic Party have already had much success in manipulating the media, as evidenced by the leaked DNC emails published on the WikiLeaks website.
"Democrat aligned-media like MSNBC, Politico, Washington Post, we expose as acting against journalistic ethics, taking marching orders from the DNC, checking, in the case of Politico, checking their copy with the DNC before even their own editors get to see it," he said.
That's why, he added, it's important for "whistleblowers, consultants, and yes, even computer hackers who care about the truth" to have a place like WikiLeaks to publish information for the masses.
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
MIT Develops a System for Reading Closed Books [feedly]
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MIT Develops a System for Reading Closed Books
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An imaging system that can read closed books is in the making. A prototype of the system was tested and a stack of papers had each letter inside it visible via this system.The top nine sheets were...
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Saturday, September 10, 2016
Do blacks want to return to separate but equal? [feedly]
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Do blacks want to return to separate but equal?
// Personal Liberty Digest™
After the United States Supreme Court ruled in 1954 that separate but equal school facilities stamped an inherent badge of inferiority on black students, public school systems were required to integrate "with all deliberate speed."
The result of this government meddling was forced integration and busing of students to schools miles from their homes and racial unrest. The Department of Education, civil rights activists and activist judges got what they wanted: A harmonious integrated classroom with equal outcomes. Or did they?
Not according to the DoE. Not then, and not now. The DoE found that public school classrooms today are either mostly or all white or they are mostly or all minority. Put another way, the DoE says that most public school 12th graders are in classrooms that are either more than 90 percent or less than 10 percent minority.
Today the DoE requires students attend the school nearest their homes, with few exceptions. Most minorities live in urban centers. Most whites live in rural areas.
At the request of black students, two California colleges – California State University Los Angeles and UC Davis — have set aside "safe spaces" for blacks so they can share dorm space with people who have "similar interests" and who want to be separated from the rest of the population. The black students claimed they needed to be free of "microaggressions" and "racially insensitive remarks."
UC Davis has been doing this for 20 years. There they've found the program to be a good option for minority students, claiming that graduation rates among black students in separate housing are "high."
In other words, blacks want separate but equal facilities.
Is that racism? Some would call it that. They did when Brown v. the Board of Education of Topeka was being argued. They did when whites wanted separate school systems.
Others would call it liberty, freedom of association and freedom of choice. That's what I call it. And that's what minority students at those California colleges call it as well.
Related reading:
The freedom to discriminate is essential to liberty
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ATF pushing government app to report suspect gun owners [feedly]
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ATF pushing government app to report suspect gun owners
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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosive has announced the development of a new government partnership with an anonymous tip app that will allow users to contact the federal agency at the push of a button.
From an ATF press release:
The fight to protect our communities is not just up to law enforcement; it's a partnership between your community and law enforcement. We look to you who live in these communities we protect to provide us with information about gun violence.
To make our communities safer, ATF is launching a new way to collect your tips involving firearms or to provide leads to help us prevent crimes from happening. Using your phone, tablet or computer, you will be able to tell us instantly and anonymously about crimes that may be happening in your communities that involve firearms, explosives, violent crime, or arson.
ATF values your privacy and is offering this service through reportit (link is external)®, a mobile app that allows you to remain anonymous. With reportit® concerned citizens can report suspicious or unusual activities in real time while having the assurance that your identity will remain anonymous and confidential. reportit® makes it easy to create and submit a tip, and attach a photo or video, with confidence that the information is forwarded to us real time. With the time and location of the incident, we can better respond and provide the necessary resources quickly and efficiently. You will have the option to provide your personal information, but this will not be required to submit your tip. You can visit the reportit (link is external)® website for more infomation on their service.
Many people on internet gun forums worry that the app will become a tool for anti-firearm fanatics to have law abiding gun owners harassed by federal agents without fear of reprisal for false reporting.
One commenter said: "Great, another 'snitch on someone you don't like' program. What could go wrong with that? Not being confronted by your accuser, relying on manufactured probable cause, more agency witch hunts, selective targeted prosecution, make-work for agents… more of what we have now."
On the other hand, maybe they'll get a tip about who flooded all those illegal guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels…
The post ATF pushing government app to report suspect gun owners appeared first on Personal Liberty®.
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