Politics

Two British ‘ghost ships’ are on their way to Japan to collect enough plutonium for 80 nuclear warheads. It is reported that the vessels are guarded against terrorists by commandos and and armed with 20mm cannons They ships are also being shadowed by a Royal Navy submarine. The two huge container ships, the Pacific Heron and the Pacific Egret, left Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, last month on the first leg of their journey. The Mail Online reports that they will travel across the Atlantic before passing through the Panama Canal and into the Pacific.

I watched several times the entire NSFW 1:53 clip of Trump calling Ted Cruz a p**sy for having constitutional qualms about waterboarding. It doesn’t get any better when repeated. The thing that most people are talking about is his use of the vulgarity, which is pretty lowlife stuff coming from a man who wants to sit in the Oval Office. But by far the more disturbing thing was that he was calling Cruz this as a way of asserting his own willingness to torture people, and the Constitution be damned.

Ron Paul has slammed plans for a “mandatory depression screening” for all Americans – which is currently being proposed by the United States Preventive Services Task Force.  Ron Paul says that these mandatory screenings will allow the government to keep a big brother style central database that lists every ‘mentally ill’ person in America, which could then be used to deprive individuals of their Second Amendment rights.

Earlier this year, Seymour Hersh, America’s leading investigative journalist, published an intriguing article on U.S. policy towards the growing conflict in Syria and Iraq. “Military to Military,” which appeared in the London Review of Books, maintains that the Pentagon’s intelligence analysts have, since 2013, been advising against the White House policy of removing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, arguing that it would create a power vacuum in the country that would inevitably be exploited by groups like ISIS.

Submitted by John Whitehead via The Rutherford Institute,

“If you can’t say ‘Fuck’ you can’t say, ‘Fuck the government.’” ? Lenny Bruce

Not only has free speech become a four-letter word - profane, obscene, uncouth, not to be uttered in so-called public places - but in more and more cases, the government deems free speech to be downright dangerous and in some instances illegal.