2021-04-30: News Headlines

Lee Camp (2021-04-30). The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us BY MODERATOR. counterpunch.org December 22, 1963 — exactly one month after President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated, former President Harry S. Truman published an op-ed in the Washington Post that most people, especially our perfumed ruling elite, wanted to ignore. Truman, who signed the CIA into existence just after World War II, wrote, "I think it has become necessary to

Joel Wendland-Liu (2021-04-30). 'Predictive policing' is a techno-tool of white supremacy. peoplesworld.org Hollywood presents artificial intelligence as our inevitable future. In the show, Caprica, the prequel to the epic Battlestar Galactica, which centers on a massive struggle between humans and their robot creations, the Cylons, huge amounts of data are combined to produce artificially intelligent machines based on real human lives. Beyond science fiction, however, the big …

Staff (2021-04-30). The Supreme Court Considers a Cheerleader's Off Campus Free Speech Rights. aclu.org This week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in a case that has huge implications for the free speech rights of students. The case involves then 14-year-old Brandi Levy, a cheerleader at Mahanoy Area High School in Pennsylvania, and her post on the social media platform Snapchat. One of her cheerleading coaches saw…

News Spread (2021-04-30). Vegan And Other Nonviolence News. indybay.org Smithfield pollution, chicken rights, Supreme Court and other news…

Matt Kennard (2021-04-30). Revealed: The UK Government Campaign to Force Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian Embassy. globalresearch.ca The UK government paid £8,330 in November 2018 to bring Ecuador's …

John W. Whitehead (2021-04-30). The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19. globalresearch.ca "A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power."‚Äï …

AARON (2021-04-30). The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us. peoplesparty.org If you're looking for proof the CIA and the whole cavalcade of other intelligence agencies working with them have gotten too big, look no further than the DNI's latest report.: | (As seen on Truman…

Susan Price (2021-04-30). West Papua: Crackdown feared following Indonesian intelligence chief's death. greenleft.org.au West Papua solidarity activists fear an escalation of violence in West Papua, reports Susan Price.

sputniknews (2021-04-30). US General Warns China Nuclear Buildup 'On Track to Exceed Previous Projections'. sputniknews.com China's effort to expand its influence was estimated as one of the largest threats facing the United States, according to a major annual intelligence report released on 13 April, which also foresaw Beijing at least doubling its nuclear stockpile over the next decade.

Scott Timcke (2021-04-29). West Africa is the Latest Testing Ground for US Military Artificial Intelligence. mintpressnews.com In its preparation for great power competition, the US military is modernizing its artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques and testing them in West Africa.

PAI (2021-04-29). Congress tackles payday lenders after SCOTUS lets them off the hook. peoplesworld.org WASHINGTON —Well, that didn't take long. A week after the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously handed one of the sleaziest sectors of the corporate class, payday lenders, a big judicial win, lawmakers took up the suggestion by the ruling's author, Justice Stephen Breyer, that they could reverse the victory. So consumer advocates trooped up to tell …

Anonymous103 (2021-04-29). Award-Winning Journalist Julian Assange Languishes In A British Super Max Prison At The Behest Of The Biden Regime. southfront.org Written by Dr. Leon Tressell. The United States and its NATO allies have weaponised the issue of human rights; using…

News Spread (2021-04-29). Vegan And Other Nonviolence News. indybay.org Smithfield pollution, chicken rights, Supreme Court and other news…

Anthony Grasso (2021-04-29). The Supreme Court Just Made It Easier to Sentence Children to Life in Prison. commondreams.org Progressives must challenge this cruel U.S. Supreme Court opinion, writes Prof. Anthony Grasso, "but relying on rehabilitative discourse to challenge juvenile life-without-parole sentencing could be a risky strategy. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/juve.jpg

Thomas Knapp (2021-04-29). SCOTUS Should Clarify Tinker in Favor of Free Speech, Not School Control. counterpunch.org In 1969, the US Supreme Court held, in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate." Schools may only prohibit, censor, or punish student speech which would "materially and substantially interfere with the requirements of appropriate discipline in

Dr. Leon Tressell (2021-04-29). Award-winning Journalist Julian Assange Languishes in a British Super Max Prison at the Behest of the Biden Regime. globalresearch.ca The United States and its NATO allies have weaponised the issue …

John W. Whitehead (2021-04-29). The Global Deep State: A New World Order Brought to You by COVID-19. globalresearch.ca "A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power."‚Äï …

BenarNews (2021-04-29). Indonesia: Government Forces Kill 9 Rebels In Papua Fighting. eurasiareview.com By Ronna Nirmala | Nine separatist rebels and a policeman were killed in fighting in Indonesia's Papua province, officials said Wednesday, after Jakarta vowed to come down hard on the insurgents who killed the government's regional intelligence chief — an army brigadier general — on Sunday. | Fighting broke out between government security forces and the insurgent group in Puncak regency on Tuesday, said Iqbal Alquddusy, spokesman for Operation Nemangkawi, a joint military-police task force to hunt down the Papuan rebels. | "Based on our findings on the ground during a firefight at the hideout of th…

Peoples Dispatch (2021-04-29). Multiple privacy violations by FBI raise concern in US. peoplesdispatch.org Recently revealed documents from one of the most secretive courts in the United States showed that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) was guilty of multiple violations of privacy during surveillance. The redacted documents declassified from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC or the FISA Court) were released on Monday, April 26 by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), revealing that the FBI has repeatedly conducted warrantless surveillance on US citizens. | The document is a certification report by the FISC dating back to November 2020. The FISC was established under the…

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