How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait…

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Date: October 18, 2016

01) How Free Web Content Traps People In An Abyss Of Ads And Clickbait

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“If you feel like Internet ads are more pervasive and invasive than ever before, you’re not alone. Author Tim Wu tells Fresh Air’s Terry Gross that the Web has gotten worse over the years, not better — and unrelenting ads are to blame.

“I think you spend 50 percent of your mental energy trying to defeat ad systems,” Wu says. “It’s amazing that we’ve got this great scientific invention, the Web and the Internet, and then it has come to the point where using it reminds me of swatting mosquitoes.”

ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds…

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Date: October 16, 2016

01) ACLU & HRW Call to Decriminalize Drug Use & Possession After Documenting Arrests Every 25 Seconds

“A new report on the devastating harm of policies that criminalize the personal use and possession of drugs finds that in 2015 police booked more people for small-time marijuana charges than for murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault combined. The report also showed African-American adults are more than two-and-a-half times as likely as white adults to be arrested for drug possession despite comparable rates of drug usage. This comes as four states have legalized recreational marijuana use and five more will vote to do the same next month. Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union released the findings Wednesday with a call for states and the federal government to decriminalize low-level drug offenses. We speak with Tess Borden, author of the report “Every 25 Seconds: The Human Toll of Criminalizing Drug Use in the United States.”

America at War with Itself…

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Date: October 16, 2016

01) Is Trump’s Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible?

“In his new book, scholar Henry Giroux examines “America at War with Itself.” From poisoned water in Flint and other cities to the police deaths of African Americans to hatemongering on the presidential campaign trail, Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump. Giroux is the McMaster University professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest.”

The USA is a prison state…That is exactly what it is….Essentially, that is all it is.

…It is absolutely not a free country…The people here, are not free.

Vast many “Americans” are enslaved…abused…and impoverished by the USA.

It is time for a radically new path forward…It is time for those who commit predation upon us, to fall.