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There's an unseemly rush by manufacturers toward building self-driving vehicles. This rush is thus far ignoring what I consider to be major concerns about the technology.

Much of the current expert analysis of the technology focuses on the data privacy issues involved. After all, do you really want private corporations knowing every trip you take by car and then selling that data to marketers? Or giving it to the government for warrantless tracking of your activities?

According to an article written by a leading State Department expert, this is the process by which the U.S. became one of the most violent societies in the world.

From you can't make this up file.

Did Someone Plant a Story Tying Paul Manafort to Julian Assange

It's hard to imagine just how completely the political leadership of the left-wing has failed us until they try to do something. For example, progressives in the Democratic Party are only now trying to create a comprehensive foreign policy stand.

“Failing to indict a criminal sitting president sends the message that those in power are above the law.”
― DaShanne Stokes

In an interview with the Washington Post published today, Trump gave away the gig.

That's because the way people get from Point A to Point B is about to undergo the most radical change since the early automobiles replaced horses. Autonomous driving vehicles are about to change how cars are driven, powered and used. In the future, far more people will probably buy rides, rather than cars.

Source: The existential threat facing the auto industry

The brief naval skirmish in the Azov Sea prompted Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to declare martial law. It didn't fool many people.

Assange will never get the chance to prove that this never happened. Why? Because he is being charged under the Espionage Act which doesn't allow the person to put on a defense. It's Kabuki bullshit and should have never have used in a country that says it is one where it made up of laws.

Paul Manafort Secretly Met With Julian Assange Multiple Times

Short take.

Why, oh why, would we choose the YPG-dominated SDF, over our long time NATO ally?
Make no mistake, we have set our military against Turkey, and that is huge.

Hey folks. With the little time I have was compelled to spontaneously throw something together for consideration.

Was just watching a couple of Jimmy Dore segments covering two European strike stories. They would appear to me to have some powerful ramifications, which naturally then seem to be MIA at the MSM.

http://thesaker.is/kerch-provocation-causes-and-consequences/
Since this seems to have blown up in the last 24 hrs, and I'd seen this a day(or two) ago while spending sleepless nights with an ailing dog, it seemed fitting to post this with the info it contains; backstory, motivations, etc.