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Doug Casey On The Surveillance State Quietly Taking Shape Across America Via InternationalMan.com, International Man: Across the United States, we are seeing more surveillance infrastructure—Flock license-plate cameras, facial-recognition systems, massive data centers, and proposals for digital ID. Do you see these as separate developments, or as parts of a broader system being built? Doug Casey: It’s a sea change in the way society is structured. And not just in the US; it’s worldwide. Cameras are ubiquitous today. They’re in most stores. They’re on streets in every city and town recording your license plate and...

Russia Outraged At Its Ally Armenia For Hosting Zelensky: 'Whose Side Of History Are You On?' Russia is seething after its Caucasus regional ally Armenia decided to host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for a European summit earlier this week. Moscow is further warning against Yerevan pursuing closer relations with the European Union as well. The Kremlin slammed Zelensky being hosted there, right in Russia's own backward, as "incomprehensible". Source: Perry-Castañeda Library "Russian society, with deep indignation and bewilderment, not only saw but remembered that Armenia, which we are used to considering a friendly,...

"Fire Is... Beautiful": Suspect In Spokane Wildfire Confesses He Planned Arson For Weeks The suspect charged on Aug. 3 with starting the Old Trails fire in Spokane, Washington, that forced more than 60,000 people to evacuate told police he had planned the attack for weeks. The suspect, Aaron Farinacci, told police in an interview that “fire is powerful, beautiful, and that things that go through fire experience a kind of rebirth,” according to Spokane County Detective Michael Drapeau in a court filing Wednesday. Farinacci, 37, was scheduled to be arraigned on Thursday,...