Before Ann Coulter Conquered Twitter, She Conquered Facebook

With a world containing “hidden giants” like Edward Bernays, I would like nothing more than to tell everyone of you that complete “free will” exists, and that “your thoughts are your own”, but I’d be lying if did—because the stark truth is that human behavior is 93% predictable—and when something is predictable, it’s also able to be manipulated. […]

US federal law  requires that their providers keep a complete log of the metadata of their users for two years—and requires these providers provide the decryption key for any encrypted data that they send. This allows these providers to collect and sell all of their users’ internet browser histories—and, most stunningly, allows Facebook to use for their own secret purposes all of the images, videos, reports, audio, and other data posted to their site by their users. […]

Responding to Russia’s order to leave Syria immediately, this report continues, saw US Ambassador to Russia Jon Huntsman rushing to meet the Chief of the Russian General Staff General Valery Gerasimov—whose discussion remains more highly classified than this general report allows to be noted—but whose essence can, most certainly, be ascertained by Foreign Minister Lavrov then bluntly warning the Americans to discipline their Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist force in Syria or “otherwise it would be exterminated”. […]