17 links today. Enjoy. Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B for Fraudulent Sales of Toxic Debt, No One Will Go to Jail (BoingBoing) CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA (How cute, The Intercept) “Real-time Facial Reenactment” (Mind-blowing video, YouTube) Adobe Issues Emergency Update to Flash After Ransomware Attacks (Very important issue, … Read more
17 links today. Enjoy. The Dutch Referendum Shows How the Internet is Taking Back Power from Our Europhile Elites (Must read by Nigel Farage, The Telegraph) Jamie Dimon Tells Us We Need to Leave Too Big to Fail Banks Alone (Excellent, Naked Capitalism) The TSA Spent $1.4 Million on an iPad App That Randomly Points Left … Read more
In July 2015, Sepúlveda sat in the small courtyard of the Bunker, poured himself a cup of coffee from a thermos, and took out a pack of Marlboro cigarettes. He says he wants to tell his story because the public doesn’t grasp the power hackers exert over modern elections or the specialized skills needed to stop … Read more
If you’re a NYC resident and find yourself excited about the city’s public Wi-Fi network known as LinkNYC, you may want to think again. As the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) notes: March 16, 2016 — The city’s new public Wi-Fi network LinkNYC raises several privacy concerns for users, the New York Civil Liberties Union announced … Read more
Our founding fathers studied power structures over the millennia and knew exactly what they were doing when solidifying the Bill of Rights into the U.S. Constitution. All it took was a couple hundred years, an extraordinarily ignorant and apathetic American public, and a major terror attack to roll back this multi-generational gift. For many years, I … Read more
Longtime Liberty Blitzkrieg readers will be aware that I’ve generally shied away from talking about financial markets over the past several years due to a recognition that I wasn’t getting the trends right. More recently, I’ve started writing about gold again since I believe a new and powerful bull market will be birthed in 2016. Of course, I’m … Read more
For several years now, I’ve periodically observed that China’s increasingly aggressive crackdown on dissent serves as a harbinger of far more difficult times ahead. The thinking goes that if anyone is privy to the severe fragility of the country’s economic situation, it would be Chinese leadership. As such, desperate moves by Chinese leadership should foretell drastically worse economic and social conditions. The scramble to crack down … Read more
The more I read about the very public fight between Apple and the FBI, the more I become convinced the case merely represents the Lexington and Concord moment in a massive new crypto war. The surveillance state panopticon is extremely concerned that strong end to end encryption is increasingly being used in everyday consumer devices and applications, … Read more
Some would argue that building a backdoor for just one iPhone is a simple, clean-cut solution. But it ignores both the basics of digital security and the significance of what the government is demanding in this case. In today’s digital world, the “key” to an encrypted system is a piece of information that unlocks the … Read more
The war on cash has been in the works for a very, very long time, but the propaganda campaign to convince an always gullible public to accept the scheme seems to have been hatched in earnest late last spring. For example, here are a few excerpts from the post, Martin Armstrong Reports on a Secret Meeting in … Read more