I’m sure you’ve always wondered why pretty much every retailer unnecessarily asks you for your email address at checkout. For years, I’ve always declined and will definitely continue to do so, particularly after reading the following. From GeekWire: Another day, another reminder that companies don’t really have to abide by promises to not share your personal information. They … Read more
23 links today. Enjoy. What I Saw Last Friday in Hebron (One of the most uplifting articles I’ve read all year, Haaretz) Writing as Resistance (Extremely touching, extremely important read, Chris Hedges, TruthDig) Apple and Facebook Helped Bust the World’s Biggest Torrent Site (Why is “Homeland Security” focusing on copyright violations? Engadget) Lobbyists Bolting Trump … 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
Below are links to some of the more interesting and important reads I came across today, but will not be publishing on in detail. Mozilla Co-Founder Unveils “Brave,” a Browser that Blocks Ads by Default (ArsTechnica) A New 9th Planet for he Solar System? (Looks like Planet X may be real, Science Magazine) DEA and TSA Agents Team Up to Steal … Read more
Last week, the British Prime Minister told Parliament that he wants to “ensure that terrorists do not have a safe space in which to communicate.” Strong encryption refers to the act of scrambling data in such a way that it cannot be understood by anyone without the correct key or password — even law enforcement with a … Read more
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has allowed its employees to stay on the job despite internal investigations that found they had distributed drugs, lied to the authorities or committed other serious misconduct, newly disclosed records show. Lawmakers expressed dismay this year that the drug agency had not fired agents who investigators found attended “sex parties” with prostitutes paid with … Read more
So say you’re employed as a Federal Air Marshal by the TSA, and you’re on assignment in Europe busy hunting down all those “bad guys.” What do you do in your spare time? Perhaps catch a movie. Maybe throw back a couple of cold ones with colleagues. And, oh yeah, film sex scenes with prostitutes … Read more
What’s the deal with government employees thinking they have the liberty to sexually molest the citizens they are supposed to be working for? It was barely over a week ago that I published the following post: TSA Agent Arrested for Sexually Molesting South Korean Woman at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport. Here’s an excerpt: A TSA screener is … Read more
Don’t mess with Texas. Particularly not with Texas cops, who according to Hunt County sheriff Randy Meeks, get their authority from God. Yes, Mr. Meeks was outraged at critics who pointed to a videotaped beating of a pregnant woman by one of his deputies. Like Goldman Sachs, his work is God’s work, or so he claims. … Read more
In the lawsuit, joined by the Children’s Law Center, the ACLU accuses the sheriff’s department and Sumner of violating both federal and state laws that prohibit the forceful restraint of children unless the pupil is presenting an imminent and real threat to their own or someone else’s safety. The suit alleges that by being shackled … Read more