So much for privacy... Larry Harmon, CEO of the Bitcoin wallet app, Dropbit, has been arrested and is currently in Youngstown Ohio federal jail. Charged with: - Conspiracy to launder money instruments - Operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. He faces up...
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Court Orders FBI to Expunge Website Records Under Privacy Act
The Reporters Committee For Freedom of the Press on Antiwar.com's latest victory against the evil FBI: In late November, a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California directed the Federal Bureau of Investigation to expunge certain records...
bitcoin is Dead: Part 5
Click here for Part 4 For the audio version, check out my podcast A Boy Named Pseu where you can download it on all podcast platforms. (read starts at 8:54) Read full piece here. If bitcoin is dead, then so is its volatility Bitcoin’s volatility further demonstrates...
Government Intrusion Laid Bare
In Utah, a woman is being charged with three counts of lewdness involving a child and may have to register as a sex offender for the next decade because her stepsons walked in on her while she was topless. Is it the responsibility of government to ensure a moral...
Surveillance: You’d Better Chose Wisely
I’ve often joked that George Orwell’s novel 1984 was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual. And yet every day the U.S. marches closer and closer to making Orwell’s dystopian nightmare a reality. Nobody wants this. So, why is it happening? Because way too...
News Roundup 6/17/19
US News MailChimp blocks anti-vax activists. [Link] San Francisco requires stores to accept cash. [Link] An ATF employee stole and sold thousands of guns that were meant to be destroyed. [Link] NASA says returning to the moon will cost $20 to $30 billion. [Link] The...
5/3/19 David Swanson on the Decline in Military Recruitment
David Swanson joins the show to talk about the decline in military recruitment, which the secretary of the navy recently tried to explain away by falsely claiming that thousands of high schools have started denying access to recruiters, something they are legally...
Privacy Rights and Regulations
I value my privacy. It is nearly always on my mind as I interact online, but also as I live in the so-called real world. In the evening, I pull the shades down. I just don't like having people watch me, whether I am reading a book, enjoying a television show, or...
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