“Travel is not an inherently suspicious activity. It’s the exercise of a Constitutional and human right, and cannot in itself be the basis for warrant checks.”
Read more: https://papersplease.org/wp/2017/04/27/is-the-tsa-checking-domestic-airline-passengers-for-warrants/
“Because the NSA collects data on numbers that are ‘two hops’ away from a targeted phone, records would be collected from any number that called or was called by the target number, and then every number each of those numbers interacted with. As a result, collection expands exponentially as additional targets are added.”
“FBI Director James Comey has put to rest any hope of achieving privacy in the United States. Speaking at a cybersecurity conference at Boston College on Wednesday, Comey said that ‘there is no such thing as absolute privacy in America.’ He added that everything Americans engage in, including conversations with members of the clergy and their attorneys, live within ‘judicial reach.’ ‘In appropriate circumstances, a judge can compel any one of us to testify in court about those very private communications,’ Comey said, according to CNN, which obtained a video of his remarks.”
Read more: http://fortune.com/2017/03/09/fbi-james-comey-privacy/
“Employers are even offered the option to purchase lifetime subscriptions to the program for the cost of $13 per person. The decision to participate in Rap Back is at employers’ discretion. Employees have no choice in the matter. There are no laws preventing the FBI from using the data it collects for other purposes, said Jeramie Scott, an attorney with the Electronic Privacy Information Center. A massive trove of digital fingerprints collected by the FBI, he noted, could be used to open up devices like smart phones without the owner’s consent. In addition, Scott pointed out that the FBI often collects a photo of Rap Back participants’ faces.”
“Even if the IRS survives a nuclear war, I have a feeling that their employees who are sent out to collect taxes wouldn’t live for very long.”
“The Treasury disclosed that it is studying the possibility of ultra-long bonds, with maturities greater than 30 years, currently the bond with the longest maturity. It also said it is preparing for the time when the Fed begins to reduce its giant $4.5 trillion balance sheet — by buying fewer Treasurys and mortgage securities, and perhaps ultimately even unloading the ones it holds.”
“In January [Foss] stepped down as chairman of Credit Acceptance Corp., the company he started in 1972 that pioneered extending auto loans to customers with rock-bottom credit scores or none at all. A month after he left, he sold a big chunk of his Credit Acceptance shares for $128 million. The company didn’t say why Foss sold his shares and declined to comment. Foss didn’t respond to requests for comment.”
“Like all bubbles before it, this one will end in disaster. And that crisis could arrive much sooner than people think.”
Read more: https://www.caseyresearch.com/articles/canadas-banking-system-is-crashing-before-our-eyes
“Prosecutors in Pueblo, Colorado are dropping felony drug and weapon-possession charges after an officer involved in the case said he faked body cam footage so he could walk ‘the courts through’ the vehicle search that led to the arrest. The actual footage of the search that he produced in court was a reenactment of the search, the officer told prosecutors.”