“Police, with the help of the Trump Justice Department, are doing an end run around the state law requiring that money seized by state law enforcement agencies goes solely to the state’s schools.”
Read more: https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2018/may/23/missouri_cops_diverting_school_funds
“The Defense Department is funding a project that officials say could revolutionize the way companies, federal agencies and the military itself verify that people are who they say they are and it could be available in most commercial smartphones within two years.”
“Haverbeck has been prosecuted numerous times for her unorthodox beliefs, including that notorious concentration camp Auschwitz was a labor camp that had no gas chambers.”
Read more: https://www.rt.com/news/426064-haverbeck-nazi-grandma-prison-germany/
“A man in Sweden faces up to two years in prison over a Facebook post in which he said Somalis typically have low IQs, despite technically being correct.”
“What constitutes material that is abusive or offensive is highly subjective. Under Hancock’s plans, that judgement, for the most part, will be left in the hands of the big social-media companies.”
Read more: http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/internet-safety-just-means-internet-censorship/
“A handful of websites, including those of major news providers, went down in the EU. While it’s unclear how vigorously regulators will enforce the rules, the shutdowns show that many would rather go dark than take the risk.”
Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/25/17393894/gdpr-news-websites-down-europe
“The Norwegian and British reports come approximately one week after U.S. Federal Reserve governor Lael Brainard expressed her opposition to the suggestion of central bank-issued cryptocurrencies.”
Read more: https://news.bitcoin.com/norway-and-england-contemplate-central-bank-issued-cryptocurrencies/
“The Harare High Court has lifted a ban by the central bank which barred all banks and financial institutions from offering services to cryptocurrency exchanges. The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) failed to appear for court proceedings.”
Read more: https://www.ccn.com/breaking-zimbabwe-court-lifts-central-banks-banking-ban-on-bitcoin-exchanges/
“We are enabling an alternative physical communication layer for bitcoin. The result will be a more resilient, censorship-resistant and decentralized network.”
Read more: https://inthemesh.com/archive/txtenna-decentralizing-last-mile-bitcoin/
“Nearly every nation welcomes, encourages, and even battles for the import of barrels of oil. Yet every nation obstructs the ‘import’ of labor — the in-migration of human beings.”
Read more: https://liberty-intl.org/2018/05/open-borders-trade-migration-entrepreneurship-and-prosperity/