Tag Archives: False Sense Of Security

The ‘beneficial ownership’ proposition undermines tax reform

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“The Counter Terrorism and Illicit Finance Act would require corporations and limited liability companies with fewer than 20 employees to file a form with the Treasury Department at the time of formation, and update it annually, listing the names of all beneficial owners and individuals exercising control.  This proposal carries with it a criminal penalty of up to three years in prison. Given the substantial penalties, this will impose a massive regulatory tax on small businesses as they spend money on lawyers that should go toward workers’ pay.”

Read more: http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/371049-the-beneficial-ownership-proposition-undermines-tax-reform

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National I.D. By Any Other Name Still Stinks

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“The result, the report says, is a nationwide system in which ‘even a small-town sheriff in rural Georgia or Vermont could have access to a database of hundreds of millions of Americans’ images.’ Between that and E-Verify, that sheriff could easily tie a face to a Social Security account—a National I.D. measure that voters have vociferously opposed, and that was rejected when it was proposed in the 1970s.  This de facto National I.D. becomes even more expansive when combined with a number of new technologies that states are starting to roll out. Harper discusses the possible combinations of REAL ID and E-Verify with the facial and license plate recognition technologies many states are already using, either in experimental or full-fledged forms.”

Read more: https://reason.com/blog/2018/01/30/national-id-by-any-other-name-still-stin

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Boston Herald: Scandal-ridden FBI must be abolished

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“The G-men have degenerated into nothing more than a racketeering enterprise, a banana republic-style criminal conspiracy of vast proportions.”

Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/columnists/howie_carr/2018/01/carr_scandal_ridden_fbi_must_be_abolished

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Blowback: How ISIS Was Created by the U.S. Invasion of Iraq

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“In Iraq, the U.S. morphed from heroic liberators into brutal occupiers within a matter of weeks. In Fallujah, which would later become an ISIS stronghold, U.S. troops opened fire on a crowd of peaceful protesters in April 2003, killing and wounding dozens of Iraqis.  The shootings, the torture, the general chaos, all helped drive thousands of Iraqis from the minority Sunni community into the arms of radical groups led by brutal gangsters, such as Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Zarqawi’s Al Qaeda in Iraq, formed in 2004 to fight U.S. troops and their local allies, was a precursor organization to … ISIS.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/isis-iraq-war-islamic-state-blowback/

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Trump Nuke Plan Resets the Doomsday Clock

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“The 2018 NPR eschews traditional nuclear disarmament pathways in favor of a more aggressive posture that seeks to make nuclear weapons more accessible to American policymakers when formulating deterrence.  The possibility of a tit-for-tat exchange of cyberattacks that escalates into a nuclear conflict would previously have been dismissed out of hand; today, thanks to the 2018 NPR, it has entered the realm of the possible.”

Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/trump-nuke-plan-resets-the-doomsday-clock/

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Secret Cabinet documents leaked after locked cabinets sold in Australia

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“The Australian government on Wednesday launched an urgent investigation into the loss of thousands of classified documents that were sold with two second-hand filing cabinets and later obtained by a major news outlet.  The cabinets were sold by a Canberra furniture shop at a discount price because they were locked and no one could find keys, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported.”

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/secret-documents-found-locked-cabinets-sold-australia-n843201

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Fitness Tracker Apps Leak Sprawling U.S. Military Footprint in Africa

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“This has led to disclosures of the supposed locations of numerous low-profile U.S. military outposts, forward operating sites, and bases. It has raised fears about how such information might be linked to individual troops and imperil U.S. forces, while shining a light on the poor operational security habits of many U.S. military personnel based overseas.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/01/29/strava-heat-map-fitness-tracker-us-military-base/

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16 Years: The Shocking Cost and Waste of America’s Endless Wars

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“More than 73% of the world’s dictators are currently being sponsored through the military assistance provided by US taxpayers.”

Read more: http://russia-insider.com/en/15-trillion-16-years-shocking-cost-and-waste-americas-endless-wars/ri22340

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US Media Shops North Korea, Russia ‘Doomsday’ Nuke Narratives

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Not long after last year’s ‘Nuclear Posture Review’, in which top American officials insisted world peace depended upon a massive nuclear rearmament program, and after two major nuclear strike false alarms in Hawaii and Japan, US media is now instilling further panic with two new rumors: that of a long-range North Korean missile strike, and that of a Russian ‘doomsday’ nuclear torpedo attack on the US coastlines.

This could be surmised from the nuclear paradox.  It tells us that nuclear armament incentivizes the nuclear armament of existing geopolitical competitors, while at the same time incentivizing interventionism against non-nuclear states through increasing their perceived costs of resistance.

The beneficiaries in this seemingly zero-sum game?  Arms manufacturers, of course, but also US uranium producers, who in a complete coincidence are currently agitating for protection from foreign competition.

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California seeks bans on flamethrowers and flame retardants alike

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Following last year’s San Francisco ban on flame retardants in furniture, a California Democrat now aims to ban Elon Musk’s new and hugely popular flamethrower from the market.

Flame retardants banned for more than a decade continue to bioaccumulate in humans.

Induced perspiration is the best known method of excreting persistent environmental pollutants such as dioxins, PCBs, BPA, and flame retardants known as PBDEs.

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