“Australia’s Liberal Party government says it’s ‘encouraging the transition to a digital society,’ and cracking down on tax evasion.”
Read more: https://gizmodo.com/australia-bans-cash-for-all-purchases-over-7-500-start-1825946888
“Sweeping language catches up not just scary looking AR-15’s, but also encompasses common target shooting rifles that are particularly ill-suited to the commission of any gun crimes.”
Read more: http://reason.com/blog/2018/05/01/insanely-broad-definition-of-assault-wea
“Banks and credit card companies are now considering a more permanent move that would transform them into foot soldiers in the deep state’s push to create a register of all gun owners.”
“Having failed to disarm criminals with gun controls that they defy, British politicians are now turning their attention to implementing something new and different: knife control.”
Read more: https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/24/londoners-embrace-knife-control
“After four decades of frustration for detectives, it turned out the suspect had been living under their noses all along.”
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43899483
“Interviews with more than two dozen customers who had their money stolen through Zelle illustrate the weaknesses that criminals are using in targeting the network.”
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/business/zelle-banks-fraud.html
“FDA has shockingly defined ‘skim milk’ as having artificial vitamin additives that are not naturally found in skim milk. Business owners who insist on selling additive-free skim milk as ‘skim milk’ face fines and even possible incarceration.”
Read more: http://ij.org/case/fda-skim-milk/
“Cell-phone tracking technology known as cell-site simulators (CSS) are being operated by potentially malicious actors in our nation’s capital. DHS doesn’t know who’s operating them or why, or whether these fake cell towers are installed elsewhere in the country.”
Read more: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/dhs-confirms-presence-cell-site-simulators-us-capitol
“As Woodrow Wilson and LBJ knew well, the rush of power felt when America engages in a foreign crusade is effortlessly converted to a domestic crusade.”
Read more: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/you-cant-blame-trump-for-the-welfare-warfare-state/
“The origins of the present-day surveillance state can be traced back to the U.S. government’s military occupation of the Philippines in the late 1890s.”
Read more: http://thefederalist.com/2018/03/30/u-s-foreign-intervention-created-domestic-surveillance-state/