“Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.”
Read more: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/10/09/how-the-elderly-lose-their-rights
“In what is shaping up to be a contentious battle over privacy rights and free speech, the Department of Justice has formally requested that web hosting firm ‘DreamHost’ turn over 1.3 million IP addresses and other information to ‘unmask‘ visitors to the anti-Trump Antifa website ‘disruptj20.org,’ as part of the investigation into crimes committed on and around January 20 by protesters. DreamHost has challenged the request, claiming the scope of data requested violates the first and fourth amendments because it is too broad.”
“The ugly irony is that when the Nazis rejected American law, it was often because they found it too harsh.”
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-whitman-hitler-american-race-laws-20170222-story.html
“While President Trump has praised Duterte’s approach to combating drug addiction — namely, encouraging vigilantes to extrajudicially murder drug users by the thousands — Tillerson suggested that this policy was not good, but also irrelevant to the question of whether the U.S. should intervene against ISIS on Duterte’s behalf.”
Read more: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/u-s-may-bomb-isis-in-the-philippines-report.html
“The war in Afghanistan has long been an out-of-sight, out-of-mind affair for the American public. To relegate Afghan lives to the mercy of an even less visible force will be to write them off altogether.”
Read more: https://www.truthdig.com/articles/dont-privatize-afghan-war-just-end/
“Critics were quick to call for a nationwide conversation when President Trump first ordered an accelerated rollout of the $1 billion face search technology in his travel ban, and have been growing louder now that the trial program is expanding.”
Read more: http://www.thedailybeast.com/airlines-are-giving-your-face-to-the-government
“Teenagers have been threatened by officials and other lawn services to show their city issued license before cutting a person’s lawn for extra summer cash. Cutting grass is often one of the first jobs many have in the summer. But a business license in Gardendale costs $110. And for a job, just for a couple of months, that can be a bit extreme.”
Read more: http://abc3340.com/news/local/business-license-required-for-teens-to-cut-grass
“Iowa makes it a crime for doctors to open up a new location and offer services without obtaining special permission known as a ‘certificate of need.’ Permission is not easy to come by: Dr. Birchansky must persuade state officials that his outpatient surgery center is ‘needed’ in the proposed location through a cumbersome process that resembles full-blown litigation and that allows existing businesses (his competitors) to oppose his application. This process amounts to nothing more than certificates of monopoly.”
“A farmer faces trial in federal court this summer and a $2.8 million fine for failing to get a permit to plow his field and plant wheat in Tehama County.”
Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/24/farmer-plowing-fine/339756001/
