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NPR: Lawmakers, Banking Regulators Take On Bitcoin

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“CORNISH: How significant is New York’s move to launch an investigation, to issue these subpoenas?  BRITO: So it’s interesting, people hear the word subpoena and they think something bad, right? But all the word subpoena means is that it is a request for information, right? And you’re compelled to, you know, produce, you know, you’re asked questions and you have to answer them. And I think that’s very good. [..] So when I see New York issuing these subpoenas, being very transparent about the fact that they’re going to be looking at this and asking for input, you know, I think that’s very good.”

http://www.npr.org/2013/08/13/211735430/lawmakers-banking-regulators-take-on-bitcoin

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Worried About Obamacare? The Government’s “Federal Data Hub” Is Here to Help

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“The federal government has conveniently used your tax money to hire ‘patient navigators’ to help you understand… and enroll you in the program.  These otherwise unassuming civil servants will help you learn about the act, navigate its complexities, and select the benefits that fit your criteria.  They will also have access to your personal information. All of it.  The hub will ‘bring together information about you and your family from the Treasury Department and IRS, the Department of Homeland Security [and] the Department of Justice.’  Navigators will have access to your Social Security number and tax returns.”

http://dailyreckoning.com/worried-about-obamacare-the-governments-federal-data-hub-is-here-to-help/

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Congress starts looking into Bitcoin

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“The Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee on Monday sent letters to several agencies requesting that they disclose their virtual currency policies, how they developed them, how agencies are coordinating and finally what they plan to do going forward. Committee Chairman Tom Carper (D-Del.) and ranking member Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) sent letters Monday, which ask for information on a range of virtual currencies while naming Bitcoin as an example, to the Homeland Security Department, Justice Department, Federal Reserve, Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, CFTC, and OMB.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/08/congress-starts-looking-into-bitcoin-95464.html

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How to Use Public Health to Control Everything

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“The early focus on a holistic public led to the movement of ‘racial hygiene’ which appeared in 19th century Germany. A historian of public health, Dorothy Porter, explains that the movement considered ‘the health, not only of individuals, but of the race as a whole.’ The trend was also called ‘social hygiene,’ and spread to other countries. It reached its zenith under the Nazis. In his fascinating book, The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert Proctor mentions some Nazi slogans: ‘You have the duty to be healthy,’ ‘Food is not a private matter,’ ‘Your body belongs to the nation.'”

http://lfb.org/today/how-to-use-public-health-to-control-everything

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Federal judge: Bitcoin, “a currency,” can be regulated under American law

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“In the case of a Texas man accused of massive Bitcoin-based fraud, a federal judge has ruled that bitcoins are ‘a currency or form of money,’ and are therefore subject to relevant US laws. The case revolves around Bitcoin Savings and Trust (BTCST), a virtual Bitcoin-based hedge fund that many suspected of being a scam. BTCST shut down in August 2012, and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last month formally charged founder Trendon Shavers with running a Ponzi scheme.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/federal-judge-bitcoin-a-currency-can-be-regulated-under-american-law/

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Creepy: The State of California Pokes My Cell Phone

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“Some cellphones received only a text message, others buzzed and beeped. Some people got more than one alert.  It’s the Wireless Emergency Alert program, a cellphone version of the Emergency Alert System on your television.  Cellphone owners receive messages automatically, based on their proximity to the emergency, not based on their phone number.  ‘If you’re from Texas and that’s where your phone number is based and you’re traveling in California at the time of the Amber Alert, you’ll receive the text message about the Amber Alert in California on your Texas-based phone,’ said CHP spokeswoman Fran Clader.”

http://www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2013/08/creepy-state-of-california-pokes-my.html

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Feds Visited Michael Hastings’ House Day Before His Death: Close Friend

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“Rolling Stone journalist Michael Hastings, who was killed in a suspicious car crash after complaining that he was being harassed by the FBI, had his home visited by agents from an unnamed federal agency the day before his death, a close friend of Hastings told Infowars.  The fact that feds visited the home of the controversial journalist almost immediately prior to his untimely death is yet another facet to a story which has thrown up numerous questions about the circumstances surrounding the car crash that killed Hastings in the Hancock Park neighborhood of Los Angeles on June 18.”

http://www.infowars.com/feds-visited-michael-hastings-house-day-before-his-death/

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8 Cities Where 911 Systems Recently Failed

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“A watchdog agency has launched an official investigation into the system, which cost $88 million and has only been operational since May. In July, the New York Post reported that the system had crashed at least nine times in a single week. It’s also drawn blame for leaving a crash victim unaided on a highway for almost two hours, and marooning a paramedic with a dead body. Made by a company called Intergraph Government Solutions—whose board is well stocked with former security officials from the George W. Bush administration—the software will soon be coming to Boston, which plans to spend $15 million on its contract.”

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/07/911-dispatch-emergency-system-fail-breakdown

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California governor Jerry Brown intervenes to delay threatened BART strike

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“Brown’s letter said he took the action ‘because the strike will significantly disrupt public transportation services and will endanger the public’s health, safety, and welfare.’  San Francisco area residents had been bracing for a strike even as 11th-hour talks continued, with some sleeping at friends’ and relatives’ homes to be closer to jobs and making alternative travel arrangements.  The unions gave a 72-hour notice on Thursday night of a possible strike by 2,400 workers on a rail system that carries 400,000 passengers a day and serves as a critical link in the San Francisco area’s transportation system.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/05/california-governor-jerry-brown-intervenes-to-delay-threatened-bart-strike/

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Bitcoin activists propose hard fork to keep it anonymous and regulation-free

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“The authors are particularly concerned about the Bitcoin Payment Messages system scheduled for release along with version 0.9 of the cryptocurrency. That mechanism would allow merchants to request payment from customers, rather than simply providing them with an address to send payments to. Payments would be completed using digital certificates owned by the merchants, and would contain customer and merchant metadata linked to specific transactions.  [The paper] worries that Bitcoin Payment Messages will make it possible – and therefore mandatory – to issue receipts, playing further into the hands of the regulators.”

http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-activists-suggest-hard-fork-to-bitcoin-to-keep-it-anonymous-and-regulation-free/

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