Feds ran a money-laundering operation for over a year in $20M darknet sweep

“The core of the operation was an online money-laundering business seized by agents from Homeland Security Investigations and operated as a sting for over a year. By offering cash for bitcoin, HSI agents were able to identify specific drug dealers, ultimately tracing more than $20 million in drug-linked cryptocurrency transactions.”

Read more: https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/27/17509444/dark-web-drug-market-money-laundering-hsi-dark-gold

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A Ghost Army of Workers Is Paid to Do Nothing in the Gulf

“Government is the employer of first resort — even when it has nothing much for its employees to do. That’s part of a tacit agreement between ruling families and citizens.”

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-20/workers-paid-to-do-nothing-a-ghost-army-that-haunts-gulf-rulers

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Revenge Of The Colonies: The IRS Crashes The Royal Wedding

“Since Prince Harry is now part of the household of a U.S. taxpayer, his financial affairs — and those of the entire royal family — are now reportable to the IRS.”

Read more: https://banyanhill.com/royal-family-tax/

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Government Police Are the Latest Persecuted “Victim” Group

“The proposed legislation would offer hate crime protections to police officers, making police officers an even more protected class.”

Read more: https://mises.org/wire/government-police-are-latest-persecuted-victim-group

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The Bill To Let The President Imprison U.S. Citizens in Military Detention Forever

“Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president.”

Read more: https://theintercept.com/2018/05/01/ndaa-2018-aumf-detention/

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One family’s TWO YEAR nightmare of having their child taken by the state

“How free are you really, when all that’s required for the state to take your children away from you is a judge with an ax to grind?”

Read more: https://www.sovereignman.com/trends/one-familys-two-year-nightmare-of-having-their-child-taken-by-the-state-23416/

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The Undemocratic Spread of Big Brother

“All over the United States, law-enforcement agencies quietly adopt technology that would spark intense debate if they first asked permission. They treat the public they are meant to serve as if its views don’t matter.”

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/the-undemocratic-spread-of-big-brother/560999/

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No, Trump, More Executions Won’t Win the Drug War

“Keep in mind, Trump adamantly supported the legalization of drugs, long before he made a serious run at the presidency.”

Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-evidence-is-in-the-death-penalty-wont-win-the-drug-war/

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China banned the letter N after people used it to attack president’s plan to rule forever

“The Chinese Communist Party on Sunday proposed to abolish the two-term term limit for the president and vice-president, sparking an online backlash which it has been trying to control.  Critics flooded Weibo and WeChat — China’s version of Twitter and WhatsApp — to protest the plan, but were swiftly met by the country’s censors.  Various Chinese characters for terms like ’emigrate,’ ‘lifelong,’ and ‘I disagree’ were banned, alongside … the letter N.”

Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/china-banned-letter-n-internet-114000473.html

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Top U.S. railroad official resigns after ‘consulting’ income surfaces

“Heath Hall left his position with the Federal Railroad Administration after reports surfaced that he also was working as a public-relations consultant for the Madison County, Miss., sheriff’s office.”

Read more: https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2018/02/10/Top-US-railroad-official-resigns-after-moonlighting-reports-surface/1051518310334/

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