“He survived about 15,000 days of isolation – a form of captivity that the United Nations has denounced as torture and that scientific studies have shown is capable of inflicting severe psychological damage on individuals in less than a week.”
“McKinney said he doesn’t hold any grudges about the years he was in jail. God, he said, took all of the anger out of his heart.”
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/23/us/lawrence-mckinney-exoneration-trnd/index.html
“TSA said it had no indication the woman was in distress during the security check.”
“That drug-sniffing dogs must die in the absence of prohibition will not become a real problem unless government chooses to make it so.”
“The 20th century and beyond would have looked very different had America welcomed rather than scorned immigrants.”
Read more: https://libertarianinstitute.org/tgif-anti-semitic-law-israel/
“This system poses a very real threat to First Amendment-protected activities. Further, DHS has a well-documented history of poor data management, and face recognition has a high rate of misidentifications.”
“Footage from those flying cameras will be automatically analyzed by AI systems not disclosed to the public.”
Read more: https://qz.com/1299947/this-is-the-week-that-the-drone-surveillance-state-became-real/
“The company is launching ‘Legal-Ade,’ a team of people who will help lemonade stands deal with permit issues. If a child gets fined for running a lemonade stand, Legal-Ade will reimburse the cost of the fine or permit up to $300.”
“‘We are not going to do any violence to the traditional definition of a security that has worked for a long time,’ U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton told CNBC Wednesday.”
“This toxic mix – rising interest rates and record high consumer debt in relationship to disposable income – has now started to bite the most vulnerable consumers once again. And for them, debt service is getting very difficult.”
Read more: https://wolfstreet.com/2018/05/22/where-the-debt-slaves-are-the-most-vulnerable/