“Police might be tracking a lot more than we even know on our phones, often without the warrants that are usually needed for comparable methods of invasive surveillance.”
Read more: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/06/03/cyrus-farivar-book-excerpt-stingray-218588
“The mob scene generated by the bureaucracy creates a major security problem in itself with respect to possible lunatic bombers.”
Read more: https://www.cato.org/blog/tsa-still-awful-after-17-years
“The federal government took 13 years of his life savings. But first they strip-searched Kazazi and interrogated the 64-year-old, covered with a towel, without a translator.”
“One side claims the Deep State is a figment of our imagination. Another thinks of Trump as a fearless crusader against it. Both sides are missing something very important.”
Read more: https://tomwoods.com/ep-1170-trump-and-the-deep-state-is-everyone-getting-it-wrong/
“Trump is not fighting the US deep state by advancing longtime US deep state agendas, and anyone who thinks that he is has had some very bad luck with thinking.”
“No matter who sits on the throne, the office of the president of the United States has, for all intents and purposes, become a unilateral power unto itself.”
“In addition to flouting the rules-based trading system the United States itself established, the Trump administration makes no distinction between foes and allies.”
Read more: https://fee.org/articles/the-us-starts-a-trade-war-with-its-allies/
“Even if Trump gets his wish, an import ban is highly unlikely to have the effect he’s looking for. Both BMW and Mercedes-Benz maintain large US manufacturing presences.”
Read more: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2018/05/trump-wants-a-total-ban-on-german-luxury-car-imports/
“Several hedge funds have become newspaper barons in recent years. Alden Global now owns about 60 daily newspapers. Private-equity firm Fortress owns almost 150.”
“We are experiencing what the State Department and intelligence agencies had in mind when the domestic propaganda ban was overturned but these few short years ago.”