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China’s new anti-terror law copies West, with decryption on demand

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“Reuters quotes Li Shouwei, deputy head of the parliament’s criminal law division under the legislative affairs committee, as saying: ‘This rule accords with the actual work need of fighting terrorism and is basically the same as what other major countries in the world do.’  China’s pointed reference to what ‘other major countries in the world do’ underlines another reason why the current attacks on encryption by government officials in the West arenot just wrong, but extremely counterproductive. After all, the US and EU nations can’t criticise or challenge other countries for introducing intrusive surveillance laws that are almost indistinguishable from their own.”

http://arstechnica.co.uk/tech-policy/2015/12/chinas-new-anti-terror-law-copies-uk-no-backdoors-but-decryption-on-demand/

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FBI Director Blames Citizens with Cameras for Increase in Homicides

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“Claimed FBI Director James B. Comey, police are now afraid to do their jobs for fear of becoming the next viral sensation.  Comey made his remarks Friday to hundreds of students at the University of Chicago Law School, claiming that he had reached this consensus after speaking with several police chiefs who were too afraid to go on the record.  The agency that oversees the largest surveillance program in the United States, telling us that if we have nothing to hide, we should have nothing to fear, [opposes] citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to record police.”

https://photographyisnotacrime.com/2015/10/fbi-director-blames-citizens-with-cameras-for-increase-in-homicides/

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Kerry Calls for Democracy as US Flag Is Raised in Cuba

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“Jubilant crowds waved American flags and chanted “Long live the United States!” as the Stars and Stripes rose over the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba on Friday after a half-century of often-hostile relations. Secretary of State John Kerry celebrated the day but also made an extraordinary, nationally broadcast call for democratic change on the island.  Kerry and Rodriguez said their nations would continue to disagree over issues such as democracy and human rights. But they also said they hoped to make progress on issues ranging from maritime security and public health to the billions of dollars in dueling claims over confiscation of U.S. property and the U.S. economic embargo on the island.”

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/top-us-diplomat-flies-cuba-policy-victory-lap-33076435?singlePage=true

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Greece’s New Finance Minister: Bitcoin ‘Highly Problematic Currency’

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“The Finance Minister of Greece’s new radical left-wing government, while at the center of anti-austerity financial policy, is in no way optimistic about Bitcoin, it has emerged.  In an article on his website blog from April 2013, Yanis Varoufakis discusses the ‘impossibility’ of a decentralized currency being controlled ‘apolitically,’ and describes this as a ‘dangerous fantasy.’  He stated: ‘[T]here can be no de-politicized currency capable of ‘powering’ an advanced, industrial society.’  Varoufakis has inherited Europe’s worst-performing economy, and will seek to end the austerity measures put in place by the previous Greek government following the 2008 financial crisis.”

http://cointelegraph.com/news/113380/greeces-new-finance-minister-bitcoin-highly-problematic-currency

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For Terrorist Fearmongers, It’s Always the Scariest Time Ever

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“Here we are 14 years after 9/11, and it’s still always the worst threat ever in all of history, never been greater. If we always face the greatest threat ever, then one of two things is true: 1) fearmongers serially exaggerate the threat for self-interested reasons, or 2) they’re telling the truth — the threat is always getting more severe, year after year — which might mean we should evaluate the wisdom of ‘terrorism’ policies that constantly make the problem worse. Whatever else is true, the people who should have the least credibility on the planet are the Lindsey Grahams and Dianne Feinsteins who have spent the last 15 years exploiting the terror threat in order to terrorize the American population.”

https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/02/fear-mongers-always-scariest-time-ever/

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‘Free-Range’ Kids and the Kidnapping Nanny State

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“Bureaucrats employed by Montgomery County, Maryland, one of the wealthiest counties in the country, targeted the Meitiv family because the parents of the two children allowed them to walk home on their own from a park that is about a mile – approximately 5,000 steps – from their home.  That ended a month later in a Child Protective Services finding of ‘unsubstantiated neglect,’ which left a permanent black mark on the family’s official record.  On April 12, Montgomery County struck again – this time with police nabbing the children as they walked home from the park at 6.pm. and holding the two for almost six hours with no dinner and no communication as to why they were taken off the streets.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36249/Free-Range-Kids-and-the-Kidnapping-Nanny-State/

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Police Deserve No Sympathy Until the Blue Line Breaks

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“TIME invited several top police officials to weigh in on the ‘lesson’ in the recent incident in South Carolina in which a police officer, who has since been charged with murder and is facing life in prison, shot an unarmed, 50-year-old man who was running away from him. All made the politically correct comments, but they still do not understand the problem. Consider Chief Flynn’s statement. his officers are ‘depressed’ because they’re ‘judged by the worst example.’ This is exactly how many citizens feel. Police officers routinely judge us ‘with the worst possible presumptions’ but then demand benefit of the doubt for their own actions.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/news-analysis/36238/Police-Deserve-No-Sympathy-Until-the-Blue-Line-Breaks/

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Obama wants China to stop copying the NSA’s surveillance plans

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“President Obama has criticized a Chinese plan to force US tech companies to install backdoors into their products for sale in the country. Without stopping for a moment to consider the phrase about glass houses and stones, he told Reuters that China would have to change its stance if it wanted to do business with the US.  The move comes as part of China’s new anti-terrorism law, which would require firms to keep data about their users inside China, hand over encryption keys and delete terrorism-related content. Worse than that, it would force companies like Google, Microsoft and Apple to poke holes in their software so that local surveillance agencies could spy on their citizens.”

http://www.engadget.com/2015/03/03/obama-china-backdoor/

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Ron Paul: House Chooses New Cold War With Russia

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“Last week the US House voted overwhelmingly in favor of an anti-Russia resolution so full of war propaganda that it rivals the rhetoric from the chilliest era of the Cold War. Ironically, much of the bill condemns Russia for doing exactly what the US government has been doing for years in Syria and Ukraine!  For example, one of the reasons to condemn Russia in the resolution is the claim that Russia is imposing economic sanctions on Ukraine. But how many rounds of sanctions has the US government imposed on Russia for much of the past year? I guess sanctions are only bad when used by countries Washington doesn’t like.”

http://www.thedailybell.com/editorials/35895/Ron-Paul-House-Chooses-New-Cold-War-With-Russia/

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Feds say Bitcoin miner maker Butterfly Labs ran “systematic deception”

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“BFL’s offices in Leawood, Kansas (just outside Kansas City) were ‘raided’ by the United States Marshals Service (USMS) last Friday.  Helen Wong, an FTC attorney, told Ars that all three principals had been served with the lawsuit and that no arrests were made. The USMS, she said, was present to ‘keep the peace.’ For the past year, BFL insisted that mere manufacturing delays were to blame for the company’s woes. However, suspicion of active fraud never died down—and only worsened after it came to light that Butterfly Labs’ largest shareholder, Sonny Vleisides, had violated the terms of his probation from a previous lottery scam case.”

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/feds-label-bitcoin-miner-maker-butterfly-labs-as-systematic-deception/

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