Defendant accused of stealing federal funds while deployed to Afghanistan is prevented from selling his home, which was not purchased with stolen funds, in case prosecutors want to forfeit it later—if and when they get a conviction. Fourth Circuit (en banc): “No other circuit allows the pretrial seizure of untainted assets, and we were wrong to have allowed it up until now.” …
As I commented when the hack first happened, there is no incentive for Equifax to care about you in this situation. You aren’t their customer. I am no fan of government control, but this seems to be a case where they should be involved. Not to control the marketplace but to establish rules for tort law so that you can hold the Equifaxes of the world accountable.
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The United States has used the barrel of a gun and the bombs of a drone as its foreign policy since the end of the cold war. We constantly hear that we want to solve the North Korea “crisis” but only threaten military action. It’s important to note that we have NEVER had diplomatic relations with North Korea. NEVER.
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For those whose experience with war consists of WWII movies or modern computer games, the notion of totally destroying a country may sound exciting. A country however is not merely some picture on a map. In the case of North Korea, it’s 25 million people. Old folks, parents and kids. …
Drone diplomacy since the end of the Cold War has cast the United States into the role of a big bully. We somehow want to negotiate for what is in our best interests, but won’t recognize that other countries want to do the same thing. What used to be called a “win-win”. Now it’s “do it our way or we’ll implement regime change.”
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We pay a lot of money to fund the CIA and the other alphabet agencies. I believe that over the years, they aren’t about protecting the US directly. They seem to be a tool of the deep state to achieve world control.
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This article is more “information” than “knowledge”. Freedom lovers need to know what is all out there and what their goals/values are. Although the article is written for business, it lists the biggest platforms out there.…
Andrew "Bunnie" Huang and Edward Snowden have designed a hardware device that attaches to an iPhone and monitors it for malicious surveillance activities, even in instances where the phone's operating system has been compromised. They call it an Introspection Engine, and their use model is a journalist who is concerned about government surveillance. This looks like fantastic work, and they have a working prototype. Of course, this does nothing to stop all the legitimate surveillance that happens over a cell phone: location tracking, records of who you talk to, and so on.
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Lots of us complain about Facebook and how they run their company. I can understand why some folks still use it, but I hate the complaints that you “have” to use it. Vote with your wallet. If they don’t support your values, don’t fund them. Use something else.…
They say that Google’s search engine has about 40% of the world market. That’s the good news for those of us who dislike Google’s business habits. It’s not 100% and there are lots of options. Vote with your wallets!…
