How many other TSA assaults, gropings and other indignities never make the news, because they’ve become routine in the police state known as the American airport?
Wouldn’t many security systems be better than the TSA monopoly?
Continue reading: Should TSA suffer the death penalty for its crimes?
“The Obama administration is working on a series of agreements with foreign governments that would allow them for the first time to serve U.S. technology companies with warrants for email searches and wiretaps—a move that is already stirring debates over privacy, security, crime and terrorism.”
Continue reading: U.S. to Allow Foreigners to Serve Warrants on U.S. Internet Firms
“Recalls of cars with the faulty Japanese airbags affect one in eight vehicles nationwide, a report from Kelley Blue Book found. The recall thus far has affected some 32 million vehicles from dozens of car brands, including major players Toyota, Honda, Nissan, General Motors, Mitsubishi and Ford, the report found. Yet very few people in the U.S. are aware their vehicle could be involved in the recall…”
Continue reading: Recall of dangerous Takata air bags affects 1 in 8 vehicles, report says
‘The NSA is not making any friends these days, and their latest statement on privacy-centric journalists is not helping matters much either. To be more precise, an investigation by the agency revealed how they are continuing to target the Tor network. Moreover, The Linux Journal is referred to as an “extremist forum”. Quite a strong sentiment, and possibly completely misguided as well.’
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Continue reading: NSA Labels Privacy-Centric Internet Users As Extremists
“Not only do Medicaid and Medicare provide inadequate care, but they have also set up perverse incentives which further diminish quality of care and increase costs for all patients…”
“So while the US government dithers and then makes the problem worse, here are six ways apps are helping low-income Americans stay healthy…”
Continue reading: Apps Are Doing What Government Can’t to Help Low-Income Americans Stay Healthy
See also: 10 apps increasing health care access for low-income patients
‘I’m going to suggest a solution that will sound radical, even in a country that styles itself “the land of free.” Let’s get cops off the streets, unless responding to a 911 call or serving a warrant issued by a judge. Everyone would be freer and safer, including the police officers themselves…’
‘This is by no means an anti-cop argument. The problem isn’t how they do their jobs; it’s the job we ask them to do. A free society shouldn’t be asking armed agents of the state to patrol the streets, keeping its citizens under 24/7 surveillance…’
Continue Reading: A Practical Solution: Run Police Departments Like Fire Departments
“Dallas police sent in a drone (with wheels rather than wings) to blow up the suspect in yesterday’s tragic shooting. This is the first time a drone was used against Americans on US soil. He was a suspect and had not been convicted. Will this now become standard practice for our ever-more militarized police? Is it a slippery slope?”
Continue reading: Legal Experts Raise Alarm over Shocking Use of ‘Killer Robot’ in Dallas
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Last week, when a new mother went into labor, she decided to cut some costs and precious time by hailing an Uber ride to the hospital, rather than an ambulance…
Continue reading: Mom in Labor Calls Uber Instead of Ambulance. Why…?
‘Ex-product manager says social media giant is run like a cult by “sociopaths in hoodies” …. A former Facebook insider has lifted the lid on the social networking giant, revealing that the company operates more like a cult and has amassed so much power that it could decide the 2016 presidential election.’
Continue reading: Former Insider: “Facebook Could Throw an Election….It’s Scary”
“It’s a simple bot that helps with court appeals — but could it replace the need for human lawyers?”
“Since launching in late 2015, it has successfully appealed $3 million worth of tickets.”
Continue reading: A 19-year-old made a free robot lawyer that has appealed $3 million in parking tickets
“In a shocking plea deal, an Alabama state trooper accused of raping a woman who called for help after a car accident gets only 6 months in the slammer… permitted to serve his sentence “in increments at his own discretion.”
Continue reading: State Trooper Gets Just 6 Months For Raping Car Accident Victim
A deranged man who began firing into a crowd of people at a nightclub was stopped by a heroic, armed citizen, who was a lawful concealed carrier.
“As Thompson was firing at the crowd of people, one of his would-be victims, with a concealed carry permit, was able to return fire, striking Thompson in the leg and ending the mass shooting in progress…”
Continue reading ► Media Silent as Concealed Carrier Stops Mass Shooting in Progress at a South Carolina Nightclub