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Electronic device searches

vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 02:00

The court ruling about searching electronic devices at the border applies only to thorough "forensic" search, not to a manual search. This is a step forward, but incomplete.

Meanwhile, the article does not mention anything that would in practice restrain agents from doing a search without a reasonable suspicion, or from fabricating a suspicion on the spot.

Monitoring calls

vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 02:00

Service Meant to Monitor Inmates’ Calls Could Track You, Too. Officials can in practice use this to track anyone that carries a portable tracking and surveillance device.

Shot with hands up

vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 02:00

Sharif Cousins was shot by a UK thug as he had his hands up. Fortunately he did not die from this. He had been a gang member, years ago, and the thugs never stopped harassing him about it.

I am puzzled by the idea that he was "allegedly" unarmed. If the thugs had found a gun, they would have said so. Since they didn't report one, we know he was unarmed.

Drug prices

vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 02:00

The cheater proposes to reduce drug prices in the US by pressuring other countries to allow pharma companies to gouge people more.

This is based on the fictitious principal of conservation of greed, which claims that a company desires only a certain amount of income, so if it makes more profit over there, it will be happy with less profit over here.

Democratic Party support

vendredi 18 mai 2018 à 02:00

Ralph Nader: The Democratic Party is losing support because its policies are too right-wing.

It takes a real reversal of dooH niboR to inspire enthusiasm among the non-rich non-Republicans.