The US Senate is considering a bill to prohibit "concealed ownership" of a bitcoin wallet. Or any other digital currency.

It would be only one small further step to prohibit concealed ownership of dollar bills.

It's not just thugs that operate imitation cell towers to snoop on the public. Some of them may be operated by foreign spies.

The latter may be more shocking but I think the former is more dangerous.

As poverty in the US increases, many Americans who can't afford any home are now living in cars.

Often they work for Amazon, because Amazon pays so little. This is one of many reasons not to buy anything from Amazon.

Senate Republicans have passed a version of the tax attacks bill, which also allows oil drilling in ANWR and cuts off funds for treatment of non-rich people that get cancer.

The House and Senate versions are different, so to finish devastating millions of Americans' lives, the Republicans in the two houses need to agree.

This provides a small chance of derailing them.

Many NIH-supported cancer centers now promote quackery including homeopathy under the name "integrative medicine."

The promoters have rebranded exercise and diet as "integrative medicine", so they can prove that not all "integrative medicine" is bogus, and they pretend that that lends credibility to the other things that they label the same way.