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https://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/4630-gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar

The NSA needs that data, yo.

Already in the works. https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1003908/venezuela-petro-cryptocurrency-latest-venezuela-economic-crisis-maduro

... And I would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for you meddling kids! -Maduro lulz

Thanks for sharing... have to spread rep... yadda yadda

So I went searching to see if the ACLU had published anything regarding these scanners and I couldn't find anything on their website, but I did find some news reports about New York City planning to implement terahertz scanners on the streets of NYC circa 2012/2013 and the New York chapter of the ACLU sent statements to some media outlets "raising privacy concerns" and "having questions". But, I did not see any follow up reports anywhere. No idea if the scanners were ever implemented or if the NYC ACLU ever issued any definitive statements after such rollout. Example: https://mashable.com/2013/01/24/nypd-radiation-scanners-identify-guns/

Pretty interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terahertz_nondestructive_evaluation

That's not particularly important IMO as the greatest threat to tampering with votes, imo, is by someone in the chain of custody. We need a system that is completely and transparently auditable to ensure no shenanigans can go unnoticed. Supposedly, the tech already exists in Current machines, but it's not being used. http://blackboxvoting.org/ballot-images/

"Petrodollar"

Not sure what the point of the RT story is. "Election office websites" have nothing to do with voting, vote aggregation or reporting of voting results to the County or Secretary of State. CNET story is almost exclusively about hacking a voting machine that is no longer being used. Doesn't really offer any insight into vulnerabilities in existing systems.

Sometimes bad people do good things.

I've seen a few media reports on this. None of them mention whether or not the letter was "secret" or vetted through appropriate/required protocols for diplomatic communications. I assume that since Sen. Paul told the world about it, it's not a secret, but the optics on this look really bad at the moment.

Don't get mad at me. From the Intercept article: So, in actuality, the math I presented above is actually way too generous. That fund isn't going to be giving free money to every Puerto Rican resident. Most of it is going to large business, banks and pension funds. Still, must be nice getting that free money. I thought govco might have learned a lesson about bailouts after the Tea Party backlash from the TARP era. Guess not.

$15 billion relief fund ÷ 3.337 million Puerto Ricans = $4,495 per resident. I look forward to the IRS giving me a nearly $5k debt forgiveness too.

I'm not as well regulated as I'd like to be. Need to hit the range again.