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The push toward digital currency is being framed as innovation and efficiency, but when you strip away the marketing language, what is unfolding is a structural transformation of the financial system that shifts control away from individuals and concentrates it within governments and central banks. The Bank for International Settlements has confirmed that more than 90% of central banks are now actively researching, developing, or piloting central bank digital currencies, which is not coincidence or experimentation but a coordinated global direction. This aligns directly with what I have been warning, that when governments face a sovereign debt crisis they will turn to mechanisms that…
This week, several House Republicans reignited a yearslong debate over a law that federally mandates cars to have impaired driving technology, raising concerns about the expanding surveillance state. The controversy over “kill switch” technology began in 2021, when Congress passed the HALT Drunk Driving Act as part of the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law. The provision requires that “advanced drunk and impaired driving prevention technology”—which the bill defined as a system that can “passively monitor the performance of a driver of a motor vehicle to accurately identify whether that driver may be impaired” and “prevent or limit motor vehicle operation if…
Some images from https://www.instagram.com/cwyonkers/ and https://www.instagram.com/distill_social/ In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. By October Krausch This article was originally published by Truthout Migrants at the GEO Group-run facility demand their right to due process, edible food, and an end to sleep deprivation. Hundreds of immigrant men at North Lake Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, began a hunger strike on April 20…
“Gene doping represents a threat to the integrity of sport,” asserts the World Anti-Doping Agency, which prohibits athletes from “the non-therapeutic use of genes, genetic elements and/or cells that have the capacity to enhance athletic performance.” The agency also bans gene editing. Even if genetic enhancements remain unjustifiably prohibited to elite human athletes, should a ban on gene doping also apply to animals that compete in sports? The International Equestrian Federation says yes. “The use on, or administration or application to, any Horse of Gene Editing or Genome Editing is prohibited at all times.” The Argentine Polo Association (APA) agrees: It has imposed a ban on the world’s first…
In one of the scariest moments in modern history, we’re doing our best at ScheerPost to pierce the fog of lies that conceal it but we need some help to pay our writers and staff. Please consider a tax-deductible donation. The new $2.9 million contract with Penlink PLX allows Trump’s Homeland Security Task Force to intercept, aggregate, and analyze calls, texts, and web activity to track people’s movements Maurizio Guerrero for Prism Despite serious concerns raised by dozens of federal legislators about the potential misuse of location technologies to violate rights, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has awarded…
Banks are scouring porn platforms in order to flag objectionable words and scenes. Payment processors are deciding what constitutes misinformation about war. And a credit union could decide whether your donation to a cannabis advocacy group can go through. We’re now deep into the era of suppressing speech through financial institutions. You are reading Sex & Tech, from Elizabeth Nolan Brown. Get more of Elizabeth’s sex, tech, bodily autonomy, law, and online culture coverage. Rainey Reitman got an early introduction to this phenomenon while working to help free whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The campaign she was working on was run through…
Ministry of Defence satellite data analysed by Declassified UK indicate Britain had a more active role in Iran war than ministers admit, Abdullah Farooq and John McEvoy report. The U.K. government has played a quiet intelligence role in the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, satellite data analysed by Declassified suggests. Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) sent its first earth imaging satellite, named Tyche, into space in August 2024. The satellite can obtain images with a 90cm resolution within a 5-kilometer imaging swath, enabling the identification of military targets with high resolution. “The washing machine-sized spacecraft will have sufficient resolution to…
The Colorado House of Representatives recently passed House Bill 26-1263, which would impose new rules on AI chatbots. The law would require chatbots to clearly tell users that they are talking to artificial intelligence, not a real person. It would also force companies to set up safety steps if a user talks about suicide or self-harm, and it would ban chatbots from providing mental or physical health advice. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Sean Camacho (D–Denver), said the bill fills a gap in state law because AI systems do not have the same legal duty to protect users that people do. Source…
Last November, a divided panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a Department of Energy energy efficiency standard for natural gas-powered consumer furnaces and commercial water heaters that effectively banned non-condensing units from the market. The panel decision might have been defensible (and understandable) in a Chevron world, but it (as Judge Rao’s dissent demonstrated) it was hard to reconcile with the approach to statutory interpretation dictated by Loper Bright Enterprises. At the time, I wondered why the Trump Administration had allowed this case to go to judgment. It could have asked the D.C. Circuit to…
Just when sensible people might conclude that American or European members of Ukraine’s sycophantic fan club cannot become even more detached from reality, a prominent member of the club proves the opposite. This time, it is conservative pundit David French, who wins the prize in his April 26 New York Times column, “Meet the New Leader of the Free World.” That leader is Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. French contends: “A remarkable thing has happened on the world’s battlefields. Ukraine — a nation that was supposed to dissolve within days of a Russian invasion — has fought Russia to a stalemate,…