Edward Snowden has called the recent renewal of FISA 702, “the biggest encroachment on your privacy rights since the Patriot Act.” In the middle of the night, in secret, the US Senate voted to renew FISA Section 702 as a part of a broader bill called the Reforming Intelligence and …
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FinCEN’s Proposal of Special Measure Regarding Convertible Virtual Currency Mixing, as a Class of Transactions of Primary Money Laundering Concern would criminalize Bitcoin privacy tools under the suspicion of money laundering. The proposal cites Section 311 of the USA PATRIOT Act, which enables the bulk collection of data by intelligence …
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EXCLUSIVE: In her first statement following the conclusion of her court case over the collapse of the sci-fi pic A Patriot, Eva Green has criticized the press for its misreporting during the trial and said she was “forced to stand up to a small group of men” who tried to use …
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Ashok Sharma has devoted his life to championing the deeds of an Indian “patriot”: not revered independence hero Mahatma Gandhi, however the man who shot him useless. Sharma is the custodian of a temple devoted to Nathuram Godse, who on January 30, 1948, gunned down a determine celebrated the world …
Read More »The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022 continues, with casualties rising on both sides. Ukrainian forces are mounting a strong counteroffensive against Russian troops, reclaiming territory lost when Moscow launched its invasion. Ukraine has managed to withstand the Russian onslaught with the help of Western military aid, …
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The complex systems will become a high-priority target for Russia, as the West ups the ante on supplies This month, the Ukrainian military is set to start training to use the US-built Patriot missile system. Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia, has said the process will …
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Comment on this story Comment The Pentagon is planning to bring Ukrainian troops into the United States for training on the Patriot missile defense system, a U.S. official with direct knowledge of the development said Tuesday, signaling the Biden administration’s latest test of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threshold for Western …
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in February 2022 continues, with casualties rising on both sides. Ukrainian forces are mounting a strong counteroffensive against Russian troops, reclaiming territory lost when Moscow launched its invasion. Ukraine has managed to withstand the Russian onslaught with the help of Western military aid, …
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That reply seemingly hinges largely on what new weapons the U.S. and its European allies log out on sending to Kyiv within the coming months, present and former officers say. “What I believe the U.S. and others are wrestling with now’s: What does a profitable endgame appear to be?” mentioned …
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