"A seemingly unsupervised CBP agent improperly attempted to force Twitter to produce records on a particular user without a court order — completely disregarding whether the summons was legal."
"The story of their success is about thriving after surviving a brutal war that left them with nearly nothing."
"In an industry where power and influence are measured in dollars and cents, this may be the most exclusive club in finance: The price of admission is at least $25 million."
"False flag operations succeed because many people reflexively jump to accept official narratives. Conveniently timed attacks that give pretexts for war, however, are not always what they seem."
"Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm has decided that the two cops responsible for this horrifying incident will not be charged."
"In the end, it wasn’t stakeouts or fingerprints or cell phone records that got him. It was a genealogy website."
"Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris put half of his $5.7 billion net worth into gold. Sawiris has built a name by investing in the telecom sector in Egypt and in less popular markets including Iraq, Pakistan, North Korea and Bangladesh."
"Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor Gideon Gono says he was forced to print money even when he knew it would cause hyperinflation because the government was desperate to forestall a coup by hungry soldiers."
"What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater."
"Fear and loathing of sex offenders lead to results that would be recognized as unjust and illogical in any other context."