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[EpochTimes] When you open a bank account, do you surrender all rights to your privacy and personal data?
Today, the answer is yes. The Bank Secrecy Act of 1970 (BSA) and subsequent amendments mandated that your bank must inform the federal government about any customer’s transactions that they consider suspicious, however broadly defined that may be, in the form of Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs).
How often do banks think their customers are doing something suspicious? According to the U.S. Treasury Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, there were approximately 20 million bank reports of suspicious activity in 2019.
An August report by the Cato Institute titled “Government Surveillance Doesn’t Stop at Your Bank’s Door” states that this reporting requirement doesn’t just apply to banks but also to currency exchanges, payments companies, broker-dealers, casinos, pawnbrokers, travel agencies, and car dealerships.
All of this would seem to be illegal under the U.S. Constitution; the Fourth Amendment, for example, prohibits “unreasonable search and seizure” by our government and establishes the requirement for the government to obtain a warrant and show “probable cause” of a crime. But according to Jennifer Schulp, co-author of the Cato report, one reason that government surveillance-by-proxy has been allowed by U.S. courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, is something called the “Third Party Doctrine.”
Schulp told The Epoch Times that the Third Party Doctrine is a legal principle that “essentially removed the expectation of privacy that an individual has from information that they share with a third party, including their banks. So under current Fourth Amendment jurisprudence, the information that you give to your bank is no longer private.”
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[NEWAGEBD] Two elderly people were trampled to death and another person was injured in an attack by a herd of wild elephants at Lama upazila in Bandarban on Friday morning.
The dear departed were Amir Ali, 70, and Khodeza Bibi, 65, of Sohrabpara of Aziznagar union of the upazila, and the injured was Bayati, 60, of the same area.
Md Jasim Uddin, chairman of the union parishad, said that a herd of wild elephants coming from a nearby jungle entered Sohrabpara area at about 8:00am.
Spider senses tingling at the proximity of the elephants, locals started running helter-skelter and the trio was trampled by them, leaving the woman deader than Tut and two others critically injured, he said.
The injured were rushed to Chakaria Upazila Health Complex in Cox’s Bazar, where Amir Ali departed this vale of tears on arrival, the chairman said, adding that Bayati was shifted to Cox’s Bazar General Hospital for better treatment as his condition was critical.
Anamul Haque Bhuiyan, in-charge of the Aziznagar police outpost, said that the wild elephants also vandalised establishments of the locals.
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I would credit this as a prophetic repudiation of Pelosi, but I think that was hammered home last Friday. Maybe heavy is reiterating.
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[MAIL] Russian police have detained a man suspected of starting a fire at a bar that killed at least 15 people after he reportedly fired a 'flare gun' on the dance floor.
The man was detained after the fire broke out at the 'Polygon' bar in Kostroma in the early hours of Saturday morning.
Police said at least 15 people were killed, and others injured.
The man reportedly arrested was a 23-year-old married man named Stanislav Ionkin. He was detained on suspicion of starting the fire when he fired the flare gun into the ceiling of the night club.
Other reports described a fight inside the club which turned into a 'mass brawl'.
Fire fighters fought through the early hours to put out the blaze at the bar around 300 kilometres (180 miles) northeast of Moscow.
A video from Mash media showed military serviceman Stanislav Ionkin being detained by police over the night club fire.
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I have been to two Russian nightclubs. Once in Moscow and the other in Volgograd. The Moscow one ended in a stabbing and cops cleared out the people, who were by the way still trying to dance. The Volgograd one ended in a giant free-for-all that it took a lot of ducking and weaving to get out of without a scratch.
[Antiwar.com] The US has inserted itself in a maritime dispute between China and its neighbors in the region by Dave DeCamp
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has called on other claimants to the South China Sea to "jointly resist" US pressure in the region, The South China Morning Post reported on Thursday.
China, Taiwan, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, and Malaysia all have overlapping claims to the South China Sea. The US has inserted itself into the maritime dispute and formally rejected most of Beijing’s claims in 2020, which has been reaffirmed by the Biden administration.
The US rejected China’s claims under the framework of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), an international treaty that defines the rights of nations to territorial waters. While using UNCLOS to reject Beijing’s claims, the US is not a party to the treaty as it has never been ratified by the Senate.
"Some countries not only refuse to accede to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea but also concoct the Indo-Pacific strategy to compile exclusive small circles, engage in close provocations at sea, show off forces, endanger the peace and tranquillity of the sea. This should be jointly resisted," Wang said, referring to the US.
The Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific Strategy was released earlier this year, and the document calls for a greater US presence in the region to counter China with a focus on building alliances and boosting partnerships. Wang has previously said that such an effort could lead to a Ukraine-style "tragedy."
Another aspect of the US involvement in the South China Sea dispute is US naval operations in the disputed waters. Since the Obama administration, the US has sailed warships close to Chinese-controlled islands in the waters, raising tensions with Beijing.
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And Viet Nam should bring its claim to the Paracel Islands to the UN. The islands were illegally occupied by China during the war in Viet Nam. Old maps deposited in the governing center of Hue provided proof of Vietnamese use and occupation of the Islands for hundreds of years.
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It looks as if the bubble that Xi lives in is every bit as narrow and self-contained as the one Biden lives in.
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Imagine if a foreign country objected to the US projecting power into the Gulf of Mexico.
Would we appeal to Mexico and Central America to "jointly resist" such a distant foreign nation? What would we say when said this country from the other side of the planet sailed nuclear armed naval vessels around just off our coast? How would that make us feel?
If the answer is "weird and we would make them fuck off because our shores are none of their business" then congratulations, you're a shill for Xi Jinping. How much are they paying you to think that?
[GEOTV] North Korea ...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche... fired around 80 artillery rounds into a maritime border zone overnight, South Korea said on Friday, as defence ministers from Seoul and Washington vowed to demonstrate determination in the face of a barrage of missile tests by the North.
North Korea fired multiple missiles into the sea on Thursday, including a possible failed intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), prompting the United States and South Korea to extend air drills that have angered Pyongyang.
Beginning shortly before midnight on Thursday, South Korea's military said it had detected more than 80 artillery rounds fired into the sea by North Korea, in what it says is a violation of a 2018 inter-Korean agreement.
The South issued a warning communication to the North over the firing, the South Korean Ministry of Defence said in a statement.
Meeting in Washington, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin and South Korean Defence Minister Lee Jong-sup pledged to seek new measures to demonstrate the alliance's "determination and capabilities" following repeated North Korean provocations, according to a joint statement between the two countries.
Tensions have been rising as North Korea has conducted a record number of missile launches this year, including at least 23 on Wednesday alone and the ICBM launch on Thursday. South Korea and the United States also say that North Korea has completed technical preparation to test a nuclear device at any time, in what would be its first nuclear test since 2017.
[MAIL] The sole volunteer in a trial to test an experimental and controversial gene-editing therapy has died from unknown causes.
Terry Horgan, from Montour Falls, New York, was enrolled in the study in late August with the hope of treating Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD).
The 27-year-old was one of the first Americans to be treated with CRISPR - which works by editing genes by precisely cutting DNA and letting the natural repair process take over.
His rare genetic muscle-wasting disease is caused by a mutation in the gene needed to produce a protein called dystrophin.
As of now, the exact cause of Horgan's death last month remains unclear.
But his death is raising questions about the overall prospect of gene-editing therapies, which have buoyed hopes among many families facing rare and incurable diseases.
At this point, it's unclear whether Horgan received the treatment and whether CRISPR, other aspects of the study or the disease itself contributed to his death.
Deaths are not unheard of in clinical trials, which test experimental treatments and sometimes involve very sick people.
But trials involving CRISPR are relatively new. And Fyodor Urnov, a CRISPR expert at the Innovative Genomics Institute at University of California, Berkeley, said any death during a gene therapy trial is an opportunity for the field to have a reckoning.
'Step one is to grieve for the passing of a brave human soul who agreed to be basically a participant in an experiment on a human being,' Urnov said. 'But then, to the extent that we can, we must learn as much as we can to carve out a path forward.'
[NEWAGEBD] Myanmar’s military has begun taking delivery of a batch of Russian-made combat jets, a monitoring group said on Friday, the latest hardware shipped from Moscow as rights campaigners accuse the junta of hitting civilians with air strikes.
In 2018 under the civilian government of Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s military purchased six Sukhoi Su-30s from Russia, according to Russian state media reports.
Satellite data, reports from flight spotters and a closed source have ’now confidently confirmed’ the presence of at least one of the jets in the military-built capital Naypyidaw ...generally translated as royal capital, seat of the king or abode of kings because the general in charge had a massive ego. It was founded in 2002 because Rangoon was worn out. Traditionally, Naypyidaw was used as a suffix to the names of royal capitals, such as Mandalay, which was called Yadanabon Naypyidaw in Burmese... , said Myanmar Witness, a monitoring group.
It did not say whether the jet was in training or flown on active missions.
Local media have previously reported between four and six of the multi-role twin-seat fighters had arrived in the country, accompanied by Russian trainers and technicians.
The military has not commented on the sale or how many of the jets are in Myanmar.
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Rock bottom prices. Top dollar for trade-ins.
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Myanmar, huh? Wonder what the maintenance program will look like.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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Two elderly people were trampled to death and another person was injured in an attack by a herd of wild elephants at Lama upazila in Bandarban on Friday morning.
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...hereditary Communist monarchy distinguished by its truculence and periodic acts of violence. Distinguishing features include Songun (Army First) policy, which involves feeding the army before anyone but the Dear Leadership, and Juche, which is Kim Jong Il's personal interpretation of Marxism-Leninism, which he told everybody was brilliant. In 1950 the industrialized North invaded agrarian South Korea. Twenty-one countries of the United Nations eventually contributed to the UN force opposing the invasion, with the United States providing around 90% of the military personnel. Seventy years later the economic results are in and it doesn't look good for Juche...
