There were suspicious large stock trade and futures contracts in advance of statements by the conman that caused changes in stock prices.

This is a natural kind of crime for a conman.

The right-wing UK government has proposed a law that would treat national security journalists and their sources as spies.

This is the sort of policy under which Obama has prosecuted many whistleblowers, and which his administration planned all along to apply to Julian Assange.

*[Senator] Schumer Revealed as Key Industry Ally in Defeat of Effort to Curb Surprise Billing.*

Stated less tersely, Senator Schumer, a plutcoratist Democrat, privately pushed hard to protect hospitals' right to charge you thousands of dollars that your medical plan won't cover, if any one the separate billable treatments or services you received when you were unconscious in the emergency room was provided by someone outside of the plan's network.

US data brokers sell location tracking data for cell phones, with the phone numbers. Even in places such as the Pentagon.

If foreign countries or criminal gangs can track the movements of officials and military officers, it might conceivably be useful for planning a small attack of some sort. I doubt it would make much difference for a major attack.

However, if the US government can track the movements of dissidents, whistleblowers, and journalists, that can devastate our democracy.

Both are dangerous to Americans, but the latter is much more dangerous.

(satire) *Chinese government officials defended their move toward mass surveillance Thursday by explaining that life was a grand performance, a ballet of sorts, that they were privileged to bear witness to.*

If a tree falls in the forest where there is no surveillance camera, did it really fall?