Liberty Links 10/2/16

Opinion/Must Reads

Gary Johnson: Take a Deep Breath, Voters. There Is a Third Way. (Op-ed by Gary Johnson, New York Times)

Geopolitics/Foreign Affairs

U.S. to Send More Troops to Iraq Ahead of Mosul Battle (We’re never getting out of Iraq, Reuters)

Pakistan ‘Completely Rejects’ Indian Claim of Cross-Border Strikes (Reuters)

Erdogan Signals Preference for Longer Turkey Emergency Rule (Of course he does, Bloomberg)

EU Launches Program to Issue Cash Cards to Migrants in Turkey (Reuters)

The Woman Who Could Break Spain’s Political Deadlock (Reuters)

Congress Votes to Override Obama Veto on 9/11 Victims Bill (New York Times)

Election 2016 

Chelsea Clinton: Didn’t Know Mom Had Pneumonia (Interesting to say the least, The Hill)

Bill Maher: Colin Kaepernick ‘An Idiot’ (Because he criticized Hillary, The Hill)

Clinton Set the Trap and Trump Walked In (Trump is falling for the bait left and right, Sad!, Politico)

NYPD Spokesman Pushes Back on Trump’s Stop-and-Frisk Claim (Stop and frisk is a losing issue, but Trump can’t help himself, The Hill)

Wall Street Bank Whose Donors Back Clinton Say Election Will Likely Preserve Status Quo, But Could Bring Recession (International Business Times)

Democrats Target Libertarian Ticket (And the media is helping them, The Hill)

Sanders Discourages Third-Party Votes: ‘Not the Time For a Protest Vote’ (Doesn’t he run as a third party candidate? The Hill)

Bill Weld: Clinton Camp ‘Planted’ Idea I’d Leave Libertarian Ticket (The Hill)

The Media Freak-Out (Politico)

Farewell USA Today! I Hardly Knew Ye (Sharyl Attkisson)

The FBI Investigation of EmailGate Was a Sham (The Observer)

U.N News Agency Scrubs Tweet Calling on Americans Abroad to ‘End Trump’ (Politico)

Finance/Economy

Summers Floats Idea of Sustained Government Stock Purchases (This man is the human ebola virus, Bloomberg)

Child-Care Costs Exceed In-State Tuitions in U.S. (Tragic, Denver Post)

Watchdog Says Treasury Shortchanged in Affordable Care Program (Wall Street Journal)

Global Debt Climbs Towards Fresh High as Companies and Countries Keep on Borrowing (The Telegraph)

WTO Cuts 2016 World Trade Growth Forecast to 1.7 Percent (Reuters)

U.S. Bond Market’s Biggest Buyers Are Selling Like Never Before (Bloomberg)

Saudi Stocks Drop Most in World After Kingdom Cuts Pay, Bonuses (Bloomberg)

Pinching Pennies in the Hedge-Fund Capital of America (Bloomberg)

Miscellaneous

Mayors Say State Told Them to Keep Zika Mosquito Sites Secret (Very disturbing, Miami Herald)

Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester (Just imagine how common this is, ACLU)

Across US, Police Officers Abuse Confidential Databases (AP)

Princeton Students Push back on Speech Ban (MarketWatch)

Switzerland Votes For Meatier Surveillance Law by Large Margin (ArsTechnica)

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Michael Krieger

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