Liberty Links 07/22/17

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Must Reads

Facial Recognition Surveillance is Here — But Privacy Protections Are Not (Huge issue not getting the attention it deserves, The Hill)

Our Relationship with Saudi Arabia Is an Embarrassment (Excellent, National Review)

Pentagon Study Declares American Empire is ‘Collapsing’ (Nafeez Ahmed, Medium)

The Massacre of Mosul: More Than 40,000 Civilians Feared Dead (Good thing the U.S. brought Iraq all that freedom, The Independent)

Why These Professors Are Warning Against Promoting the Work of Straight, White Men (Madness, The Washington Post)

J Street, a Reliable Foe OF BDS, Urges Congress to Oppose Israel Anti-Boycott Act for Now (You know it’s bad when lobbyists have to stop Congress from torching the First Amendment, The Intercept)

Murder Of Green Berets In Jordan Exposed Secretive CIA Syria Program Details (This article is nuts, Zerohedge)

A Whistleblower Plays By the Rules at CIA, and Finds ‘Nothing Gets Done’ (McClatchy DC)

U.S. Politics

DHS Goes Biometric, Says Travelers Can Opt Out Of Face Scans By Not Traveling (More on this huge issue people aren’t paying attention to, TechDirt)

Facial Recognition Coming to Police Body Cameras (Creepy, Defense One)

CIA Director Mike Pompeo Full Interview Aspen Security Forum (This guy is incredibly shady, YouTube)

Exclusive – Rand Paul: Is Senate Obamacare Better than Doing Nothing? (At least Rand doesn’t talk like a typical politician, Breitbart)

Manafort Was Millions in Debt to Pro-Russia Interests (The Hill)

CIA Plans to Destroy Some of Its Old Leak Files (The Daily Beast)

Al Gore Calls For Single-Payer Health Care (Huffington Post)

Russian Who Attended Trump Jr. Meeting: ‘I Just Have a Talent for Media’ (The Hill)

Linda Sarsour Says Jake Tapper Is A White Nationalist (What an idiotic comment, The Daily Caller)

Christie Abused After Catching Foul Ball at Mets Game (He’s probably the only person who could lose to Hillary Clinton in an election, NJ.com)

Geopolitics/WW3

Trump’s Air War Has Already Killed More Than 2,000 Civilians (The Daily Beast)

Donald Trump Urged to Intervene in Case of Saudi Student Facing Execution for Protesting the Kingdom’s Rulers (The Independent)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

FTC Probing Allegations of Amazon’s Deceptive Discounting (Reuters)

Senator Cory Booker Thinks the U.S. Government Should Keep an Eye on the Size of Amazon, Google and Other Tech Giants (Recode)

Purchases Of US Real Estate By Foreigners Hit All-Time High In 2016 (Zerohedge)

Diversifying the portfolio of the Tezos Foundation (Tezos buying stocks and bonds? No thank you, Tezos.ch)

Feds Shut Down AlphaBay; Sessions Warns Criminals “You Cannot Hide” On Dark Web (Zerohedge)

Crypto ₿its: Bitcoin Celebrates, $30mm ETH Hacked, Irresponsible ICOs & John McAfee’s... (Crypto newsletter published by a friend, Medium)

I Bought My First Bitcoin (Mainstream Wall Street guys starting to get in, The Reformed Broker)

Miscellaneous

Australia is Pushing for Insane Encryption Regulations (The Sydney Morning Herald)

The World in 2076: The Population Bomb Has Imploded (New Scientist)

Why Security Experts Are Pissed That ‘1Password’ Is Pushing Users to the Cloud (Motherboard)

Britain Cracking Down on Gender Stereotypes in Ads (The New York Times)

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