Liberty Links 08/05/17

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Must Reads

Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation? (The Atlantic)

Seymour Hersh Discussing Wikileaks, DNC Leaks, Seth Rich & FBI Report (YouTube)

Wells Fargo May Have Forced 570,000 Customers Into Unneeded Auto Insurance (No one will go to jail, CNN Money)

Rand Paul: Civil Asset Forfeiture Turns the American Justice System on Its Head (Very good article by Rand, Rare)

Forbes Says Self-Reliant Homesteaders Are “Delusional” And “Mooching” Off “Civil Society” (The Organic Prepper)

Reefer Madness ORIGINAL TRAILER – 1936 (This is where Sessions gets his cannabis policy from, YouTube)

Hacked Emails Show UAE Building Close Relationship with D.C. Think Tanks That Push Its Agenda (The think thank “industry” is a total racket, The Intercept)

Inequality and Skin in the Game (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Medium)

U.S. Politics

The Quest to Prove Collusion is Crumbling (Uh oh, The Washington Post)

Donald Trump Is Pressed to Send More Troops to Afghanistan (All options being considered are terrible, The Wall Street Journal)

McMaster Goes to War—Against His White House Enemies (The Daily Beast)

Watchdog Group Asks Congress to Probe Rep. Wasserman Schultz Over Fired IT Aide (This whole thing is so shady, The Washington Post)

Why Leftists Don’t Trust Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Deval Patrick (The Week)

Michael Moore: Trump Still Has Support Because Dems Offer No Alternatives (The Hill)

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin Allegedly Lied Under Oath. Will the Justice Department Investigate? (Of course not, The Intercept)

Marijuana Fight Puts Congress on Collision Course with Sessions (The Cannabist)

It’s Been Exactly 80 Years Since the US Declared War on Weed — and Weed Is Still Winning (The Anti-Media)

Will Colorado’s Health Insurance Industry Run One Of Its Own For Governor? (International Business Times)

Geopolitics/WW3

The Next Escalation: Pentagon Offers To Arm Ukraine, McCain Delighted (Total madness, Zerohedge)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Late Credit-Card Payments Stoke Fears for Banks (The Wall Street Journal)

Foxconn Deal Lets Company Ignore Wisconsin Environmental Protection Laws (International Business Times)

How Can America Afford A Universal Basic Income? Simple: “Tax The Robots” (Zerohedge)

Keiser Report: Mergers & Monopolies (Good watch as usual, YouTube)

‘London Whale’ Has a New Target: J.P. Morgan’s Top Brass (The Wall Street Journal)

What the Great Bitcoin Split Means for Investors (Financial Post)

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2 thoughts on “Liberty Links 08/05/17”

  1. I like this link to the YesMen when it comes to the Democratic Party. Moore is disingenuous. Finding good people to run is easy! Dems don’t like good people for a reason–they won’t play nice with their donors and they don’t want them anywhere near the party!

    https://youtu.be/c3wEc9uxKZI

    (found on naked capitalism)

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