Liberty Links 8/12/17

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Must Reads

Why I Was Fired by Google (James Demore op-ed in The Wall Street Journal)

A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack (Massively important story, The Nation)

From College Indoctrination to Corporate Intolerance (The James Martin Center for Academic Renewal)

Things Are Bad, and David Frum Makes Them Worse (Exceptionally well written, The Outline)

Conspiracies Pushed by Atlantic’s Editor Excluded From Atlantic’s Denunciation of Conspiracy Theories (FAIR)

If Pence Shapes Trump’s Infrastructure Plan, Who Would Profit? Who Would Pay? (Public-private partnerships are a scam, International Business Times)

Rebels of Google: ‘Constant Abuse, Sneers, Insults And Smears … Sometimes You Get Punched’ (This is nuts, Breitbart)

The Google Memo: Four Scientists Respond (Quillette)

U.S. Politics

James Damore and his Google Memo on Diversity (Jordan B. Peterson interview, YouTube)

Google Firing Employee Over Diversity Discussion Is Frighteningly Authoritarian (The Federalist)

Read YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki’s Response to the Controversial Google Anti-Diversity Memo (Almost entirely devoid of logic, Fortune)

Centrist Democrats Begin Pushing Back Against Bernie Sanders, Liberal Wing (The Washington Post)

Democrats Fear Russia Probe Blowback (Only took them 9 months to figure out, Politico)

Judge Denies Psychologists’ Effort to Stop Lawsuit Filed by ACLU on Behalf of CIA Torture Victims (ACLU)

Jamie Dimon Says He’s a ‘Patriot’ First, CEO Second (If you need a good laugh, The New York Post)

Deputy Attorney General Walks Back Attorney General’s Threat To Journalists (TechDirt)

Utah Mayor Suffers “Shocking Experience” After Going Undercover As Homeless Man (Pretty wild, Deseret News)

Clintons Attend Same Wedding as Trump Daughter (Of course, The Hill)

Geopolitics/WW3

US Preparing For Airstrikes Against ISIS In The Philippines (Which country isn’t the USA bombing, Zerohedge)

The Creepiest EU Initiative Yet: Registering Dissent As “Russian Propaganda” Under Soros’ Direction (Zerohedge)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Dalio’s Quest to Outlive Himself (Bridgewater is basically a cult where you make a lot of money, Bloomberg)

Take the Generic, Patients Are Told. Until They Are Not. (The entire economy is a racket, The New York Times)

Putin’s Aide Seeks $100 Million to Rival China in Bitcoin Mining (Bloomberg)

At Manhattan Rooftop Bash, Dreams of Bitcoin Riches (The Wall Street Journal)

UK Police Want to Change the Law to Make Bitcoin Seizures Easier (Of course they do, Coindesk)

Bill de Blasio Will Push for Tax on Wealthy to Fix Subway (The New York Times)

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