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Top Links of the Week
Joe Rogan Experience #1006 – Jordan Peterson & Bret Weinstein (All three hours are outstanding, YouTube)
Equifax is Proving Why Forced Arbitration Clauses Ought to Be Banned, Just Like the CFPB Wants to Do (The Intercept)
Three Equifax Managers Sold Stock Before Cyber Hack Revealed (Bloomberg)
Alleged Equifax Hackers Demand $2.6 Million Bitcoin Ransom — Or Else… (Mashable)
This Pro-Hillary Website Looks Like North Korean Agitprop (Politico)
European Junk Rally Pushes Yields Below U.S. Treasuries (This financial system is terminal, Bloomberg)
My Friends at Google: It Is Time to Return to Not Being Evil (More evidence Google is abusing it’s power, Vivaldi Technologies Blog)
Venezuela’s Maduro Says Will Shun U.S. Dollar in Favor of Yuan, Others (Reuters)
Nearly Half of Working-Age American Men Who Are Out of the Labor Force Are Using Painkillers Daily (Some interesting stats in here, Quartz)
Angry About the Election? (From November, extremely prescient, Psychology Today)
‘American Republic is Essentially Doomed’ (Barrett Brown interview, RT)
U.S. Politics
An Update On Information Operations On Facebook (Facebook Newsroom)
Sanders Brushes Off Clinton Criticism: ‘Look Forward and Not Backward’ (The Hill)
Angry Hillary Blames Everything from Bernie Sanders to “There’s Something About Mary” for 2016 Loss (Zerohedge)
What Happened?! — Video Emerges of Hillary Clinton Saying Illegal Immigrant Children Have to Go (Mediaite)
Antifa Supporters Cry Over Trevor Noah’s Daily Show Segment Mocking Antifa (Daily Caller)
CNN Pulled Investigative Team Off Trump-Russia Coverage (Daily Caller)
Utah Hospital to Police: Stay Away from Our Nurses (The Washington Post)
Ohio News Photographer Reportedly Shot by Deputy While Setting up to Take Pictures of Traffic Stop (Fox News)
5 Facts About Millennial Households (Pew Research Center)
Former CIA Director Petraeus Joins KKR Backed Security Firm (Reuters)
Geopolitics/WW3
China Sees New World Order with Oil Benchmark Backed by Gold (Nikkei Asian Review)
Xi Urges BRICS Grouping to Push for More ‘Just’ International Order (Reuters)
North Korea Nuclear Crisis: Putin Warns of Planetary Catastrophe (The Guardian)
North Korea Says It Might Negotiate on Nuclear Weapons, but the Washington Post Isn’t Reporting That (The Intercept)
Germany Must Pay Poland Up to $1 Trillion in Reparations, Minister Says (The Independent)
Poland’s Stance on Migrants Unchanged Despite EU Court Ruling (Reuters)
Man Jailed for Selling VPNs to Evade China’s ‘Great Firewall’ (South China Morning Post)
Sweeping Change in China’s Military Points to More Firepower for Xi (Reuters)
Economy/Finance/Crypto
Wary of Robots Taking Jobs, Hawaii Toys with Guaranteed Pay (CBS News)
Amazon Is on the Hunt for Second North American Headquarters (Bloomberg)
Inside Juicero’s Demise, From Prized Startup to Fire Sale (Bloomberg)
Bitcoin Tumbles on Report China to Shutter Digital Currency Exchanges (Reuters)
Russia Opens First Criminal Case Involving Bitcoin (Forbes)
Real Estate Project in Dubai to Be the ‘First Major Development Where You Can Purchase in Bitcoin’ (CNBC)
Howard Marks Softens Cryptocurrency Stance After ‘Not Real’ Comments (Coindesk)
Miscellaneous
Lidl Airbrushes Crosses from Church on Greek Food Packaging to Be ‘Religiously Neutral’ (The Telegraph)
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