Liberty Links 10/7/17

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How America’s Biggest Bank Paid Its Fine for the 2008 Mortgage Crisis—With Phony Mortgages! (Read and share, The Nation)

Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Cases for Years (Blockbuster piece from The New York Times)

Hollywood’s Loud Silence on Harvey Weinstein (The Daily Beast)

Ivanka and Donald Trump Jr. Were Close to Being Charged With Felony Fraud (More on how the two-tier justice system works, ProPublica)

I Used to Think Gun Control Was the Answer. My Research Told Me Otherwise. (Opinion piece in The Washington Post)

Learning To Fly — My Take On Humanity In General (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)

First, They Came for the Biologists… (The Wall Street Journal)

U.S. Approves $15 Billion Thaad Missile Package for Saudi Arabia (U.S. government continues to arm the 9/11 terrorists, Bloomberg)

U.S. Politics

‘You Like That?’: St. Louis Cops Savagely Beat Handcuffed Filmmaker While Wife Watched (ThinkProgress)

Tillerson’s Fury at Trump Required an Intervention From Pence (NBC News)

Facebook’s Russia-Linked Ads Came in Many Disguises (The New York Times)

Las Vegas Shooting: Woman Told Crowd ‘You’re All Going to F***ing Die’ Before Attack Started (Bizarre, The Independent)

Scalise: Shooting ‘Fortified’ My View on Gun Rights (The Hill)

Judge: Barrett Brown Donors Can Sue Government Over Subpoenaed Records (Ars Technica)

Geopolitics/WW3 

Trump to Force Congress to Act on Iran Nuclear Deal (Very dangerous situation, The New York Times)

Catalonia Referendum: Spain Apologizes to Injured Catalans (BBC)

If Catalonia Goes Independent, These Places Could Be Next (CNBC)

Serbia Accuses World of Double Standards Over Catalonia and Kosovo (Reuters)

Trump Slam on Tillerson Raises More Questions About North Korea Policy (The Hill)

Turkey No Longer Needs EU Membership, Erdogan Says (CBC News)

Iran, Iraq, And Turkey Unite To Block Kurdish Oil Exports (Even mortal enemies band together to stop political self-determination, Zerohedge)

Farage: If May Stays, Corbyn Will Be PM (Westmonster)

Trump Told UN Head Netanyahu is Bigger Peace Obstacle Than Abbas (The Hill)

Indian Prime Minister Faces Growing Criticism as Economy Bites (CNN)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

We Can Finally Identify One of the Largest Holders of Puerto Rican Debt (The Intercept)

Cohn Says Repatriation Tax Rate Will Be in the ‘10% Range’ (Bloomberg)

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