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A Growing Number of Young Americans are Leaving Desk Jobs to Farm (Very encouraging, The Washington Post)
The Coast Guard’s ‘Floating Guantánamos’ (Crazy article and very sad, The New York Times Magazine)
Censorship Comes to Google (Very important, FEE)
Is Trump Going to Lie Our Way Into War With Iran? (The New York Times)
It’s Too Easy for the Government to Invade Privacy in Name of Security (Big Supreme Court case coming up, The Hill)
Private Companies Look to Cash in as Homeland Security Brings Facial Recognition to U.S. Borders (Disturbing, The Intercept)
A Mafia State Within a Totalitarian Society (Excellent interview about Russia-gate with Masha Gessen, The Atlantic)
U.S. Politics
Accusing Someone You Disagree With Of Being A Russian Troll Is Admitting You Have No Argument (Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)
Sessions Hints at a Federal Crackdown on Marijuana (Monumental imbecile, Axios)
Tillerson Under Pressure After White House Plan Leaks (The Hill)
Comcast Hints at Plan for Paid Fast Lanes After Net Neutrality Repeal (Ars Technica)
FCC Chairman Pai is Swiping Again at Tech, Twitter and Social Media (Pai got triggered, Recode)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
‘The Saudis are Going to Fight Tehran to the Last Dead American’ (Real News interview, YouTube)
Russia Warns Washington: Confiscating Gold Reserves Would Be “Declaration Of Financial War” (Zerohedge)
Former Catalan Cabinet Members Appear Before Supreme Court (Reuters)
Economy/Finance/Crypto
Express Scripts CEO Sees Amazon as a Potential Partner (Reuters)
Vanguard Founder Jack Bogle Says ‘Avoid Bitcoin Like the Plague’ (Keep talking trash fellas, Bloomberg)
Bitcoin ‘Seems Like a Bubble’, Says Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn (Another guy admits he doesn’t get it, but calls it a bubble anyway, Coindesk)
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Ken Griffin Says Bitcoin has ‘Elements of the Tulip Bulb Mania’ (And another…CNBC)
Investors Taking a Risk Buying Bitcoin, Says ECB Vice President (More hate, Coindesk)
Bitcoin Is More Revolutionary Than the Internet: Overstock Exec (The Street)
ECB Tells Banks to Implement Instant Payments in Order to Compete with Bitcoin (Bitcoinist)
The Three Economic Eras of Bitcoin (Rusty Russell, Medium)
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Interesting, that it only would take perhaps $100K or maybe $1M to ban Bitcoin “Full Nodes” around the world.
> (Excellent interview about Russia-gate with Masha Gessen
Sounds like “Excellent interview about prostitution problems with Jack the Ripper”
But whatever….