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FBI Whistleblower on Pierre Omidyar and His Campaign to Neuter Wikileaks (Pierre Omidyar is a very shady character, Mint Press News)
Why Are the Media Ignoring Crucial Parts of the Simpson Testimony? (William Browder doesn’t appear to be who he claims to be, The Nation)
Assange Keeps Warning of AI Censorship, And It’s Time We Started Listening (We need open source code for these sorts of platforms, Caitlin Johnstone, Medium)
The Lightning Network Could Make Bitcoin Faster—And Cheaper (If this succeeds, it’ll be huge for Bitcoin, Wired)
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble (The New York Times Magazine)
Log Cabin Timelapse Built by One Man in the Forest (Very cool, YouTube)
U.S. Politics/News
Trump Administration Wants to Arrest Mayors of ‘Sanctuary Cities’ (Newsweek)
Democrats’ Bewildering Decision to Hand President Trump More Surveillance Powers (The fake “resistance” strikes again, The Week)
Putin Plot? Democrats Ridiculed For Claiming Moscow Behind Chelsea Manning’s Senate Run (Zerohedge)
Trump Considers Big ‘Fine’ Over China Intellectual Property Theft (Reuters)
New California Declares “Independence” from Rest of State (CBS News)
Marijuana Legalization Causing Violent Crime to Fall in U.S. States, Study Finds (The Independent)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
U.S. Signals Open-Ended Presence in Syria, Seeks Patience on Assad’s Removal (Endless war = MAGA apparently, Reuters)
Abbas Calls Oslo Accords Dead and Blasts U.S.: ‘Damn Your Money!’ (The New York Times)
Syrian Army to End U.S. Presence in the Country, Claims State TV (Haaretz)
Finance/Markets/Crypto
Inside the Korean Crypto Exchange That Grew so Fast the Government Raided It (Good luck shutting this down governments, Quartz)
South Korea: Gov’t Officials Accused of Crypto Insider Trading (Of course, CoinTelegraph)
PBOC Official Says China’s Centralized Virtual Currency Trade Needs to End (Reuters)
Bitconnect, Which Has Been Accused of Running a Ponzi Scheme, Shuts Down (Incredible that people fell for this, TechCrunch)
Don’t Use a Blockchain Unless You Really Need One (CoinDesk)
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