Liberty Links 8/18/18 – Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump?

Before we get to links, I wanted to let everyone know that Tucker Carlson read an excerpt from my latest post at the very beginning  of his very popular Fox News show last evening.

Here’s the post he referenced in case you missed it the first time: Censorship Is What Happens When Powerful People Get Scared.

Thanks to Tucker and everyone who reads and shares my work, it seems to be reaching a wider audience.

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Top Links

“Everybody Immediately Knew That It Was for Amazon”: Has Bezos Become More Powerful in D.C. Than Trump? (Must read and share, Vanity Fair)

AP Exclusive: Google Tracks Your Movements, Like It or Not (AP)

Google Staff Tell Bosses China Censorship Is “Moral and Ethical” Crisis (The Intercept)

Taibbi: Censorship Does Not End Well (RollingStone)

U.S. Think Tank’s Tiny Lab Helps Facebook Battle Fake Social Media (This is the military-industrial-complex think tank censoring for Facebook, Reuters)

People Are Raising $650 Million On GoFundMe Each Year To Attack Rising Healthcare Costs (Totally normal, Forbes)

What If Banks Were Publicly Owned? In LA, This May Soon Be A Reality. (Localism is the future, Huffington Post)

Roundup Ingredient Found in Cheerios, Quaker Oats, and Other Cereals (Fox32 Chicago)

Billionaires Reach for the Stars While World Suffers (CNN)

RBS Bankers Joked About Destroying the U.S. Housing Market (The Guardian)

Whistleblower Makes Shocking IRS, Insider Trading Allegations (If this is true, holy s…, The New York Post)

Meet Cody Wilson, the Austin Man Behind the Fight over 3D-Printed Guns (Austin American-Statesman)

Take Control of Your Learning at Work (Harvard Business Review)

U.S. News/Politics

Brad Parscale: Big Tech Is Becoming Big Brother (Washington Examiner)

Alex Jones Is Far from the Only Person Tech Companies Are Silencing (The Washington Post)

Google Censorship Plan Is “Not Right” and “Stupid,” Says Former Google Head of Free Expression (The Intercept)

Officials Worry Trump May Back Erik Prince Plan to Privatize War in Afghanistan (Trump needs to stay far, far away from Erik Prince, NBC News)

Trump Cancels Military Parade, Blaming Washington Officials for Inflating Costs (The New York Times)

NSA Whistleblower Bill Binney: Intelligence Agencies Have Become American “Praetorian Guard,” Lie To Public, President, Each Other (Real Clear Politics)

Why Does Facebook Use NATO To Help Censor Users? (Ron Paul, YouTube)

A Twitter Staffer Spoke Out About “Failing” Company Leadership — On Twitter (Jack’s employees want him to censor everything, Vox)

Trump-Amazon Feud Shadows Critical Postal Service Report (The Hill)

Trump Vows ‘Toughness and Strength’ After UK Parliament Incident (Reuters)

Black Caucus Chairman Opposes DNC Plan to Weaken Superdelegate Influence (Can’t make this stuff up, Politico)

Facebook Exec Reportedly Tells Publishers It Would Let Them Die (CNBC)

Poll: Two-Thirds Want Mueller to End Russia Probe Before Midterms (The Hill)

Trump Revokes Clearance Of John Brennan and Orders Review Of Other Former Officials (Jonathan Turley)

Is It Time to Break up Amazon.com? Here’s How It Gets Done (Salon)

Julian Assange Went After a Former Ally. It Backfired Epically. (The Daily Beast)

Wells Fargo Faces Grassroots Backlash Via Viral Facebook Campaign (Really goods article from 2016, Forbes)

Foreign Affairs/WW3

Pakistani Lawmakers Elect Imran Khan as PM (AP)

Beijing Blames ‘Anti-China Forces’ for Criticism of Its Xinjiang Policy (Reuters)

From Laboratory in Far West, China’s Surveillance State Spreads Quietly (Reuters)

Acclaimed Venezuelan News Site Latest Victim in Facebook Censorship Spree (Global Research)

RIP to the Liberal Order (American Historical Association)

Erdogan Says Turkey Will Boycott U.S. Electronics, Lira Steadies (Reuters)

Turkey Takes Aim at Media Reporting on Country’s Currency Crisis (Bloomberg)

Putin Woos Turkey as Erdogan Spars With Trump (Bloomberg)

Russia Ditches U.S. Dollar For Gold As Tensions Rise (Nasdaq)

Sweden: Dozens of Cars Set on Fire in One Night (CNN)

Facebook ‘Must Stop Migrants Being Lured to Their Deaths’ (Evening Standard)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Investors Haven’t Been This Bullish on U.S. Stocks Since 2015 (Everyone’s on the same side of the boat, Bloomberg)

All of Monsanto’s Problems Just Landed on Bayer (Bloomberg)

Liberty Blitzkrieg Partners

Open the Books (Every Dime. Online. In Real Time)

Pacific Precious Metals

 

In Liberty,
Michael Krieger

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