Liberty Links 10/20/18 – Saudi Account of Khashoggi Killing Is Widely Denounced

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Saudi Account of Khashoggi Killing Is Widely Denounced (Three weeks and this is the best lie they could come up with? NBC)

Mueller Report PSA: Prepare for Disappointment (Shocked, shocked I tell you, Politico)

After UAE ‘Murder Squad’ Revelations, How Many More Private U.S. Hit Teams Are Under Gulf Regimes? (Truly despicable, Zerohedge)

Saudis Stonewall on Khashoggi but Pressure Will Increase (One of the best takes I’ve read, Moon of Alabama)

The Arabian Game of Thrones Heats Up (Strategic Culture Foundation)

Intel: Can the Khashoggi Case Really Spell the End of MBS? (Al-Monitor)

State Department Provided ‘Clearly False’ Statements to Derail Requests for Clinton Docs, ‘Shocked’ Federal Judge Says (Fox News)

Top Afghan Police Chief Killed in Shooting, U.S. General Unhurt (No end in sight for America’s longest war, Reuters)

The Evolution of Digital Cash (Fidelity taking a big step into Bitcoin and crypto assets, Medium)

Owen Jones Leaves a Telegraph Editor with so Little Credibility, the Guy Deletes His Twitter Account (Amazing, The Canary)

Enough with the ICO-Me-So-Horny-Get-Rich-Quick-Lambo Crypto (Cypherpunk legend Tim May on the state of crypto currency, Coindesk)

What Is the ‘NPC’ Meme? Liberals Rage at Cartoons Mocking Their Scripted Thoughts (The meme wars continue, Breitbart)

Antiwar Movement Spreads among Tech Workers (Need more of this, Scientific American)

U.S. News/Politics

Facebook May Have Knowingly Inflated Its Video Metrics for over a Year (This company deserves to disappear, The Verge)

Advertisers Accuse Facebook of Hiding False Video Metrics for over a Year (The Hill)

Facebook Accused of Censorship After Hundreds of Us Political Pages Purged (The Guardian)

Twitter Has Purged Left-Wing Accounts with No Explanation (Wired)

Hundreds of Media Accounts Were Just Deplatformed. the Need for a Decentralized Web Is Greater Than Ever. (John Light)

Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google’s Nest To Hand Over Data 300 Times (Forbes)

Foreign Affairs/WW3

Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says (The New York Times)

The Jamal Khashoggi Case: Suspects Had Ties to Saudi Crown Prince (The New York Times)

Outraged Lawmakers Want to End the U.S.’s Cozy Relationship with Saudi Arabia (The Intercept)

Khashoggi Crisis Widens Trump Rift With Congress on Saudi Arabia (Bloomberg)

Suddenly Toxic, Saudi Prince Is Shunned by Investors He Courted (Bloomberg)

Saudi Arabia Discovers That Reform and Murder Don’t Go Well Together (Haaretz)

Donald Trump Has a Serious Saudi Arabian Conflict of Interest (Mother Jones)

‘That Grip and Grin Will Come Back to Haunt Him’: Pompeo Takes Heat for Friendly Saudi Sit-Down (Politico)

German AfD Members Monitored by Spy Agency Are Now Bavarian Lawmakers (Reuters)

China’s New Diplomacy in Europe Has a Name: Broken Porcelain (Interesting, The Guardian)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Spanish Yields Blow Out Amid Italy Contagion As Italian Banks Scramble For Dollar Funding (Zerohedge)

Post-Bitcoin-Maximalism: A Call for Embracing the Currency Competition (Ferdous Bhai, Medium)

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