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Taleb Says World Is More Fragile Today Than in 2007 (Must watch, YouTube)
Pentagon Wants to Predict Anti-Trump Protests Using Social Media Surveillance (Motherboard)
The Yemen War Death Toll Is Five Times Higher Than We Think (The Independent)
Hillary Is Back: ‘I’d Like To Be President’ (The horror, YouTube)
Jair Bolsonaro Is Elected President of Brazil. Read His Extremist, Far-Right Positions in His Own Words. (Deeply disturbing, The Intercept)
Energy Giants Choose Nuclear Option in Election’s Biggest Fight Over Fossil Fuel (Every American should read this, but especially if you live in an oil and gas state, Capital & Main)
Google’s Saudi Ties (Google’s hypocrisy knows no bounds, Google Transparency Project)
Trump Is America’s National Piñata (Good read on the disgracefulness of U.S. mass media, The Automatic Earth)
Father of Web Says Tech Giants May Have to Be Split up (Reuters)
Social Democracy: Radicalize or Its over… (Paul Mason, Medium)
Jamaica Resorts Facing a ‘Historic’ Sexual Assault Problem (Very disturbing article, USA Today)
The ‘Unschooling’ Movement: Letting Children Lead Their Learning (A great listen, WBUR)
U.S. News/Politics
President Trump has been able to appeal to journalists’ “own narcissism” by attacking them, says Jon Stewart. “They take it personally, and now he’s changed the conversation to, not that his policies are silly or not working … it’s all about the fight.” pic.twitter.com/2N3V5NqZ6Q
— Christiane Amanpour (@camanpour) October 30, 2018
Amid Global Uproar, Some Us Colleges Rethink Saudi Ties (American colleges are bought and paid for by the Saudis as well, AP)
Mueller Refers Sex Misconduct Scheme Targeting Him to FBI for Investigation (NBC News)
Two Giant Idiots Hold the World’s Worst Press Conference (Splinter)
Months Before Pittsburgh Shooting, Stripe and PayPal Were Warned About Gab (The Daily Beast)
Twitter Looking to Remove ‘like’ Button as a Way to Improve Debate on Social Network (What a stupidity, USA Today)
We Posed as 100 Senators to Run Ads on Facebook. Facebook Approved All of Them. (Vice)
These Exploitations Of The Pittsburgh Attack Deride Its Victims (Moon of Alabama)
What Elizabeth Warren Still Doesn’t Get (The Intercept)
Cenk Uygur Rips Establishment Media Directly To Their Face (YouTube)
Foreign Affairs/WW3
Mattis Calls for Ceasefire in Yemen Within 30 Days (CBS News)
Saudi Arabia Answers Pompeo’s Call For Yemen Ceasefire By Ramping Up Airstrikes (Zerohedge)
India and Korea Agree on Outline of Iran Oil Waiver With U.S. (Bloomberg)
Netanyahu: Events at Istanbul Consulate ‘Horrendous,’ but Saudi Stability Must Be Maintained (Nasty and dangerous guy, Haaretz)
By Way Of Deception – False Flag Terror Acts Press Europe To Sanction Iran (Moon of Alabama)
What the Brazilian Dictatorship Did to My Family (Some sad history, The New York Times)
Economy/Finance/Crypto
TPG, Amherst Market $400 Million Rental Home Portfolio (Bloomberg)
Average Seattle-Area Home Selling for Below List Price for First Time in 4 Years (The Seattle Times)
UK Begins Confiscating Wealth Without Criminal Charges (Zerohedge)
Experts Debunk ‘Dangerous and Misleading’ Study Hyping Bitcoin Energy Use (ThinkProgress)
Bitcoin’s ‘First Felon’ Faces More Legal Trouble (The New York Times)
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That Cenk Uygur clip was painful. The MSM/establishment denial is so strong it’s tough to imagine anything awakening them from their deep slumber. Not only are they firmly entrenched in denial, their automatic dismissal and condescension toward any criticism will only earn them more enemies. It’s easy to understand why elites support the MSM, but the rank and file drones are pathetic.
Not surprised about the Jamaica article. We’ve been sending them sex tourists for a while (mostly middle aged women) so I get the perceived reputation that American women are loose and therefore fair game. Rape is a terrible crime and they need to fully establish the concept of consent into their culture, but too many travelers have gone there to use them specifically for cheap sex.
Of course Taleb is right. We didn’t even attempt to fix the underlying structural problems of the last crisis, we just papered them over!
Happy Birthday
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Taleb’s appetite is obviously NOT fragile… he’s packed-on some pounds!