Liberty Links 11/18/18

Although I haven’t been able to read all that much over the past couple of weeks given the new baby, here’s an abbreviated version of Liberty Links highlighting some of the stuff I was able to get to.

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Links

CIA Concludes Saudi Crown Prince Ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s Assassination (The Washington Post)

Snowden: Israeli Firm’s Spyware Was Used to Track Khashoggi (Haaretz)

The DOJ Is Preparing To Indict Julian Assange (Zerohedge)

As the Obama DOJ Concluded, Prosecution of Julian Assange for Publishing Documents Poses Grave Threats to Press Freedom (The Intercept)

N.Y. Legislators Say Amazon Deal Left Them Without a Say (Utterly despicable, Morningstar)

Judge Orders Amazon to Hand over Echo Recordings from Home in Murder Case (NBC News)

Leissner Cites Goldman’s ‘Culture’ of Secrecy in 1MDB Scheme (Bloomberg)

Former JP Morgan Trader Pleads Guilty to Manipulating U.S. Metals Markets for Years (CNBC)

Defying Trump, Merkel Backs Macron’s Call for EU Army (Bloomberg)

Paypal Blacklists Free Speech Youtube Alternative ‘Bitchute’ (Breitbart)

No, End-To-End Encryption Does Not Prevent Facebook from Accessing Whatsapp Chats (Gregorio Zanon, Medium)

Bank of England Refuses to Return 14 Tonnes of Gold to Venezuela (BullionStar)

ECB Official Calls Bitcoin ‘Evil Spawn of the Financial Crisis’ (CoinDesk)

SEC Cyber Chief Puts A New Type Of Cryptocurrency Exchange On Notice (Forbes)

U.S. Election Sees Crypto-Friendly Politicians Win Governor Races (CoinDesk)

Techstars Co-Founder Jared Polis is Colorado’s Next Governor (Techstars)

John Taylor Gatto (1935-2018): Remembering America’s Most Courageous Teacher (FEE)

Liberty Blitzkrieg Partners

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

Pacific Precious Metals

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