Liberty Links 2/10/19

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Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Cheap Trump/Rubio Venezuela Aid PR Stunt (The lies and propaganda coming from the Trump admin on Venezuela is off the charts, FAIR)

Saudi Arabia and Its Coalition Partners Have Transferred American-Made Weapons to Al Qaeda-Linked Fighters (Everything the government tells you about war is a lie, CNN)

Inside the UAE’s Secret Hacking Team (Very disturbing on multiple levels, Reuters)

Hundreds of Bounty Hunters Had Access to AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint Customer Location Data for Years (Motherboard)

Jeff Bezos Protests the Invasion of His Privacy, as Amazon Builds a Sprawling Surveillance State for Everyone Else (The Intercept)

France’s Yellow Vest Movement Comes of Age (Excellent read, The Nation)

Yellow Vest Protester Has Hand Partially Blown off as Clashes Break out Again in Paris (The Telegraph)

Congress’s Vote To Keep War In Afghanistan Sells Out American Soldiers (The Federalist)

The Great Middle East Head-Fake (Matt Taibbi writing at Rolling Stone)

Amazon Forced to Pull Products in India as New Rules Bite (India understands the dangers of how Amazon operates, BBC)

How to Stop Facebook’s Dangerous App Integration Ploy (The New York Times)

U.S. News/Politics

Trump Says He Will Not Meet Chinese President Xi Before March Trade Deal Deadline (CNBC)

Schumer and Sanders: Limit Corporate Stock Buybacks (The New York Times)

Senate’s First Anti-BDS Bill Faces Uncertain Future in House (The first priority of the U.S. Senate is to attack Americans’ free speech rights, Al-Monitor)

Daily Caller Editor in Chief Locked out of Account for Tweeting ‘Learn to Code’ (The Daily Caller)

Cannabis Smoking Associated With Higher Sperm Count, Study Finds (Bloomberg)

Colorado Runner Kills Mountain Lion In Self-Defense (Crazy story, NPR)

International News/Geopolitics

Iraq Redux: Trump’s Venezuela ‘Regime Change’ Another Pack of Lies (Ron Paul Institute)

Salvini Calls For Elimination Of Italy’s Central Bank, “Prison Time For Fraudsters” (Zerohedge)

Italy Saves Europe’s Dignity over U.S. Bullying of Venezuela (Strategic Culture Foundation)

Intel: Why Trump’s Iran Policy Is Sparking Iraqi Outrage(Al-Monitor)

Chinese Intelligence Hacked Norwegian Software Firm Visma to Steal Client Secrets, Investigators Say (South China Morning Post)

Economy/Finance/Crypto

Biggest Vancouver Home Price Fall Since 2013 Is Just Tip of Iceberg (High end real estate in Vancouver is getting crushed, Bloomberg)

European Output Gauges Decline, Feeding Doubts Over Rebound (Bloomberg)

Russia Earns Investment-Grade Rating From Moody’s (Bloomberg)

The ‘Splinternet’: How China and the Us Could Divide the Internet for the Rest of the World (CNBC)

Trade Hawks Quietly Bristle as Trump’s China Deadline Approaches (Bloomberg)

Powell Says Fed ‘Paddling Against the Current’ of Public Mistrust in Institutions (MarketWatch)

Phenomenal Trucking Boom Ends, Trucking Bust Starts (Wolf Street)

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1 thought on “Liberty Links 2/10/19”

  1. Jeff Bezos & his ilk ( Pelosie & her husband) spring to mind . These people wield far to much power , and need to be shut down !! That’s all I have to say .

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