20 links today. Enjoy. The Age of Impunity (Excellent rant by Jeffrey Sachs, Boston Globe) SOUTH CHINA SEA WATCH: US Angers China as UN Ruling Looms (More escalation with China, AP) U.S. to Switch on European Missile Shield Despite Russian Alarm (More escalation with Russia, Reuters) The Pentagon is Building a ‘Self-Aware’ Killer Robot Army Fueled … Read more
15 links today. Enjoy. Gaius Publius: Politico – Less than 1% of the Hillary Victory Fund Benefited State Parties (Must read of the day, Naked Capitalism) Justice Dept. Takes Steps to Restore Watchdogs’ Access to Records (Read about the “most transparent administration ever,” New York Times EU To Ask Countries That Don’t Take Their Share Of … Read more
10 links today. Enjoy. Vox’s Puff Piece on Goldman Sachs Doesn’t Reveal Goldman Sponsors Vox (Must read, Fairness & Accounting In Reporting) Trump and Clinton Tied Nationwide in Latest Rasmussen Survey (Rasmussen) ‘Clinton Cash’ Has Been Made Into a Movie (Bloomberg) Las Vegas Review-Journal Columnist Resigns After Being Told He Can’t Write About Adelson (Capital New … Read more
17 links today. Enjoy. Clinton Will Hold Fundraiser in Tel Aviv (Very good read, Mondoweiss) Hillary Clinton on Releasing Wall Street Speech Transcripts (One word: Dishonest, YouTube) Senior Clinton Aide Tells Reporter: Fuck Bernie (Wait, so who needs to “tone it down?” Gawker) Ex-BOJ Iwata: BOJ Must Cut Key Rate to -1.0 Percent to Beat Deflation (This … Read more
23 links today. Enjoy. Twitter Pummels ‘War Criminal’ Donald Rumsfeld (Feel good story of the day, Raw Story) Microsoft Sues US Government for the Right to Tell You When the Feds Are Reading Your Email (BoingBoing) Peter King: “I’ll Take Cyanide if He (Cruz) Ever Got the Nomination” (I’d vote for Cruz just to see … Read more
14 links today. Enjoy. The Fed Sends a Frightening Letter to JPMorgan and Corporate Media Yawns (Must read, Wall on Street Parade) Germany’s Merkel Criticized for Allowing Prosecution of Comedian Who Mocked Erdogan (EU values on full display, Reuters) New Balance Accuses Pentagon of Reneging on Sneaker Deal (Despicable, Boston Globe) The First Ever Scientific Study … Read more
12 links today. Enjoy. Robert De Niro on “Vaxxed”: ‘The Movie is Something That People Should See’ (Infowars) UK Regulators Declare Start of “Beautiful Friendship” With Bitcoin, Ethereum (Brilliant move by the UK government, CoinTelegraph) Forget Flipping Houses — These Retail Investors Flip Mortgages (Nuts, Market Watch) Inspector General Says FBI Not Doing Enough To … Read more
17 links today. Enjoy. Goldman Sachs Will Pay $5B for Fraudulent Sales of Toxic Debt, No One Will Go to Jail (BoingBoing) CIA’s Venture Capital Arm Is Funding Skin Care Products That Collect DNA (How cute, The Intercept) “Real-time Facial Reenactment” (Mind-blowing video, YouTube) Adobe Issues Emergency Update to Flash After Ransomware Attacks (Very important issue, … Read more
17 links today. Enjoy. The Dutch Referendum Shows How the Internet is Taking Back Power from Our Europhile Elites (Must read by Nigel Farage, The Telegraph) Jamie Dimon Tells Us We Need to Leave Too Big to Fail Banks Alone (Excellent, Naked Capitalism) The TSA Spent $1.4 Million on an iPad App That Randomly Points Left … Read more
13 links today. Enjoy. Yanis Varoufakis: Why We Must Save the EU (Ignore the title, it’s a phenomenal read, The Guardian) 15 Out Of 15 Most Recent EU Terrorists Were Known To The Authorities In Multiple Ways (TechDirt) Americans Show Up in the Panama Papers, Too (No one remotely important, why am I not surprised, McClatchyDC) Sanders … Read more