Wednesday Miscellany!

[maxomai]

• If you make a living from or otherwise rely on sex work, hemp, tobacco, firearms, or online sales of birth control, you need to know about Operation Choke Point. And yes, this is the Obama Administration's work.


• Israel is preparing for a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip.


• It's Iraq and Iran versus ISIS ... yesterday 107 died including an Iranian soldier.


• Syrian rebel groups are defecting to join ISIS while other groups blackmail the US for weapons and money.


• Bonddad predicts the U3 unemployment rate will go below 6% before the end of the year. He doesn't say anything about the U6 rate, which is bound to still be completely awful at over 10%.