NSA Thinks Privacy Is for Extremists, Rob Ford Has Tried ‘Every Drug,’ Thousands Flee Hurricane Arthur: P.M. Links

The NSA’s XKeyscore
surveillance system’s source code
was leaked. If you care about your online privacy and use
things like the Tor network, the NSA classifies you as an
“extremist.”
Bureau of Labor Statistics data indicates that employers

added 288,000 jobs to the economy in June. Sounds great,
except, at the same time a
record high 92,120,000 Americans 16 and older didn’t
participate in the labor force.
“We
don’t discuss veterans. We do not work for veterans. … Our
customer is the VA central office, the White House and the
Congress,” a whistleblower says. “We actually put incoming
applications aside so we could focus on the [Obamacare] related
applications that came in over last summer.”
After facing a potential $54,000 deficit due to federal lunch
guidelines, one school board president in Milwaukee says he’s
ditching the program “pushed by and large by Michelle Obama,
who last I checked
has been elected by no one.” Burn!
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford announced that he’s tried “every drug you
can probably think of.” Either this is a bold
reelection strategy, or he was on drugs when he said it.
Saudi Arabia deployed
30,000 troops to the Iraqi border.
Thousands are fleeing the North Carolina coastline as
Hurricane Arthur is expected to hit it tomorrow.