{"id":176974,"date":"2020-02-03T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/03\/linkage-49\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T10:30:00","slug":"linkage-49","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/02\/03\/linkage-49\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nonsite.org\/article\/jobs-for-all-a-job-guarantee-puts-workers-in-the-drivers-seat\">Jobs for All: A job guarantee puts workers in the driver\u2019s seat<\/a> (<i>nonsite.org<\/i>) If people don&#8217;t have the threat of penury and starvation, employers will lose leverage.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/18\/how-five-members-of-joe-bidens-family-got-rich-through-his-connections\/\">How five members of Joe Biden\u2019s family got rich through his connections<\/a> (<i>New York Post<\/i>) This is completely legal, which is the real problem.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.snopes.com\/fact-check\/1912-article-global-warming\/?fbclid=IwAR22XgKW9YLyg-gVvO1T-GOehc10Tc686jSys3MIsade3Iv9Pn-m7hJZGfs\">Did a 1912 Newspaper Article Predict Global Warming?<\/a> (<i>Snopes<\/i>) Yes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/9-11-investigation-saudi-connections-operation-encore-fbi\">Operation Encore and the Saudi Connection: A Secret History of the 9\/11 Investigation<\/a> (<i>ProPublica<\/i>) The House of Saud is not our friend.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2020\/jan\/24\/hillary-clinton-feminist-icon-jessa-crispin\">Hillary  Clinton is still trying to sell herself as a feminist icon. Don&#8217;t buy  it<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) &#8220;The real issue of \u2018representation\u2019 isn\u2019t that there aren\u2019t enough  powerful women. It\u2019s that what is represented as feminism is actually  corporatism.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ultrafast-trading-costs-stock-investors-nearly-5-billion-a-year-study-says-11580126036\">Ultrafast Trading Costs Stock Investors Nearly $5 Billion a Year, Study Says<\/a> (<i>Wall Street Journal<\/i>) This is theft by guys in bespoke suits.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2020\/01\/ring-doorbell-app-packed-third-party-trackers\">Ring Doorbell App Packed with Third-Party Trackers<\/a> (<i>Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/i>) Not shocked.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/braveneweurope.com\/dean-baker-technology-patents-and-inequality-an-explanation-that-even-economists-can-understand\">Dean Baker &#8211; Technology, Patents, and Inequality: An Explanation that Even Economists Can Understand<\/a> (<i>Brave New Europe<\/i>) Patents are a tax on the rest of us.<i> <\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Knifemaker Talks Knives:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LO35cdWL1MQ\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jobs for All: A job guarantee puts workers in the driver\u2019s seat (nonsite.org) If people don&#8217;t have the threat of penury and starvation, employers will lose leverage. How five members of Joe Biden\u2019s family got rich through his connections (New York Post) This is completely legal, which is the real problem. Did a 1912 Newspaper &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-176974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176974"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176974\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}