{"id":180298,"date":"2017-05-29T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-29T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/29\/linkage-210\/"},"modified":"2017-05-29T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-29T10:10:00","slug":"linkage-210","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/29\/linkage-210\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/05\/yet-another-video-shows-u-s-funded-white-helmets-assisting-public-executions-rebel-held-syria.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&amp;utm_medium=twitter\">Yet Another Video Shows U.S.-Funded White Helmets Assisting Public Executions in Rebel-Held Syria<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) It is remarkable, all of the allies of the US in Syria are worse than the Assad&#8217;s.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/economics-blog\/2013\/nov\/06\/is-economics-a-science-robert-shiller\">Robert Shiller: is economics a science?<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Nobel Economist discuss this question, and does not come to a conclusion. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/335184-gop-candidate-gianforte-wins-montana-special-election?rnd=1495772206\">Republican wins Montana House seat despite assault charge<\/a> (<i>The Hill<\/i>) Or <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Because<\/span><\/b> of the assault charge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evonomics.com\/doubt-capitalism-useless-jobs-rutger-bregman\/\">The Future of Work, Robotization, and Capitalism\u2019s Ability to Generate Useless Jobs<\/a> (<i>Evonomics<\/i>) The thesis is that increases in productivity leads to the creation of more &#8220;Bullsh%$ Jobs&#8221;, like, &#8220;The growing armies of consultants, bankers, tax advisors, managers, and others who earn their money in strategic trans-sector peer-to-peer meetings to brainstorm the value-add on co-creation in the network society.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aclu.org\/blog\/speak-freely\/victory-court-allows-wikimedias-challenge-nsa-surveillance-go-forward\">Victory! Court Allows Wikimedia\u2019s Challenge to NSA Surveillance to Go Forward<\/a> (<i>ACLU<\/i>) The judge says that Wikimedia has standing.  It&#8217;s a start.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2001\/08\/010828075659.htm\">Catnip Repels Mosquitoes More Effectively Than DEET<\/a> (<i>Science Daily<\/i>) Nepetalactone is allegedly 10x more effective at DEET.  I am buying futures on cat repellent, because this will be required for stage two of clinical trials.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tom Hiddleston doing Owen Wilson playing Loki: (I&#8217;m not putting up the White Helmet vid \u2026\u2026\u2026 Too graphic)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Yqc0UMwNKmg\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet Another Video Shows U.S.-Funded White Helmets Assisting Public Executions in Rebel-Held Syria (naked capitalism) It is remarkable, all of the allies of the US in Syria are worse than the Assad&#8217;s. Robert Shiller: is economics a science? (The Guardian) Nobel Economist discuss this question, and does not come to a conclusion. Republican wins Montana &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-180298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180298"}],"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=180298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}