{"id":180322,"date":"2017-05-24T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/24\/linkage-212\/"},"modified":"2017-05-24T05:01:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T10:01:00","slug":"linkage-212","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/05\/24\/linkage-212\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-05-19\/americans-are-paying-38-to-collect-1-of-student-debt?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-business&amp;utm_content=business&amp;utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social\">Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) This is exactly what Bill Clinton extolled in his &#8220;reinventing government&#8221; initiative, privatizing essential public services.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/warontherocks.com\/2015\/11\/millennium-challenge-the-real-story-of-a-corrupted-military-exercise-and-its-legacy\/\">Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy<\/a> (<i>War on the Rocks<\/i>) Millennium  Challenge 2002, a war game intended to demonstrate Rumsfeld&#8217;s transformation in combat, but the &#8220;Red Force&#8221; sank the carrier group, and  they restarted the game with new rules to hamstring OPFOR so that they  could claim that it all worked.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2017\/05\/19\/slavery-now-migrant-labor-in-the-persian-gulf-and-saudi-arabia\/\">Slavery Now: Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf and Saudi Arabia<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) Our allies.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/my-password-secure-nist-advises-against-periodically-changing-passwords-2541293\">Is My Password Secure? NIST Advises Against Periodically Changing Passwords<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.com\/my-password-secure-nist-advises-against-periodically-changing-passwords-2541293\">Is My Password Secure? NIST Advises Against Periodically Changing Passwords<\/a> (<i>International Business Times<\/i>) It turns out that requiring regular password changes encourages weak passwords.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/18\/business\/dealbook\/jon-corzine-wall-street-comeback.html?ref=business&amp;_r=1\">In Tumult of Trump, Jon Corzine Seeks a Wall Street Comeback<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) This parasite should be in jail, and banned from the securities industry.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2017\/may\/20\/theresa-may-school-meals-plan-hits-900000-families\">Theresa May school meals plan hits 900,000 families<\/a> (<i>Guardian<\/i>) More political sadism from Theresa May.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Death Star was an inside job:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xV7Ha3VDbzE\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Americans Are Paying $38 to Collect $1 of Student Debt (Bloomberg) This is exactly what Bill Clinton extolled in his &#8220;reinventing government&#8221; initiative, privatizing essential public services. Millennium Challenge: The Real Story of a Corrupted Military Exercise and its Legacy (War on the Rocks) Millennium Challenge 2002, a war game intended to demonstrate Rumsfeld&#8217;s transformation &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-180322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180322"}],"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=180322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}