{"id":180449,"date":"2017-04-17T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/17\/linkage-224\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T10:06:00","slug":"linkage-224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/04\/17\/linkage-224\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedenverchannel.com\/news\/local-news\/amid-allegations-of-unpaid-taxes-neo-nazism-and-sex-offender-denver-furry-convention-canceled\">Amid allegations of unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender, Denver furry convention canceled<\/a>(<i>Denver Channel<\/i>) Goddamn furry Nazis!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2017\/03\/being-anti-trump-isnt-enough\/\">Being Anti-Trump Isn\u2019t Enough<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) The subhead says it all, &#8220;Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s tenure reminds us that the Left needs to attack the neoliberal center, not just the populist right.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/apr\/12\/why-everyone-hates-uber-seven-step-playbook\">How Uber conquers a city in seven steps<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) It is important that <b>NONE<\/b> of these techniques actually translates into a profitable company unless you achieve monopoly status and then can gouge consumers. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2017\/04\/legislation-allowing-warrantless-student-phone-searches-dies-for-now\/\">Legislation allowing warrantless student phone searches dies for now<\/a> (<i>Ars Technica<\/i>) Legislation in California has been tabled, so it&#8217;s not on the agenda \u2026\u2026\u2026 Live in obedient fear, citizen.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/evonomics.com\/no-wealth-isnt-created-top-devoured-rutger-bregman\/\">Why Society\u2019s Biggest Freeloaders Are at the Top<\/a> (<i>Evonomics<\/i>) A nice survey of the rentier parasites sucking the marrow from society&#8217;s bones.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/health\/drug-giant-aspen-plot-destroy-cancer-medicine-big-pharma-times-investigation-a7683521.html\">Pharmaceutical giant &#8216;plotted to destroy cancer drugs to drive prices up 4,000%&#8217;<\/a> (<i>The Independent<\/i>) They changed the names and destroyed existing stocks of the drugs so that could increase prices charged Britain&#8217;s NHS.   (See Rentier Parasite above)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackagendareport.com\/BlackLivesMatter-revives-toxic-black-capitalisim-myths\">#BlackLivesMatter Introduces a New Visa Debit Card, and Revives the Toxic Old Myths of Black Capitalism<\/a> (<i>Black Agenda Report<\/i>) We truly live in Bizarro world.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/business\/21720657-its-economists-used-champion-big-firms-mood-has-shifted-university-chicago\">Schumpeter: The University of Chicago worries about a lack of competition<\/a> (<i>The Economist<\/i>) Yes, the f%$#ing <b><span style=\"font-size: 100%; font-variant: small-caps;\">Chicago School<\/span><\/b> is calling for increased action against monopolies.&nbsp; Cats sleeping with dogs, real end of the world stuff,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Monty Python revealed the 2016 Republican Party platform in 1974:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/19fcN3VaXs4\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid allegations of unpaid taxes, neo-Nazism, and sex offender, Denver furry convention canceled(Denver Channel) Goddamn furry Nazis! Being Anti-Trump Isn\u2019t Enough (Jacobin) The subhead says it all, &#8220;Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s tenure reminds us that the Left needs to attack the neoliberal center, not just the populist right. How Uber conquers a city in seven steps (The &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-180449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180449"}],"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=180449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}