{"id":180852,"date":"2016-12-12T05:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/12\/linkage-253\/"},"modified":"2016-12-12T05:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T10:45:00","slug":"linkage-253","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/12\/12\/linkage-253\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2016\/12\/09\/hostile-takeover\/\">Hostile Takeover<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) Epic rant about the election.  Money quote, &#8220;Two gold-plated names on the same boardroom door.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.project-syndicate.org\/commentary\/no-mourning-dead-trade-agreements-by-dani-rodrik-2016-12\">Don\u2019t Cry Over Dead Trade Agreements by Dani Rodrik<\/a> (<i>Project Syndicate<\/i>) Finally, a top flight economist declaring that the standard trade deal talk is bullsh%$.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/mike-pence-gay-man-nyc_us_584ae5c8e4b0e05aded39e0d\">Gay Mike Pence Doppelg\u00e4nger Is Collecting Money For LGBTQ Causes<\/a> (<i>HuffPo<\/i>) Love the Irony.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2016\/12\/class-white-workers-trump-rural-america\/\">The Blind Spots of Liberalism<\/a> (<i>Jacobin<\/i>) Notes that, &#8220;The blind spots of classless identity politics benefit elites,&#8221; which created an electoral result where a town voted for Donald Trump, 51% to 39%, but voted 63% voted for Kamilla Harris. a black woman.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2016-12-09\/economists-pretend-they-don-t-pick-winners-and-loser\">Economists Pretend They Don&#8217;t Pick Winners and Losers<\/a> (<i>Bloomberg<\/i>) Makes the obvious (at least to anyone who is not an economist) that economists statement are subjective opinion statements, not scientific ones.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/ligo-black-hole-echoes-hint-at-general-relativity-breakdown-1.21135\">LIGO black hole echoes hint at general-relativity breakdown<\/a> (<i>Nature<\/i>) It has been theorized that general relativity breaks down under extreme conditions, this seems to validate this.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/cepr.net\/blogs\/beat-the-press\/disagreeing-with-paul-krugman-his-friends-probably-do-vote-against-the-interest-of-the-working-class-white-and-other\">Disagreeing With Paul Krugman: His Friends Probably Do Vote Against the Interest of the Working Class (White and Other)<\/a> (<i>Beat the Press<\/i>) Dean Baker observes the obvious:  While supporting progressive taxation, which many in Krugman&#8217;s situation do, they also tend to support trade deals that favor capital over labor, and are at best lukewarm about union rights.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20161205\/06575436190\/south-korea-to-tackle-video-game-cheating-criminalizing-breaking-games-tos.shtml\">South Korea To Tackle Video Game Cheating By Criminalizing Breaking A Game&#8217;s ToS<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Considering how the DMCA has been misused, this is a tremendously bad idea.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20161208\/00343136224\/lawsuit-against-courts-massively-overcharging-documents-moves-forward.shtml\">Lawsuit Against Courts Massively Overcharging For Documents Moves Forward<\/a> (<i>Techdirt<\/i>) Pacer, the document retrieval system for the federal courts, is alleged to have illegally overcharged its users.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Space Poop Challenge:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qXBgXUjfLlA\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hostile Takeover (Counterpunch) Epic rant about the election. Money quote, &#8220;Two gold-plated names on the same boardroom door.&#8221; Don\u2019t Cry Over Dead Trade Agreements by Dani Rodrik (Project Syndicate) Finally, a top flight economist declaring that the standard trade deal talk is bullsh%$. Gay Mike Pence Doppelg\u00e4nger Is Collecting Money For LGBTQ Causes (HuffPo) Love &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":[806],"class_list":["post-180852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180852"}],"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=180852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}