{"id":17958,"date":"2014-07-26T09:33:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:33:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=17958"},"modified":"2014-07-26T09:33:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T16:33:38","slug":"links-that-say-a-lot-about-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/links-that-say-a-lot-about-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"Links that say a lot about the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/r-disenchanted-with-putin-some-russians-vote-with-their-feet-2014-24\" target=\"_blank\">This story<\/a> is about the best and brightest leaving Russia. It has nothing to do with the U.S. &#8212; except that my email brings me daily reports about American ex-pats that sound just like this.\n<li>&#8220;The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/07\/the-leader-of-the-unfree-world\/374348\/\" target=\"_blank\">leader of the unfree<\/a> world.&#8221;\n<li>Not long ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/stories\/2014\/07\/24\/video-woman-in-labor-not-allowed-to-cross-street-to-hospital-over-obamas-impending-motorcade\/\" target=\"_blank\">this sort of privilege<\/a>, with its cruel disregard for the &#8220;little people,&#8221;  was granted only to puffed-up Oriental potentates and pashas in lands of the notably unfree.\n<li>You already knew you were a terrorist in the eyes of &#8220;your&#8221; democratic, representative, passionately liberty-loving, and devoutly transparent government. Now read <a href=\"https:\/\/firstlook.org\/theintercept\/article\/2014\/07\/23\/blacklisted\/\" target=\"_blank\">the criteria, such as they are,<\/a> secretly used to terror-list you. Good work from the new Omidyar\/Greenwald team and their contacts at <i>The Intercept<\/i>. (H\/T jed)\n<li>And speaking of the land of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/world-values-survey-map-on-freedom-2014-7\" target=\"_blank\">we don&#8217;t feel quite so free<\/a> any more &#8230;\n<li>But worry not! Your safety <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/excerpts-of-navy-yard-report-160-cameras-and-no-one-watching-facing-down-shooter\/2014\/07\/11\/45576e7c-0916-11e4-bbf1-cc51275e7f8f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">is in expert hands<\/a>! (Seriously, it would be hard to imagine how a public shooting could be handled worse than the one at the Navy Yard.)\n<li>On the lighter side: Darth Vader is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/wonkblog\/wp\/2014\/07\/23\/darth-vader-is-polling-higher-than-all-potential-2016-presidential-candidates\/\" target=\"_blank\">more highly regarded<\/a> than all potential 2016 presidential candidates.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This story is about the best and brightest leaving Russia. It has nothing to do with the U.S. &#8212; except that my email brings me daily reports about American ex-pats that sound just like this. &#8220;The leader of the unfree world.&#8221; Not long ago, this sort of privilege, with its cruel disregard for the &#8220;little people,&#8221; was granted only to puffed-up Oriental potentates and pashas in lands of the notably unfree. You already knew you were a terrorist in the eyes of &#8220;your&#8221; democratic, representative, passionately liberty-loving, and devoutly transparent government. Now read the criteria, such as they are, secretly&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/26\/links-that-say-a-lot-about-the-usa\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Links that say a lot about the USA<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,23,24,25,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-offshore","category-poly-ticks","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}