{"id":24485,"date":"2016-01-20T06:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=24485"},"modified":"2016-01-20T06:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T14:28:49","slug":"wednesday-links-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/wednesday-links-38\/","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Wow. But not surprising. The ATF and the Obama administration, via Fast &#038; Furious, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/01\/20\/rifle-capable-taking-down-helicopter-found-at-el-chapo-hideout-purchased-through-fast-and-furious-program.html\" target=\"_blank\">supplied drug lord El Chapo<\/a> with .50 cal weaponry.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/people-afraid-zombie-ships-first-sign-of-global-economic-collapse-2016-1\" target=\"_blank\">Zombie ships<\/a> ply the ocean in hopes of paying just the interest, not the principle, on shipowners&#8217; debt. One more place all that central bank bubble capital has been going for the last eight years.\n<li>Right analysis? But <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/financetopics\/davos\/12108569\/World-faces-wave-of-epic-debt-defaults-fears-central-bank-veteran.html\" target=\"_blank\">completely crazy proposed solution<\/a> to global bubbles.\n<li>With state legislatures in session, it&#8217;s become political silly season. Most of the goofy new bills will never pass, so you can stop sending me alarming emails about junk that might not even make it out of committee, okay? But politicians are getting their jollies with bills <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oathkeepers.org\/most-dangerous-oregon-gun-bill-creates-new-threat-to-freedom\/\" target=\"_blank\">enabling random acquaintances<\/a> to deprive you of your gun rights, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.ga.gov\/Legislation\/en-US\/display\/20152016\/HB\/731\" target=\"_blank\">create new gun bans<\/a> even in southern states, and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/wireStory\/bill-require-south-carolina-journalists-register-36383440\" target=\"_blank\">requiring &#8220;journalists&#8221; to register<\/a> with the state. Yeah, that one&#8217;ll really meet the First Amendment test, for sure.\n<li>Good news, however! Although politics clearly rots your brain, you may be pleased to know that, contrary to recent reports, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psmag.com\/health-and-behavior\/marijuana-may-not-lead-to-cognitive-decline-after-all\" target=\"_blank\">cannabis probably doesn&#8217;t<\/a>.\n<li>Being the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyunderattack.com\/blending-in-the-art-of-the-grey-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">grey man<\/a> in a surveillance society. (Jim Bovard, who led me to this link, gets called out for one of his <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/18\/my-supreme-covert-failure\/\" target=\"_blank\">notable failures<\/a> in the grey-man department. OTOH, I don&#8217;t think Jim has ever aimed to be grey.)\n<li>Or you could become the opposite of the grey man. Like this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-3399699\/He-flew-Passenger-rice-sized-chip-implant-skin-world-board-plane-wave-hand.html\" target=\"_blank\">first guy in the world<\/a> to travel with a passport chip in his hand<\/a>. (Via <a href=\"http:\/\/waronguns.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Codrea<\/a>.)\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/innovations\/wp\/2016\/01\/19\/r-i-p-bitcoin-its-time-to-move-on\/\" target=\"_blank\">RIP, Bitcoin?<\/a> Despite this week&#8217;s developments, I don&#8217;t know whether Bitcoin is dead or not. I&#8217;m outside the Bitcoin universe. I do know, however, that there has always been good reason to watch from the sidelines before jumping in. The volatility. The out-of-thin-air nature of the currency. The ability of small groups to control it. And &#8212; above all &#8212; the fact that true believers have promoted Bitcoin at me as though it were the second coming of Jesus. Never a good sign, that.\n<li>She got jilted at the altar, sold all her stuff and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/travel\/travel_news\/article-3404630\/Heartbroken-bride-quits-job-sells-house-travel-world-jilted-altar-book-deal-Bridget-Jones-goes-backpacking-style-novel.html\" target=\"_blank\">became a world traveling writer<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow. But not surprising. The ATF and the Obama administration, via Fast &#038; Furious, supplied drug lord El Chapo with .50 cal weaponry. Zombie ships ply the ocean in hopes of paying just the interest, not the principle, on shipowners&#8217; debt. One more place all that central bank bubble capital has been going for the last eight years. Right analysis? But completely crazy proposed solution to global bubbles. With state legislatures in session, it&#8217;s become political silly season. Most of the goofy new bills will never pass, so you can stop sending me alarming emails about junk that might not&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/20\/wednesday-links-38\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wednesday links<\/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":[5,7,9,12,13,19,20,23,28,30,33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cannabis-legalization","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","category-travels","category-war-on-some-drugs","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485","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=24485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}