{"id":27953,"date":"2016-11-03T12:14:26","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T19:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=27953"},"modified":"2016-11-03T17:23:28","modified_gmt":"2016-11-04T00:23:28","slug":"thursday-links-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/thursday-links-58\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Bill Weld has turned the Libertarian Party into even more of a fiasco than it&#8217;s previously been. He&#8217;s not only <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyviral.com\/man-calls-bill-weld-qa-rally-screw-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">driving away individuals<\/a> with his ignorant anti-gunnery and his preening support for Hillary Clinton. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyviral.com\/libertarian-party-rhode-island-withdraws-weld-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">state LP organizations<\/a> are holding their noses and running from him.\n<li>Mike Jordan, who participated in the Cascadia Rising exercise and is busily answering questions for a Living Freedom interview, sends along these two links &#8212; mostly of interest to communications folks: <a href=\"https:\/\/amrron.com\/2016\/05\/31\/cascadia-rising-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cascadia Rising Resources<\/a> and the Department of (Achtung!) Homeland Security&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amrron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/National-Interoperability-Field-Operations-Guide-v1.6-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Interoperability Field Operations Guide<\/a> (which Mike say is damn good considering the highly suspect source. Scary, but also full of wonderful info, he adds).\n<li>Lot of talk about fear these days. And rightly so. Scott Adams writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dilbert.com\/post\/152644376081\/the-persuasion-scorecard-update-one-week-out\" target=\"_blank\">fear is a powerful persuader<\/a> as the presidential race draws to a close. The ZMan writes that <a href=\"http:\/\/thezman.com\/wordpress\/?p=8884\" target=\"_blank\">fear is making us batshit crazy<\/a> (which my recent foray into Gab.ai confirms; every rumor, however wild and unverifiable, sets off waves of either panic or glee depending on whose partisanship it strokes).\n<li>And trust. While I&#8217;ve celebrated the fact that people are waking up to the fact that &#8220;their&#8221; government is untrustworthy (and in fact is out to destroy them and everything they value), there&#8217;s a deeper level at which lack of trust &#8212; for our fellow humans &#8212; is deadly dangerous. Over at the Cabal, we&#8217;ve started a discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cracked.com\/personal-experiences-2403-6-reasons-why-new-civil-war-possible-terrifying.html\" target=\"_blank\">based on this article<\/a> about the potential for civil war in the U.S. The article is part brilliant, part bogus, but most important IMHO is what it notes about the decay of trust.\n<li>Will we end up <a href=\"http:\/\/shtfschool.com\/survival-psychology\/usa-looking-in-the-balkans-mirror\/\" target=\"_blank\">looking in the Balkans mirror<\/a>? (H\/T JB)\n<li>And once again, to renew your spirit, have some dogs. Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/h2\/vflt\/spenceralthouse\/rescue-dogs-before-and-after\" target=\"_blank\">before and afters for 36 rescued pooches<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"true\";\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"livifree07-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_title = \"My Amazon Picks: For Your Car\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"ba2f266c231e052bd93695c0dfa1cc6f\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B001DZFZPG,B00RZXVQSU,B0006MQJ1G,B01C96AFWU,B00OXU7LP0,B000M8H65C,B00VA1F1TS,B001QJQ22O\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Bill Weld has turned the Libertarian Party into even more of a fiasco than it&#8217;s previously been. He&#8217;s not only <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyviral.com\/man-calls-bill-weld-qa-rally-screw-video\/\" target=\"_blank\">driving away individuals<\/a> with his ignorant anti-gunnery and his preening support for Hillary Clinton. Even <a href=\"http:\/\/libertyviral.com\/libertarian-party-rhode-island-withdraws-weld-rally\/\" target=\"_blank\">state LP organizations<\/a> are holding their noses and running from him.\n<li>Mike Jordan, who participated in the Cascadia Rising exercise and is busily answering questions for a Living Freedom interview, sends along these two links &#8212; mostly of interest to communications folks: <a href=\"https:\/\/amrron.com\/2016\/05\/31\/cascadia-rising-resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cascadia Rising Resources<\/a> and the Department of (Achtung!) Homeland Security&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/amrron.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/National-Interoperability-Field-Operations-Guide-v1.6-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">National Interoperability Field Operations Guide<\/a> (which Mike say is damn good considering the highly suspect source. Scary, but also full of wonderful info, he adds).\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/03\/thursday-links-58\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11,19,25,27,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dogs-and-cats","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","category-war","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953","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=27953"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27974,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27953\/revisions\/27974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}