{"id":34733,"date":"2018-01-18T19:32:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=34733"},"modified":"2018-01-18T19:33:06","modified_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:33:06","slug":"thursday-friday-links-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/thursday-friday-links-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday-Friday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Some hospitals, sick of high drug prices, are <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/01\/18\/hospitals-nonprofit-drug-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">forming their own non-profit drug manufacturer<\/a>.\n<li>Michael Wolff&#8217;s riotously controversial book about the Trump administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-42730192\" target=\"_blank\">has already been signed<\/a> for a TV series. A sit-com, I assume. (H\/T MRJ)\n<li>In Mexico, cities are dealing with corruption and violence by <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/mexican-cities-are-escaping-corruption-and-the-cartels-through-secession\/\" target=\"_blank\">effectively seceding<\/a> and shutting themselves off.\n<li>Oh yeah, just what every &#8220;smart&#8221; home needs: a <a href=\"https:\/\/conservativetribune.com\/amazons-newest-product-camera-mic-bedroom\/\" target=\"_blank\">spycam and microphone<\/a> <em>right next to your bed<\/em>, reporting your activities to Amazon and any hacker or member of the uber-government who cares to observe. (Tip o&#8217; hat to fred)\n<li>Meanwhile, in India, people are reportedly dying thanks to <a href=\"https:\/\/motherboard.vice.com\/en_us\/article\/43q4jp\/aadhaar-hack-insecure-biometric-id-system\" target=\"_blank\">the world&#8217;s largest biometric ID system<\/a>. The answer? Make it bigger and create more dependency on it, of course.\n<li>If you thought &#8220;just-in-time&#8221; inventory management was a disaster waiting to happen, apparently Whole Foods&#8217; &#8220;order-to-shelf&#8221; system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/whole-foods-employees-reveal-why-stores-are-facing-a-crisis-of-food-shortages-2018-1\" target=\"_blank\">is a disaster that&#8217;s already happened<\/a>. Do your friends and neighbors still imagine they&#8217;ll be able to hit the local grocery store after the next storm or earthquake?\n<li>Jon Rappoport on hoaxes, scandals, and lies <a href=\"https:\/\/jonrappoport.wordpress.com\/2018\/01\/15\/massive-flu-outbreak-heres-the-real-story-the-media-wont-touch-the-lies-the-hoax-the-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">behind the annual flu vaccine hype<\/a>. (H\/T fred)\n<li>The story of how &#8220;these united States&#8221; became &#8220;the United States,&#8221; is <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/volokh\/2018\/01\/17\/united-states-plural-vs-singular\" target=\"_blank\">slightly more complicated<\/a> than you might have heard. So says Eugene Volokh. (The tipping point still seems to have been the War Between the States, though.)\n<li>The importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getrichslowly.org\/2018\/01\/17\/first-things-first\/\" target=\"_blank\">putting first things first<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Some hospitals, sick of high drug prices, are <a href=\"http:\/\/fortune.com\/2018\/01\/18\/hospitals-nonprofit-drug-company\/\" target=\"_blank\">forming their own non-profit drug manufacturer<\/a>.\n<li>Michael Wolff&#8217;s riotously controversial book about the Trump administration <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-42730192\" target=\"_blank\">has already been signed<\/a> for a TV series. A sit-com, I assume. (H\/T MRJ)\n<li>In Mexico, cities are dealing with corruption and violence by <a href=\"https:\/\/fee.org\/articles\/mexican-cities-are-escaping-corruption-and-the-cartels-through-secession\/\" target=\"_blank\">effectively seceding<\/a> and shutting themselves off.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/01\/18\/thursday-friday-links-2\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Thursday-Friday 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":[4,6,11,13,19,20,25,27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-and-movies","category-computers-and-technology","category-government","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-money","category-poly-ticks","category-preparedness","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\/34733","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=34733"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34744,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34733\/revisions\/34744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}