{"id":39529,"date":"2018-11-10T07:07:13","date_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/?p=39529"},"modified":"2018-11-10T07:33:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-10T15:33:26","slug":"weekend-links-115","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/10\/weekend-links-115\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Kit Perez on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpartisan.org\/2018\/11\/forming-a-community-survival-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">forming a community survival group<\/a>. This is a more rigorous process than most of us will go through, but its a good reminder of where our most important allies will be when TSHTF.\n<li>It seems certain crusaders in government <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/11\/gab-cries-foul-as-pennsylvania-attorney-general-subpoenas-dns-provider\/\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t want Gab to have a right to free speech<\/a>.\n<li>Fortunately, Epik, Gab&#8217;s new domain registrar after GoDaddy kicked it out, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samizdata.net\/2018\/11\/epik-domain-registrar-against-censorship\/\" target=\"_blank\">knows better<\/a>.\n<li>Sure, USPS. Scan every piece of mail for &#8220;security,&#8221; then grant recipients a right to have an early look at what&#8217;s awaiting them. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/11\/u-s-secret-service-warns-id-thieves-are-abusing-uspss-mail-scanning-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">put no damn security<\/a> on your system at all, making identity thieves&#8217; job easier. Whose safety are you protecting, exactly?\n<li>Violent mob attacks a conservative commentator&#8217;s house, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/11\/08\/tucker-carlsons-terrified-wife-locked-room-antifa-mob-broke-front-door\/\" target=\"_blank\">breaks his door<\/a> and terrorizes his wife.\n<li>If you want to understand the cynicism and lawlessness of deep government, read about how top officials in the FDIC and other agencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/norbertmichel\/2018\/11\/05\/newly-unsealed-documents-show-top-fdic-officials-running-operation-choke-point\/#437913f21191\" target=\"_blank\">conspired to destroy perfectly legal businesses<\/a> via Operation Choke Point &#8212; and how controlled bankers complied. (H\/T TSO)\n<li>Yesterday and today mark the 80th anniversary of <em>Kristallnacht<\/em>. Jeff Minick wonders if the world is falling into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intellectualtakeout.org\/article\/kristallnacht-are-we-experiencing-modern-version\" target=\"_blank\">snail&#8217;s-pace Kristallnacht<\/a> today.\n<li>And here&#8217;s a perspective <a href=\"https:\/\/stream.org\/night-broken-glass-anti-semitism\/\" target=\"_blank\">on lessons to be learned<\/a> from Kristallnacht. (This piece conflates anti-Zionism with hatred of Jews, which isn&#8217;t accurate; but the two certainly feed off each other.)\n<li>Favored choice for pres in 2020: <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2018\/11\/08\/poll-dem-choice-2020-potus-race-none\/\" target=\"_blank\">None of the above<\/a>.\n<li>A strangely interesting comparison <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ThbRstrgofM\" target=\"_blank\">of the sizes of objects and beings<\/a> in <em>The Lord of the Rings<\/em>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today is also the anniversary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald\" target=\"_blank\">sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald<\/a>, as Gordon Lightfoot so movingly sang:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9vST6hVRj2A\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<li>Kit Perez on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanpartisan.org\/2018\/11\/forming-a-community-survival-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">forming a community survival group<\/a>. This is a more rigorous process than most of us will go through, but its a good reminder of where our most important allies will be when TSHTF.\n<li>It seems certain crusaders in government <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2018\/11\/gab-cries-foul-as-pennsylvania-attorney-general-subpoenas-dns-provider\/\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t want Gab to have a right to free speech<\/a>.\n<li>Sure, USPS. Scan every piece of mail for &#8220;security,&#8221; then grant recipients a right to have an early look at what&#8217;s awaiting them. Then <a href=\"https:\/\/krebsonsecurity.com\/2018\/11\/u-s-secret-service-warns-id-thieves-are-abusing-uspss-mail-scanning-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">put no damn security<\/a> on your system at all, making identity thieves&#8217; job easier.\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2018\/11\/10\/weekend-links-115\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Weekend 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":[2,4,7,9,11,19,23,27,28,29,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-aesthetics","category-books-and-movies","category-cultural-insanity","category-free-speech","category-government","category-miscellaneous","category-thuggery-and-bad-law","category-preparedness","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-religion","category-stupid-security","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529","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=39529"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39548,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39529\/revisions\/39548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}