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Links 11/27/18

Overshadowed By Opioids, Meth Is Back And Hospitalizations Surge

An update on the meth epidemic.

You May Not Actually Own Your Bitcoin: Legal Expert

Yet another reason to be leery of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

White House Doubles Down On Coal Despite New Climate Report

Yet more official climate change denialism…

2:00PM Water Cooler 11/26/2018

Today’s Water Cooler: China trade, Tesla in China, aluminum, Sanders 2020, Beto 2020, Trump 2020, HAVA, legitimacy, national activity index, manufacturing, the environment, “Pistachio Wars”, white privilege, burgers

Post Office Privatization Thrust Awaits (Stalled) Publication of Trump Task Force Report

The Post Office, its Universal Service Obligation, privatization efforts, how (and possibly why) those efforts are stalled.

Leftist “Useful Idiots” Continue Their War on Wages via Mass Immigration (Australia)

“Fake left” plays directly into the hands of the capitalist elites that they supposedly oppose.

Links 11/26/18

Brexit: More Thrashing About

Expect Brexit craziness to get even worse.

As Zuckerberg Refuses to Testify, UK Seizes Thousands of ‘Potentially Explosive’ Documents Facebook Has Tried to Keep Secret

The costs of Mark Zuckerberg’s hubris keep rising.

Hedda Martin’s GoFundMe, Spectrum Health, and Putting a Band-Aid on the Cancer of American’s Health Care System

Market dysfunction and class warfare in crowdsourced health care funding

Links 11/25/18

‘We Are Not Robots’: Amazon Workers Walk out on Black Friday over Low Wages and ‘Inhuman Conditions’

The Amazon strikes in Spain, Italy, France, the United Kingdom, and Germany.

Links 11/24/18

Dirty Work: Buying Votes at the UN Security Council

Quelle surprise: pay to play in Security Council votes.