{"id":178356,"date":"2018-12-24T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/24\/linkage-98\/"},"modified":"2018-12-24T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T10:07:00","slug":"linkage-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/12\/24\/linkage-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/opinion\/britain-stole-45-trillion-india-181206124830851.html\">How Britain stole $45 trillion from India<\/a> (<i>Al Jazeera<\/i>) The wages of colonialism.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2018\/12\/how-putins-russia-turned-x-into-a-weapon.html\">How Putin&#8217;s Russia Weaponizes X<\/a> (<i>Moon of Alabama<\/i>) A list of the many times that this cliche has been invoked. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2018\/12\/17\/nature_paper_trump_poo\/\">Boffins don&#8217;t give a sh!t, slap Trump&#8217;s face on a turd in science journal<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) A brown anti-Trump Easter egg.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@caityjohnstone\/this-isnt-news-this-is-war-crimes-apologia-8dd93d4058f4\">This Isn\u2019t News. This Is War Crimes Apologia.<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) Caitlin Johnstone unleashes a well deserved can of whup ass on Michelle Obama&#8217;s deplorable embrace of war criminal George W. Bush.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@korolova\/facebooks-illusion-of-control-over-location-related-ad-targeting-de7f865aee78\">Facebook\u2019s Illusion of Control over Location-Related Ad Targeting<\/a> (<i>Medium<\/i>) Zuckerberg&#8217;s technological horror lies when they say that you can turn off their tracking of you.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/whowhatwhy.org\/2018\/12\/17\/the-real-story-of-the-pentagons-21-trillion-con-game\/\">The Real Story of the Pentagon\u2019s $21 Trillion Con Game<\/a> (<i>WhoWhatWhy<\/i>) Cui bono?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2018\/12\/17\/big-pharma-fights-proposal-to-keep-it-from-looting-medicare\/\">Big Pharma Fights Proposal to Keep It From Looting Medicare<\/a> (<i>Counterpunch<\/i>) The headline says it all.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/religion\/2018\/12\/19\/neighbor-anonymously-called-christmas-dragons-her-yard-demonic-so-she-put-more-up\/\">Christmas dragons: Diana Rowland&#8217;s yard display is inappropriate, a neighbor wrote. So she put up more.<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) A woman put up dragons as Christmas decorations.&nbsp; An anonymous neighbor complained that they were demonic, so said woman put up more dragons.&nbsp; Kind of like, &#8220;Turtles all the way down.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m surprised that anyone found this in the article, it is tiny:<\/p>\n<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This way is easier: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OASlEtgyBE\">pic.twitter.com\/OASlEtgyBE<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Jaime de Juan-Sanz (@JaimedeJuan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JaimedeJuan\/status\/1073353744212000768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 13, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Britain stole $45 trillion from India (Al Jazeera) The wages of colonialism. How Putin&#8217;s Russia Weaponizes X (Moon of Alabama) A list of the many times that this cliche has been invoked. Boffins don&#8217;t give a sh!t, slap Trump&#8217;s face on a turd in science journal (The Register) A brown anti-Trump Easter egg. This &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[376],"class_list":["post-178356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}