{"id":178707,"date":"2018-09-13T05:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/13\/linkage-116\/"},"modified":"2018-09-13T05:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T10:04:00","slug":"linkage-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/13\/linkage-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/warisboring.com\/these-officials-let-911-happen\/\">These Officials Let 9\/11 Happen<\/a> (<i>War Is Boring<\/i>) We are talking about incompetence, not malice, and then these folks went onto torture, and they now run the intelligence establishment.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2018\/09\/gaius-publius-big-oil-seeks-billions-u-s-government-protect-climate-change.html\">Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From&#8230;Climate Change<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) Specifically, they are asking for billions to protect them from increased flooding in Houston and other coastal cities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2018\/09\/10\/about-a-quarter-of-rural-americans-say-access-to-high-speed-internet-is-a-major-problem\/\">For 24% of rural Americans, high-speed internet is a major problem<\/a> (<i>Pew Research Center<\/i>) Only 24%.&nbsp; Us broadband sucks.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fnlondon.com\/articles\/breaking-the-blockchain-major-projects-shelved-as-hype-fades-20180911\">Breaking the blockchain: Major projects shelved as hype fades<\/a> (<i>Financial News<\/i>) Still no applications for the technology, even among hackers, beyond crypto-currency scams.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.theguardian.com\/education\/2018\/sep\/09\/religious-education-schools-overhaul-reflect-diverse-world\">Call for atheism to be included in religious education<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Religious instruction is part of the UK curriculum, and now some are calling for atheism to be included.&nbsp; My mom suggested that bible handouts in public schools needed equal time for Marxist tracts on atheism 40 years ago.&nbsp; I approve.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/theinnerwalls.blogspot.com\/2018\/09\/an-outside-view-famous-abusers-seek.html\">An outside view: Famous abusers seek easy forgiveness. Rosh Hashanah teaches us repentance is hard<\/a> (<i>the inner walls<\/i>) My brother has an essay on repentance and forgiveness, and how this is not, and should never be, and easy thing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Daniel Ellsberg on why Julian Assange is a Journalist, and should not be prosecuted:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XOMkGIlns6o\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These Officials Let 9\/11 Happen (War Is Boring) We are talking about incompetence, not malice, and then these folks went onto torture, and they now run the intelligence establishment. Gaius Publius: Big Oil Seeks Billions from U.S. Government to Protect It From&#8230;Climate Change (naked capitalism) Specifically, they are asking for billions to protect them from &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-178707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178707"}],"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=178707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}