{"id":178761,"date":"2018-08-27T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/27\/linkage-118\/"},"modified":"2018-08-27T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T10:16:00","slug":"linkage-118","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/08\/27\/linkage-118\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2018\/08\/rough-guide-12-intelligence-officialscondemned-trump-revolking.html\">A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan&#8217;s Security Clearance<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>)Of the 12: 3 lied to Congress, 1 leaked information to his mistress, 5 supported torturers, 1 greenlit Iraq at a senior level, and 1 let the folks who hacked Senate computers off scot free.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/19\/us\/asia-argento-assault-jimmy-bennett.html\">Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) It&#8217;s about power, and abuse of power, and the abused become the abusers.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opendemocracy.net\/od-russia\/vasily-gatov\/what-we-are-getting-wrong-about-russia-today\">Research the revenge: what we\u2019re getting wrong about Russia Today<\/a> (<i>openDemocracy<\/i>) RT is largely made up of people, western and Russian, who were kicked to the curb by western media after interest in Russia declined, and this drives their coverage.  It&#8217;s an interesting theory.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/sea-level-rise-is-eroding-home-value-and-owners-might-not-even-know-it\/2018\/08\/20\/ff63fa8c-a0d5-11e8-93e3-24d1703d2a7a_story.html?noredirect=on\">Sea level rise is eroding home value, and owners might not even know it<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) Yes, the real problem with anthropogenic climate change is falling property values.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/24\/sunday-review\/manafort-cohen-mueller-white-collar-crime.html\">Why Manafort and Cohen Thought They\u2019d Get Away With It<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) Because they thought that criminal prosecutions were only for black and brown people.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.muckrock.com\/news\/archives\/2018\/aug\/24\/how-use-foia-find-department-defense-contracts\/\">Using FOIA and public databases to track down Department of Defense contracts<\/a> (<i>MuckRock<\/i>) A handy primer for all you wannabe Sy Hersh&#8217;s<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This cut away about McCain&#8217;s death is marvelously surreal.  (<i>watch the whole thing<\/i>)<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"279\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SlWqW_FMkEU\" width=\"496\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rough Guide to the 12 Intelligence Officials Who Condemned Trump for Revoking John Brennan&#8217;s Security Clearance (naked capitalism)Of the 12: 3 lied to Congress, 1 leaked information to his mistress, 5 supported torturers, 1 greenlit Iraq at a senior level, and 1 let the folks who hacked Senate computers off scot free. Asia Argento, &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-178761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178761"}],"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=178761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}