{"id":180553,"date":"2017-03-17T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/17\/linkage-231\/"},"modified":"2017-03-17T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T09:48:00","slug":"linkage-231","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/03\/17\/linkage-231\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-middle-east-39264349\">Saudi Arabia launches girls&#8217; council &#8211; without any girls<\/a> (<i>BBC<\/i>) The House of Saud never falls to impress \u2026\u2026\u2026 In a bad way.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrobusiness.com.au\/2017\/03\/now-idiotic-war-batteries\/\">And now for an idiotic war on batteries<\/a> (<i>MacroBusiness<\/i>) Read a well deserved take-down of Aussie wingnuts. <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nakedcapitalism.com\/2017\/03\/can-uber-ever-deliver-part-nine-1990s-koch-funded-propaganda-program-ubers-true-origin-story.html\">Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber\u2019s True Origin Story<\/a> (<i>naked capitalism<\/i>) Read the whole series.&nbsp; Uber is an attempt to create a monopoly through political capture of regulators so that it can extract monopoly rents.&nbsp; If it fails to do so, it will never earn a dime.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/fabiusmaximus.com\/2017\/03\/13\/drivers-another-bogus-labor-shortage\/\">So many open jobs for truck drivers! It\u2019s another bogus skills shortage story.<\/a> (<i>Fabius Maximus<\/i>) The pay, benefits, and working conditions of truck drivers have cratered over the last few decades.  Fewer people want to drive trucks.  Q.E.D.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/republicans-keep-showing-us-who-they-are\/\">Republicans Keep Showing Us Who They Are<\/a> (<i>The Nation<\/i>) As the scorpion says, &#8220;It&#8217;s my nature.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/why-calvin-and-hobbes-is-great-literature\/\">Why Calvin and Hobbes is Great Literature<\/a> (<i>Literary Hub<\/i>) I agree.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ottawacitizen.com\/news\/national\/defence-watch\/chrystia-freelands-granddad-was-indeed-a-nazi-collaborator-so-much-for-russian-disinformation\">Chrystia Freeland\u2019s granddad was indeed a Nazi collaborator \u2013 so much for Russian disinformation<\/a> (<i>Ottawa Citizen<\/i>) In response to reports that her grandfather was a notorious Nazi collaborator, a spokesman for Canadian FM Chrystia Freeland claimed that it was Russian propaganda.  It turns out that Freeland is on record for over 2 decades as being aware of her sordid family history.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Simpsons have some Nostra Dumbass moments:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qj-FpBGrx9A\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi Arabia launches girls&#8217; council &#8211; without any girls (BBC) The House of Saud never falls to impress \u2026\u2026\u2026 In a bad way. And now for an idiotic war on batteries (MacroBusiness) Read a well deserved take-down of Aussie wingnuts. Can Uber Ever Deliver? Part Nine: The 1990s Koch Funded Propaganda Program That is Uber\u2019s &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-180553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180553"}],"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=180553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}