{"id":181242,"date":"2016-08-22T05:31:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/22\/linkage-275\/"},"modified":"2016-08-22T05:31:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T10:31:00","slug":"linkage-275","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2016\/08\/22\/linkage-275\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/opinion\/opinion-la\/la-ol-police-mass-shooting-men-women-gender-20160715-snap-story.html\">One group is responsible for America\u2019s culture of violence, and it isn\u2019t cops, black Americans, Muslims or rednecks. It\u2019s men<\/a> (<i>LA Times<\/i>) It&#8217;s true.  Our culture of violence is overwhelmingly a masculine one.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20160818\/these-are-your-28-tpp-house-democrat-targets?PageSpeed=noscript\">These Are Your 28 TPP House Democrat Targets<\/a> (<i>Our Future<\/i>) The 28 House members who voted for Fast Track for TPP.&nbsp; Call them and tell them that you want them to vote against a lame duck vote on the TPP, and that if there is one, you want them to vote no.&nbsp; (Unsurprisingly, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz is on this list)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/downfall.jfedor.org\/\">Make your own <i>Downfall<\/i> video<\/a> (<i>J. Fedor<\/i>) You know the meme, Hitler ranting in the movie <i>Downfall<\/i> where someone rewrites the subtitles.  This automates the process.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2016\/08\/16\/swedish_pig_rampage\/\">Swedish Pokemon teens terrorised by laser-wielding &#8216;sex pigs&#8217;<\/a> (<i>The Register<\/i>) It&#8217;s an old story:&nbsp; Couple dons pig masks, and chases kids hunting for Pokemon out of the park, and then have public sex.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/commondreams.org\/news\/2016\/08\/16\/nasa-study-nails-fracking-source-massive-methane-hot-spot\">NASA Study Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane &#8216;Hot Spot&#8217;<\/a> (<i>Common Dreams<\/i>) Filed under, &#8220;Well duh!&#8221; <\/li>\n<li>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2016\/aug\/18\/uncovering-truth-british-empire-caroline-elkins-mau-mau\">Uncovering the brutal truth about the British empire<\/a> (<i>The Guardian<\/i>) Thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of killings by the British fighting the Mau Mau uprising. The image of the benign British empire is a myth.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/aetna-obamacare-and-health-insurers-10-dirty-secrets-2016-08-19\">Aetna, Obamacare and health insurers\u2019 10 dirty secrets<\/a> (<i>MarketWatch<\/i>) Medical insurance is evil, and the problem, not the solution.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/08\/22\/opinion\/international\/saudi-arabia-kills-civilians-the-us-looks-the-other-way.html\">Saudi Arabia Kills Civilians, the U.S. Looks the Other Way<\/a> (<i>New York Times<\/i>) This is wrong, and stupid, and evil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;Do try this at home, but kids should make sure that your parents are there:<br \/><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4_ez2jQdj-w\" width=\"500\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One group is responsible for America\u2019s culture of violence, and it isn\u2019t cops, black Americans, Muslims or rednecks. It\u2019s men (LA Times) It&#8217;s true. Our culture of violence is overwhelmingly a masculine one. These Are Your 28 TPP House Democrat Targets (Our Future) The 28 House members who voted for Fast Track for TPP.&nbsp; Call &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1014],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linkage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181242"}],"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=181242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}