{"id":185933,"date":"2014-07-11T05:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/11\/linkage-306\/"},"modified":"2014-07-11T05:22:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T10:22:00","slug":"linkage-306","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/11\/linkage-306\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/uaw-union-local-coming-to-tenn-volkswagen-plant\/2014\/07\/10\/51cbf59a-083c-11e4-8615-4eddc1f1cffa_story.html\">UAW: \u2018Consensus\u2019 reached with Volkswagen on union<\/a> (<i>Washington Post<\/i>) This is hearty F%$#-You from VW to the politicians who scare-mongered the union election in Tennessee.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/driftglass.blogspot.com\/2014\/07\/several-species-of-small-privileged.html\">Several Species of Small Privileged Onanists  Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Couric<\/a> (<i>d r i f t g l a s s<\/i>) A take-down of David Brooks worthy of Matt Taibbi.&nbsp; Today&#8217;s must read.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2014\/07\/nsa_targets_pri.html\">NSA Targets the Privacy-Conscious for Surveillance<\/a> (<i>Bruce Schneier<\/i>) Not surprised:&nbsp; The NSA says that trying to protect your privacy is justification to invade your privacy<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/joe-scarborough-chris-christie-chicken-guns\">Scarborough: Christie Is &#8216;Chicken&#8217; For Refusing To Meet Sandy Hook Families<\/a> (<i>TPM) <\/i>et tu Joseph?<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/tvandradio\/bbc\/10944629\/BBC-staff-told-to-stop-inviting-cranks-on-to-science-programmes.html\">BBC staff told to stop inviting cranks on to science programmes<\/a> (<i>Telegraph<\/i>) The cranks in question are anthropogenic climate change deniers, but &#8220;Opinion on the shape of the earth differ&#8221; journalism continues in the good old US of A.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/education\/archive\/2014\/06\/how-finland-keeps-kids-focused\/373544\/\">How Finland Keeps Kids Focused Through Free Play<\/a>&nbsp; (<i>The Atlantic<\/i>) One of the ways that Finland&#8217;s education system works is more frequent breaks, particularly at the lower grades.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2686888\/Secret-British-files-CIA-rendition-flights-accidentally-destroyed-Accusations-cover-minister-admits-documents-water-damaged.html\">The British Foreign Office claims to have &#8220;lost&#8221; documents on rendition for torture<\/a> (<i>Daily Mail<\/i>)&nbsp; Yeah, &#8220;inadvertent water damage&#8221;.&nbsp; I believe that.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/2014\/07\/10\/232923\/justice-declines-to-pursue-allegations.html\">The Department of Justice declines to investigate the CIA&#8217;s spying on the US Senate<\/a> (<i>McClatchy, DC<\/i>) Nope, no official coverup here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is John Oliver on how the Hobby Lobby crowd export homophobia while it becomes unacceptable locally. 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