Linkage

• Statement on the resignation of the Chair of our chapter in Chile (Transperency International) Chile chair of transparency international resigns after he is found in the Panama papers.
• Yiddish Curses for Republican Jews (Ma Hamatzav? (Was' Up?)) such bon mots as, "May you find yourself insisting to a roomful of skeptics that your great-grandmother was “legitimately” raped by Cossacks."
• Radioactive wild boars rampaging around Fukushima nuclear site | Asia | News | The Independent The wolves in the area were exterminated a bit over 100 years ago, and it was a unique species. Perhaps dropping in some other woves, or some bears would help.
• Second Russian intelligence report on Turkey’s current assistance to Daesh (Boltaire Net) So not a surprise.
• Inside Erik Prince’s Treacherous Drive to Build a Private Air Force (The Intercept) FFS, could someone throw his ass in jail?
• Congratulations! You’ve Been Fired (The New York Times) How what used to be called "Dotcom" companies treat their employees like crap, and then try to pretend that they don't.
• Churchill got a doctor's note requiring him to drink at least 8 doubles a day "for convalescence" (Boing Boing) The fact that Churchill was right once in his life, and was a disaster at everything else might be explained by alcoholism.
• Brilliant IKEA-esque instructions teach you how to eat 'hard-to-eat' food (ShortList Magazine) Brilliant!
• The Stories We Tell About Killing (The Disorder Of Things) Makes the (IMNSHO accurate) point that US counter-insurgency strategy is rooted in our heritage of genocide against the American Indian. Money quote, "For me, it is impossible to capture the degree to which counter-insurgency is at the heart of the American paradigm of state making and war fighting without placing the Indian Wars and subsequent efforts at American Indian population concentration and pacification at the center of U.S. political development." 
• When charter schools close, taxpayer-funded property often goes missing (Sun Sentinel) Unsurprising. The activity is all about extracting taxes for private profit.

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