Linkage

• Counterfeit Capitalism: Why a Monopolized Economy Leads to Inflation and Shortages (BIG by Matt Stoller) A monopoly is not only exploitative and evil, it is fragile.
  
• The unlikely protector against Bangladesh's rising seas (BBC Future) Reseeding Oyster reefs, and it makes the ocean more productive as well
• What It’s Like to Fix: Linotype, Intertype, and Other Old Presses (iFixit) I love old machines. Video below.
  
• China prepares to test thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor (Nature) Does not mention India work on the Thorium cycle, but does capture the general superiority of the thorium fuel cycle over the uranium/plutonium cycle.
  
• Deputy cliques in L.A. County Sheriff’s Dept. likely growing, study finds (Los Angeles Times) "Clique" is kind of a misnomer.  The proper term is criminal gangs. 
• Appeals Court Says Police Ballistics Expert Can Be Sued Helping Wrongfully Imprison Two Men For More Than 17 Years (Techdirt) Money quote, "Because the records did not support the case against Horn and Jackson, NHPD officers suppressed the records for nearly 20 years, hiding them in the basement of a detective’s house."
• Opinion | The War on Terror Was Corrupt From the Start (New York Times) A decent take, but it ignores the corruption of the Pentagon and its revolving door general officers.
  

I love old machines like this: