Linkage

• How Bank Networks Amplify Financial Crises: Evidence from the Great Depression (naked capitalism) The interconnectedness of our banking system is a clear and present danger.
• Diamond Geysers: Rule-Breaking Iceland Completes Its Miracle Economic Escape (Epoch Times) Prosecuting the banksters and telling the bond holders to go Cheney themselves worked.
• President Obama's horrible, terrible legacy on student loans (The Hill) Much like the TARP, it's all about extracting rents on the vulnerable.
• Desperate Christians try luring millennials to faith with ’emoji’ Bible (Raw Story) Desperation much?
• Sausage-wielding ‘fascists’ terrorize Georgian vegans (Politico)  Not The Onion.
• The Night I Almost Peed on Henry Kissinger (OZY) "Fair warning, Henry. Wear your storm rubbers."
• King Tut's dagger blade made from meteorite, study confirms (CBC News) Not a surprise: There are no metallic meteorites around the Mediterranean. They all got dug up during the Bronze Age, because it was the only source of workable iron.
• Asbo dwarf jailed after impersonating a Dalek and threatening woman with a butterknife (Telegraph) I have no words.

How Germany and the US differ: nakedness, small talk, children's freedom, etc.