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De Archeoloog<p>Bij de <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/opgraving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>opgraving</span></a> van een mottekasteel in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ieper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ieper</span></a> hebben <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/metaaldetectoristen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>metaaldetectoristen</span></a> van de vzw Metaalstrijd meer dan 270 metalen voorwerpen uit vooral de middeleeuwen gevonden. Een topvondst is een tinnen <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/insigne" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insigne</span></a> van de beroemde Engelse bisschop Thomas <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Becket</span></a> (bron foto: Amine Beldjoudi).<br><a href="https://www.hln.be/ieper/metaaldetectoristen-brengen-middeleeuwen-tot-leven-in-ieper-misschien-vonden-we-wel-de-sleutel-van-het-kasteel~aa3be542/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">hln.be/ieper/metaaldetectorist</span><span class="invisible">en-brengen-middeleeuwen-tot-leven-in-ieper-misschien-vonden-we-wel-de-sleutel-van-het-kasteel~aa3be542/</span></a></p>
Medievalists.net<p>Becket - Episode of Media-eval: A Medieval Pop Culture Podcast <a href="https://youtu.be/37QxzcAzO_U?feature=shared" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtu.be/37QxzcAzO_U?feature=s</span><span class="invisible">hared</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Becket</span></a></p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Rarely do private companies find themselves punished for using <a href="https://c.im/tags/shell" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>shell</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/companies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>companies</span></a> to move capital and avoid taxes. </p><p>The fine accountants at Ernst &amp; Young cooked up a complicated scheme in 2008 for a restructuring of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Koch" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Koch</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Industries</span></a> via shell entities in Luxembourg, <br />a notorious tax haven, with the reasonable expectation that the ruse would never be revealed. </p><p>But then someone leaked a raft of private documents from <a href="https://c.im/tags/Mossack" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Mossack</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fonseca" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fonseca</span></a>, a law firm in Panama that specializes in the creation of shell companies. </p><p>The info dump became known as the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panama" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Panama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Papers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Papers</span></a>, and among its many revelations was Koch Industries’ bid to reinvent parts of the company, on paper, <br />as tax-avoidant Luxembourg shell companies. </p><p>According to the Center for Public Integrity, the essence of the Koch Industries deal was to <br />“reorder the ownership of many subsidiaries and centralize them under Luxembourg companies that are all served by internal corporate finance companies, <br />akin to a company’s own bank.”</p><p>Maybe that’s where the Koch siblings got the idea to get behind <a href="https://c.im/tags/DonorsTrust" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DonorsTrust</span></a><br />—a sort of house bank for the array of political entities and think tanks they fund. </p><p>Of course, as with all of the organizations funded by Koch, they’re not in it alone. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Betsy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Betsy</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dick" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dick</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DeVos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DeVos</span></a> helped fund DonorsTrust, according to Mother Jones.</p><p>And then there are the many Koch-network “pass-through” groups, such as &quot;Freedom Partners&quot;<br />and the &quot;Center to Protect Patient Rights&quot;, <br />which function much the way that shell companies do in the world of private capital: <br />-- they add layers of obfuscation over the provenance of the dollars flowing from one right-wing organization or institution to the next.</p><p>For instance, there’s the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wellspring" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wellspring</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Committee" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Committee</span></a>, <br />a pass-through funded in part via the Koch network, whose director, Ann Corkery, also sat for six years on the board of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Becket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fund</span></a> for <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religious" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Religious</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Liberty" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Liberty</span></a>, <br />a pro-bono law firm, according to tax filings. </p><p>With its portfolio of so-called religious freedom cases, <br />the Becket Fund gained notice as the firm representing the principals of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hobby</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Lobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lobby</span></a> company in <br />a 2014 Supreme Court challenge to a mandate in the Affordable Care Act <br />for employer-based health insurance to cover, <br />without a co-pay, the costs of prescription <a href="https://c.im/tags/contraception" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>contraception</span></a>.</p><p>One type of private company is the “<a href="https://c.im/tags/closely" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>closely</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/held" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>held</span></a>” variety, which may occasionally trade stock publicly, but has only a few shareholders. </p><p>The Supreme Court’s decision in favor of Hobby Lobby (number 106 on the 2016 Forbes list of the nation’s top private companies) specifically cited its “closely held” status as a qualification for its exemption from the ACA contraceptive mandate.</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Through his role in securing the nominations of Clarence <a href="https://c.im/tags/Thomas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Thomas</span></a>, John <a href="https://c.im/tags/Roberts" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Roberts</span></a>, and Samuel <a href="https://c.im/tags/Alito" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Alito</span></a> to the Supreme Court, <br /><a href="https://c.im/tags/Leonard" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Leonard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Leo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Leo</span></a>’s political cachet began to grow. </p><p>An avid networker, he cultivated friendships with other members of the court, <br />spending a weekend in Colorado hunting with Judge Antonin <a href="https://c.im/tags/Scalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Scalia</span></a> <br />— himself a devout Catholic and, like the Corkerys, close to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Opus" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Opus</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dei" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dei</span></a>. </p><p>Surrounded by such religious zeal, it didn’t take long for their example to reawaken his own Catholic faith, and Leo soon began tapping his network of <a href="https://c.im/tags/darkmoney" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>darkmoney</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/backers" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>backers</span></a> to support religious causes. </p><p>He twice bailed out the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Becket" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Becket</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Fund" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Fund</span></a>, a nonprofit named after a twelfth-century English martyr, that officially worked to protect religious freedoms, <br />especially those that were important to conservative Catholics. </p><p>He reveled in his reputation as the financial savior of this important community. </p><p>Soon afterwards, President Bush picked Leo as his representative to the &quot;United States Commission on International Religious Freedom,&quot;<br />a federal agency set up to police religious freedom around the world. </p><p>Despite its lofty aims, the commission had a tiny budget and its commissioners were unpaid. </p><p>Within Washington circles, many saw it as nothing more than an office for amateurs who meddled in foreign policy. </p><p>Undeterred by the skeptics, Leo made the most of his time at the commission to push his own Catholic agenda <br />— traveling to places like Iraq, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, South Sudan, and Vietnam to investigate allegations of religious persecution. </p><p>His own faith seemed to grow during that time, <br />with Leo occasionally reprimanding his staff for putting him in a hotel too far from a church, <br />making it difficult for him to attend Mass. </p><p>Some colleagues began to note a particular bias in the way he carried out a role that conflicted with the commission’s stated aim of championing the freedom of all religions. </p><p>He became embroiled in a lawsuit after one former colleague accused him of ❌firing her because she was Muslim. </p><p>Several staff members resigned because of the controversy, <br />and Leo was fired not long after. </p><p>Despite the scandal, his time at the commission deepened Leo’s faith and helped him cultivate his image as a serious political figure. </p><p>By the time of the <a href="https://c.im/tags/Federalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Federalist</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Society" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Society</span></a>’s twenty-fifth anniversary dinner in November 2007, <br />his influence was clear. </p><p>Leo shared the stage with the president and three sitting Supreme Court Justices <br />— Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito. </p><p>Chief Justice John Roberts sent a video message. </p><p>“Thanks in part to your efforts, a new generation of lawyers is rising,” President Bush told the assembled members. </p><p>At the time of this dinner, Leo was still recovering from the sudden death of his daughter Margaret just a few weeks before her fifteenth birthday <br />— an event that had a profound impact on him. </p><p>Margaret had been born with spina bifida and used a wheelchair. </p><p>Events around her death had reinforced Leo’s faith. </p><p>The previous summer, during a family vacation, Leo had promised Margaret that he would try to go to Mass more regularly. </p><p>Over the years, Margaret had developed an obsession with anything religious, and would nag her parents to take her to Mass. </p><p>She especially loved angels <br />— and priests, insisting on a hug every time she saw one. </p><p>The day after they returned from vacation, Leo got up early to go to Mass <br />— as promised — and looked in on Margaret. </p><p>As he was walking down the hall, she started gasping for breath and died shortly afterward. </p><p>“I will always think that she did her job,” he later said. “She did her job.”</p>
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