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French Scientist’s Picture of ‘Distant Star’ Was Really Chorizo Vice (J-LS)
Leopard crashes into home and rescued Every day Mirror (SBK)
France whale: Misplaced mammal caught in River Seine to get vitamin increase BBC
The consciousness of bees Washington Put up (furzy)
At Lengthy Final, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Steady Qanta Journal
Earth Is Spinning Quicker Now Than It Was 50 Years In the past Uncover (Dr Kevin)
Solar energy opens the door to banking for rural Indians Thomson Reuters Basis (J-LS)
Streaming Is a Black Gap of Monetary Loss The Bulwark (furzy)
#COVID-19
Persistence of somatic signs after COVID-19 within the Netherlands: an observational cohort research The Lancet
Monkeypox
Implications Of Monkeypox Being Declared A Public Well being Emergency In U.S. Forbes
Safer Intercourse, Social Gatherings, and Monkeypox CDC. I hope IM Doc weighs in. No matter you consider the slim usefulnesses, “recommendation” like this (as within the headline!) reinforces the concept monkeypox is a de facto STD. This seems as if the CDC is establishing gays for blame for its failures.
A Stranger Filmed Her on the Prepare. TikTok Customers Determined She Had Monkeypox. New York Occasions
Local weather/Surroundings
Nothing left within the pipes’: Europe tackles unprecedented water shortages as heatwave rages Euronews (furzy)
Drought might power nuclear energy manufacturing lower Related Press. Re France.
France creates process power to stem impression of ‘historic’ drought France24 (resilc)
No-till will not be the agricultural panacea we thought it was (furzy)
China?
The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the expertise to China NPR (resilc)
How a lot does Taiwan rely upon China? DW (resilc)
Pelosi Aftermath
Taiwan accuses China of simulating invasion as US relations nosedive Firstpost (J-LS)
We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Unbelievable Hazard Posed by the Taiwan Disaster Jacobin (Tom H)
Blinken chides China’s ‘irresponsible’ lower in US communication Al Jazeera (resilc)
GT Voice: US financial system to pay for commencement journey by ‘god of shares of Capitol Hill’ International Occasions (DS)
Myanmar junta raps ‘provocative’ Pelosi go to to Taiwan Mizzima
Somalia helps China amid rising tensions on Taiwan Anadolu Company
Pelosi’s Taiwan go to and the boundaries of American technique Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
Amid India’s Stress, Sri Lanka Urges China to Defer Go to of its Ship to Hambantota: Report The Wire
Previous Blighty
Inside London’s Battle to Wean Itself From Russian Billions Vainness Honest (resilc)
Power Payments Are Set To Soar In The UK OilPrice (resilc)
The individuals about to decide on Britain’s subsequent prime minister The Economist
When whistleblowers go to jail, we’re on the street to tyranny Salon
Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to fulfill with Assange’s household WSWS
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Unique: U.S. readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons package deal Reuters (resilc)
Turkey, Russia conform to commerce in rubles — Erdogan TASS and Turkish Banks Are Adopting Russian Funds System, Erdogan Says Bloomberg
Alarm mounts in western capitals over Turkey’s deepening ties with Russia Monetary Occasions. The West has misplaced its thoughts:
Western capitals are more and more alarmed in regards to the deepening financial co-operation between Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, warning of the mounting threat that the Nato member state might be hit by punitive retaliation if it helps Russia keep away from sanctions.
Word Turkey has been snubbed by the EU and by Western arms makers. From DefenseNews final October:
Difficult Western sanctions, NATO ally Turkey has pledged to additional its protection trade cooperation with Russia, together with fighter jet and plane engine applied sciences, a second batch of S-400 air protection methods, and submarines….
In an interview with CBS present “Face the Nation,” Erdogan stated America’s refusal to each ship F-35 fighter jets — which Turkey agreed to buy — and promote Patriot air protection missiles gave Turkey no alternative however to show to Russia for the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The acquisition was some extent of competition between Turkey and NATO in the course of the Trump administration, and that sentiment has carried over to the brand new administration.
Now I see why Alexander Mercouris floated the concept Turkey might depart NATO (not instantly, however the concept appeared unimaginable heretofore) and that the West will likely be making an attempt (more durable) to oust Ergogan
“After the confiscation of property of the Russian Federation”: the Federation Council stated that Ukraine has ceased to be secure for gasoline transit RT. Authentic: «После конфискации собственности РФ»: в Совфеде заявили, что Украина перестала быть безопасной для транзита газа. Recall the dialogue at NC of the pervasive political and press silence in regards to the function of the Yamal-Europe pipeline as a part of Europe’s gasoline woes (map right here). Yamal-Europe carried 33-34 billion cubic meters of gasoline yearly v. 55 billion cubic meters for Nord Stream 1 at full capability. Ukraine lower off the provision on its leg of Yamal-Europe, on the pretext that it ran by Russian managed territory, when that had been true for months. Poland refused to pay for gasoline in roubles, so Russia lower off their quantity. So the Russian announcement is tantamount to make the closure of the leg of Yamal-Europe by Ukraine everlasting (conceivably the West might have crushed up on Ukraine to cease blocking provide so the EU might get extra gasoline, however not).
Tutorial analysis institute director Alexander Shiplyuk arrested on excessive treason prices TASS
Has the Ukraine Battle Pushed U.S. Authorities Officers Loopy? CovertAction Journal (resilc)
Syraqistan
After years of hostility, Turkey forges ties with jap Libya Al-Monitor
Israel making ready for a week-long Gaza operation: Military Mint
Bladed ‘Ninja’ missile decapitated al-Qaeda’s head Asia Occasions (resilc)
Zawahiri’s killing unlikely to weaken al-Qaida considerably The Guardian (resilc)
World Financial institution blames Lebanon for ‘deliberate’ financial disaster Al-Monitor (furzy)
Myanmar
ASEAN particular envoy to Myanmar warns on additional executions AP
Imperial Collapse Watch
Philippines Will Not Rejoin Worldwide Prison Courtroom, Marcos Says The Diplomat
Large Brother is Watching You Watch
The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Advanced CounterPunch
State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy New Yorker (furzy)
It’s Laborious To Win A Senate Race When You’ve By no means Gained An Election Earlier than FiveThirtyEight (resilc)
US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We is not going to ban the books’ Guardian
Abortion
The Bezzle
One other courtroom case fails to unlock the thriller of bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto The Guardian
Indie devs outraged by unlicensed recreation gross sales on GameStop’s NFT market [Updated] Ars Technica
FTX-Backed PACs Develop the Crypto Foyer in Congress The Intercept
Personal fairness items at buyout corporations contract as monetary markets tumble Monetary Occasions
US Airways Are Cancelling 1000’s of Flights CNN
Guillotine Watch
Balenciaga is promoting an $1,800 trash bag that ‘seems precisely like a Hefty bag you’d use in your kitchen’ Enterprise Insider
Class Warfare
The White Home’s Plan to Stem Migration Protects Company Income—Not Individuals In These Occasions
Antidote du jour (through):
And a bonus:
Little monkey is anxious to save lots of a trapped kitty pic.twitter.com/jqWpobVOiZ
— pups (@pups_Puppies1) August 6, 2022
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
