Man Finds $40,000 Diamond Ring Buried on Florida Seaside and Tracks Down the Proprietor Who Broke into Tears Good Information Community
Is Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Well-known Thought on Its twenty fifth Anniversary Scientific American
The Science Behind Your Cheese Smithsonian
Inflation: how monetary hypothesis is making the worldwide meals value disaster worse The Dialog
Local weather
Boulder County’s Gold Hill is discovering a brand new mannequin to empower its mountain neighborhood to organize for wildfires Boulder Reporting Lab
Need to battle local weather change successfully? Right here’s the place to donate your cash. VOX (GF). GF: “I do know it’s Vox however was impressed by the 8 advised environmental organizations listed as philanthropic designee.”
#COVID19
It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over…however It’s By no means Over — Rising and Reemerging Infectious Ailments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NEJM
Why lengthy Covid could possibly be ‘the subsequent public well being catastrophe’ CNBC. Resilc: “Geeeee, what a shockerrrrrrrrrrrrr, who woulda ever thunk itttttttttttt.”
Covid turns into plague of aged, reviving debate over ‘acceptable loss’ WaPo
Monitoring monkeypox virus in saliva and air samples in Spain: a cross-sectional examine The Lancet. From the Summary: “The identification of excessive viable monkeypox virus hundreds in saliva in most sufferers with monkeypox and the discovering of monkeypox virus DNA in droplets and aerosols warrants additional epidemiological research to judge the potential relevance of the respiratory route of an infection within the 2022 monkeypox virus outbreak.”
China?
China-EU relations: Xi meets European Council President, pledges provide chain cooperation South China Morning Submit
* * * China’s Covid Protests Started With an Condo Fireplace in a Distant Area WSJ
The Covid Protests in China and Why They Occurred Now (podcast) Odd Tons. Commentary:
An attention-grabbing dimension that got here up is how the funds for imposing Covid Zero typically falls to the native/provincial governments. And people regional entities have seen their funds battered by the collapse in actual property, since land gross sales are an enormous supply of native gov income.
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) December 1, 2022
Jiang Zemin; Covid messaging shift; Protests aftermath; Actual property; Saudi Arabia Sinocism
China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians AP
The Communist Occasion Is Shedding China’s Folks NYT
Covid and China’s plumbing:
A re-up in why locking individuals of their residences continues to be leading to total buildings and neighborhoods getting contaminated, and why lockdowns cannot work with out aerosol mitigation to forestall in-community unfold. See citations- https://t.co/xoQK0pFCUO
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) November 26, 2022
* * * How Beijing Took Taiwan by Drive, the Final Time Sinical China. Hmm.
Worthy and Unworthy Protest Black Agenda Report. For instance:
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) November 30, 2022
Politics of the Commons: And But They Transfer Venezuelanalysis
Myanmar
Myanmar democracy chief says 2,000 lifeless combating junta, urges navy help Reuters
Syraqistan
World Cup 2022: Iranian man killed celebrating soccer workforce’s loss BBC (resilc)
Pakistan now a much bigger basket case than even Bangladesh Asia Instances (resilc)
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European publication. Discover the dearth of an easy denial by Ukraine:
VDL FLUBS, BACKTRACKS ON UKRAINIAN DEATHS: European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday mentioned an estimated 120,000 Ukrainians had been killed throughout Russia’s struggle — sparking outrage in Kyiv, the place casualty numbers are handled as a protection secret and topic to wartime censorship.
The Fee didn’t specify the place the estimates got here from, and later deleted the video of von der Leyen’s speech, in addition to a written model, earlier than republishing each with the contentious numbers edited out. However it was too late. Twitter customers shared the unique, containing the sentence: “It’s estimated that 20,000 civilians and greater than 100,000 Ukrainian navy officers have been killed thus far.”
Kyiv’s take: “We can’t verify this determine, we emphasize that the losses of the Ukrainian military are official info and are topic to restrictions on publication,” a spokesman for Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned.
Group VDL’s take: A spokesperson for von der Leyen mentioned the unique video had been edited as a result of the 100,000 determine associated to estimates of complete casualties — which means individuals killed in addition to injured.
When you imagine von der Leyen bought the fatality determine fallacious, I’ve a bridge I’d prefer to promote you.
Germans spending much less as hovering energy, meals prices gnaw funds Reuters
French baguette voted onto UN World Cultural Heritage record France24 (resilc)
Outdated Blighty
£4.5bn misplaced to fraud in three COVID schemes as Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Assist Out scheme recorded 9.5% fee of fraud, HMRC says Sky Information. SBF territory!
Life’s little ironies:
One individual, combating for more cash for individuals who want it most to outlive, known as the grinch. Whereas the wealthy individuals above him are having a banquet.
Not a touch of irony. pic.twitter.com/XSPjBiI1Yy
— Ryan Love (@RyanJL) November 22, 2022
Prince William’s godmother quits palace over feedback to black charity boss Guardian. Transcript:
Blended emotions about yesterday’s go to to Buckingham Palace. 10 minutes after arriving, a member of employees, Woman SH, approached me, moved my hair to see my identify badge. The dialog under befell. The remainder of the occasion is a blur.
Thanks @ManduReid & @SuzanneEJacob for help🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/OUbQKlabyq— Sistah House (@Sistah_Space) November 30, 2022
A minority view:
When I’m requested the place I am from, I proudly say that I reside in Luton and I am primarily of Bangladeshi origin (partly North Indian).
I’ve by no means taken it as a racially malicious line of questioning, however moderately a type of curiosity and curiosity.
Identitarian outrage is a poison.
— Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibehsan) December 1, 2022
How Scottish Independence has turn into entwined with Brexit Primarily Macro
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
On Russian Managed Kherson Frontline, Dealing with Ukraine Positions (video) Patrick Lancaster, YouTube. Deep circles underneath everybody’s eyes.
ROMAN ABRAMOVICH REVEALS HE IS LOBBYING THE US GOVERNMENT FOR THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO END THE UKRAINE WAR John Helmer. Observe the headline is correct. However Helmer strongly insinuates the lobbying, at the least for Russia, fizzled after the Istanbul negotiations and that Abramovich’s major curiosity now could be remaining unsanctioned by the US.
* * * ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Discovered New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine FAIR
Making sense of Ukrainian struggle memes: From watermelons to Saint Javelin Kyiv Impartial
* * * NATO once more dangles membership in entrance of Ukraine Accountable Statecraft
NATO Exists To Remedy The Issues Created By NATO’s Existence Caitlin’s Publication
BlackRock Monetary Markets Advisory to advise Ministry of Economic system of Ukraine (press launch) BlackRock. From November 16, nonetheless germane.
Biden Adminstration
New Home Democrat chief’s staunch ties to US-Israel teams Center East Eye
The Bezzle
FTX & Sam Bankman-Fried | DealBook Summit Interview (video) YouTube. Transcript. Wowsers.
FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident Coindesk
Surviving FTX: Fintechs and banks untangle themselves American Banker
* * * Elon Musk’s Twitter Politics Add to Strain on Tesla’s Model Picture Wall Avenue Journal. Key chart:
Elon Musk seems to make good with Apple after Twitter tirade Monetary Instances
Republican Clown Automobile
The GOP ought to see Nancy Pelosi as a job mannequin, not a villain Brookings Institute. Certainly!
Trump
Treasury Division despatched Home Democrats Trump tax returns Axios (resilc)
Class Warfare
U.S. Home votes to dam rail strike, mandate paid sick go away Reuters. The contract invoice (290-137) is separate from the sick go away invoice (221-207).
Some Rail Employees, Searching for Sick Days, Say Biden Betrayed Them New York Instances. Resilc: “No shit, and the place is my $600???????”
Studying As Counter-Observe The Convivial Society
Antidote du Jour (through):
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