Mars Rover Finds Indicators of Seasonal Floods ars technica
Chicken flu researchers flip to Finland’s mink farms, monitoring a virus with pandemic potential STAT (Dr. Kevin)
Liberalism towards capitalism aeon
#COVID-19
Please see our publish on the FDA’s optical footwork on Ivermectin.
I do know a pediatrician who lastly caught COVID after 3.5 yrs who’s being informed she must return to work regardless that she remains to be testing optimistic (at 7 days) and feels terrible. One among her essential jobs is to test over newborns. That is scary and never OK. Lawsuits want to start out. https://t.co/nkoumYn7Nt
— Kimberly Prather, Ph.D. (@kprather88) August 11, 2023
And this with a lot much less testing than a 12 months in the past:
World Covid circumstances up 80% as new subvariant rises
The variety of new Covid-19 circumstances reported worldwide rose by 80% within the final month, the World Well being Group stated on Friday, days after designating a brand new “variant of curiosity”
Let’s do nothing .. https://t.co/OR12xW8riv
— Jess (@MeetJess) August 12, 2023
Local weather/Surroundings
Hawaii wildfire demise toll hits 67 as probe launched into blaze response Aljazeera
Crops discover it tougher to soak up carbon dioxide amid world warming New Scientist (Dr. Kevin). Uh oh.
Consultants concern US carbon seize plan is ‘fig leaf’ to guard fossil gasoline trade Guardian (Kevin W)
Are people a most cancers on the planet? A doctor argues that civilization is really carcinogenic Salon (Dr. Kevin). I recall E.O. Wilson saying how unlucky it was that people are meat-eating primates.
Liquid-Metallic Battery Will Be on the Grid Subsequent 12 months IEEE Spectrum (Dr. Kevin)
China?
China ‘could also be signalling unhappiness over nearer Philippine ties with US’ South China Morning Put up
Biden Warns China’s Financial system a ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Bloomberg (furzy)
Niger
New #Niger state of affairs map simply dropped #NigerCoup
(glorious work as all the time @julesdhl) pic.twitter.com/23lGTz6PuX
— Casus Belli (@casusbellii) August 11, 2023
For these confused in regards to the #ECOWAS Standby Power, a number of fundamental factors:
1) It’s the ECOWAS a part of the bigger African Standby Power (ASF) construction, which contains 5 regional forces (North, Japanese, Western/ECOWAS, Central, and Southern). pic.twitter.com/k7w1Hzvpfi— Paul D Williams (@PDWilliamsGWU) August 10, 2023
West African international locations droop key army assembly on Niger coup 9 Information (Kevin W)
France wants Niger’s uranium
The US has a drone base in Niger
There is a pipeline deliberate to undergo Niger from Nigeria
Europe wants that pipeline now that the US blew up Nordstream
There’s loads of pursuits in Niger, none must do with democracy
— Black within the Empire (@blackintheempir) August 10, 2023
Previous Blighty
Britain has change into a monetary centre with a rustic connected. Brexit didn’t work. Levelling up fell on its face. Both a brand new method is required or the nation must attempt to goal non-income metrics to boost tangible residing requirements. Industrial coverage or household coverage! https://t.co/2aGLMXk96B
— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) August 11, 2023
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Ukraine SitRep: The Finish Of The Counteroffensive Moon of Alabama
Poland to ship 10,000 troops to frame with Belarus (Anadolu Company)
Zelensky Fires Heads Of Navy Enlistment In All Ukrainian Areas Agence France-Presse. Scott Ritter has given a long-form description of how Ukraine recruitment is corrupt bounty-hunting, significantly urgent clearly incapable males into service, reminiscent of amputees and the cognitively poor, and everybody concerned needs to be prosecuted (Ritter used extra colourful phrases).
However the Occasions make it sound like the actual problem was not dragooning males who had been positive to be ineffective in a army capability and die instantly, however the taking of bribes in return for getting out of service (which was most likely extra profitable than assembly physique rely targets). One has to imagine the variety of match younger Ukrainian males in European capitals has change into a humiliation. See Zelensky Cracks Down on Corruption in Navy Recruitment New York Occasions (Kevin W). Oh, and this intervention conveniently comes after this horse has clearly left the barn and is within the subsequent county. Any man with sufficient dough has presumably already purchased his manner out of service and left Ukraine.
Russia Oil Breaches Value Cap as Export Income Hits 2023 Excessive Bloomberg
Why would the Wagner mercenaries be leaving Belarus simply weeks after arriving? DW Information, YouTube (furzy). The Institute for the Examine of Battle clearly has an axe to grind relating to Russia. These Wagner “mercenaries” had their arms taken from them earlier than they went to Belarus and had been alleged to do coaching.
BlackRock, JP Morgan arrange ‘reconstruction financial institution’ for Ukraine Human Occasions (furzy). That is eyewash. Buyers weren’t prepared to purchase property and spend money on the far more secure and fewer devastated Greece in 2015. There could also be a number of fools however even assuming a post-war Ukraine, the $ gained’t add as much as a lot.
Syraqistan
Wow, the assaults on the Intercept for its story on the US stress to take away Imran Khan simply maintain coming:
That is actually humorous however amongst all the plain fallacious issues, The Intercept doesn’t have an workplace anymore after the pandemic…
Apart from that, nice stuff https://t.co/Aeuqh37lYj
— Ryan Grim (@ryangrim) August 11, 2023
Pakistan Dangers Shedding A lot Extra Than Inexpensive Fuel If It Abandons Its Iranian Pipeline Plans Andrew Korybko
US says no framework agreed but for Israel-Saudi deal Center East On-line
Iran nuclear deal opponents conspired to oust US particular envoy Robert Malley Center East Eye
Large Brother is Watching You Watch
Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Legislation Vice
Illinois Simply Made It Doable To Sue Individuals For Doxxing Assaults ars technica
Imperial Collapse Watch
BRICs wouldn’t be foolish sufficient to develop a gold-backed forex would they? Steve Eager (Micael T)
Scott Ritter: GAME OVER ZELENSKY! | MOATS with George Galloway YouTube (furzy). Opening remarks about China, Iran and Niger are informative.
1/6
Lambert had this yesterday in Water Cooler however this can be a must-watch. Reposting since an extended video matches weekend schedules higher than weekday.
Ep. 15 Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund reveals what actually occurred on January sixth. Our Fox Information interview with him by no means aired, so we invited him again. pic.twitter.com/opDlu4QGlp
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 10, 2023
Trump
Choose forges center path in battle over Trump sharing proof in Jan. 6 case The Hill
Ex-Trump lawyer Michael Cohen considers run for Congress Semafor (furzy)
Biden
Garland Appoints Weiss as Particular Counsel in Hunter Biden Inquiry New York Occasions (Kevin W)
Hunter Biden plea deal talks collapse as particular counsel appointed Monetary Occasions. Key assertion: “‘The DoJ “now believes that the case won’t resolve wanting a trial’, the court docket submitting stated.”
Woke Watch
Group Accuses Kellogg of ‘Sexualizing’ Merchandise Newser (Dr. Kevin)
Our No Longer Free Press
The swipe at different YouTubers cheapens Ritter’s assertion. He’s in a special class on account of already having a number of enemies because of opposing the Iraq Battle, and secondarily on account of having extra stature than different YouTubers in consequence, so extra of a risk.
When it rains, it pours. The identical day that YouTube deplatformed “The Scott Ritter Present”, they deplatformed “Ask The Inspector.” It is a focused effort by YouTube to take away/decrease my voice, and people of my friends and the individuals who took the time to ask probing questions on…
— Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter) August 11, 2023
Rupert Murdoch’s Information Corp Sees Income Plummet by Colossal 75 % New Republic
AI
Grocery store AI Meal Planner App Suggests Recipe That Would Create Chlorine Fuel Guardian. In the event you doubted Skynet is being incubated…
Authors concern they’ve little defence towards AI impersonators New Scientist (Dr. Kevin)
Websites scramble to dam ChatGPT net crawler after directions emerge ars technica (furzy)
Google and Common Music negotiate deal over AI ‘deepfakes’ Monetary Occasions
Battle on Money
Backlash grows over banks’ push to show Australia right into a cashless society as branches shut and extra restrictions are positioned on how one can entry your money Each day Mail (furzy). Observe banks in Australia already cost a ton in charges. It was inconceivable to have a checking account and pay lower than $25 a month. This in 2002-4. I doubt it has gotten higher. So residents appropriately resent this transfer as profiteering. Article mentions excessive financial institution income
Is David Solomon Too Large a Jerk to Run Goldman Sachs? New York Journal (furzy). Lordie. The final time a Goldman CEO was ousted was Jon Corzine on account of bond buying and selling losses (the world Corzine had been operating) in the course of the Asian, then LTCM disaster.
FTX
Choose sends FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to jail, says crypto mogul tampered with witnesses Related Press (Kevin W). As I recall, the trial doesn’t begin till October and SBF would stay in jail not less than till it was over. He’s little doubt pinning his hopes on an attraction however his stunt of planting a derogatory story within the New York Occasions about Caroline Ellison will likely be exhausting to disregard. And the decide was fairly forgiving about his previous offenses. Have to be a really sluggish information day. That is the lead story on the pink paper.
The Bezzle
Once I stated pple misplaced curiosity in bitcoin, it was based mostly on this: BTC Quantity is slowly disappearing, down >85% from the height.
As quantity drops, manipulations change into simpler however, sooner or later, manipulators might want to exit.
That is how Open Ponzis implode. pic.twitter.com/K8fJDeaftw
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) August 11, 2023
WeWork’s Personal Workplace-Leasing Apocalypse Curbed (Kevin W)
Italy stands able to host as Musk talks up Zuckerberg rumble Reuters (furzy)
Guillotine Watch
Jeff Bezos buys $68M mansion on Florida’s ‘Billionaire Bunker’ island New York Put up. Solely 3BR?
‘Disgusted’: K2 climbers below fireplace after surprising footage of fifty folks strolling previous a dying man to summit ignites debate Sky Information (Kevin W) and Climber Accused of Stepping Over Dying Man on Solution to Report Newser (Dr. Kevin)
Antidote du jour (Chet G):
And a bonus:
A cute little pig balancing on a ball.. pic.twitter.com/LrpukjYME4
— smol animals (@smolanimalx) August 12, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
