A 90-year-old turtle becomes a father of three children BBC
Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Mind and the Source of Her Imaginative Powers The Misfit (Chuck L)
Riddles asked Drift Magazine (Anthony l)
#COVID19
What worked against Covid: masks, closures and vaccines Wall Street Journal (Dr Kevin)
7.6% DEATH RATE for COVID infection acquired in hospital in Victoria. Increase in the number of hospital-acquired COVID infections through 2022.
But of course, remove all hospital mitigations, because that makes perfect sense. https://t.co/Z7oNInSlGM
— Dr. David Berger, ABSURDIST COLUMNIST (@YouAreLobbyLud) March 16, 2023
How a nasal vaccine could reduce the risk of COVID infections – and new variants Market watch (tu)
XBB.1.16 has a 140% growth advantage over XBB.1.5 (103.21%-177.41%)
It is much more aggressive than XBB.1.5. And probably faster than XBB.1.9 2/
— Vipin M. Vashishtha (@vipintukur) March 17, 2023
Climate/Environment
Minnesota nuclear power plant leaks 400,000 gallons of radioactive water Oil price (resilc)
Big oil companies plan to artificially freeze the molten Arctic to drill for more oil Vice (furious)
Ocean Farming: seaweed has its heyday in the sun New York Times (Dr. Kevin)
Global demand for fresh water will exceed supply by 40% by 2030, experts say Guardian. We have been warning for years that drinking water is the natural resource that will come under acute pressure first.
China?
US and other Western countries wary of Xi’s trip to Moscow South China Morning Post
China’s proposed initiative on global civilization hailed China Daily (resilc)
TikTok’s plan to avoid government intervention: Flood DC with influencers policy
China and Argentina are close to reaching a hunter deal that is rocking the region Asia Times (Kevin W)
Impending BrahMos deal between India and Indonesia could alter ASEAN’s military-strategic dynamic Andrew Korybko (Micael T)
Pakistani police raid ex-PM Imran Khan’s house in Lahore: TV Bloomberg
Old Blighty
Workers in England go on strike and shut it down, hundreds of thousands at a time. We might want to be careful. pic.twitter.com/JMCKbTRxq7
— More Perfect Union (@MorePerfectUS) March 17, 2023
UK pension funds flee equity market, adding to London’s woes Bloomberg
UK backs Rolls-Royce plan to build a nuclear reactor on the Moon CNBC(cnbc.c
The beautiful France
Fury in France as protesters block Paris ring road following Macron’s forced pension reform France 24
BREAKING: France, electricians and gas workers sing “Emmanuel Macron, if you continue, there will be complete darkness at home!”
A few moments later: The ”Fort de Brégançon”, official residence of Emmanuel Macron, was deprived of electricity by pic.twitter.com/8hvPWCtcyZ… https://t.co/ck6mANtcnX
— Antonio Sabato Jr (@AntonioSabatoJr) March 16, 2023
New not so cold war
ICC judges issue arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes Guardian. We talked about Ukraine resorting to stunts (mostly terrorist type) because they can’t win the world. Now we have this. As Chris pointed out:
So the court that we don’t recognize, and that Russia doesn’t recognize (both for the same reasons), is going to limit Putin how? And his ability to do things is going to be affected because why?
Let’s not forget this:
The United States threatened on Monday to arrest and punish judges and other officials of the International Criminal Court if it decides to charge any American who served in Afghanistan with war crimes.https://t.co/UqPTwxr5VI
— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) March 18, 2023
In Ukraine, the United States focused on arms delivery, not diplomacy – secretary of state CASS
Understand the scale and brutality and global stakes of the war in Ukraine larry johnson
The coming storm Douglas Macgregor, American curator
kyiv issues warning to countries that do not support Ukraine RT (Kevin W)
Turkey set to ratify Finland’s NATO bid in parliament Anadolu Agency
Banned from Russian airspace, US airlines seek to restrict competitors New York Times. It will simply make the United States a less attractive destination by increasing transit times for all passengers who would otherwise use trans-Russian routes.
Syrian
Will Bibi break Israel? Economist
Former Israeli PM urges world leaders to avoid Netanyahu Associated press (resilc)
For first time, Democrats sympathize more with Palestinians than Israelis: Poll Living room
Iranians are done with kings and ayatollahs and look to Mosaddegh for a way forward John Cole
Iraq war: 20 years later and no lessons learned by supporters of the war, experts say Middle Eastern eye
Shock and War: Iraq 20 Years Later, 4. The Inspectors BBC Radio 4 (Brazil)
Saddam’s rusty yacht serves as a picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen Reuters (resilc)
Big Brother is watching you watch
AI tricks voice recognition used to verify identity by Australian tax office Guardian
Why Palantir’s latest NHS land grab is such bad news for patients openDemocracy
Imperial Collapse Watch
The problem with AUKUS Daniel Larison
What the AUKUS sub-ruckus means for regional security Responsible Security
Asset
A report commissioned by Trump undermined his claims of deaths and double voters Washington Post
Biden
Where the money went: Bidens and Biden associates who received Chinese money New York Post (furious)
As noted below, you have no expectation of privacy with respect to your waste and abandoned property. It’s just harassment from that poor schlub repair shop owner. However, if anyone on the right was alert, they would fund their defense, as the repair shop owner might make a discovery on Hunter.
Hunter Biden has just sued the Delaware repair shop where he left his laptop for invasion of privacy and distribution of his data.
The obvious premise is that the laptop was real and came from this store – the exact opposite of what all corporate media claimed for the 2020 election: https://t.co/eL92l3QDuN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 17, 2023
WHO IS YOUR GEORGE BALL? Seymour Hersch
Rural America and the Suburbs Are Dividing Politically Asia time
Our press is no longer free
Twitter files and the new censorship regime Andre Lowenthal
Residents’ right to be rude upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Court New York Times (resilc). So individuals can be impolitic, but not just anyone with a megaphone.
Baaaad Banks
First Republic rescue effort fails to assuage investor concerns the wall street journal
UBS in talks to buy Credit Suisse FinancialTimes
This is Fascism, SVB Bailout Edition Backlash. Nice dedication!
Biden in Congress: Ban failed bank executives from the industry Axios. Resilc: “You mean like Barney Frank?
Wow. Boeing argues that it is not responsible for the claims of victims in the Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash because “the victims died painlessly because the plane crashed to the ground so quickly that their brain hasn’t had time to process the pain signals”. https://t.co/5PE7782yvd
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 16, 2023
The bezzle
Breakup
The London Metal Exchange discovered bags of stones instead of the nickel that underpinned a small handful of its contracts in a warehouse in Rotterdam@mburtonmetals @megacontango https://t.co/8OQW00JT0m
— Jack Farchy (@jfarchy) March 17, 2023
Microsoft is testing an integrated cryptocurrency wallet for the Edge browser technical art
Guillotine watch
Kiss my a$$: Credit Suisse wife Lizzie Asher flashes butt amid $54bn bailout Page 6. Resilc: “Where is ISIS when you need it to run burn cages?”
Class struggle
“WHEN YOU ARE AN ACTIVIST, YOU ARE A STUDENT OF OTHER MOVEMENTS THROUGHOUT TIME AND AROUND THE WORLD.” JENNY WEBER ON THE ART OF PROTEST Patagonia (guurs)
Google cancels payment of remaining sick leave for terminated employees CNBC. Resilc: “When does someone shoot?”
How mental health care is nearly impossible to get on Medicaid Intercept
Antidote of the day (Tracie H):
And a bonus. The Resilc flock of sheep:
See Yesterday’s Links and Today’s Antidote here.
