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Links 05/23/2023 | naked capitalism

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time is an object eon (Anthony L)

Students are increasingly refusing to go to school. It becomes a mental health crisis. USA today

#COVID19

A look back at the sadism of the Covid-19 shame campaign Matt Taibbi and Matt Orfalea, The Racket (KLG). Trust me, just watch the first few minutes of the embedded video.

Related to the story above: A friend just saw Bill Maher, who is touring. Maher had what a friend said was an unusually long opening. Two segments: one on the importance of not having (more) boosters and not allowing your children to have trans surgeries. It was in a purple zone. Maher presumably does the same act every stop and they will likely be in purple or blue areas. Friend took this as a sign of the current situation in meat world, as opposed to social media country.

URGENT: Huge new study shows Covid mRNA pricks sharply increase risk of serious vaginal bleeding Alex Berenson (Li)

Climate/Environment

endangered elements ACS (chuck L). Important.

Most of the United States faces a high risk of extreme heat power outages this summer, NERC warns Utility diving

Stock prices of big polluters plummet after climate lawsuits, study finds Guardian

France unveils its plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 50% by 2030 France 24

How solar farms took over the California desert: “An oasis has become a dead sea” Guardian (furious)

China?

China overtakes Japan as world’s top auto exporter Asia Times (Kevin W)

TikTok sues Montana over state ban on its service the wall street journal

Sinn Fein wins local elections in Northern Ireland and demands the return of the government Associated press (resilc)

Our defeat in context: Greece’s Erdoganisation is almost complete Yanis Varoufakis

Ecuador’s ‘democratic backsliding’ has continued since 2017, with US support CounterPunch (resilc)

New not so cold war

After Bakhmut Douglas Macgregor, American curator. Today must read.

Q&A series on the war in Ukraine: How long can this war last? Peter Zeihan (resilic). A confession against apparent interest. And is it the West that kept this war going after the end of March 2022 by sabotaging the peace talks, a fact that stalwarts of Ukraine and the collective West rarely mention.

West wants ties with Ukraine to follow ‘Israeli model’ Libertarian Institute (Kevin W). A request from Zelensky that seems to be successful.

F-16s won’t fundamentally change the course of the war in Ukraine Responsible mindset. In case you have any doubts.

Wellie, this is totally rumored but not entirely implausible as Zaluzhny was considered a replacement for Zelensky (hat tip Chuck L):

Russia transports nuclear weapons from storage facility in Belgorod Oblast – Intelligence Ukrainska Pravda (Dr Kevin). Note that Alexandre Mercouris said at 36:00 on Monday that Ukraine had made false statements regarding an incursion into Russia in Belgorod, which the Russians disputed and Mercouris considers the Russian claims to be accurate (TASS cleared his throat, suggesting, consistent with what Mercouris said, that rumors were circulating, but this seems quite minor compared to other accounts). Mercouris felt that this assertion was meant to rattle the Russians. It could be more or less the same.

Armenia ready to recognize Azerbaijani sovereignty over Nagorno-Karabakh (PM) The Cradle (Kevin W)

Syrian

Yemen’s Houthi government strikes oil exploration deal with China Middle East Monitor (resilc)

Ex-Pakistani PM Khan gets bail in multiple cases Anadolou Agency

Pakistani trans activists to appeal Sharia court ruling DW. Resilc: “Pakistan = Flowaduh.”

Big Brother is watching you watch

FBI abused spy law 280,000 times in one year The register

Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption Wired

Imperial Collapse Watch

The media and politicians throw so much bullshit at us it’s hard to see through Alabama Moon. Nice shout out, plus quotes from Gilbert Doctorow and others.

2024

Tim Scott chairman announcement: South Carolina senator makes 2024 bid Official Washington Examiner (resilc)

Biden

White House official: Biden’s migration is an economic strategy Investment Watch Blog (Li). Not crazy about the writing style, but they do provide quotes.

Southwestern states reach landmark deal with Biden to conserve Colorado River water CNBC (Kevin W)

Our press is no longer free

Banned! Jokn Ganz (Randy K)

Gunz

AI Gun Detection Company Shifts Markets to Schools, Doubles Revenue Intercept (resilc)

3-Year-Old Shoots 2 People in Indiana, Leading to Arrest of Man Wanted for Murder ABC

AI

“I make thousands using AI to write books” Newsweek (furious). It reminds me of my brother in the outsourcing business, like when he made his living getting people fired.

AI scanner used in hundreds of US schools is running out of knives BBC

AI Bob Lefsetz. “This is the NFT of 2023.”

Building a better NIH Brookings. Resilc: “Con$ultant$, money and private equity is the model for our plantation state.”

Envision Healthcare Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Health Diving (resilc)

Debt ceiling

McCarthy has little wiggle room in debt ceiling talks The hill

GOP Cut to IRS Funding Under Debt Limitation Plan Would Backfire Policy

Heaven’s Gate option: Congressional Democrats beg Biden to make them nonconstitutional entities Jonathan Turley. This idea of ​​the 14th amendment has something very upsetting! I’ve heard arguments that it only applied to Confederate-era debt. That’s not how it was written…and if you’re going to try “Constitutional Amendments Have Only Limited Interpretations in the Age of Drafting”, what about the Second Amendment?

The bezzle

Michelle Obama’s Juice Brand Doesn’t Meet Its Own Health Standards, Experts Reveal Fox News (resilic)

Intel wins most faith-respecting company of 2023 as Fortune 500 heats up to religious diversity Religious News (Kevin W)

Guillotine watch

The most expensive ice cream in the world costs $6,696 CBS. Kevin W: “Nancy Pelosi on the courtesy phone, please.”

Class struggle

The war on poverty is over. The rich won. Atlantic. Micael T: “If they have already ‘won’, why do they continue to wage war?

Food banks are seeing an increase in demand due to inflation and the end of Covid aid Bloomberg (furious)

Share of immigrants in US labor force hits new high the wall street journal

American capitalism has produced its most remarkable innovation to date: Breadlines Jacobin (furious)

Along the highways, Indian restaurants serve American truckers Washington Post (resilic)

Antidote of the day. From .Tom:

Took this in 2017 on a neighbor’s bridge here in Boston. It was very dark outside and I could barely see the cat when I picked it up. But it still held up enough and so did I, so I was lucky to get it. And I think that explains the wide open pupils of the cat’s eyes.

And a bonus from Chuck L:

And a second bonus from martha r:

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