90-year-old tortoise turns into father of three BBC
Loneliness and the Trinity of Creativity: Ada Lovelace, the Poles of the Thoughts, and the Supply of Her Imaginative Powers The Marginalian (Chuck L)
Posed Riddles Drift Journal (Anthony l)
#COVID-19
What Labored Towards Covid: Masks, Closures and Vaccines Wall Avenue Journal (Dr. Kevin)
7.6% DEATH RATE for hospital acquired COVID an infection in Victoria. Rising numbers of hospital acquired COVID infections by means of 2022.
However positive, take away all mitigations in hospital, as a result of that makes whole sense. https://t.co/Z7oNInSlGM
— Dr David Berger, aBsuRdiSTe cROnickLeR (@YouAreLobbyLud) March 16, 2023
How a nasal vaccine may cut back the danger of COVID infections — and new variants Marketwatch (ma)
XBB.1.16 has a 140% development benefit over XBB.1.5 (103.21%-177.41%)
It’s much more aggressive than XBB.1.5. And possibly quicker than XBB.1.9 2/
— Vipin M. Vashishtha (@vipintukur) March 17, 2023
Local weather/Surroundings
Minnesota Nuclear Energy Plant Leaks 400,000 Gallons Of Radioactive Water OilPrice (resilc)
Huge Oil Plans to Artificially Freeze the Melting Arctic to Drill Extra Oil Vice (furzy)
Ocean Farming: Seaweed Is Having Its Second Within the Solar New York Occasions (Dr. Kevin)
World Recent Water Demand Will Outstrip Provide By 40% by 2030, Say Consultants Guardian. We’ve been warning for years what potable water was the pure useful resource that might come underneath acute stress first.
China?
US and different Western nations cautious of Xi’s journey to Moscow South China Morning Submit
China-proposed initiative on world civilization hailed China Day by day (resilc)
TikTok’s Plan To Stave Off Authorities Intervention: Flood DC With influencers Politico
China-Argentina on verge of region-rattling fighter deal Asia Occasions (Kevin W)
India’s Impending BrahMos Deal With Indonesia May Shift ASEAN’s Army-Strategic Dynamics Andrew Korybko (Micael T)
Pakistan Police Raids Ex-Premier Imran Khan’s Lahore Home: TV Bloomberg
Previous Blighty
Employees in England are happening strike and shutting it down, tons of of 1000’s at a time. We would need to listen. pic.twitter.com/JMCKbTRxq7
— Extra Excellent Union (@MorePerfectUS) March 17, 2023
UK Pension Funds Flee the Fairness Market, Including to London Woes Bloomberg
UK Backs Rolls-Royce Venture To Construct a Nuclear Reactor On the Moon CNBC(cnbc.c
La belle France
Fury in France as protesters block Paris ring street following Macron’s pressured pension reform France24
BREAKING: France, electricians and gasoline staff sing “Emmanuel Macron, if you happen to proceed, there can be full darkness at your home!”
Moments later: The ”Fort de Brégançon”, Emmanuel Macron’s official residence, was disadvantaged of electrical energy by pic.twitter.com/8hvPWCtcyZ… https://t.co/ck6mANtcnX
— Antonio Sabato Jr (@AntonioSabatoJr) March 16, 2023
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
ICC judges difficulty arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin over alleged struggle crimes Guardian. We talked about Ukraine resorting to stunts (primarily of the terrorist type) as a result of it may well’t win the wor. Now we’ve got this. As chris remarked:
So the court docket we don’t acknowledge, and that Russia doesn’t acknowledge (each for a similar causes), goes to restrict Putin how? And his capability to do issues goes to be affected as a result of why?
Let’s not overlook this:
America threatened Monday to arrest and sanction judges and different officers of the Worldwide Felony Court docket if it strikes to cost any American who served in Afghanistan with struggle crimes.https://t.co/UqPTwxr5VI
— The Sirius Report (@thesiriusreport) March 18, 2023
In Ukraine, US centered on delivering weapons, not diplomacy — secretary of state TASS
Understanding the Scale and Brutality and the World Stakes of the Conflict in Ukraine Larry Johnson
The Gathering Storm Douglas Macgregor, American Conservative
Kiev points warning to international locations that don’t help Ukraine RT (Kevin W)
Türkiye strikes to ratify Finland’s NATO bid in parliament Anadolu Company
Banned From Russian Airspace, U.S. Airways Look to Limit Rivals New York Occasions. This can merely make the US much less enticing a vacation spot by growing transit instances for all passengers who would in any other case use trans-Russian routes.
Syraqistan
Will Bibi break Israel? Economist
Former Israeli premier urges world leaders to shun Netanyahu Related Press (resilc)
For first time, Democrats sympathize extra with Palestinians than Israelis: Ballot Salon
Iranians are finished with Kings and Ayatollahs, and look again to Mosaddegh for a Method ahead Juan Cole
Iraq struggle: 20 years later and no classes discovered by struggle’s proponents, specialists say Center East Eye
Shock and Conflict: Iraq 20 Years On, 4. The Inspectors BBC Radio 4 (resilc)
Saddam’s rusting yacht serves as picnic spot for Iraqi fishermen Reuters (resilc)
Huge Brother is Watching You Watch
AI Fools Voice Recognition Used To Confirm Id By Australian Tax Workplace Guardian
Why Palantir’s newest NHS land-grab is such unhealthy information for sufferers openDemocracy
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Bother with AUKUS Daniel Larison
What the AUKUS sub ruckus means for regional safety Accountable Safety
Trump
Trump-commissioned report undercut his claims of lifeless and double voters Washington Submit
Biden
The place the cash went: The Bidens and Biden associates that acquired Chinese language money New York Submit (furzy)
Per beneath, you haven’t any expectation of privateness with respect to your rubbish and deserted property. That is simply harassment of that poor schlub restore store proprietor. Nevertheless, if somebody on the suitable have been alert, they’d fund his protection, as a result of restore store proprietor would get to do discovery on Hunter.
Hunter Biden simply sued the Delaware restore store the place he left his laptop computer for invasion of privateness and distributing his knowledge.
The apparent premise is that the laptop computer was actual and it got here from that retailer – the precise reverse of what all company media claimed for the 2020 election: https://t.co/eL92l3QDuN
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 17, 2023
WHO’S YOUR GEORGE BALL? Seymour Hersch
Rural America and suburbs half firm politically Asia Occasions
Our No Longer Free Press
The Twitter Information and the brand new censorship regime Andrew Lowenthal
Residents’ Proper to Be Impolite Upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Court docket New York Occasions (resilc). So people could be impolitic however not anybody with a megaphone.
B-a-a-a-a-d Banks
First Republic Rescue Effort Fails to Ease Investor Worries Wall Avenue Journal
UBS in talks to amass Credit score Suisse Monetary Occasions
That is Fascism, SVB Bailout Version CounterPunch. Good shout-out!
Biden to Congress: Ban execs of failed banks from the business Axios. Resilc: “You imply like Barney Frank?”
Wow. Boeing is arguing that it isn’t responsible for sufferer struggling claims in Ethiopian Airways 737 MAX crash as a result of “victims died painlessly as a result of the airplane crashed into the bottom so quick that their brains didn’t have time to course of ache alerts.” https://t.co/5PE7782yvd
— Alec MacGillis (@AlecMacGillis) March 16, 2023
The Bezzle
Breaking
The London Metallic Trade has found luggage of stones as an alternative of the nickel that underpinned a small handful of its contracts at a warehouse in Rotterdam@mburtonmetals @megacontango https://t.co/8OQW00JT0m
— Jack Farchy (@jfarchy) March 17, 2023
Microsoft Is Testing a Constructed-In Cryptocurrency Pockets For the Edge Browser ars technica
Guillotine Watch
Kiss my a$$: Credit score Suisse spouse Lizzie Asher flashes butt amid $54B bailout Web page Six. Resilc: “The place is ISIS whenever you want them to run burn cages?”
Class Warfare
“WHEN YOU’RE AN ACTIVIST, YOU’RE A STUDENT OF OTHER MOVEMENTS THROUGH TIME AND AROUND THE WORLD.” JENNY WEBER ON THE ART OF PROTEST Patagpnia (guurst)
Google nixes paying out remainder of medical depart for laid-off workers CNBC. Resilc: “When does somebody gun up?”
An ideal storm of food-stamp cuts and low tax refunds is looming — and low cost chains like Greenback Normal and Huge Tons may really feel the ache Enterprise Insider
How Psychological Well being Care Is Close to-Unattainable to Get on Medicaid Intercept
Antidote du jour (Tracie H):
And a bonus. Resilc’s sheep herd:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
