In Praise of Common Curiosity by Charles Fort, Patron Saint of Cranks Literary Hub (Anthony L)
The risk of collapse is also its price. We need more of you aeon (Anthony L)
Are you a precrastinator? The opposite of procrastination has its problems Guardian (Dr. Kevin)
$100 Million Quest to Build World’s Largest Golf Club Wall Street Journal
The Daily Heller: The Unknown Legacy of EP Print Magazine. Anthony L: “Our) old farts.”
Dementia Breakthrough: Brain Scans Predict Disease Up to 9 Years Early Scientific Notice (Chuck L)
Can Psychedelics Improve Mental Health? Quanta (Dr. Kevin)
#Covid 19
Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to fuel fear of Chinese vaccines Reuters (Paul R, neutrino)
Sooner than expected: “Novavax aims to have doses in the US distributed by mid-July.”
Also love that they organize pre-filled syringes. 🤗 pic.twitter.com/YuY9XhlXW6
— Noha Aboelata, MD (@NohaAboelataMD) June 15, 2024
Climate/Environment
Hello! Again!
– chinahand (@chinahand) June 11, 2024
Uranium Price Rise Reveals World’s Return to Nuclear Power Bloomberg
An interesting way to compare solar and oil companies, found in this Bloomberg article on @davidfickling:
If you look at the annual figures for solar companies and multiply them by 22, which is the average working life of a solar panel, and compare… pic.twitter.com/97CVDwxokR
– Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 14, 2024
China?
What Western mainstream media won’t tell us about China MR Online (Anthony L)
Will DJI help you? US police are looking for Chinese drones despite Washington’s seizure of Nikkei
Europe risks trade war with China by raising prices on its electric cars CNN
Why China is arguably the cheapest place to study for a degree!
I made this table based on my experience of studying in the UK and China, and information from the US was found online. It is intended to be an average cost, of course depending on the location. Although in China the cost is… pic.twitter.com/YZ9ULvuCAH
— livinlavidaluke (@96Stats) June 11, 2024
How Washington fakes genocide but allows real South China Morning Post (Tom H)
Africa
South Africa’s Ramaphosa defends ruling coalition, but supporters hold veto Al Jazeera (Kevin W)
Sudanese army says it killed US-backed RSF commander in Darfur, Arab News
The breakup of Europe
The euro’s share of global assets fell last year amid concerns that plans to use frozen Russian assets to prop up Ukraine could end the appeal of Europe’s single currency, the Financial Times reported.
Rising far-right alarmism scares German business leaders The Economist
Old Blighty
Nigel Farage says he is ‘leader of the opposition’ after Reform UK poll Guardian (Kevin W)
Farage is absolutely killing it on TikTok. Many of his followers edit, and his real account has 662k followers, more than double the combined total of Labor (198k), Tories (61k), Greens (40k), and LibDems (21k).
Something is really going on there… pic.twitter.com/4OjFHEybXF
— Mike Diplockre (@MikeDiplockre) June 14, 2024
Gaza
The international criminal court should investigate Israel’s attack on hostages who rescued the Guardian (Dr. Kevin)
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Afterlife of Lies Consortium News (Anthony L)
Listen to his voice
— Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) June 14, 2024
The story of the US ‘floating dock’ built from the rubble of Gaza homes Mondoweiss
Yahya Sinwar’s Impossible Solution by Jospeh Jordan (Chuck L). You must read the background. Note the one-parameter discussion of Israel’s slaughter of peaceful Right of Return protests. Norman Finkelstein discussed in detail the 253rd report of the UN on that attack. Among the details is that the Israeli attackers were targeting children and disabled men from 300 yards away, shooting (successfully) at their knees or below to cause “life-changing injuries.”
BREAKING: The UN has just released its first real investigation into October 7 and Israel’s genocide in Gaza. It concludes that although there has been violence against women (SVGB), there is no evidence of any rape, let alone mass rape, or that it was “ordered by Hamas”. It’s over pic.twitter.com/Vx3vE03QRY
— ☀️👀 (@zei_squirrel) June 12, 2024
The New Cold War
Vladimir Putin’s Peace Proposal for Ukraine and Reunification with Europe – June 2024 – ENG Subtitles Michael Ross, YouTube. Zach K: “Doc Rossi thoughtfully provides an index of titles and timestamps in the video description I watched about the first 15 and then skipped to the ‘peace proposal.’”
Vladimir Putin sets conditions for ceasefire in Ukraine Financial Times. Little coverage in the Western media.
Denmark becomes the first NATO member to invest in the production of weapons in Ukraine Anadolu Agency
American journalist Evan Gershkovich will appear in a Russian court on espionage charges France24
Nazi NMR is described as terrorist by USA aftonbladet with machine translation. Michael T:
Despite the fact that the Swedish security forces do not have an ongoing investigation into these three people. Sweden’s vassal-government doesn’t even try to protect its citizens from unilateral terrorist listing. Sure, NMR are unpopular characters, they are Nazis after all, but when the Swedish Security Services are investigating them as terrorists, shouldn’t that lead to protests?
The real reason for the terrorist listing is that the NMR is strongly opposed to NATO, Sweden’s NATO membership and the Sweden-US Cooperation Agreement (which is like an agreement to stay or surrender Sweden).
Big Brother Watching Watching
Wells Fargo fires employees for keyboard work to ‘cheat’ Register. Lambert ran the FT’s version of this story yesterday. Chuck L: “As the Register subhead noted, ‘Homer Simpson was ahead of his time.’
How Data-Infused Neurotargeting Can Kill Democracy MIT Reader. Paul R:
This is a great article. What was Cambridge Analytica doing with all that facebook data. Classifying people’s personality types, choosing neurotics (who may be easily manipulated emotionally) and spewing misinformation directed at them, should help Trump’s campaign. It has only gotten worse since then. It depresses things that I think many of us have picked up but don’t fully understand.
The Caucuses
The vendors in Georgia vowed to stay on the streets until the government falls VOA
Immigration to another country
Mexico’s strategy to cut off immigration to the US? They dressed up immigrants in the Los Angeles Times
The conflict drives the number of people forcibly displaced to record high Guardian
Imperial Collapse Watch
Dirty propaganda? There are rumors that Saudi Arabia will issue a Chinese yuan New Arab petrodollar. We said in the comments yesterday that this is fake news. Let’s introduce the Duran duo. Alexander Mercouris replied that he had spent hours trying to get this down and concluded that it was baseless. He also admitted that the usual claims made in the early 1970s for the US-Saudi petrodollar realignment were often watered down. Alex Christoforu did a short interview in his speech today.
Trump
‘Deep corruption’: Donald Trump sells second term policies to highest bidders Independent (crazy)
Biden. All of a sudden I’m seeing non-stop Biden and Obama fundraiser ads on YouTubes by the Duran duo. I used to get a lot of “fix your piece”, generate your own energy, home fitness, and in Thai, lots of consumer product ads. I’m surprised that the Biden takeover extends to my other YT favorites.
ON JOE MOTION Doddery Biden is ‘the worst he’s ever been’ – everyone is worried, say G7 insiders as video shows him in motion.
Biden campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod is trying to dismiss the video of Biden wandering aimlessly across Italy as “disinformation” — and wants “social media” to check it out. pic.twitter.com/hfMuZpMkwU
– RNC Research (@RNCRsearch) June 14, 2024
What caused Joe Biden to get angry at a TikTok player and threaten to ‘throw his phone’ at a White House event as the president tries to get love from promoters Daily Mail (Li). Anger and lack of impulse control are symptoms of dementia.
Kamala Harris is Biden’s secret weapon on North Carolina The Hill
Washington Post’s Philip Bump Makes Final Pitch to Keep Laptop “Conspiracy Theory” Alive Jonathan Turley
The GOP Clown Car
DOJ says it won’t prosecute Attorney General Merrick Garland after House contempt vote CNN (Kevin W). Remember that Peter Navarro is in jail now for refusing to testify on the same basis, asserting the privilege.
Men Only, Christian Only Secret Society Gets More Secret TPM (Paul R)
Gunz
Supreme Court overturns Trump-era stock ban The Hill
NBA Makes Money on Public Health Problem Lever
Boeing Diversified Aircraft
A Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 Max goes into a “Dutch roll” during a CBS flight from Phoenix to Oakland
The AI
A UK parliamentary candidate says AI could humanize NBC
Class War
The Costco of Housing is…Costco? Urban Proxima. Paul R:
Costco wants to bypass the existing wage requirement for cooperative housing development (or whatever it’s called) by installing prefab housing in low-income neighborhoods instead of building on-site.
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “Here’s a Canadian goose that looks very happy to have green grass, and maybe some edibles hiding inside as well.”
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
