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What is the Retail Apocalypse? Shopping Centers Are Back. The NYT
Father’s Day
Comment:
I’m sorry, but I love this joke and I’m going to make it for you pic.twitter.com/jmWtDybKYx
– Second ❤️🔥 (@forthrighter) June 13, 2024
The weather
Opinion: It’s a perfect storm for Denver Post home insurance
Water
Panama Canal Averts Shipping Crisis With Its Water System gCaptain
Syndemics
LA County COVID cases, hospitalizations rise amid uptick FLiRT LA Times
Traces of bird flu appear in the wild in Austin, far from Bloomberg’s dairy farms
China?
Xi Jinping said the US wants China to attack Taiwan FT. Comment:
The most important from the FT: in an April 2023 meeting with Ursula Von Der Leyen, Xi Jinping told her that the US was “trying to trick China into attacking Taiwan, but it wouldn’t take rubbish”.
I myself am convinced that it is true, and I know…
– Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 16, 2024
Closing law firm Evergrande is investigating PwC, others for potential claims, sources told Channel News Asia
The Philippines files a UN petition to claim an extended continental shelf in the South China Sea Channel News Asia
Syracistan
The Israeli army said eight soldiers were killed in an armored vehicle south of Gaza France24
Netanyahu and IDF Top Brass Fight Over Gaza Cease-Fire as He Moves Closer to All-Out War with Hezbollah Haaretz
What does Benny Gantz’s resignation mean for Israeli policy and politics Brookings Institution
Zionism as barbarism by Carl Beijer
The Great Shift of Consciousness New York Review of Literature
The breakup of Europe
A roar from under the New Statesman (DC).
Former president Hollande made a surprise comeback in the French elections24
Hello Old Blighty
Tory party CEO is director of cancer care company benefiting from NHS waiting list The Guardian
The New Cold War
Meeting with senior officials of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian President
Putin offers Ukraine a ceasefire, which BNE Intellinews is currently freezing
Ukraine-Russia peace is as difficult as ever. But in 2022 they were talking. The NYT. Comment:
The Biden administration has said very little about the February-April 2022 peace talks that nearly ended the Russia-Ukraine war. The US media has also remained silent.
Today the NYT breaks its own vow of silence with a very detailed piece, including copies of the leaked draft… pic.twitter.com/LUumnf9xAn
– Aaron Mate (@aaronjmate) June 15, 2024
****** Putin’s silence was criticized at the Ukraine conference by the BBC
Morality Is the Enemy of Peace Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Zelensky to present a peace plan to Russia as agreed by the international community France24
Why Ukraine Is Not Ready for Peace Talks Bloomberg
Analysis: Why more than half of ASEAN countries will miss the Ukraine peace conference in Switzerland Channel News Asia
2024
$800,000 wire transfer from billionaire donor to US Chamber lifts black money curtain
Police State Watch
Many States Ban ‘Excited Delirium’ as Cause of Death in Police Custody Marshall Project
A digital clock
The Great AI Retrenchment has begun for Marcus in AI
Health care
Conspiracy to Play Medical Literature (excerpt) Matt Bivens, 100 Days
Zeitgeist Watch
Liberalism as a Way of Life Notes from Middle Space
Class War
No Strike Yet: US Flight Attendants Reveal Details From DC Negotiations View from the Wing
Antidote du jour (Mark Kent):
Bonus antidote:
The crow just helps the cat pic.twitter.com/DSEbFfIvN6
– Nadir Ç. (@EfsoSahne) June 14, 2024
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
