Links 7/17/2024 | bare capitalism

July 17, 2024 admin Finance 0

Yves here. More links today due to Trump’s firing post-mortems.

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Contact history’: Geneticists are rewriting the narrative of Neanderthals and other ancient humans ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

New Memristor Device Challenges Von Neumann Bottleneck With Ionic Innovation SciTech Daily (Chuck L)

Beginning Buttermaking Using CO2 and the New Water Atlas

Belarus Registers World’s First Patented Lung Cancer Vaccine From Cuba Sputnik (Robin K)

Self-Knowledge May Not Have Turned Out To Benefit You Self-Knowing Person After All Science Warning (Chuck L)

#Covid 19

Climate/Environment

Thousands in Houston are still without power amid a brutal heat wave after Beryl Guardian

To Protect Wildfires, Insurers Try to Change Building Standards New York Times (Kevin W)

Puerto Rico Files $1 Billion Lawsuit Against Offshore Fossil Oil Companies. Complain here.

Google and Microsoft now each consume more energy than any other major country according to TechRadar (Kevin W)

California Grid Breezes Through Heat Wave Due to Renewables, Batteries That Don’t Cool (Paul R)

Wrecked Vineyard Wind Engine Scatters Debris Along Nantucket’s South Shore; Wind Farm Operations Shut Down by Current Nantucket Fed (Kevin W)

China?

US Floats Tough Curbs on Trade in Chip Crackdown in China Bloomberg

China EVs still driving in protected EU markets Asia Times

Cutting-Edge Technology Can Dramatically Reduce the Amount of Energy Used by Air Conditioning Lines

China installs wind/solar equivalent of 5 nuclear power stations per week ABC.net.au (Paul R)

Cyanide kills 6 foreigners in Bangkok hotel, police say DW

Haiti May End Up Bullying US Plans Kenya Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)

The breakup of Europe

The French president accepts the resignation of the prime minister following the Anadolu Agency election results

The German industry has taken over for good, a deficit of around 7% is half the cycle and half of the international news is organized (Micael T)

Germany’s democratic center is right-wing extremists and militarists Nachdenkseiten with machine translation Nachdenkseiten with machine translation (Micael T)

Old Blighty

More money and staff – so why isn’t the NHS more productive? BBC

Gaza

‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 283: Israel bombs three evacuation centers in Gaza, killing hundreds Mondoweiss (guurst)

The US is considering a new legal bid that questions the ICC’s jurisdiction over Israel’s Middle East Eye

The New Cold War

The Biden administration is deluding itself into thinking that a new war will not affect the US – Lavrov TASS (guurst)

Fighting Kaja Kallas – the perfect break from Brussels and Moscow (Micael T)

Troubles Continue In Ukraine New Mobilization Drive Kyiv Post

Big Brother Watching Watching

What’s worse than thieves breaking into your bank account? If they steal your phone number, so does the Associated Press (Kevin W). Maybe this kind of thing will backfire one of my pets, using SMS for 2FA?

Cloudflare Reports About 7% of Internet Traffic Is Malicious ZDNet. It seems about right, given the volume of phishing emails I receive.

Rite Aid Says Breach Exposed Sensitive Information of 2.2 Million Customers ars technica. :-(. I was a Rite Aid customer at the time, but they wouldn’t have any gov’t ID on me. Hope no one is exposed here.

Imperial Collapse Watch

Intelligence: God Fails Asia Times (Kevin W)

Space-Based Warfare: America’s Dominance Challenged Brian Berletic, YouTube

Trump

Surrender Matt Taibbi. Important

She looks teary eyed since 3:30. Li thought he looked like a tired and slightly shaken old Scot:

How Trump Raised His Latino and Black Support—By Ignoring Party Advice The Wall Street Journal

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The general purpose of this tweet is clear, even if the writer can sometimes be over the pudding. It is not difficult to imagine that the Biden Administration made sure that Trump’s defense was understaffed so that at some point a hostile actor could and therefore breach the predicted gap. In other words, playing the game of disagreement rather than taking affirmative action:

Lambert reported on this on Water Cooler, but to make sure you don’t miss this fact: Three shooters were standing inside the building used in the assassination attempt on Trump CBS (Li)

Jesse Watters: Don’t Buy These Reasons From Secret Service Fox (Li)

Col. Larry Wilkerson: The Assassination of Donald Trump -The Fall of Ukraine – Israel Loses Hands Down Talk Talks. It’s interesting in a lot of places, but here because the opening paragraph is about the Secret Service, and Wilkerson has two daughters and friends who worked there, as well as comments from them. And great antipathy re Vance. He sees him as Cassius and “strong to a fault”.

Plastic surgeon reveals that Donald Trump will undergo $10,000 surgery to repair his bullet-injured ear Daily Mail (Li)

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Trump goes along with the Kennedy vaccine conspiracy in the Axios leak (furzy). Lambert had a story on this call but the main topic was about RFK, Jr, not the Trump vax patter (Lambert quoted it but the MSM focus hadn’t started yet)

Vance

Europe fears weakening security ties with US as Donald Trump picks JD Vance Financial Times (Kevin W)

Vance Doesn’t Hide His Intelligence In Iran Daniel Larison

Trump’s VP Pick Vance Says Iran Needs ‘Hard Hit’ Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

Biden

Believe Your Own Eyes Atlantic (furzy)

Biden Says He’s Done More for the ‘Palestinian Community’ Than Any Other Person Antiwar.com (Kevin W)

Democracies en deshabille

Sen. Bob Menendez Convicted of Bribery in Cash and Gold and Acting as Egypt’s Foreign Agent Associated Press (Kevin W)

The upper ones

Biden to announce support for major Supreme Court reforms The Washington Post (furzy)

Ours is No Longer Free

Google Now Defaults To Not Indexing Your Content Vincent Schmalbach . Important. Not shown = not online. This is how Google manages to block all sorts of things while claiming to be innocent.

The Ministry of Interior has banned the magazine “Compact” – attacks in the four states of Focus. Michael T:

They did not mention that Compact magazine was closed after Thay showed this interview with Maria Zakharova https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0DAeXDU6Ek8
Misleading German politics is really crazy.

Germany’s biggest media crackdown: Government bans Compact Magazine in unprecedented fashion, police search publisher’s home early morning raid ReMix (Li)

Not being trusted

Inside the Pharma Pricing Mafia Matt Stoller (Dr. Kevin)

Class War

Amazon Enforces New Business Office Hours Law Inside

Mexico’s steelworkers continue to strike in defiance of the courts and the WSWS union

Antidote du jour. Bob H: “Look what I saw on my way to 4th place – in a big unmown field on the west side of North Haven Rd!!”

And a bonus (Chuck L):

See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.

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