What Jay Powell had to say in the Jackson Hole FT
TD Bank Set aside $2.6 Billion in Potential US Moneylending Fines WSJ
A Look Back at How Many People Have Filed for Bankruptcy Debt Slips
The weather
How to Force Capitalism to Stop Climate Change Foreign Policy
AI technology giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules Business Standard
Large and uncontrolled power plants in the cloud Articles by Bert Hubert
‘We’re changing the clouds’: Unintended geoengineering experiments are warming the Atlantic Earth.com
Water
The large number of customers starting their lawn watering cycles on Monday underscores Denver Water’s Colorado Sun program.
The Strange Heat Island Hidden Beneath the Minneapolis Atlas Obscura
TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine the water in the TechCrunch month
Syndemics
A new Covid vaccine is expected soon. Here is the best time to catch NBC
Novavax Stock Racketed This Year, But Challenges Continue. Is It Buying Or Selling? Business investors Daily
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Health officials are recommending a curfew in the city of Mass. as the community faces a serious risk of EEE Boston25. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Can Mpox be Established in the Indo-Pacific? Diplomat
China?
China says it is ‘deeply concerned’ by US nuclear strategy report Channel News Asia
Humanoid robots steal the spotlight at WRC 2024 CGTN
PwC prepared for a 6-month ban in China because of the Evergrande FT investigation
India
COMMENTS: India is growing, but is it the structural growth story of the century or the joy of naive domestic investors BNE Intellinews
Syracistan
The USS Abraham Lincoln strike group arrives at the Middle East Anadolu Agency
A Look at Iran’s First Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Pledges to Extend the Reach of the Military’s Stealth Drone Fleet
America The Ugly Clyde Prestowitz (!), Clyde’s Newsletter. Comment:
Gaza is filled with 42 million tons of waste.
The lasting human, environmental, and economic consequences of the genocide—masses of rubble that buried about 10,000 people—are staggering. pic.twitter.com/locMxt7Vbd
— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) August 17, 2024
Africa
Koch Invests Big in West African Herdsmen’s Land Acquisition CMD Revealed
The breakup of Europe
France’s summer break is coming to an end – and the battle to form a government is back France24
Hungarian law could make Ukrainian refugees homeless BBC
The New Cold War
Scholz believes that Ukrainian soldiers are unlikely to stay in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for long Ukrainska Pravda.
Russia Wants to Turn Modest Imports into Military Profit The NYT
Russia says Ukraine’s invasion of the Kursk region has ended any Anadolu Agency peace talks
Ukraine’s invasion of Kursk paralyzes Russian trains BNE Intellinews
****** Russia and Ukraine Can’t Mount Major Incidents Against Each Other, Says US Bloomberg
****** As Conflict Escalates, Secret Russian Files Reportedly Reveal Lowered Nuclear Threshold Training (excerpt) Simplicius, Simplicius the Thinker
Ukraine’s Offensive Bolsters Russia’s Separatists Foreign Policy
South of the Border
Fraud Predicted? New Left Review. in Venezuela. Then, a careful examination of the evidence suggests that the results of the election are not only difficult but impossible to believe.
2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will address the nation on Friday amid reports that he will endorse Trump Anadolu Agency
****** Meet the ‘non-committed’: How Gaza hangs on at the Democratic National Convention AL Jazeera
Republicans Kill Citizens for Bad People’s Causes, Democrats Kill Citizens for Good People’s Causes Caitlin Johnstone
****** Trump or Harris? Moscow Doesn’t Care Valdai Discussion Club
Who is Philip Gordon, the foreign policy expert with Harris’ ear? FT. Check out NC here.
****** Police and the FBI are investigating a maggot incident at the DNC breakfast at Chicago WGN
The planet the Democrats live on sounds like the Gauntlet
Spook Land
US Investigating Americans Using Russian State Television NYT
The right to be left alone Andrew P. Napolitano, New Jersey Herald
A digital clock
‘Wartime CEO’: Urbit Founder Returns to Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project CoinDesk
No Way Out: Business Models and Political Thought in the Silicon Valley American Affairs Journal
Years of Hyperabundance n+1. Quote:
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— alex (@genossse) August 21, 2024
****** What are the conclusions? The AI business model is changing rapidly, Cohere’s founder told TechCrunch
Not being trusted
What Happens When a CEO Destroys Evidence in a Fraud Trial? Matt Stoller, BIG
Ticketmaster Uses Rotating Barcodes to Regulate Ticket Resale Market and Test Customers, DOJ Isola 404 Media
Zeitgeist Watch
The American hospital told the family that their daughter had checked when the Guardian (DS) died. DS writes: “CalPERS is not the only secret in Sacramento. Waiting a year to file a Death Certificate (which is required in 15 days by law) suggests concealing wrongdoing, and failing to inform the family who spent a year searching for his unexpected brutality. There is no mention of any investigation by the State Medical Board here or in the SacBee filing. Words fail me.”
Supply Chain
US uranium production reverses steep decline in recent years: EIA S&P Global
The Final Frontier
Scary object spotted shooting through space at 1 million mph and Nasa scientists are confused about what the Sun is
Robotic Russian Progress 89 shuttles to ISS with tons of new stuff (video) Space.com
Sports Desk
‘More’ – Unusual beauty step Man City star has taken to boost athletic performance Manchester Evening News
Class War
How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism Geopolitical Economy Review
Charles Hugh Smith, of Two Minds, Says He Wants a Reformation
CLR James and America Aeon
Bioaccumulation of Microplastics in Decedent Human Brains Assessed by Pyrolysis Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (preprint) Research Square. N = 12. From the conclusion: “The similarities between the current data showing the growing trend in [Micro- and NanoPlastics (MNP)] the focus on the brain with the growing natural presence of microplastics and the increasing global rates of age-related Alzheimer’s and related dementia, given the potential role of anionic nanoplastics in protein synthesis, adds urgency to understanding the effects of MNP on human health. ” A musical interlude.
Antidote du jour (Ltshears):
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
