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Our political equality will soon end. Whether it ends in light or shadow is our choice. Kansas Reflector (Robin K)
I’m … I’m Herman Melville! Los Angeles Review of Literature. Anthony L: “Ray Bradbury, Huston and Moby Dick.”
Devouring Mind Dublin Book Review. Anthony L: “Sontag & Steiner.”
Sacred Chances – Part I Philip Pilkington (Micael T)
#Covid 19
Pediatricians push back on COVID fire KFF Health News (Robin K).
Well, let’s just say the CDC didn’t update their dataset since they threw out the exact same numbers from last week as placeholders.
There is no such thing as the peak of the wave which is the exact time the CDC is coming out for a few weeks. pic.twitter.com/br7JGtJxa1
— Sara Anne Willette ♿️🌈👩🏻💻𓅆 (@amethystarlight) September 5, 2024
Climate/Environment
‘We’re living a lie’: Astronaut reveals shock after watching Earth from space Space International Affairs (Micael T)
Texas Billionaire With Greenpeace USA on the Verge of Bankruptcy Wall Street Journal (Dr. Kevin)
Worst climate to intensify rapidly in next two decades, study suggests PhysOrg
Kuwait Is Awash With Oil Money. But It Can’t Stay Power The New York Times (Kevin W)
China?
China’s $6.5 Trillion Stock Rout Worsens Xi’s Economic Risk Bloomberg
China and SpaceX envision reaching Mars in different ways Asia Times (Kevin W)
South of the Border
Venezuelan opposition leader Edmundo Gonzalez seeks asylum in Spain amid election fallout RT Kevin W: “The report says he traveled on a Spanish Air Force plane. How is that in the nose?”
Africa
Kenyan youth want real democracy Jacobin. Micael T: “Wow! Western prices apply in Kenya. Will they join the EU and NATO too?”
The breakup of Europe
Germany’s Lindner rejects Draghi’s usual loan offer Politico (Kevin W)
Wolfgang Streeck: “Sahra Wagenknecht is the only one who asks the right questions – and gives the right answers” Thomas Fazi (Anthony L). Translation of the interview.
Germany and the EU Abandoning Reason Glenn Diesen (Robin K). Video embedded in post.
Minister: “It’s a swamp – it needs to be cleaned” Aftonbladet. Michael T:
This would be comedy gold full of ineptitude and non-action, if it weren’t for all the ruined lives. “The interest rate has been reduced from 40 percent to 20 percent above the reference rate”. 40% is shocking. 20% is still dowry.
“Deduction of interest is abolished on all unsecured loans” – one should prevent the rich from paying taxes but the poor who need these loans to survive should be punished.
How the public sector is defunding Nachdenkseiten with machine translation (Micael T)
Old Blighty
PM defends ‘difficult decision’ over winter fuel cuts BBC
Ministers facing union pressure over winter fuel cuts The Guardian (Kevin W)
Watching Two Self-Destroying Workers Parties Steve Keen (Chuck L). The Australian Labor Party is on the same track as the UK
Gaza
CONTINUATION 🚨
Genocide expert in Burma Dr. Maung Zarni returned from Israel and Palestine where he saw first hand the tragic situation that was unfolding.
“This is more than what the Nazis did. I have never seen such terrible violence.”
Listen and share his POWERFUL testimony 🙏🏾… pic.twitter.com/uiBpiJGa6R
– Ousman Noor (@ousmannoor) September 7, 2024
One of the holes created by the bombs thrown by the Israelis to carry out a new massacre of the Mawasi refugee camp.
I have never seen such a large crater since these people started their war of extermination in Gaza.
This is not true. Entire Palestinian families have been exterminated. pic.twitter.com/kPqTjp2vWr
— Hussein (@EyesOnSouth1) September 9, 2024
Israeli “police” and “soldiers” provide protection to residents as they steal goats in Zanuta, Masafter Yatta.
— Jalal #CeasefireNow (@JalalAK_jojo) September 9, 2024
Zionists Want More War And May Get It Alabama Moon (Kevin W)
‘Operation al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 339: Israel ends West Bank operation, continues Mondoweiss blockade
New school year begins in West Bank as Gaza enters 2nd year without education due to Israeli war Anadolu Agency
Many Israeli citizens were killed by Israeli forces on October 7.
28 Apache helicopters used up all their ammunition and had to be reloaded.
The mainstream media is finally catching up to this big Hannibal direction.
Here is our report on @pularjs for what really happened on Oct 7: pic.twitter.com/g5xhsNRJVQ
— Double Down News (@DoubleDownNews) September 8, 2024
‘Mentally broken,’ 8-year-old Sama loses her hair NBC (ma)
The New Cold War
US Senator Graham clearly states that the US is only interested in raw materials in Ukraine Anti-Spiegel with machine translation (Micael T)
Mapping Ukraine’s Resources An Interpretation in History (Micael T)
Dumb as they come: Scholz and Pistorius on buying new missile defense systems Gilbert Doctorow (Michael T)
Ukrainian politician wants ban on children leaving the country RT (Kevin W)
Small nations are forced to make historical mistakes Vzglyad (Micael T)
The Caucusus
By whose fault is Armenia losing its nationality and can its sovereignty be saved by the Eastern Angle (Micael T)
Imperial Collapse Watch
What I Missed About “Shock Therapy” Matt Taibbi, DropSite
The Continuing Myth of ‘Isolationism’ Daniel Larison
Vietnamese TV station warns of danger of US funding of NGOs and organizing color revolutions
When I was in Vietnam, this was the only real foreign threat that people would talk about.
The world is awake.pic.twitter.com/isgB6OIXO0
– Danny Haiphong (@SpiritofHo) September 9, 2024
Kamala
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Vote for Happiness’ – The Nostalgia Consortium’s Lost Stories (Chuck L)
Kamala Harris is Baerbock 2.0 Anti-Spiegel by machine translation (Micael T)
Trump
It’s all over the news in Hong Kong now:
Donald Trump is threatening the world that if they don’t use the USD as their reserve currency and default international currency, the US will impose 100% tariffs on them.
Anyone who thinks ROW & BRICS+ will… pic.twitter.com/J3p4g9BX7H
— Eric Yeung 👍🚀🌕 (@KingKong9888) September 9, 2024
Some additional information:
Trump says that America will become the third country if it loses the strength of the dollar, as he wants to use tariffs to maintain the status of the dollar.
He believes that the Biden administration’s misuse of sanctions has rendered them ineffective, and they have been heavily penalized… pic.twitter.com/TucCPNsCuo
— OopsGuess September 10, 2024
Ours is No Longer Free
Thanks to Kellys Solicitors @CrispinFlintoff & everyone inc @RogerWaters & @georgallowaymy bail conditions have been lowered: this is my first tweet pic.twitter.com/pk0vRIoCbc
– Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) September 8, 2024
Foreign election influence campaigns are barking but questionable NBC
All Watch
Don’t Take Advice From Habsburg The Dial (Anthony L)
The AI
Anyone who says “AI” is already deluded Jacobin (Micael T)
Elon Musk files new lawsuit against OpenAI and Sam Altman CNN (Bob H)
More Bands Play AI-Generated Songs on Streaming Services Metal Injection (Micael T)
Goodbye Tinder, hello Strava: have ‘hobby’ apps become the new social media? Caretaker (Kevin W)
Bezzle
The EU’s highest court has ruled that Apple must pay €13bn in back taxes to the Financial Times. We’ve written about Apple’s Irish tax deal before. It was nuts. It has had the effect that Apple does not have to pay taxes anywhere in the world.
The QE theory of everything New Statesman (furzy)
Class War
The red lines of counter-elite Neoliberal Feudalism (Micael T)
What Should Be Done? The Wisdom of Crowds (Robin K). In populism.
Trouble on the Farm Bleeding Heartland (Robin K)
Antidote du jour. Happy family! Tim H: “I give my siblings Gorgeous George (back) and Sir Munchkin Scruffles (front), rest those weary bones.”
And bonus (Robin K):
Kagu, an almost extinct bird, meets its kind.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/gagtgxhJRg
— Buitengebiden (@buitengebiden) September 8, 2024
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.
