Lambert and I, and plenty of readers, agree that Ukraine has prompted the worst informational surroundings ever. We hope readers will collaborate in mitigating the fog of conflict — each actual fog and stage fog — in feedback. None of us want extra cheerleading and link-free repetition of memes; there are platforms for that. Low-value, link-free pom pom-wavers might be summarily whacked.
And for many who are new right here, this isn’t a mere well mannered request. We have now written website Insurance policies and those that remark have accepted these phrases. To stop having to resort to the nuclear choice of shutting feedback down solely till extra sanity prevails, as we did through the 2015 Greek bailout negotiations and shortly after the 2020 election, we’re going to be ruthless about moderating and blacklisting offenders.
–Yves
P.S. Additionally, earlier than additional stressing our already burdened moderators, learn our website insurance policies:
Please don’t write us to ask why a remark has not appeared. We wouldn’t have the bandwidth to analyze and reply. Utilizing the feedback part to complain about moderation selections/tripwires earns that commenter troll factors. Please don’t do it. These feedback may even be eliminated if we encounter them.
NASA scientists say pictures from the Webb telescope practically introduced them to tears Ars Technica (Furzy Mouse).
Donkeys are livestock guardians in up north battle with grey wolves MLive Michigan
Markets Are Signaling a Pyrrhic Inflation Victory John Authers, Bloomberg. What.
Revisiting Peak Inflation The Massive Image
Too Intelligent By Half Epsilon Principle
Local weather
Deaths, Prices of Local weather-Linked Disasters Could Be Grossly Undercounted Bloomberg
World’s Greatest Ever Challenge of Carbon Credit Deliberate in Gabon Bloomberg
Surveying the corporate-controlled EPR panorama in 2022 Waste Dive. EPR = Prolonged Producer Duty.
#COVID19
BioNTech, Pfizer to begin testing common vaccine for coronaviruses Reuters
How higher pandemic and epidemic intelligence will put together the world for future threats Nature. “Working collectively to construct a stronger is crucial: selling transparency and sharing is extra essential than ever in a worldwide context with rising challenges to knowledge openness, reliability and trustworthiness.” I dunno. Appears like one thing Davos Man could be all gung-ho for. Readers?
How Japan Achieved One in every of The World’s Lowest Covid Dying Charges Bloomberg. “If the US had Japan’s dying price, solely 82,000 individuals would have died. Not 1 million+.”
China v. US on Covid threat evaluation:
I’ve run by way of these very same numbers with Chinese language teachers, and so they drew the precise reverse conclusion of their Western counterparts- that thermal screening labored sufficiently properly to be value implementing as a part of a “Swiss cheese” multilayer safety mannequin. pic.twitter.com/ih2BfmE65u
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) June 27, 2022
Covid. One Massive Sigh Roden
Monkeypox
Monkeypox: What We Do and Don’t Know About Latest Outbreaks American Society for Microbiology
We study nothing:
A buddy within the Bay Space (@longestrecovery) is having hassle getting her household examined for monkeypox regardless of them having all of the signs. Her infectious illness and first care docs need her to get examined. The Division of Public Well being has denied her a take a look at as a result of 1/
— Hannah Davis (@ahandvanish) June 27, 2022
Overly restrictive testing standards, as with Covid, means all our numbers are unhealthy:
Each time somebody says “within the US ‘Monkeypox’ (MPXV) is simply occurring in homosexual males,” I would like you to do not forget that the present testing standards disqualifies principally anybody else from accessing a take a look at.
When you solely take a look at homosexual males, then you may say you’ve solely discovered it in homosexual males.
— Stephanie Tait ♿️ (@StephTaitWrites) June 29, 2022
China?
China to press on with ‘zero Covid’, regardless of financial dangers, Xi Jinping says South China Morning Submit
China’s Xi Declares Hong Kong Is ‘Reborn’ After Overcoming Dangers Bloomberg
Hong Kong resistance will dwell on SupChina
Chas Freeman, former US Assistant Secretary of Protection:
This 🔽 is the guide (https://t.co/FVrRucnbmW)
Written as “a street map for what the US would possibly do in outer area after Apollo program. It envisions massive human occupied habitats within the Earth-Moon system, particularly close to secure Lagrangian factors”
China realizing America’s goals 🤭 pic.twitter.com/kSyqSXQZbP
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 29, 2022
Myanmar
The machine that went rogue Himal Journal
That is an especially unhealthy concept:
Cambodian ASEAN envoy spells out that Aung San Suu Kyi should be a celebration to ending the battle in Myanmar, after her switch to jail. Earlier this month PM Hun Sen additionally urged the junta to not perform dying sentences of prime activists. Little frequent floor between ASEAN & junta pic.twitter.com/JGOrmCfo27
— Jonathan Head (@pakhead) June 27, 2022
First, the state of affairs on the bottom, militarily and politically, has superior in a course Aung San Suu Kyi will not be geared up to deal with. Second, returning A.S.Okay. to energy is a slap within the face to the Rohingya — therefore to Federalism — since their slaughter passed off on her watch. All that A.S.Okay. has going for her is name-recognition within the West, and the belief of the NGOs. Come to consider it, that’s my third level.
Syraqistan
Why Does Israel Maintain Assassinating Iranian Officers? As a result of It Works. Overseas Coverage
US President Biden backs African Improvement Financial institution’s plan to feed Africa Maravi Submit
UK/EU
UK extends metal tariffs, breaching WTO obligations Agence France Presse
Union Boss Turns into U.Okay.’s Shock Media Star WSJ
Ballot: Simply 5 p.c of Northern Eire voters belief UK to handle commerce dispute Politico
Scottish independence: Majority of Scots towards Nicola Sturgeon’s October 2023 referendum date The Scotsman
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
Ukraine drives Russian forces from Snake Island, a setback for Moscow. NYT. In fact, I’ll need affirmation and interpretation from a dependable supply.
* * * Syria to acknowledge Ukraine’s Luhansk and Donetsk areas AP
Biden Administration Throws Assist Behind F-16 Sale To Turkey Antiwar.com (Re Silc).
Ships going darkish: Russia’s grain smuggling within the Black Sea FT
* * * This whole thread (begins right here) is a must-read. A number of salient factors:
Consequently, the Pentagon’s self-perception of unquestioned supremacy has served to disinform and corrupt its doctrinal and procurement selections for a number of generations of its officer corps. For many US generals and admirals, all putative opponents are underestimated.
7/
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) June 28, 2022
And:
Much more revealing is that once-vaunted and universally feared US/UK weaponry – nearly all of it slightly antiquated – has confirmed to be far much less “game-changing” than the pea-brained strategists in Washington and Whitehall mistakenly believed.
22/
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) June 28, 2022
Conclusion:
Extra concerningly, the Chinese language have been watching all of those developments with nice curiosity. They’re nearly sure to be emboldened to behave decisively to safe their sphere of affect within the rising multipolar world.
Nice risks now await in east Asia …
29/finish
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) June 28, 2022
“It might be harmful to be America’s enemy, however to be America’s buddy is deadly.” –Henry Kissinger
Ukraine Is The Newest Neocon Catastrophe Jeffrey Sachs, Tikkun. Good abstract.
Delusion Nicolo Soldo, Fisted by Foucault. The deck: “The US Authorities’s Fee on Safety and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) holds a briefing on the “ethical and strategic” necessity of partitioning Russia.” Useful map:
Handing the Japanese bits to China on a platter, good job.
Army briefing: Nato brings again chilly conflict doctrine to counter Russian menace FT
Colombia’s Historic Pact The Baffler
Biden Administration
Biden unlikely to fulfill daring Democrat calls for after abortion ruling, sources say Reuters. “Biden and officers are involved that extra radical strikes could be politically polarizing forward of November’s midterm elections, undermine public belief in establishments just like the Supreme Courtroom or lack sturdy authorized footing, sources inside and out of doors the White Home say.”
Abortion
People United for Life Is Providing States Mannequin Payments to Prohibit Abortion Teen Vogue
Shortages
Main Aluminum Producer Shuts Down Manufacturing Enterprise Expertise
Russian Gasoline Cuts Threaten World’s Largest Chemical compounds Hub WSJ
Medical distinction dye scarcity forces delays in diagnostic and surgical procedures WSWS
Toddler method plant stays closed for flood cleanup; no phrase on how lengthy it should take Meals Security Information
Geographies in Transition Phenomenal World
Provide Chain
Rice Is Saving Asia as Ukraine Struggle Drives Up Meals Costs WSJ
Merchants shift to China-Europe freight trains as European port congestion intensifies Hellenic Transport Information
Black Injustice Tipping Level
1955 warrant in Emmett Until case discovered; household seeks arrest Politico
Guillotine Watch
Local weather harm brought on by rising area tourism wants pressing mitigation (press launch) College School London (dk). Unique.
Samaritan’s Purse Amasses Over a Billion {Dollars} in Belongings, Elevating Crimson Flags The Roys Report
Class Warfare
Coverage Methods for Addressing Present Threats to the U.S. Nursing Workforce NEJM. “We contend that there isn’t a scarcity of nurses, however a scarcity of hospitals that present nurses with protected work environments and ample pay and advantages. ”
BREAKING: Pfizer has employed a military of union-busters Labor Lab
Controversy Continues Over Whether or not Sizzling Water Freezes Quicker Than Chilly Quanta. Fascinating!
Antidote du jour (by way of):
Bonus antidote:
G.O.A.T. pic.twitter.com/pdQ2V0mvh3
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) June 25, 2022
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
Thank you for nice information. Please visit our web:
Click Here