What Jay Powell should say at Jackson Hole FT
TD Bank Sets Aside $2.6 Billion for Possible U.S. Anti-Money Laundering Penalties WSJ
Revisiting How Many People Have Filed Bankruptcy Credit Slips
Climate
How to Force Capitalism to Stop Climate Change Foreign Policy
AI tech giants hide dirty energy with outdated carbon accounting rules Business Standard
The gigantic and unregulated power plants in the cloud Bert Hubert’s Writings
‘We’re changing the clouds’: Unintended geoengineering test is warming the Atlantic Earth.com
Water
Large number of customers starting lawn-watering cycles on Mondays is stressing Denver Water’s system Colorado Sun
The Strange Heat Island Lurking Beneath Minneapolis Atlas Obscura
TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine water on the moon TechCrunch
Syndemics
A new Covid vaccine is expected soon. Here’s the best time to get it NBC
Novavax Stock Rocketed This Year, But Challenges Persist. Is It A Buy Or A Sell? Investor’s Business Daily
Health officials recommend curfew in Mass. town as community faces critical EEE risk Boston25. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Could Mpox Become Established in the Indo-Pacific? The Diplomat
China?
China says it is ‘seriously concerned’ about US nuclear strategic report Channel News Asia
Humanoid robots steal limelight at WRC 2024 CGTN
PwC braced for 6-month ban in China over Evergrande audit FT
India
COMMENT: India booms, but is it structural growth story of the century or domestic investors’ irrational exuberance BNE Intellinews
Syraqistan
USS Abraham Lincoln strike group arrives in Middle East Anadolu Agency
A Look at Iran’s First Ever Aircraft Carrier: Shahid Bagheri Promises to Expand Reach of Stealth Drone Fleet Military Watch
America The Ugly Clyde Prestowitz (!), Clyde’s Newsletter. Commentary:
Gaza is covered in 42 million tonnes of rubble.
The enduring human, environmental, and economic consequences of the immense toxic detritus of genocide—towering piles of debris that also bury an estimated 10,000 dead—are just staggering https://t.co/VW0v9nCSiQ pic.twitter.com/locMxt7Vbd
— Thea Riofrancos (@triofrancos) August 17, 2024
Africa
Koch Invests in Massive Land Grab From West African Herders Exposed by CMD
European Disunion
France’s summer break is ending – and the bitter fight to form a government is back France24
Hungary law could make Ukrainian refugees homeless BBC
New Not-So-Cold War
Scholz believes Ukrainian troops are unlikely to stay in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for long Ukrainska Pravda
Russia Seeks to Turn Humbling Incursion Into Military Gains NYT
Russia says Ukraine’s incursion into Kursk region has ended any possibility of peace talks Anadolu Agency
Ukrainian incursion into Kursk paralyses Russia’s railways BNE Intellinews
Russia and Ukraine Can’t Mount Major Offensives Against Each Other, US Says 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 Foretold? New Left Review. Venezuela. “A careful consideration of the evidence, then, suggests that the election results are not just difficult but impossible to believe.”
2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address nation Friday amid reports he will endorse Trump Anadolu Agency
Meet the ‘uncommitted’: How Gaza hangs over Democratic National Convention AL Jazeera
Republicans Kill Civilians For Bad Guy Reasons, Democrats Kill Civilians For Nice Guy Reasons Caitlin Johnstone
Trump or Harris? Moscow Does Not Care Valdai Discussion Club
Who is Philip Gordon, the foreign policy pragmatist with Harris’s ear? FT. See NC here.
Police and FBI investigate maggot incident at DNC breakfast in Chicago WGN
The planet the Democrats live on sounds nice The Guantlet
Spook Country
U.S. Investigating Americans Who Worked With Russian State Television NYT
The right to be left alone Andrew P. Napolitano, New Jersey Herald
Digital Watch
‘Wartime CEO’: Urbit’s Founder Returns in Shakeup at Moonshot Software Project CoinDesk
No Exit Opportunities: Business Models and Political Thought in Silicon Valley American Affairs Journal
An Age of Hyperabundance n+1. Excerpt:
What margins? AI’s business model is changing fast, says Cohere founder TechCrunch
Antitrust
What Happens When a CEO Destroys Evidence in an Antitrust Trial? Matt Stoller, BIG
Ticketmaster Used Revolving Barcodes to Control Ticket Resale Market and Surveil Customers, DOJ Alleges 404 Media
Zeitgeist Watch
US hospital told family their daughter had checked out when in fact she’d died Guardian (DS). DS writes: “CalPERS isn’t running the only cover-up in Sacramento. Waiting a year to file a Death Certificate (required in 15-days by law) suggests hiding malpractice, and failing to ever inform the family who spent a year searching for her smacks of wanton cruelty. No mention of any investigation by the State Medical Board here or in the SacBee coverage. Words fail me.”
Supply Chain
US uranium production bounces back from steep decline in recent years: EIA S&P Global
The Final Frontier
Colossal rogue object spotted shooting through space at 1million mph and Nasa scientists are baffled about what it is The Sun
Robotic Russian Progress 89 cargo ship docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies (video) Space.com
Sports Desk
‘More and more’ – The unusual cosmetic step Man City star has taken to improve athletic performance Manchester Evening News
Class Warfare
How US Big Tech monopolies colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism Geopolitical Economy Review
You Say You Want a Revolution Charles Hugh Smith, Of Two Minds
C L R 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 parallels between the present data showing an increasing trend in [Micro- and NanoPlastics (MNP)] concentrations in the brain with exponentially rising environmental presence of microplastics and increasing global rates of age-corrected Alzheimer’s disease and related dementia, given the potential role of anionic nanoplastics in protein aggregation, add urgency to understanding the impacts of MNP on human health.” Musical interlude.
Antidote du jour (Ltshears):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
