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The Earth’s Newest Secret: Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work SciTechDaily (CL)
Date With Adult Model Leads to Testicular Cancer Diagnosis Medscape (KS)
Form, function, and the giant gulf between drawing a picture and understanding the world The Road to AI We Can Trust (DL)
Surgical amputation of a limb 31,000 years ago in Borneo Nature
What constitutes a mind? Lars Chittka challenges our perception of sentience with the smallest of creatures The Conversation (DL)
Take It Easy on Your Dog The Atlantic (DL)
Ken Burns Turns His Lens on the American Response to the Holocaust The New Yorker (furzy)
#COVID-19
President Joe Biden: The 2022 60 Minutes Interview CBS (KF) “President Joe Biden: The pandemic is over. We still have a problem with COVID. We’re still doing a lotta work on it. It’s– but the pandemic is over.”
Sorry…I’m really angry looking at excess mortality and reported COVID deaths and severe outcomes in this country.
I’m angry that we fail to communicate that since Dec/21 Canada has been significantly worse than in previous epidemic years. And that we seem ok giving up.
— Tara Moriarty (@MoriartyLab) September 17, 2022
In Quebec, which likely reports all/most of its COVID hospitalizations and deaths, new weekly hospitalizations are still 5X higher than last summer, and new weekly deaths are 6X higher. Deaths are 5X higher than expected weekly flu deaths (ignoring flu seasonality).
— Tara Moriarty (@MoriartyLab) September 17, 2022
Climate/Environment
Refreezing poles feasible and cheap, new study finds ScienceBlog (KS)
A Fight Over Nantucket’s Bluff Pits Neighbor Against Neighbor NYT (DL)
$35 Billion Worth of Real Estate Could Be Underwater by 2050 Scientific American
One dead, one missing after typhoon slams southwestern Japan Brisbane Times
Hurricane Fiona knocks out Puerto Rico electricity BBC
China?
Biden Keeps Pledging Direct US War With China Over Taiwan Caitlin Johnstone
Can the West Shake Its Dependence on China’s Rare Earths? The Diplomat
India
Explained | The ban on the export of broken rice The Hindu
How Well Is India’s Pitch To Become an Energy Exporter Going? The Wire
Food insecurity in Sri Lanka likely to worsen amid poor agricultural production, price spikes and ongoing economic crisis, FAO and WFP warn FAO
Old Blighty
Hindu-Muslim Scuffles Lead to Heightened Communal Tension in UK’s Leicester The Wire
No 10 chief of staff spoken to by FBI about work for banker accused of bribery The Guardian (KW)
Mohammed bin Salman won’t attend Queen Elizabeth II’s funeral The Telegraph
First public global database of fossil fuels launches AP (DL)
Syraqistan
Egypt and Qatar find ‘synergies’ in post-Ukraine Middle East Middle East Eye
Hamas claims Palestinian right to offshore Mediterranean gas Al-Monitor
Kuwait plans to increase daily gas production Arab News
US military base in Syria targeted in failed rocket attack Jerusalem Post
Iran says no nuclear deal without U.S. guarantees it won’t walk out again WaPo
The US Response to the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: Seize and Privatize CounterPunch
Eritrea issues army mobilisation call as Ethiopia fighting resumes, Canada says Reuters
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Customs officials have copied Americans’ phone data at massive scale WaPo
Spyware and surveillance: Threats to privacy and human rights growing, UN report warns The Guardian
UK/EU
Migrants can reverse French rural de-population – Macron RT (KW)
Orban won elections, Hungary is a democracy – Meloni ANSA
Pawnbrokers, winners of Germany’s growing economic crisis DW
A dangerous government in Greece Red Flag
Chartbook #151: Zugzwang – are we on the brink of a central banking paradigm shift? Chartbook (CL)
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin: Terrorists Near Russian Nuclear Power Plants Antiwar.com (KW)
EU calls for war crimes tribunal after mass graves found in Ukraine The Guardian
Libyan parliament speaker to visit Russia in coming days — adviser TASS
Ukrainian grain prices undercut EU farmers – WSJ RT (KW)
Russian sanctions slow to bite as US officials admit frustrations over pace of pain in Moscow CNN
German Gas Buyers Resume Nominations For Nord Stream 1 Supply OilPrice
G7’s grand plan to squeeze Russia oil windfall hinges on tanker shipping Hellenic Shipping News
Discounted Russia crude gives India Rs 35,000 crore gain Times of India
Pelosi Condemns ‘Illegal’ Azerbaijan Attack On Armenia Barron’s
Biden Administration
Border Wall Construction Resumes Under President Joe Biden The Intercept (furzy)
The Odds of a Bad Outcome are Rising The Lens (RK). This is an important piece on the US response to inflation that shows you have to ignore all the historical evidence to believe raising rates will solve the problem without pushing the cost onto working people.
2022
Swing-state Republicans on defense over Graham’s abortion ban The Hill
Republicans in key battleground races refuse to say they will accept results WaPo (KW)
‘Welcome to fascism’: Top Arizona Republican blasts Trump-backed candidates who might try to overturn future elections CNN (furzy)
Supply Chain
Egypt’s Suez Canal to raise transit fees by 15% in 2023 Anadolu Agency
Johnson & Johnson and a New War on Consumer Protection The New Yorker
Class Warfare
Honda is blasted for ordering hundreds of workers at Ohio factory to REPAY part of their bonuses because the company was ‘too generous’ Daily Mail (BC)
German trade unions and employers conspire against the working class in a new round of the “Concerted Action” WSWS
The Bezzle
The lawless world of crypto scams FT
America taps 150+ prosecutors to fight cryptocurrency crime The Register
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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
