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A giraffe will get modified leg braces designed for people NPR (David L)
Blissful the Elephant Has Legal professionals Arguing to Free Her From the Zoo Wall Avenue Journal. Resilc” “Blissful the Elephant LLC.”
CAN INSECTS BE CONSCIOUS? LET’S LOOK AT BEES FIRST Thoughts Issues (David L)
Soldier Is Killed by Brown Bear on Alaska Navy Base New York Instances (resilc)
Calling a Man Bald Counts as Sexual Harassment, UK Choose Guidelines CNBC
Why smoke follows you round a hearth Boing Boing (resilc)
We Simply Received Nearer to Mapping Almost Each Single Cell Sort in The Human Physique ScienceAlert (Kevin W)
#COVID-19
Science/Drugs
Lengthy COVID-19 train capability linked to irregular blood clotting markers MedicalXPress (guurst)
Asia
Coronavirus: I’ve endured 20 days of lockdown in Beijing. Nobody can inform me when it should finish South China Morning Publish (David L)
North Korea: Covid outbreak an excellent catastrophe, says Kim Jong-un BBC. Resilc: “The NoKo CDC administration can be abruptly modified quickly. Kim is extra outcomes oriented than Trump/Biden.”
US
Trump officers and meat {industry} blocked life-saving Covid controls, investigation finds Guardian
NEW: Prof. @Alison_Galvani & colleagues discover teams with decrease medical insurance protection had considerably increased COVID mortality.
“Offering common insurance coverage protection needs to be a part of our marketing campaign to scale back COVID-19 mortality,” they write.
Research➡️ https://t.co/ll87U7T4hm pic.twitter.com/hU17XiPFJ0
— Yale Faculty of Public Well being (@YaleSPH) May 13, 2022
Fauci’s Royalties And The $350 Million Royalty Cost Stream HIDDEN By NIH OpentheBooks. The place is the left on this? Even when the motivation is partisan, that is rank corruption, and IM Doc has been speaking about this for a while.
Local weather/Atmosphere
No Sea Serpents, Mobsters however Tahoe Trash Divers Strike Gold The Skanner (David L)
Birds fall from the sky as heatwave scorches India Reuters (resilc)
Pakistan metropolis hits almost 50C as blistering heatwave grips nation Al Jazeera
A colony of blue-green algae can energy a pc for six months Attention-grabbing Engineering (furzy)
China?
Recent Off Russia, the U.S. Simply Can’t Cease Scary China CounterPunch (resilc). As we’ve been sayin’….
1/ China’s new coverage proscribing minors from taking part in livestreaming are tremendous attention-grabbing. What stood out: The principles forbid apps from utilizing a number of the UI / interface reward mechanisms that entice younger customers to tip influencers. A thread. https://t.co/QSwmcoBVbs
— Kendra Schaefer 凯娜 (@kendraschaefer) May 11, 2022
Indo-Pacific technique adrift in an phantasm Indian Punchline (Kevin W). Ouch.
India
India: Aged couple sue son over lack of grandchildren DW (resilc)
Sri Lanka on the brink GZERO Media (resilc)
Brexit
‘We don’t want lectures’ on peace course of, says Frost RTE. Bluster is in excessive provide lately.
Hah, I used “bluster” above earlier than seeing Chris Gray’s newest: For all of the bluster, Johnson and the Brexiters nonetheless don’t have any life like reply to the ‘Northern Eire border’ query
On Article 16, Pascal Lamy former WTO head and EU commerce commissioner tells BBCPM: “If UK acts unilaterally saying there can be no border… it’s the UK saying we negate Brexit. The very determination to Brexit entails the existence of a border. You can not have your cake and eat it.”
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) May 13, 2022
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Humorous the entire absence of reporting on this within the West: Gazprom subsidiaries in Germany stopped receiving gasoline from Russia – German minister and Gazprom confirms Russian sanctions prohibit use of Yamal-Europe pipeline capacities Interfax (guurst). Notice that is what we predicted was the almost certainly first transfer below the countersanctions. The closest factor we may discover to a Western story was this: Kremlin says overseas power firms that fall below Russia’s sanctions received’t take part in gasoline provides CNN. No point out that they’re in response to Germany stealing Gazprom belongings, and Germany is due to this fact shedding provide (not but clear, as a consequence of state of reporting, if this implies most or all). Nor onerous to suppose because of this Scholz known as Putin, notably since Scholz known as Putin concerning the gasoline for roubles cost requirement, however the Kremlin readout is skinny.
Fuel Provide: The State of Pipeline Flows and Storage NDR (guurst; German unique right here)
Assembly on financial points President of Russia. Inflation is falling. Because the US is anticipating a foul wheat harvest, observe:
We expect harvest this yr. In keeping with preliminary professional estimates, we might harvest 130 million tonnes of grain, together with 87 million tonnes of wheat. If this occurs, then the projected grain harvests would hit an all-time excessive in Russian historical past. It will make it doable to satisfy home demand, with a considerable security margin, and to broaden international exports for our companions; that is extremely necessary for international meals markets.
* * * Nato member Turkey hits out at Finland and Sweden membership bids Impartial (Kevin W). Erdogan could be taking part in NATO and Russia for bribes. However Impartial piece doesn’t point out that Sweden acknowledges the Kurdistan area. Sweden has an embassy there.
We don’t write the principles anymore, and after we attempt, we make issues worse Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
* * * The Weird, Unanimous Dem Assist for the $40b Warfare Package deal to Raytheon and CIA: “For Ukraine” Glenn Greenwald. As Scott Ritter has identified, one of many causes the numbers are so giant is the US is now instantly funding the funds of the Ukraine authorities, in notably pay to its troopers. So we’re instantly funding the Azov Battalion and different Nazis in arms.
Nazis Are Really Wonderful Now, In keeping with the Southern Poverty Regulation Middle and Anti-Defamation League Michael Tracey (Glenn F)
“Sawing an individual’s torso in half with a carpenter’s noticed
…Slicing open a pregnant girls’s stomach and pouring in damaged glass
Nailing a small little one to a door…”— Eva Karene Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) May 13, 2022
Briefing: evaluation of paperwork associated to the army organic actions of america on the territory of Ukraine Might 11, 2022 The Saker. Hoo boy:
For instance, supplies indicating the intentional use of a multidrug-resistant tuberculosis pathogen in 2020 to contaminate the inhabitants of the Slavyanoserbsky district of the LPR had been examined.
The flyers, made within the type of counterfeit forex notes, had been contaminated with the tuberculosis agent and distributed to minors in Stepovoe village. The organisers of this crime took into consideration the behaviour of kids, who’ve a behavior of “placing the whole lot of their mouths” and taking meals with unwashed palms.
The outcomes of bacteriological research have confirmed the resistance of the remoted micro organism to first- and second-line anti-TB medication, that means that the illness attributable to them is way more tough to deal with and the price of remedy is way increased.
In keeping with the conclusion of the Lugansk Republican Sanitary and Epidemiological Station, “…the contamination of the notes was almost certainly carried out artificially, as the fabric comprises extraordinarily harmful strains of the pathogen in concentrations able to guaranteeing an infection and improvement of the tuberculosis course of…”.
In his conclusion, the chief physician of the Lugansk Republican TB Dispensary additionally notes that “…there are all indicators of deliberate, man-made contamination of the flyers with extremely pathogenic biomaterial…”.
The Artwork of Disinformation–Western Lies Concerning the Warfare in Ukraine Larry Johnson. Vital. FYI Johnson is a former CIA analyst. Covers the Lloyd Austin name to Sergei Shoigu and the Russian losses in making an attempt to maneuver troops over a pontoon bridge, which appears to be one of many few bona fide black eye Russia has taken shortly (the helicopter hits on some storage models in a refinery in Belgorod was a daring and spectacular transfer, if not very consequential). On the latter:
The western media has been crowing concerning the mighty Ukrainians wiping out a Russian BTG. But no photographs of Russian medical models recovering the useless and wounded from the battle website have been printed on Ukrainian or Russian websites. However allow us to assume the declare is true–the Ukrainians reportedly ambushed and defeated one BTG. It’s meaningless so far as the progress of the Russian battle effort is anxious. If the Russians had been involved concerning the battle over a pontoon bridge they’d have deployed mounted wing and rotary wing assist plane armed with rockets and delivered an artillery barrage on the attacking Ukrainians. That apparently didn’t occur both.
Readout of Secretary of Protection Lloyd J. Austin III’s Name With Russian Minister of Protection Sergey Shoygu Division of Protection. Sure, certainly, Austin requested for a ceasefire.
Russia River Crossing Setback, Advances Elsewhere, EU Drop Oil Sanctions, Erdogan Opposes NATO Bid Alexander Mercouris. Watch at 1.5x pace.
Syraqistan
Pictures: Israeli forces assault Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral Al Jazeera (resilc)
The closest video of the #Israeli police suppressing the funeral procession of Shireen Abu Aqleh because the coffin was leaving the French hospital in direction of the cemetery pic.twitter.com/TaOsvCUUCd
— Rushdi Abualouf (@Rushdibbc) May 13, 2022
Why a Bullet Is the Focus of Investigations In Journalist’s Killing New York Instances. Resilc: “I might belief the GoI lower than my native used automobile vendor.”
Iran arrests dozens protesting sudden worth hike in meals staples France24 (resilc)
Large Brother is Watching You Watch
San Francisco Police Are Utilizing Driverless Automobiles As Cell Surveillance Cameras Vice
Imperial Collapse Watch
Texans requested to restrict electrical energy use after six energy crops go down forward of a scorching weekend Texas Tribune (Kevin W)
New suicide try linked to USS George Washington, household says WGN Radio
Trump
Trump’s Potential Doc Tampering Now Below Federal Investigation Rolling Stone (furzy)
Choose orders Steele file agency Fusion GPS to show over 22 emails to John Durham New York Publish
Biden
Tucker: They’re hoarding child method YouTube. I hate having to hyperlink to Carlson, however the Biden Administration has made it trivially straightforward to place collectively segments like this. And in the event that they don’t clear up this downside quickly, that is going to turn into the Biden analogue to Carter’s Iran hostage disaster, however with much more tangible influence. This is identical Administration that embraces the previous Creel Committee tactic, efficiently deployed by Ukraine, to exploit sympathy for infants as a key solution to transfer public opinion to assist wars. Assume that form of factor can’t be mined domestically, on this case as battle on the Dems?
Fear and concern as US faces child method scarcity BBC (resilc). Most watched video as of now. The moms are actually confused.
“Professional-Life” Republicans Complain Biden Isn’t Ravenous Infants on the Border Truthout (furzy). This bombs as a counter-message. I don’t know what number of however no less than some Dem spokescritters are telling moms “Allow them to go breastfeed” when most have gotten the memo that breastfeeding is healthier however they 1. don’t produce sufficient milk; 2. work and might’t specific milk usually sufficient on the job and/or 3. have a child with digestive points so he wants some/all method. Oh, and preemies acquire weight quicker and present extra enchancment on different improvement metrics on 80% breastmilk/20% method than on 100% breastmilk. So the appropriate might have discovered a scorching button amongst mother and father who’re usually not very within the border row, since girls in what quantities to frame detention don’t have the time/house constraints v. breastfeeding that many working moms do.
Large Bottle: The Child Method Nightmare Matt Stoller (Kevin W; Lambert featured yesterday in Water Cooler). Vital. The piece describes why this downside must be not onerous to repair, or no less than considerably alleviate, as a result of it’s not an general provide downside however a state-by-state difficulty as a consequence of industry-enriching Federal shopping for practices. So if this isn’t higher in a month, there’s no excuse. Additionally explains why that is additionally an Imperial Collapse Watch merchandise:
Child method isn’t just meals, however the major or sole diet for a susceptible particular person in a stage of life during which very particular dietary necessities are obligatory for progress. Child method was created throughout the nineteenth century as we developed trendy meals preservation strategies. Earlier than this exceptional innovation, child hunger was frequent if a mom couldn’t breastfeed her toddler (which occurs quite a bit). The invention of industrialized method was a kind of creations we take without any consideration, however like antibiotics and different medical and scientific advances, it was one which essentially modified parenthood and the household.
The Squad” Doesn’t Exist Outdoors Of Social Media Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W). See Aaron Maté calling them “The Fraud Squad”.
The Supremes
When Roe v Wade is overturned, convicted terrorist Raychelle “Shelly” Shannon can declare that she firebombed a path for the white Christian patriarchy’s destruction of abortion rights within the U.S.. https://t.co/77MFvwYI1q
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) May 12, 2022
Our No Longer Free Press
Tech teams ask Supreme Courtroom to place Texas social media censorship legislation on maintain CNN. Notice the legislation is restricted solely to large platforms, so the implicit argument is they’re the city sq., and no lengthy can disguise behind presenting themselves as non-public publishers.
FITTON: Impeach? Biden Corruption Threatens Nationwide Safety Judicial Watch Rumble. Notice I’ve not watched this video, so I don’t have a viewpoint on it. However Judicial Watch, which is correct wing however not cray cray, has had its YouTube account suspended for per week over this clip.
I as soon as talked to the person answerable for it, who talked about how the useful resource he’d put collectively to assist the general public discover helpful analysis had needed to be repeatedly armored-up in opposition to requests from teachers hammering the bejasus out of it to learn how many cites that they had. https://t.co/9T89IDBUtX
— Henry Farrell (@henryfarrell) May 14, 2022
Crypto’s steep decline has buyers frightened. What do movie star boosters say? NBC (furzy)
Mr. TerraUSD ought to take heed to his legal professionals and cease speaking:
Decentralized cash is second-rate cash.
Cash is a system of measurement and governance. It takes a central occasion to manage.
All of us deserve higher cash, however creating hundreds of various non-public “decentralized” models of account is not the reply. https://t.co/PfIALZkqwM
— Lev Menand (@LevMenand) May 14, 2022
Samsung Is Reportedly Planning To Elevate Chip Costs By 20% PCMagazine
Class Warfare
Joe Biden and the Democrats Have Nothing to Provide Organized Labor, the ALU Included Black Agenda Report (resilc)
This North Texas metropolis simply accepted free healthcare for all residents WFAA (Chuck L)
Antidote du jour. Nick Corbishley’s 9 month previous Nina:
And a bonus:
Farmed animals simply wanna have enjoyable – they’re right here with us, not for us. pic.twitter.com/Vqg25kmeoD
— GreenFuzz (@molesuk) May 11, 2022
See yesterday’s Antidote du Jour and Hyperlinks right here.
