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Trustworthy Canine Refuses To Go away Facet Of Good friend Being Taken To The Hospital The Dodo (Li)
Can Animals Have Wealth Inequality? RealClearScience (Dr. Kevin)
Chook populations in jap Canada declining resulting from forest ‘degradation,’ analysis reveals Oregon State College Resilc: “I used to see extra hen transits right here in Vermont, heading north…..”
Goodwill Bought a Bust for $34.99. It’s an Historical Roman Relic. dnyuz (J-LS)
#COVID-19
Science/Drugs
WHO says 15 million deaths linked to Covid-19, nearly 3 times the official toll France24
34 Volunteers Selected to Get Covid. Right here’s What Scientists Realized Bloomberg. Did they right the pattern for IQ deficiency?
Sturdiness of the immune response to a 3rd BNT162b2 dose; 5 months follow-up
“Stay-neutralization of Omicron VOC was decrease in comparison with earlier strains and demonstrated waning from 111 to 26 inside 4 months” https://t.co/EAvylDgX2k
— Gabriel Hébert-Mysterious™ ? (@Gab_H_R) May 6, 2022
Asia
How WHO report on extra COVID deaths has develop into a political row in India FirstPost (J-LS)
US
White Home paperwork element a looming squeeze on Covid-19 boosters STAT
Scientist GM notes: “The standard reminder that the Third world is the longer term for the US and the pandemic is accelerating the transition. The primary nation to paved the way in the direction of by stopping reporting was Tanzania again in Might 2020, and Turkmenistan (one of many craziest dictatorships on the planet) by no means admitted to having any instances in any respect.”
Washington, D.C. seems to have stopped reporting COVID-19 information: No updates since April 27
— BNO|Medriva Newsroom (@medriva) May 7, 2022
Finance/Economic system
Wow, China exists to serve the West. Glad we’ve got that clear:
Ships ready to dock due to China’s insane COVID technique. That is intentional. pic.twitter.com/iQwMksetaE
— Aaron Ginn (@aginnt) May 3, 2022
Tesla targets pre-lockdown output in Shanghai by mid-May Reuters (resilc)
Climate/Environment
Resurrecting a ‘lost’ coral species PhysOrg (Kevin W)
India and Pakistan’s brutal heat wave poised to resurge Yale Climate Connections
Huge Groundwater System Discovered Under Antarctica Gizmodo (Kevin W)
The Emerald Isle
Sinn Fein on course for ‘seismic’ N. Ireland win, topping first preference vote France24 (guurst)
Sinn Fein Is Winning in Northern Ireland New York Times. Resilc: “Why anyone would choose UK over EU is beyond me.”
Irish government to provide millions in subsidies to developers Independent. John B:
The Irish government’s response to the housing crisis here, looks more and more like open/unhidden embezzlement of public funds, coupled with maximizing the severity of the crisis – and there aren’t notable protests happening, it looks like society has been successfully divided between haves/homeowners and have-nots/renters.
Sinn Féin set to be largest party in Northern Ireland assembly Guardian (Kevin W)
New Not-So-Cold War
I’m walking out. You just lost $90 trying to line your pocket with an extra $1. No chance in hell that money goes beyond the owner’s pocket, and that’s theft. If bank workers can be charged for taking the fraction of a penny from currency transfers, sure as shit this is theft.
— Alexanthros Galenos Vrykolakas ??♂️??? ☭ (@AlexVrykolakas) May 6, 2022
Who’s Alina Kabaeva, Putin’s alleged girlfriend? BBC. Resilc: “Undoubtedly this WILL cease the battle. Do you must go to Harvard, Yale or Oxford to provide you with this bullshit?”
* * * One other firm (remnants thereof) of 79th Ukrainian Brigade refuses to proceed preventing, declaring lack of confidence within the military command, decrying failure to offer satisfactory provides and failure of command & lack of steerage. These usually are not POWs, however energetic insubordination. pic.twitter.com/KyUwDAXvdp
— Gleb Bazov (@gbazov) May 6, 2022
How Putin’s invasion returned Nato to the centre stage | Thomas Meaney https://t.co/h2jW7yCf9M
Wonderful essential textual content, uncommon for the Guardian. Gutless left Labour MPs ought to conceal of their bogs to try to learn it…
— Tariq Ali (@TariqAli_News) May 5, 2022
Due to Ukraine, America’s arsenal of democracy is depleting Economist (Kevin W)
Putin’s Brothers: Tensions Mount within the Balkans as Bosnia and Herzegovina Threatens to Fracture Der Spiegel (resilc)
From Peaceniks To Hawks?: Germany’s Greens Have Reworked within the Face of Russia’s Battle Der Spiegel (resilc). They didn’t get the memo that wars are very vitality intensive, even earlier than permitting for reconstruction.
American progressives be a part of the Battle Occasion Asia Instances (Kevin W)
The Lethal Phantasm of “Victory” Nation (britzklieg)
* * * Finland Braces For Russian Fuel Reduce-Off Forward Of NATO Determination OilPrice (resilc)
Russia-Ukraine stay information: Hungary slams EU’s Russian oil ban transfer Al Jazeera (resilc)
United States seeks to impress Russia into escalation in Ukraine Defend Democracy
EU requires confiscation of frozen Russian belongings RT (Kevin W)
We’d predicted that housing all these refugees would develop into an issue:
I do know we’re not allowed to say this stuff however at some stage we’re going to must have this dialog
Accommodations filled with refugees in rural Eire is having a catastrophic have an effect on on tourism. We’re filling motels, slicing provide, driving up costs leading to a catastrophe
— Paul Treyvaud (@PaulTreyvaud) May 6, 2022
Syraqistan
US’ coercive diplomacy with Saudi Arabia Indian Punchline (Kevin W)
Terror from Balochistan: a menacing device to disrupt Sino-Pakistani economics Cradle (Chick L)
Past the truth that this can be a merciless resolution that might result in a humanitarian disaster, this rationale denying that the prohibition on pressured switch is customary legislation is nothing lower than an embarrassing authorized error. So primary that it may be mentioned that its equal
/4— Michael Sfard מיכאל ספרד (@sfardm) May 5, 2022
i am unsure if it is a good search for the man who was good buddies with jeffrey epstein to encourage harvard to take a morally indefensible place on israeli apartheid & occupation pic.twitter.com/d3iQECctHG
— saeen (@SaeenDiddyCombs) May 4, 2022
‘Pay the worth’: Israel hunts attackers who hacked 3 to demise Al Jazeera (resilc)
Why Arab schoolboys are getting trounced by ladies Economist (Kevin W)
Massive Brother Is Watching You Watch
Apple, Google, and Microsoft need to kill the password with “Passkey” customary ars technica (Kevin W). The one downside that is fixing is permitting them to raised snoop. There’s no person demand for this. This can guarantee that I’ll finally transfer to Linux (and please don’t inform me to do it now, I’ve no time, detest complexity and a switch is complicated, and hate studying new software program with the burning ardour of a thousand suns).
Imperial Collapse Watch
California says it wants extra energy to maintain the lights on Yahoo (Kevin W)
US senate committee passes invoice to revoke sovereign immunity of OPEC members The Cradle (guurst)
Trump
Mark Esper Waited Two Years to Inform Us Trump Wished Troops to Shoot George Floyd Protesters Intercept (David L)
Video: Former protection secretary says Trump proposed bombing Mexico CNN (furzy)
Supremes
At this time’s “nonposition” of the White Home on the concentrating on of justices at their properties is among the lowest moments in American politics. We have now lastly hit the bedrock of rage in American politics…
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) May 6, 2022
A extreme chilling impact’: abortion bans will inhibit medical doctors’ recommendation to sufferers, consultants concern Guardian (Dr. Kevin)
Draft Overturning Roe v. Wade Quotes Notorious Witch Trial Choose With Lengthy-Discredited Concepts on Rape ProPublica
A good friend asks an fascinating query: Submit-Roe, might Native People arrange abortion clinics on tribal lands for anybody to make use of, very similar to they do with casinos, no matter state legislation?
— Sean T at RCP (@SeanTrende) May 5, 2022
Why tons of of scientists are weighing in on a high-stakes US abortion case Nature
‘I had an abortion on tour’: celebrities share their tales in backlash to Roe v Wade leak Guardian (Kevin W)
Louisiana Invoice Goals to Cost Ladies Who Get Abortions With Homicide Rolling Stone (furzy)
New ruling threatens Coast Guard’s excessive seas counter-drug mission Navy Instances (Kevin W)
Oregon legislation requires menstrual merchandise in boys bogs New York Submit (furzy)
Our No Longer Free Press
‘Mistaken’ PayPal E-mail Means CN Is Completely Banned Consortium Information (guurst). The large commonality between Consortium Information and MintPress is that they’ve each featured a number of Scott Ritter, who simply wrote a bit (once more) for RT.
Democrats’ most undemocratic disinformation debacle Washington Examiner
5 Steps to Save Free Speech on Twitter: A Musk Roadmap Jonathan Turley (Chuck L)
Trolling Is Taking a Toll on Science Journalism Undark
Florida pension fund sues Elon Musk and Twitter to cease buyout Guardian (furzy). Let me stress that that there could also be case legislation that helps the argument of the plaintiff, so I could possibly be all moist. Nevertheless, voting shares in help of a merger (and right here a particular one) is barely one of many rights of possession, which embody with the ability to promote the inventory and obtain dividends. So except the agreements granted different rights to Should, like requiring the house owners to not promote their shares in any respect save to Musk in a young supply, this sounds fairly iffy.
Column: U.S. gasoline costs soar as Europe and Asia scramble for LNG Reuters (resilc)
Legendary investor Jeremy Grantham says we’re within the fifth nice bubble of the trendy period—and warns the financial system gained’t ‘skate by means of’ a housing disaster Fortune
US shares undergo longest streak of weekly losses in over a decade Monetary Instances
Class Warfare
“Let Me Go Get My Massive White Man”: The Clientelist Basis of Up to date Antiracist Politics Adolph Reed
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