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Crows Trade Cigarettes For Food Hackaday. Resilc: “I’d feel much better for USA USA’s future if we had 535 crows in Congre$$.”
Ranchers Seek Remedy To Black Vultures In SC Drovers (resilc)
Rhinos: Back from the Brink Reason to be Cheerful (resilc)
A new ‘Einstein’ equation suggests wormholes hold the key to quantum gravity Science News (Chuck L)
Giant dying star explodes as scientists watch in real time — a first for astronomy KVIA (Chuck L)
Scientists estimate 9,000 tree species are still unknown to them Business Insider (Kevin W)
Number of Earth’s tree species estimated to be 14% higher than currently known, with 9,200 species yet to be discovered PhysOrg (David L). Um, still doesn’t change the fact that we’ve wiped out a ton.
‘I Cloned My Dog—They Have Completely Different Personalities’ Newsweek (furzy)
Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted Antigone (Anthony L)
#COVID-19
‘I wanted my art to resonate’: The Zimbabwean sculptor responding to Covid with creativity Guardian
‘Mark of the Antichrist’: Greek holy men sow vaccine mistrust France24 (resilc). We warned of the Mark of the Beast concerns…but the objection among US evangelicals is not to vaccines but mandates…This is much broader.
Economic Survey Glosses Over 2021 COVID-19 Horror, Key Details on Health Schemes The Wire (J-LS)
Science/Medicine
Please read the full thread:
3/ I searched this paper for well-known terms like post-intensive care syndrome #PICS, #LongCOVID & even “post-acute sequelae of COVID”#PASC
NADA. Zip. Zilch.
Why weren’t these names mentioned? At the very least, these pts’ disabilities are DEFINITELY PICS & underestimated btw
— WesElyMD (@WesElyMD) January 31, 2022
Study on long COVID finds hidden lung abnormalities not detected in routine tests Times of Israel
Mild COVID-19 cases still lead to attention and memory issues: study Reuters. Money quote:
As ONS shows official confirmed cases are flat at around 69,000 cases daily – the ZOE Covid study shows a different picture across the UK with symptomatic cases increasing back towards the peak of 211,000 we saw a month ago. Suggests the confirmed data are missing most cases now pic.twitter.com/DZhgIK5CWQ
— Tim Spector (@timspector) January 31, 2022
US
GM: “#nottheOnion”:
We would never tolerate 3,000 deaths per month on America’s airlines or subways, but on our roads we act like it’s normal.
It’s time for a new mentality for roadway safety.
— Secretary Pete Buttigieg (@SecretaryPete) January 31, 2022
— Susan Sarandon (@SusanSarandon) January 31, 2022
Scarcity of a Covid drug sends patients on a ‘Hunger Games hunt’ STAT (martha r). From last week, still germane.
Finance/Economy
Freedom Convoy: Trudeau calls trucker protest an ‘insult to truth’ BBC (resilc)
Trudeau reappears to denounce ‘Freedom Convoy’ truckers RT (Kevin W)
China?
The record $1 trillion trade deficit doesn’t even count hundreds of millions of small packages mailed directly from China MarketWatch (resilc)
Alexa whistleblower demands Amazon apology after being jailed and tortured Guardian
India
India Will Lose 101 Billion Labour-Hours a Year to Global Warming’s Effects The Wire (J-LS)
India UnderSpends On Nutrition, New Nutrition Programme Yet To Be Implemented India Spend (J-LS)
Gandhi assassination: Why Nathuram Godse was allowed to read his hate-filled accusations in court The Scroll (J-LS)
Portugal’s ruling Socialists win re-election with outright majority France24
Fruit pickers lured to Portugal by the dream of a ‘raspberry passport’ Guardian (resilc)
New Cold War
Russia provides written response to US proposal for deescalation as Biden’s Ambassador to the UN claims Moscow is preparing to send 30,000 troops to the Belarus-Ukraine border: State Dept orders home family members of government workers in Belarus Daily Mail (J-LS). Wow, someone really wants this war.
Most Americans Don’t Want War With Russia. Where Are Progressives? American Prospect (Kevin C). Depressing amount of pushback on a big mailing list with a lot of press and academic names.
US Naval Presence in Black Sea More Than Doubled in 2021 Compared to 2020 Antiwar (resilc)
Dumping on Germany: Do US pundits ever consider the cost? Responsible Statecraft (resilc)
US Sanctions Aimed at Russia Could Take a Wide Toll New York Times (Kevin C). I am not in a position to make an independent assessment, but with the US hitting Russia with various sanctions since IIRC 2014, it’s hard to see that there is much ammo left in that weapon. And Russia has had all this time to become more of an autarky.
Syraqistan
Israel calls on Amnesty International to not release report accusing country of apartheid PBS (David L)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
How IBM’s Watson went from the future of health care to sold off for parts. Slate (furzy)
Imperial Collapse Watch
The F-35C’s Radar-Absorbent Skin Is Looking Pretty Rough After Months At Sea The Drive (Kevin W)
ERCOT Projects High Electricity Demand During Cold Snap NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth (J-LS)
1/6
Islamophobia and the Capitol Insurrection Juan Cole, TomDispatch
Trump
Trump Had Role in Weighing Proposals to Seize Voting Machines New York Times (furzy). Pretty tenuous. Weighing a proposal to rob a bank is not robbing a bank. But politically, sure not a good look.
Fascism isn’t coming UnHerd (resilc). From last year, still germane.
Biden
Does the Biden administration have an economic worldview? Asia Times (Kevin W)
Joe Biden’s Saigon Atlantic (resilc). Military-industrial types will not stop beating this dead horse….
Supremes
Manchin ‘anxious’ to confirm Breyer’s Supreme Court successor The Hill (Kevin W). Is it just me, or does this strike you as a mindfuck?
The Supreme Court’s Christian conservative revolution is upon us Vox (resilc)
Democrats en déshabillé
Rhode Island Dems On Track to Hand GOP Midterm Advantage Intercept (resilc)
Fearing catastrophe, national nonprofit asks Broward to ban LNG shipments at Port Everglades Florida Bulldog (Chuck L)
L’affaire Jeffrey Epstein
Prince Andrew’s Costly US Court Battle Puts Strain on Finances Bloomberg (J-LS)
Police State Watch
Miami Beach commission directs city to appeal dismissals of criminal ordinance cases Miami Herald (J-LS)
Does the Mafia Hire Good Accountants? SSRN (resilc)
Inside Kazakhstan’s giant crypto-mine BBC
Progressive Crypto Skeptic Set to Join Consumer Finance Watchdog Bloomberg (martha r). Missed this last week. Occupy Wall Street lives!
Guillotine Watch
Woman rents tent on her Zürich balcony for $540 a month Boing Boing (resilc)
Class Warfare
The Nursing Home Slumlord Manifesto American Prospect (martha r). From the formidable Moe Tkacik.
Teachers are quitting, and companies are hot to hire them Wall Street Journal (resilc)
More than 50 Starbucks stores now petitioning to unionize The Hill
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “Sandy’s Beach Shack near the foot of the pier in Huntington Beach (CA) welcomes dogs.”
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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