The Hidden Life of Scotland’s Wild Haggis Haggis Wildlife Foundation
Capital buffers and the micro-macro nexus Bank of International Settlements
Climate
How hot was it (1):
It’s so hot in NYC that the Third Ave Bridge over the Harlem River can’t fully open/close because the heat has expanded the steel. We saw workers using a saw to shave part of the steel down & fire boats shooting water on the bridge to cool it down @nbcnewyork #nbc4ny #nyc #heat pic.twitter.com/lAxdyXNHEP
— Jesse Hamilton (@JesseJHamilton) July 8, 2024
How hot was it (2):
Got a source who works for the airlines who's telling me that flights into the southwest are getting canceled due to heat. A lot of planes aren't certified for above 119°F/48.3°C so they get canceled or diverted.
Source says this: pic.twitter.com/DBGFWvSwH0
— Josh Ellis (@jzellis) July 6, 2024
How hot was it (3):
The manufacturer is citing extreme weather affecting production of the plastic used for these bottles as well as the sharp ⏫️ in demand during the pandemic. This is directly related to SARS-CoV-2 as bacterial infections like bacteremia are often secondary to covid infection.
— David Christopher 🏥🥼🔬🍉 (@MLS_Dave) July 8, 2024
Can we air condition our way out of climate change? The Climate Brink
Peering Inside the Pandora’s Box of Oil and Gas Waste Inside Climate News
Syndemics
This May Be the Most Overlooked Covid Symptom NYT
The Lancet: Changing Epidemiological Patterns in Human Avian Influenza Virus Infections Avian Flu Diary
China?
China needs more momentum in its economic recovery China Daily
Japan’s tacit NATO membership acts as bridge for global security Nikkei Asia
Myanmar
Myanmar’s ethnic rebels say they captured an airport in a new setback for the military government Associated Press
CNA Explains: Myanmar’s ex-president visited China, followed by its junta No 2. What’s the play? Channel News Asia
Delivering Death: Chinese Jet-Fuel Tanker Sailing Into Myanmar The Irrawaddy
India
The complexities of India’s Neighbourhood first Policy Modern Diplomacy
Syraqistan
US to resume 500-pound bomb shipments to Israel The HIll
Israel tells ‘everyone in Gaza City’ to leave BBC
The Palestinian Authority’s shrinking influence in the West Bank FT
Only an anti-fascist front can save us from the abyss 972 Magazine
Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war The Unbalanced Evolution of Homo Sapiens
The International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction in Palestine and the ‘Oslo Accords Issue’ Just Security
Iraq halts financial transactions in Chinese Yuan under US pressure BNE Intellinews
European Disunion
‘Contained but not stopped’: French far right takes record number of seats in parliament France24
French Elections : Antifascist Victory and Deep Political Crisis The Left Berlin
Dear Old Blighty
Israel Lobby Funded Half of New UK Cabinet Consortium News
Starmer, a thread:
If you are wondering who UK's new PM @Keir_Starmer is, wait no further.
This will be an interesting thread. pic.twitter.com/ZmoSEPzp5o
— Esha K (@eshaLegal) July 5, 2024
The Tories betrayed Britain – and too many still refuse to admit it The Telegraph. Commentary:
For years I kept the list of Tory levelling up promises stuck on a cupboard door. You’ll see from the sellotape that once I ripped it down in impotent rage. Then I stuck it back up again. pic.twitter.com/e0AihzQDpb
— Ian McMillan (@IMcMillan) July 6, 2024
New Not-So-Cold War
New Development In Black Sea, Russian Navy Using Base In Georgia Naval News
First F-16 Jet Fighters on Their Way to Ukraine, U.S. and Allies Say WSJ
Zelenskyy meets with top executives of leading US defence companies Ukrainska Pravda
Clinton promised Yeltsin Nato expansion “no threat”, newly declassified documents show BNE Intellinews
Russia faces labor shortages despite low unemployment Anadolu Agency
NATO Summit
Fate of Biden Hangs Over the NATO Summit Like a Ghost Conjured by Shakespeare Larry Johnson, Son of the New American Revolution
Biden, Starmer project optimism amid political tumult Politico
* * * Ukraine is on an ‘irreversible’ path to NATO. But only after war with Russia ends AP. Commentary:
NATO means not being alone.
NATO means protecting each other.
NATO means living in freedom.
NATO means peace#NATOSummit | #WeAreNATO pic.twitter.com/Eh0Z8Fv2Ot— NATO (@NATO) July 7, 2024
Stoltenberg: Ukraine’s right to self-defence includes strikes deep into Russian territory Ukrainska Pravda
Russia pledges response to US decision to deploy long-range weapons in Germany Anadolu Agency
NATO SUMMIT: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War Consortium News
China a ‘decisive enabler’ of Russia’s war in Ukraine, says Nato in stern rebuke Guardian. Commentary:
The funniest thing about NATO calling China "a decisive enabler of Russia’s war against Ukraine" in their "Washington Summit Declaration" yesterday (https://t.co/9E5tirgNvW) is that China is probably "a decisive enabler" of the other side to a much greater extent than Russia.… pic.twitter.com/DFzVE2tHK1
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 11, 2024
2024
Point/Counterpoint: Hillary Clinton Is Polling Ahead Of Joe Biden vs. Did Somebody Say Hillary Clinton? The Onion. June 9.
Illa in Manila: Will History Demand Trump-Hillary II? (excerpt) Matt Taibbi, Racket News. June 10.
Analyzing the Biden and Trump Debate and the 2024 Electoral Process Black Agenda Report
2024 Election: How to Get Involved As a High School Student Teen Vogue
The Supremes
The Hydraulic Effect of Loper Bright Enterprises in Consumer Finance: More Regulation By Enforcement Credit Slips. Important.
Project 2025 Is Taking Its Cues From the Supreme Court’s Worst Decisions Balls and Strikes
Global Elections
Meta’s Oversight Board is unprepared for a historic 2024 election cycle Brookings Institution
The Final Frontier
The Boeing Starliner crew might be stuck in space for the rest of the summer Quartz
A Tale of Two Spacecraft Pluralia
Digital Watch
Big Tech’s eventual response to my LLM-crasher bug report was dire The Register. “[A}n almost complete lack of bug reporting infrastructure from the LLM providers.”
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fashion
Shein to Address Fashion Industry Waste Ahead of Potential Listing WSJ
Guillotine Watch
Elon Musk beats $500m severance lawsuit by fired Twitter workers Al Jazeera
Class Warfare
Grocery Workers File Union Democracy Lawsuit Labor Notes
Minneapolis park workers’ strike will continue indefinitely, union says Star-Tribune
To Best Understand Inequality, Think Class, Not Generation Inequality
A Life Full Circle: Gramsci in Sardinia Andy Merrifield
Antidote du jour (George Gastin):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
HERE COMES HILLARY
(melody borrowed from Here Comes Santa Claus by Gene Autry, as performedby Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters, 1949)
Here comes Hillary, here comes Hillary, called to save us again
Schumer, Pelosi and sweet Kamala grimacing in pain
Ask Obama ‘Who’s your mama?’ cue the sweetness and light
That Russian bear may not play fair this time she’s doin’ it right
You’re deplorable, she’s adorable, nothing’s wrong with her brain
She’ll mop the floor with that orange-faced bore and he won’t come back again
Wokey labels, gender tangles, CIS-folk getting uptight
Jump in bed get your legs well spread this time she’s doin’ it right
So right
This time she’s doin’ it right
Happy Days Happy Times
Cue the bells and chimes
As Hillary comes your way, today . . .
Here comes Hillary, such nobility, not for wealth or for fame
She’s as pure as a force majeure as we call on our grand dame
Grace unstinting, both eyes glinting, aching for a big fight
She has no peer and this is her year this time she’s doin’ it right
So right
This time she’s doin’ it right
Stand by . . .
(musical interlude)
Trump won ’16, what a sad scene, all our efforts in vain
Now she’s back for the big attack and she’ll wipe away that stain
So share with all that she’s heard the call if we can just unite
No more shorn of the one we love this time she’s doin’ it right
Happy Days Happy Times
Cue the bells and chimes
Here comes Hillary!
Again, you’ve saved another doom scroll day…
“2024 Election: How to Get Involved As a High School Student”
My own advice to those high school kids is don’t, just don’t. If they want to pay you, then fair enough. But neither party is worth the effort as far as I can see and in fact both have dedicated themselves to screwing over young people. Instead, these kids should enjoy life while they are in high school. Hang around with friends and shoot the s***, go to parties, learn to be a good driver. If they still want to volunteer, then there are lots or worthy causes that can be found that actually help people as in right here and right now. You can never get your teens years back again so don’t waste them on political machines who will use you up and then spit you out. Cynical much?
(it’s the hap-happiest time of the year~)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kamala
Everywhere you go
Take a look at the state of Joe, he’s uttering malarkey once again
With Jill as his cane and health suspicions that grow
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kamala
Veep story no more
But the pettiest sight to see is the word salad that will be
A daily bore
Syntax jumbled about and a mouth that shoots
Is the wish of Kam & Doug
A doll that’ll talk and will not get mocked
Is the hope of the Donkey Show
And Mom and Dad can hardly wait for election talk to start again
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kamala
Everywhere you go
There’s hope in the grand scheme, her administration will go well
She’s the sturdy kind that doesn’t mind the show
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kamala
Soon her administration will start
And the thing that’ll make ’em zing is the vocabulary that you bring
Right within her vocal chords
It’s beginning to look a lot like Kamala
Goy story, some say a bore
But the scariest sight to see is the ‘I’m With Her’ campaign poster that will be
On your own front door
Sure, it’s Hillary once more
Ho, ho, ho … Christmas in July!
Keep them all away from the mistletoe!
“The Boeing Starliner crew might be stuck in space for the rest of the summer”
‘Boeing and NASA still aren’t sure when they’ll bring the CST-100 Starliner home.’
So maybe those astronauts will never be able to use that Starliner to go home but will need to hitch a ride with another ship. Maybe with one of Musk’s ships or maybe with the Russians. But not to worry, Boeing is on the job. They have a secret teleportation program in development and reckon that they will be able to use it to beam those two astronauts back down to earth. They just have to work out a coupla kinks first like how things get turned inside out in transportation but they figure that when they have an 80% success rate, then they will be able to use it to bring those astronauts back down. In the meantime, NASA may have to schedule another launch to carry more supplies and provisions and maybe start charging those two rent.
The Rev Kev: They have a secret teleportation program in development.
Jeff Goldblum in The Fly had one of those too.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fj1SHpBsY7w
I see your The Fly and raise you Spaceballs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etY7kbRRQ_c
And I see your Spaceballs and raise you Galaxy Quest-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW-NiGp1gys (2:40 mins)
MAR’s hahahhahaha~~~~~
Investors~~~~
Lost In Space TV series plot:
Dr. Smith: accountant for Boeing, sneaks cuts aboard the Starliner, and the Swift Family Robinson is stranded in outer space indefinitely, Danger Will Robinson! is a given.
>Only an anti-fascist front can save us from the abyss 972 Magazine
It’s very difficult for a society stuck in a continuous state of trauma to evaluate or even notice the transformations it is undergoing in real time. The Israeli public is still recovering from the shock of October 7…
But right now, we must begin preparing for this day by building a broad anti-fascist front that can curb the worst impulses of this new society and chart a different path forward.
,
No, I’m not buying this account. It’s couching the argument in psychoanalytic terms like “trauma” or “impulses.” Israel has adopted an evil ideology, Zionism. Those who embrace it are either ignorant, evil, or a combination of both. You want some sort of “anti-fascist” movement to combat it, fine, as long as you call out the moral depravity of the perpetrators and the need to restore the “moral order.”
over the past three decades, Netanyahu has built an Israeli society in his image. Everything rhymes with German fascism.
Another excellent article, another episode in Andy Merrifield’s re-thinking of the life of Antonio Gramsci. “A life full circle. Gramsci in Sardinia”
Highly recommended.
One of the reasons why I lose patience with the empty slogan “there is no right or left,” which is self-indulgent and sterile nonsense, arguing for stagnation in history, is that there are people like Gramsci. His profound humanity and his ethos are thoroughly leftist.
To quote from the article by Merrifield: ‘Underneath is a citation from Prison Notebooks: “culture isn’t having a well-stocked warehouse of news but is the ability that our mind has to understand life, the place we hold there, our relationship with other people. Those who are aware of themselves and of everything, who feel the relationship with all other beings, have culture…So anyone can be cultured, can be a philosopher.”’
You may think that Italian life now centers on Chiara Ferragni and Fedez, or the latest offerings from Prada, but there is a constant current of gentle disruption—Gramsci, Saint Francis of Assisi, Rossana Rossanda… Which make a left possible and life more or less bearable.
>Israel Lobby Funded Half of New UK Cabinet Consortium News
A parliamentary adviser who went on the delegation told openDemocracy: “there was a clear and obvious agenda to make sure people had a pro-Israel stance going into government”.
What’s wrong with that? A foreign country lobbying to promote its interest buy providing financial incentives and assistance to friendly members of parliament. And unlike the U.S., it’s only half the UK Cabinet. Israel needs to up the ante, after all Thomas Massie has pointed out that all Republican members of Congress have a “handler” that “educates and guides” him/her to appreciate Israeli interest in crafting legislation.
UKIPAC?
not to be confused with UkiePAC?
Congress critters with handlers? I have a vision of the handlers herding congress critters down a chute where each is ear tagged, branded, and injected with the proper attitudes.
One might also imagine the critters looking at their handlers rather like the sheep in the daily antidote.
Preserving “Our Democracy.”
Probably the nearest example is the Antebellum period, and the disproportionate influence of the slaveowning class over just about every aspect of political and civic discourse in the United States.
>Israel Lobby Funded Half of New UK Cabinet Consortium News
A parliamentary adviser who went on the delegation told openDemocracy: “there was a clear and obvious agenda to make sure people had a pro-Israel stance going into government”.
What’s wrong with that? A foreign country lobbying to promote its interest by providing financial incentives and assistance to friendly members of parliament. And unlike the U.S., it’s only half the UK Cabinet. Israel needs to up the ante, after all Thomas Massie has pointed out that all Republican members of Congress have a “handler” that “educates and guides” him/her to appreciate Israeli interest in crafting legislation.
Speaking of Thomas Massie, his presence on TwitterX is sorely missed. I’ve still seen no account of what caused his 51 year old wife to die suddenly.
Sure, nothing like starting your day with a video of a hawtie Martian blonde from Uppsala that can kill silently with her eyes, and then moving on to a variety of dangerous distaffs. I think it was supposed to be about NATO.
The only thing she can kill is future of her nation.
>Meta’s Oversight Board is unprepared for a historic 2024 election cycle – Brookings Institution
Many worry that campaigns will use their social media to spread false information and that tech companies won’t adequately address these issues as their platforms continue to host democracy-compromising content ahead of elections.
I was hoping to read some information about Meta’s new policy regarding the use of the word “Zionism.” The “many” who are worrying about “false information” are the ones perpetrating the dis/misinformation in spades, especially by omission of legitimate view points. I don’t use Facebook or other platforms controlled by Meta. That people still get “news” from these platforms is part of the problem. Even if people had reliable information to draw on in trying to influence policy makers, we all know studies have demonstrated, it really doesn’t matter, the donors will have their say/day while the rest are destined to be but spectators.
Re: “Can we air condition our way out of climate change? The Climate Brink”
William Nordhaus is the primary Economics contributor to the IPCC reports, and he blatantly ignores the thermodynamics realities of which Andrew Dressler writes at today’s link. Steve Keen has made Nordhaus’s inputs his personal punching bag for several years. Here’s one of his pieces on the subject.
‘Esha K
@eshaLegal
If you are wondering who UK’s new PM @Keir_Starmer
is, wait no further.
This will be an interesting thread.’
Good news everybody. Starmer is doomed. Tonight on the news I saw him hug Zelensky so it is only a matter of time until the Zelensky Curse goes to work on him. Notable recent victims of this curse include Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron. That’s proof enough for me.
>To Best Understand Inequality, Think Class, Not Generation Inequality
What’s going on here? We’re not suffering through a generational war. We’re continuing to live through a clash of economic classes…
Baby boomers just happened to have had the good fortune to come along at one of those rare moments in history when the richest among us were not doing so well in that clash of classes. These boomers found themselves born into a postwar America that average people — after years of struggle — had fundamentally transformed.
I love it, “just happened to be?” What a felicitous phrase. The article is a study in false framing of the issue, both class and generational inequality are inextricably linked in multitudinous ways. The group, what Lambert calls the “inner circle” will ensure that they pass on their status/privileges to the next generation, this group which represents a specific class, creates the conditions which ensure inequality will forever persist, at least while they hold sway over public policy decisions.
The one thing i’ve noted with the prolonged big heat here, is dead branches higher up on oak trees have definitely drooped down some in our oh so sunny sojourn.
Had this one tree that had been dead for a year and it was one of those trees where I was gonna get around to it, and the lower tendrils of the highest branches had fallen down to 7 feet from 10 feet high previously, all in a fortnight,
I was up @ o’dark thirty as is my custom and had a cup of Joe outside and it was 80 degrees in the wee hour… nothing gets a chance to really cool down, and the weakest links are sagging~
“New Development In Black Sea, Russian Navy Using Base In Georgia ‘
This is what Naval News considers news? A support ship that looks more like a ferry boat ties up in a port that Georgia lost back in ’08 and suddenly this is Russia maybe trying to get Georgia involved in the war in the Ukraine? The news that I have been reading is that it is the Ukraine and it’s NATO allies that are trying to drag Georgia into the war to open up another front for Russia. Would it make any difference if this happened? No, but Georgia would get wrecked for a second time which is why Georgia is determined to sit this war out.
>Israel tells ‘everyone in Gaza City’ to leave BBC
The Israeli military launched a campaign in Gaza to destroy the Hamas group in response to an unprecedented attack on southern Israel on 7 October, during which about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 38,295 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry. Its figures do not differentiate between civilians and combatants, but it had reportedly identified 14,680 children, women and elderly people among the dead by the end of April.
The two concluding paragraphs of the article above omit, by design, recent reporting that a substantial number of the 1,200 people killed where by Israel executing the “Hannibal Directive” and that the 38,295 people is closer to 200K. BBC continues its Zionist slanted coverage of the 10/7 ongoing genocide.
Through a confederate in the Naval Observatory, I have the inside scoop on the reinvention of Kamala as the first rap star Chief Executive ala maK! with advance copy of her first crouton’y word salad sandwich.
If you love it
What can be, unburdened
By what has been
Set it free
If it comes back-its yours
If it doesn’t it was never meant to be
What can be, unburdened
By what has been