Hyperlinks 12/1/2022 | bare capitalism

Man Finds $40,000 Diamond Ring Buried on Florida Seashore and Tracks Down the Proprietor Who Broke into Tears Good Information Community

Is Our Universe a Hologram? Physicists Debate Well-known Thought on Its twenty fifth Anniversary Scientific American

The Science Behind Your Cheese Smithsonian

Inflation: how monetary hypothesis is making the worldwide meals worth disaster worse The Dialog

Local weather

Boulder County’s Gold Hill is discovering a brand new mannequin to empower its mountain neighborhood to organize for wildfires Boulder Reporting Lab

Wish to combat local weather change successfully? Right here’s the place to donate your cash. VOX (GF). GF: “I do know it’s Vox however was impressed by the 8 advised environmental organizations listed as philanthropic designee.”

#COVID19

It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over…however It’s By no means Over — Rising and Reemerging Infectious Ailments Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., NEJM

Why lengthy Covid could possibly be ‘the following public well being catastrophe’ CNBC. Resilc: “Geeeee, what a shockerrrrrrrrrrrrr, who woulda ever thunk itttttttttttt.”

Covid turns into plague of aged, reviving debate over ‘acceptable loss’ WaPo

Monitoring monkeypox virus in saliva and air samples in Spain: a cross-sectional examine The Lancet. From the Summary: “The identification of excessive viable monkeypox virus masses in saliva in most sufferers with monkeypox and the discovering of monkeypox virus DNA in droplets and aerosols warrants additional epidemiological research to judge the potential relevance of the respiratory route of an infection within the 2022 monkeypox virus outbreak.”

China?

China-EU relations: Xi meets European Council President, pledges provide chain cooperation South China Morning Put up

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China’s Covid Protests Started With an House Fireplace in a Distant Area WSJ

The Covid Protests in China and Why They Occurred Now (podcast) Odd Tons. Commentary:

An fascinating dimension that got here up is how the funds for implementing Covid Zero typically falls to the native/provincial governments. And people regional entities have seen their funds battered by the collapse in actual property, since land gross sales are an enormous supply of native gov income.

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) December 1, 2022

Jiang Zemin; Covid messaging shift; Protests aftermath; Actual property; Saudi Arabia Sinocism

China eases some virus controls, searches pedestrians AP

The Communist Social gathering Is Shedding China’s Individuals NYT

Covid and China’s plumbing:

A re-up in why locking folks of their flats continues to be leading to whole buildings and neighborhoods getting contaminated, and why lockdowns cannot work with out aerosol mitigation to forestall in-community unfold. See citations- https://t.co/xoQK0pFCUO

— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) November 26, 2022

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How Beijing Took Taiwan by Drive, the Final Time Sinical China. Hmm.

Worthy and Unworthy Protest Black Agenda Report. For instance:

Politics of the Commons: And But They Transfer Venezuelanalysis

Myanmar

Myanmar democracy chief says 2,000 lifeless combating junta, urges army help Reuters

Syraqistan

World Cup 2022: Iranian man killed celebrating soccer crew’s loss BBC (resilc)

Pakistan now an even bigger basket case than even Bangladesh Asia Instances (resilc)

‘The Most Antisemitic Police within the World’: Ben-Gvir’s Quickly-to-be Chief of Workers’s Years-long Feud With Police Haaretz

European Disunion

From Politico’s morning European publication. Discover the shortage of a simple denial by Ukraine:

VDL FLUBS, BACKTRACKS ON UKRAINIAN DEATHS: European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday mentioned an estimated 120,000 Ukrainians had been killed throughout Russia’s battle — sparking outrage in Kyiv, the place casualty numbers are handled as a protection secret and topic to wartime censorship.

The Fee didn’t specify the place the estimates got here from, and later deleted the video of von der Leyen’s speech, in addition to a written model, earlier than republishing each with the contentious numbers edited out. Nevertheless it was too late. Twitter customers shared the unique, containing the sentence: “It’s estimated that 20,000 civilians and greater than 100,000 Ukrainian army officers have been killed thus far.”

Kyiv’s take: “We can’t verify this determine, we emphasize that the losses of the Ukrainian military are official data and are topic to restrictions on publication,” a spokesman for Ukraine’s armed forces mentioned.

Group VDL’s take: A spokesperson for von der Leyen said the unique video had been edited as a result of the 100,000 determine associated to estimates of whole casualties — which means folks killed in addition to injured.

When you imagine von der Leyen bought the fatality determine unsuitable, I’ve a bridge I’d prefer to promote you.

Germans spending much less as hovering energy, meals prices gnaw funds Reuters

French baguette voted onto UN World Cultural Heritage record France24 (resilc)

Outdated Blighty

£4.5bn misplaced to fraud in three COVID schemes as Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Assist Out scheme recorded 9.5% charge of fraud, HMRC says Sky Information. SBF territory!

Life’s little ironies:

One particular person, combating for more cash for individuals who want it most to outlive, known as the grinch. Whereas the wealthy folks above him are having a banquet.

Not a touch of irony. pic.twitter.com/XSPjBiI1Yy

— Ryan Love (@RyanJL) November 22, 2022

Prince William’s godmother quits palace over feedback to black charity boss Guardian. Transcript:

Combined emotions about yesterday’s go to to Buckingham Palace. 10 minutes after arriving, a member of workers, Woman SH, approached me, moved my hair to see my title badge. The dialog under befell. The remainder of the occasion is a blur.
Thanks @ManduReid & @SuzanneEJacob for help🙏🏾 pic.twitter.com/OUbQKlabyq

— Sistah Area (@Sistah_Space) November 30, 2022

A minority view:

When I’m requested the place I am from, I proudly say that I reside in Luton and I am primarily of Bangladeshi origin (partly North Indian).

I’ve by no means taken it as a racially malicious line of questioning, however moderately a type of curiosity and curiosity.

Identitarian outrage is a poison.

— Dr Rakib Ehsan (@rakibehsan) December 1, 2022

How Scottish Independence has turn out to be entwined with Brexit Primarily Macro

New Not-So-Chilly Battle

On Russian Managed Kherson Frontline, Dealing with Ukraine Positions (video) Patrick Lancaster, YouTube. Deep circles underneath everybody’s eyes.

ROMAN ABRAMOVICH REVEALS HE IS LOBBYING THE US GOVERNMENT FOR THE RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TO END THE UKRAINE WAR John Helmer. Notice the headline is correct. However Helmer strongly insinuates the lobbying, at the least for Russia, fizzled after the Istanbul negotiations and that Abramovich’s essential curiosity now could be remaining unsanctioned by the US.

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ACTION ALERT: NYT Has Discovered New Neo-Nazi Troops to Lionize in Ukraine FAIR

Making sense of Ukrainian battle memes: From watermelons to Saint Javelin Kyiv Impartial

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NATO once more dangles membership in entrance of Ukraine Accountable Statecraft

NATO Exists To Resolve The Issues Created By NATO’s Existence Caitlin’s E-newsletter

BlackRock Monetary Markets Advisory to advise Ministry of Economic system of Ukraine (press launch) BlackRock. From November 16, nonetheless germane.

Biden Adminstration

New Home Democrat chief’s staunch ties to US-Israel teams Center East Eye

The Bezzle

FTX & Sam Bankman-Fried | DealBook Summit Interview (video) YouTube. Transcript. Wowsers.

FTX’s Collapse Was a Crime, Not an Accident Coindesk

Surviving FTX: Fintechs and banks untangle themselves American Banker

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Elon Musk’s Twitter Politics Add to Stress on Tesla’s Model Picture Wall Avenue Journal. Key chart:

Elon Musk seems to make good with Apple after Twitter tirade Monetary Instances

Republican Clown Automobile

The GOP ought to see Nancy Pelosi as a job mannequin, not a villain Brookings Institute. Certainly!

Trump

Treasury Division despatched Home Democrats Trump tax returns Axios (resilc)

Class Warfare

U.S. Home votes to dam rail strike, mandate paid sick go away Reuters. The contract invoice (290-137) is separate from the sick go away invoice (221-207).

Some Rail Staff, Looking for Sick Days, Say Biden Betrayed Them New York Instances. Resilc: “No shit, and the place is my $600???????”

Studying As Counter-Apply The Convivial Society

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