Inca jars performing various animal soundspic.twitter.com/bec79W6GeU
— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) May 15, 2024
A lost branch of the river Nile flowed past the pyramids of Egypt New Scientist (Dr. Kevin). Prime real estate back in its day.
Private mission to save the Hubble Space Telescope raises concerns, NASA emails show MPR (Chuck L)
Listening Like a Spider: The Future of Sound Technology SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
Archie, the Internet’s First Search Engine, Is Rescued and Running ars technica
Anti-sex’ beds installed in athletes’ rooms at Paris Olympics Toronto Sun (Dr. Kevin)
FBI Documents Allege Japan Used Germ Warfare in Attack on US and Canada Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
#COVID-19
Statement from the Fed:
“Chair Powell tested positive for COVID-19 late yesterday and is experiencing symptoms. Following Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidance, he is staying away from others and working at home.”
— Victoria Guida (@vtg2) May 17, 2024
Fed’s Powell tests positive for COVID-19 for second time MarketWatch. ma:
Odd. Which CDC guidance is he following? The new guidance is if you don’t have a fever you’re good to go? (that’s what people heard anyway…..). How will we know if he suffers brain damage this time? He’s not that young…….
Study: Kids with long COVID have impaired exercise capacity
90.2% of long COVID patients had a pathologic test.https://t.co/at8eoS8n9T
— CIDRAP (@CIDRAP) May 17, 2024
Climate/Environment
Hopes For Sustainable Jet Fuel Not Realistic, Report Finds Guardian
Lancaster University votes to ban meat and dairy at outlets FarmingUK
China?
China Attempts to End Property Crisis With Broad Rescue Package Bloomberg
European Disunion
Germany Is Still A Kind Of A Colony Of The United States.
The Priceless Value of Old Archives ‼️
‼ Former German MSM Journalist Udo Ulfkotte comes clean
He explains how all western corporate journalists are bought by the CIA and how they must follow their agenda.
If only… pic.twitter.com/1Vk1lVHDA6
— Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) May 15, 2024
Europe EU ambassadors agree to place four Russian media outlets on sanctions list Reuters. Micael T: “There is a EU Commissioner for Values and Transparency. So impeding the freedom of press is actually an EU value.”
Fifteen countries ask Brussels to explore creating migrant centers outside the EU ElPais
Europe’s Youth Are Fueling the Far Right Foreign Policy
The Netherlands veers sharply to the right with a new government dominated by party of Geert Wilders Associated Press
Gaza
Fierce fighting in northern Gaza as aid starts to roll off US-built pier Arab News. You have to get a few paras in to learn the aid has gone straight to a warehouse.
Why Israel Is in Deep Trouble John J. Mearsheimer (Chuck L)
Hezbollah introduces new weapons and tactics against Israel as war in Gaza drags on Independent
FBI agents detained and interrogated trailblazing Israeli revisionist historian Ilan Pappe upon his arrival to Detroit, asking whether he was a “Hamas supporter,” and who his Arab and Muslim friends in the US were
The US security state is taking orders from apartheid Israel pic.twitter.com/FzwAfGNsIi
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) May 16, 2024
Gaza Protests
Medics at UCLA Protest Say Police Weapons Drew Blood and Cracked Bones KFF Health News. Lead story.
New Not-So-Cold War
Second Russian invasion of Kharkiv caught Ukraine unprepared Washington Post. Lead story.
Answers to media questions following the visit to China President of Russia (guurst)
Washington no longer rules out US weapons being used to strike Russian soil LeMonde. YouTubers like the Duran duo featured this clip, but it seems not to have gotten the attention it warranted.
Note Russia made warnings like this a LONG time ago; that was what provoked John Helmer’s idea of Russia creating a de-electrified zone as a DMZ, and noting it would need to be as wide enough to put the longest-range missile NATO was deploying in theater out of reach of Russian soil:
Medvedev:
“Nevertheless, the somewhat foolish NATO strategists sincerely want almost all of Ukraine to fall under Russian control. This is precisely why they are providing the Banderite authorities with increasingly long-range weapons. President Putin has repeatedly stated that… pic.twitter.com/mn8bp90xky
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) May 17, 2024
Ukraine CRUMBLES After Russian Probing Attacks in Kharkiv History Legends. Has only first three days of the advance, but extremely well presented day-to-day action. Critically, points out how the Russian troops were clearly inexperienced (real rookie errors), yet still made persistent gains due to the overall plan and Ukraine weakness. One suspects Russia didn’t expect to go this far this fast but found unlocked doors.
Ukrainian military’s Starlink terminals went down at beginning of Russian offensive in Kharkiv Oblast Ukrainska Pravda
Law on new rules of mobilization comes into force in Ukraine TASS
The West is losing the war: current efforts are insufficient to prevent the fall of key Ukrainian regions to Putin in the next 2 years.
1/16 🧵The facts you need to know
(Follow for a second part on good and bad sanctions) pic.twitter.com/TjcvD43UZ7
— Mikhail Khodorkovsky (@khodorkovsky_en) May 16, 2024
Russian court imposes injunction on UniCredit’s assets Anadolu Agency
Imperial Collapse Watch
The DragonBear-Hug Signals Unprecedented Expansion of Ties Simplicious the Thinker (Kevin W). The visual in case you want to click through to the post later:
Chinese President Xi hugs Putin.
Putin was surprised.
Note that hugging is not a common practice in traditional Chinese culture. pic.twitter.com/lCOZpLof1I
— Politics World Wide Web (@PoliticsWWWeb) May 17, 2024
Russia, China Reveal Their Global Agenda Moon of Alabama. Jeez, the February 2022 statement was only 5,000 words. The verbosity seems to be reflect the Chinese influence on the text. Need to read this when a good English language translation emerges. The Kremlin posted their translation last time so that might be the go-to place.
Putin and Xi no longer have a partnership of equals BBC. The new party line.
The era of globalisation is about to come screeching to a halt Telegraph
Trump
Trump: I want to debate this guy but I’m going to demand a drug test pic.twitter.com/X9NCGloqoU
— Acyn (@Acyn) May 18, 2024
Biden
Key House committees vote to advance contempt proceedings against Garland over Biden audio files CNN (Kevin W)
Watch: Chief Economic Adviser Refuses To Admit Biden Is LYING About Inflation Modernity
Trump thumps Biden in Nevada, poll says Las Vegas Review-Journal
McConnell, Collins on collision course with Democrats over spending parity The Hill
Police State Watch
THIS COULD HAPPEN UNDER TRUMP. THANKFULLY IT IS HAPPENING UNDER BIDEN. pic.twitter.com/iBtedFf9qx
— The Public Archive (@public_archive) May 16, 2024
Our No Longer Free Press
I am accredited by the High Court to cover Julian Assange’s hearing on May 20, 2024
I will have a live thread on Twitter and additional coverage on YouTube.
I have covered this extradition case for 4 years. It is an attack on the press.
Full summary:https://t.co/2bkt6axZ90 pic.twitter.com/i6sVclUxub
— Richard Medhurst (@richimedhurst) May 17, 2024
A 🧵 on process as punishment: what is happening to Julian Assange in the courts?#Assange #FreeAssangeNow #LetHimGoJoe #MayDayMayDay pic.twitter.com/QiLIQpMccn
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) May 17, 2024
How Oil Companies Manipulate Journalists Nation (Randy K)
Why second mortgages could make a comeback Felix Salmon, Axios. I didn’t post on the news that Freddie is interested in buying second mortgages on the firsts it guarantees.. I was going to write this up because this is primarily a Freddie exec enriching exercise. Why from a policy standpoint should it be made easy to drain the equity from your house? But Chris Whalen, quoted in this piece, has this right. This is going to accomplish very little, thank goodness.
The Bezzle
74% of University of Michigan grades are A’s. Other schools aren’t far behind MLive. ma: “Well of course……….the children are well above average.
US auto industry scam: overpriced parts, repairs Asia Times (Kevin W)
Tesla self-driving claims parked in court The Register
Guillotine Watch
Far Right Billionaires Are Waging a War to Capture State Courts Truthout
Tax havens are still a threat to our well-being Richard Murphy
Class Warfare
Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food, Rent Bloomberg
Viral ‘courtesy’ letter American Airlines gives flight attendants shows how little they make CNN (Kevin W)
Shoppers Drug Mart Recruiting Volunteers to Staff Stores Mander (Paul R)
Americans Across the Political Divide Want a Federal Job Guarantee Jacobin
Mercedes-Benz workers in Alabama vote against unionizing in blow to big UAW push CNN (Kevin W)
Another EV Factory Has Unionized Boosting Labor’s Push In US South Bloomberg (ma)
Land Squeeze IPES Food (guurst)
Antidote du jour. Kouros’s “very skittish” Bean-bean:
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Beavers pause while chewing trees and listen to determine which way it will fall. This behavior is a survival mechanism to avoid being harmed by the tree they are gnawing on. pic.twitter.com/QSmvoix1IZ
— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) May 16, 2024
And a second bonus (Chuck L):
Dog seeks help from a random person to rescue his brother.
They were happy and grateful for the help. Thank you, hooman…🙏❤️ pic.twitter.com/uyt89kye4c
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) May 17, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
