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Dear patient readers,
Sorry to be light at launch. Come back at 8:00 AM for a full ration. Sorry to overshare, but recovering from a terribly bad overnight, an estate hearing where my attorney did not even remotely adequately prepare me and then basically hung me out to dry by being too lazy to do effective redirect. I either followed her guidance or learned she was silent on issues where she should have given me a heads up. I have never felt so humiliated.
All that was treated by the opposition and even the judge as if I were trying to pull a fast one, when I worked like a dog to get a sale for over the asking price for a dated house with no big reno and was meticulous about documenting expenses AND ate many expenses that I was not even allowed to mention!
And being used to NYC-caliber lawyers, I had already gone through three (although admittedly the first one quit after it was clear one heir was going to be difficult) before this one, so it was not as if I could fire her when I saw some worrisome signs. Although the problem may have been the probate bar and not Alabama. As David in Friday Harbor said,
Probate lawyers are bottom feeders shamelessly taking advantage of widows and orphans. I have never had an ounce of respect for their ilk. Probate turns even decent judges’ minds to mush.
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Song Lyrics Have Become Simpler and More Repetitive Over the Last Five Decades Nature. I think not at NC!
People with a higher IQ and favorable genes for intelligence are more likely to be liberal ZMEScience
Conscientious unbelievers aeon
Your Vision Can Predict Dementia 12 Years Before Diagnosis, Study Finds ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
#COVID-19
Effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines to prevent long COVID: data from Norway Lancet (ma)
Self-amplifying RNA COVID-19 vaccine Cell. See Eric Topol: Approved in Japan, this self-amplifying Covid vaccine that uses much lower doses of mRNA, with less side-effects and potential longer duration of efficacy, is a better template than current mRNA shots (Dr. Kevin)
Predictors and Clinical Significance of Myocardial Injury in Elderly Patients Under the COVID-19 Pandemic DovePress (ma)
Characteristics and Outcomes for Recipients of NVX-CoV2373: A Real-World Retrospective Study in Germany (ma) MDPI
Climate/Environment
World’s Coral Reefs Hit By a Fourth Mass Bleaching Event, NOAA Says NBC
A machine learning-based approach to discover nanocomposite films for biodegradable plastic alternative PhysOrg
California Exceeds 100% of Energy Demand With Renewables Over a Record 30 Days Electrek
China?
Apple loses smartphone crown to Samsung as Chinese rivals gain ground Financial Times
What will Chinese police officers do in Hungary? Daily News Hungary
Cambodia to divert Mekong trade via China-built canal, vexing Vietnam Nikkei (furzy)
Xi Rebuffs Scholz Pressure to Rein In Chinese Manufacturing Bloomberg. Duh.
European Disunion
Fire rages through Copenhagen’s historic stock exchange, spire collapses Associated Press (furzy)
Old Blighty
A rare photo of the UK leaving the planet out of sheer embarrassment over its leaders and the opposition. pic.twitter.com/jRzYRkOLkZ
— Catherine Love. #CorbynWasRight #PeaceAndJustice (@c_love888) April 14, 2024
Revolt in Northern England: No Ceasefire, No Vote Consortium News
Protest against ‘foreign agent’ law in Georgia turns violent (VIDEO) RT (Kevin W)
Gaza
Hamas reportedly now willing to release only up to 20 hostages in return for 6-week truce Times of Israel
This is beyond evil. In fact, there are nor words to describe such tactics! https://t.co/7c79JYuDdE
— Hala Jaber (@HalaJaber) April 15, 2024
Iran v. Israel
Israel vows retaliation over Iran attack after calls for restraint BBC
US and Europe seek to dissuade Israel from striking back against Iran Financial Times
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 192: European countries urge Israel not to respond to Iran attack; Israeli army targets Gazans returning north Mondoweiss
Israeli ‘diplomatic offensive’ urges sanctions against Iran Aljazeera. Bwaahaha.
What you need to know about the Iranian attack on Israel but will not find in your mainstream news provider Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)
Sources deny Saudi Arabia’s participation in intercepting Iranian attacks on Israel Arab News
ISRAEL CONFLICT SPREADS TO 16 NATIONS AS BIDEN ADMIN SAYS THERE’S NO WAR anixneuseis
Stephen Walt is undoubtedly Harvard’s most renowned professor of international relations.
Here is what he says on Iran’s strike, which is an immense departure from what we commonly hear in Western media 🧵https://t.co/JmWkILyDEA
First of all, he writes that Iran’s general…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 16, 2024
Israeli debt doubled since beginning of war on Gaza The Cradle (Kevin W)
British low-cost carrier easyJet suspends flights to Israel until late October Anadolu Agency
🇮🇷 | 𝐈𝐫𝐚𝐧 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭’𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐅𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐲…
“If Jordan continue to participate in the Zionist aggression against Iran and its allies, 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧 will be directly targeted”
Translated Quote… pic.twitter.com/D3C7WRqUIl
— Iran Spectator (@IranSpec) April 15, 2024
Syraqistan
This is The Death Knell For Iraqi Kurdistan’s Independence OilPrice
New Not So Cold War
US House speaker to put Ukraine aid bill to a vote – media RT
Freedom Caucus says Iran attack on Israel sets up ‘bogus’ reason to pass Ukraine aid The Hill. Good bark, but do they have the bite?
Activists trigger referendum that could end Swiss sanctions on Russia Financial Times (Kevin W)
What Russia Sanctions Failure Says About the Future American Conservative
Macron wants Olympic truce in Ukraine and Gaza RT (Kevin W). When France is telling Russian athletes they are not welcome.
France decides to invite Russia to anniversary of Allied landings in Normandy Ukrainska Pravda
Imperial Collapse Watch
“Fire and ice.” How will America fail? Patrick Lawrence
The Defense Industry’s Inside Man In The Pacific Arms Race The Lever (Randy K)
Trump
Takeaways from Day One of Trump’s hush-money-trial Washington Post (furzy)
Jonathan Turley: This is legally absurd Fox and The Trump Trial in Manhattan is an Indictment of the New York Legal System Jonathan Turley
Katie Couric slammed as ‘out of touch’ for claiming Trump’s MAGA driven by ‘anti-intellectualism’ New York Post. While Couric may not be entirely wrong (didn’t de Tocqueville effectively complain that Americans were hopelessly mercenary), to the extent the PMC can pretend to intellectualism, what they celebrate for the most part is pseudo-intellectualism.
Just tired of these trials’: Why the MAGA crowd is so thin outside Trump’s New York trial Politico (furzy)
Trump Media Group (DJT) Are the Shares Headed to Zero? MishTalk (furzy). So much for a potential short squeeze….
2024
Chaos In The Crosstabs Split Ticket. Poll showing more Trump than Biden disapproval, by 1 point.
Our No Longer Free Press
Gathering of right-wing politicians in Brussels descends into chaos as police and local mayor attempt to shut down conference with Nigel Farage lashing out at ‘monstrous’ efforts to silence speakers and warns: ‘We are up against a new form of communism’ Daily Mail
Imagine my surprise when I was told at registration for today’s #IFGS2024 Innovate Finance conf — where I was scheduled to moderate the below panel — that I had been CANCELLED.
Why? Because I declined to pre-submit the exact questions I was going to ask the panelists. This is… pic.twitter.com/JDtxbpJdIv
— Izabella Kaminska (@izakaminska) April 15, 2024
Antitrust
Justice Department to File Antitrust Suit Against Live Nation Wall Street Journal. Matt Stoller was on this last month: Explosive New Documents Unearthed On Live Nation/Ticketmaster
AI
AI Job Cuts: Banks Reportedly Eye Cutting Analyst Classes by Two-Thirds Business Insider (Paul R)
The Bezzle
Morgan Stanley’s Wealth Arm Probed by Multiple Federal Regulators Wall Street Journal. From a few days ago, still germane.
Class Warfare
Ingrid Robeyn’s ‘Limitarianism’ Makes the Case for Capping Wealth Atlantic (JB)
Greek journalists launch 24-hour strike over low wages DW
Disneyland cracks down on free disability access service abused by park guests SFGate
Antidote du jour. From Alex C. I have several people right now I’d like to set this guy on:
And a bonus (Chuck L):
thinking about Pete Oswald, a skier who found an injured 88 lb sheep sliding down the slopes of Hector Mountains and carried it to safety pic.twitter.com/gEIIisIJwK
— derek guy (@dieworkwear) April 14, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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