Links 7/1/2023 | naked capitalism

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Our simple, magic-free recipe for quantum entanglement aeon (Anthony L)

Bach Was No Liberal Humanist Compact (Anthony L)

The Man Who Broke Bowling GQ

Free Tour de France live stream: how to watch each stage from anywhere Business Insider

#COVID-19

Top NIH Official Advised Covid Scientists That He Uses Personal Email To Evade FOIA Intercept

Paediatric care in Okinawa decimated… As most predicted, the 9th wave is putting children most at risk: … The situation is terrible: … ‘Although the number of severely ill paediatric patients, including those with C19, is increasing, the government has announced plans to stop… https://t.co/mMuzpxRPPD

— Dr Satoshi Akima FRACP 『秋間聰』 (@ToshiAkima) June 29, 2023

Climate/Environment

The Dubious Economics of Deep-Sea Mining Nautilus (Micael T)

Iron Fuel Shows Its Mettle SpectrumIEEE (Chuck L)

Facility for releasing treated water into sea from Fukushima Daiichi unveiled Thai PBS (furzy)

Peru: Cordillera Blanca’s melting glaciers threaten towns in valley France24 (furzy)

Baseball-Sized Hail Smashing Into Panels At 150 MPH Destroys Scottsbluff Solar Farm Cowboy State Daily

China?

“If we are going to push China hard on the economic front, we *must* be ready militarily”.

Says it all, really… Basically “we must be ready to fight a war if China resists our attempts at economic containment”. https://t.co/aL0hG9n9eX

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 30, 2023

Old Blighty

Rishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws openDemocracy

La belle France

We’re truly witnessing a radicalization on both sides in France.

This is an unreal communiqué by the main French police unions, essentially declaring France is in a civil war and that the police is in the “resistance” against the government.

This is the translation:

“Now… pic.twitter.com/4Q7F0O39TC

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 1, 2023

New Not-So-Cold War

The Darkness Ahead: Where The Ukraine War Is Headed John Mearsheimer (Li)

CIA director, on secret trip to Ukraine, hears plan for war’s endgame Washington Post. More West talking to itself. Where does the ammo and air support come from, for starters? Although Dima does report an increase in Ukraine ferocity in some key areas, so perhaps the second wave of the counteroffensive, which was supposed to pack the bigger punch, has started?

This is surprising because Scheer provided the foreword to the Oliver Stone book of the transcript of his Putin interviews (which had extensive fact-checking footnotes o Putin’s remarks):

“Can we be deceived to this extent?!” asks Robert Scheer, interrogating me on Ukraine. Yeah, says I, & spend hour weaning him off corporate media & its claims of Russian “military disaster”. For me, one of the most poignant interviews I have done recently. https://t.co/vzqoaNQYy6

— Ray McGovern (@raymcgovern) July 1, 2023

Group Accuses Ukraine of Using Prohibited Land Mines New York Times (furzy)

Ukraine’s Zaluzhny Is Back And Asking For More Weapons Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

THIS Is How NATO’s War On Russia Has FAILED w/ Scott Ritter YouTube. Worth the listen even though long. Revealing opening section on Iraq.

Patrick Lawrence: Russian (Melo)drama Scheerpost (Anthony L)

Further thoughts on the lessons of the Prigozhin armed rebellion Gilbert Doctorow

A new road for Russia? Financial Times. Lambert: “These people are wrong about everything, always.”

Syraqistan

US-Iran talks over a mini nuclear deal are motivated by mutual convenience SCMP

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

The US Is Spying on the UN Secretary General Bruce Schneier

Colorado, Connecticut Data Privacy Laws Go Into Effect July 1 Axios

FBI Forms National Database To Track and Prevent ‘Swatting’ NBC

Imperial Collapse Watch

State Department lacked clear leadership in chaos of Afghanistan withdrawal, review finds The Hill

Talking Logistics… Andrei Martyanov

Biden

The Beltway Goats: Why Hunter is Right “The Bidens are the Best” When It Comes to Influence Peddling Jonathan Turley (Chuck L)

GOP Clown Car

DeSantis agency sent $92 million in covid relief funds to donor project Washington Post (furzy)

Abortion

Analysis suggests 2021 Texas abortion ban resulted in nearly 9,800 more live births in year after law went into effect MedicalXPress (Chuck L)

Supremes

I Teach at an Elite College. Here’s a Look Inside the Racial Gaming of Admissions. New York Times (Dr. Kevin)

Where Affirmative Action Succeeded—and Where It Fell Short Wall Street Journal

US Supreme Court’s radical conservative agenda, explained Bloomberg (furzy)

US Supreme Court rules website designer can refuse to serve same-sex couples BBC

Flaunting the Supreme Court Ruling, Biden Sets Student Debt Repayment to Zero for Many Michael Shedlock. You may not like Shedlock’s unhappiness, but the Biden approach sure looks like a gimmick that will not survive legal challenge.

Right wing Supreme Court justices think our Constitution says rich people issue our national currency: https://t.co/Xb7nOLJUlf

— Kathryn Cannon (@katiecannon2) July 1, 2023

Police State Watch

No matter your politics, closing people’s bank accounts is something we should all be dead set against.

It’s a happening to more and more people: the truckers in Canada, many independent journalists, anyone even remotely connected to countries sanctioned by the West, public… https://t.co/5psWIudx3S

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) June 29, 2023

Our No Longer Free Press

30 Signs You Are Living in an Information Crap-pocalypse Honest Broker (Chuck L)

Ministry announces expulsion of Facebook representatives from Cambodia & cessation of all company activities with Royal Government Kymer Times (furzy)

Calls Grow for a New Investigation Into the Mysterious Death of NYC Anti-Corruption Crusader Scheerpost. Deontos remembers NC June 23, 2011: Sunny Sheu: Murdered for Investigating NY Foreclosure Judge Joseph Golia?

McKenna gets the last word on Adani’s many auditors Francine McKenna

Stock Market Rally That Shocked Everyone Is Broadening Beyond Tech Bloomberg

The Public Cost of Private Science Nautilus (Micael T)

AI-Generated Books of Nonsense Are All Over Amazon’s Bestseller Lists Vice (resilc)

European Companies Claim the EU’s AI Act Could ‘Jeopardise Technological Sovereignty’ The Verge

Lawsuit Says OpenAI Violated US Authors’ Copyrights To Train AI Chatbot Reuters

Would You Leave Grandma With a Companion Robot? OPB

Class Warfare

Economic inequality cannot be explained by individual bad choices, study finds PhysOrg (Chuck L)

An Airbnb collapse won’t fix America’s housing shortage Vox (Kevin W)

Homelessness grows 10% in the city of Los Angeles Los Angeles Times (furzy)

.@nytimes casually weighing the pros and cons of death as a solution to clearing student debt.

This is where we are as a society? pic.twitter.com/ixngVLZwKM

— Nina Turner (@ninaturner) June 30, 2023

Remote Work Is Making Americans Less Productive, Official Data Shows Barrons. The bogus assumption is that all that time in meetings is productive.

How Reddit crushed the biggest protest in its history The Verge (Kevin W)

Antidote du jour (Alison L):

And a bonus of sorts (Chuck L):

In this dramatic display in the battle for life and death, these antelopes chose the perfect strategy allowing them to survive

📹Latest Sightingspic.twitter.com/UcARPtf1iw

— Science girl (@gunsnrosesgirl3) June 29, 2023

And a second bonus (martha r):