Lightning Bolt deposits a strange mineral never seen before on Earth scientific alert
Did unicorns exist? New research traces cultural traditions to find their origins interesting engineering
Climate/Environment
In Eastern Palestine, a nightmare that never ends Grinding
A DECADE AFTER NJ TRAIN RAIL, QUESTIONS REMAIN ABOUT RAIL SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH The Allegheny Front
This planet will not survive capitalism. pic.twitter.com/zhb7FouvOI
— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) April 16, 2023
Water
Iraq’s swamps dry up as government focuses on oil New Lines Magazine
Are thousands of Americans being poisoned by PFAS in their tap water? Minneapolis Star Tribune
Time is running out for Uganda’s disappearing glaciers cabling
No Asteroid Impacts Needed: Newborn Earth Made Its Own Water, Study Suggests space.com
#COVID-19
High risk of autoimmune diseases after COVID-19 Nature (N Mark)
A global aircraft-based wastewater genomic surveillance network for early warning of future pandemics The lancet. From the abstract: “We propose the development of a global aircraft-based wastewater genomic surveillance network, with the busiest international airports as hub nodes and continuous air travel as vectors.”
India
India’s elites were enamored with neoliberalism and the service sector and thus missed out on industrial growth for 25 years. And the result is the following graph.
“U.S. imports of goods from China versus India, 1992-2022”
While there is now a focus on manufacturing to a certain… pic.twitter.com/fyISGMRTxI
— SL Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) April 16, 2023
the koreas
South Korea fires warning shots at North Korean ship west of peninsula: JCS NK news
Porcelain?
Will Germany settle for 28nm? TSMC presence highlights misalignment between Berlin’s semiconductor and defense policies Digitimes Asia
East Asian economies resist decoupling East Asia Forum
United States, China and a crisis of confidence Thomas Friedman, New York Times. Typical Friedman nonsense, but buried is this nugget: “A senior administration official told me that Xi told President Biden at their Bali summit in November, in essence: I will not be the president of China who loses Taiwan. If you force me, there will be war. You don’t understand how important this is to the Chinese people. You are playing with fire.
European disunity
The breakdown of Franco-German relations bodes ill for the EU FOOT
EU warns against unilateral moves after Poland and Hungary ban Ukrainian grain Reuters
new not so cold war
Putin Holds Working Meeting With Visiting Chinese Defense Minister: Spokesperson TASS
Russia says its new EW system can ‘kill’ satellites at an altitude of 36,000 km; Military expert decodes the claims The EurAsian Times
Italy transfers some of the M109 self-propelled howitzers to Ukraine Ukrainian Pravda
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Richard D. Wolff – The New Emerging World Economy brave new europe
Timofey Bordachev: Here’s why Macron’s call to break US control is just a nonsense stance RT
Top 10 Hedge Funds Earned £1.5bn on Rising Food Prices in Ukraine War The Guardian
The affair filter
Leaks from the Pentagon and the US media WSWS
Social Media Account Overseen By Former Navy Petty Officer Helped Spread Secrets W.S.J. And not anti-Russian enough to begin with!
Congress sees a rare window of opportunity to regulate Big Tech NBC News. Beware the Bipartisan TikTok Trojan Horse.
syriaquistan
Sudan’s ‘Deep State’ War Could Have Far-Reaching Geostrategic Consequences If It Continues Andrew Korybko Newsletter
Chinese firm proposes $10 billion investment in Afghan lithium reserves The cradle
China has surpassed the United States in relations with the Middle East The National. For example (Kevin W):
The only people who don’t want peace in the Middle East are the lizard people in DC https://t.co/pocw4sXqm7
— Defend Ukraine (@DoctorFishbones) April 6, 2023
south of the border
Peru’s coup congress has 6% approval, 91% disapproval (but full US backing) geopolitical economy
Canada
Canada’s new budget is a typical liberal roadmap to fail the working class Jacobean
Biden Administration
US manufacturing commitments double after Biden subsidies launch FOOT
Press conferences now die down as Biden lets TikTokers do the talking The hill
2024
Nikki Haley’s campaign overestimated initial fundraising CNN
RussiaGate
Patrick Lawrence: The Disinformation Complex: An Anatomy scheerpost
democrats en déshabille
So if you get elected and then go into a coma the day after you take the oath, can you literally stay in a coma for six years because “the people elected you for six years”? This topic of conversation is so absurd that it is difficult to process. https://t.co/GeSj1pgk6H
— 🕷Dante Atkins🕷 (@DanteAtkins) April 16, 2023
the supreme
Clarence Thomas claimed income from defunct real estate firm: report The hill
Health care
FDA staff leaned toward rejecting Sarepta gene therapy before a senior official intervened STAT News
‘Crisis’ looming as 800,000 more nurses plan to leave workforce by 2027: study Beckers Hospital Review
Police State Surveillance
THE HIGH COST OF CHEAP PRISONS The Law and Political Economy Project
Big brother is watching you watch
Georgia National Guard to use phone location tracking to recruit high school kids the interception
Veterans reject military draft in schools The National Network of Opposition to the Militarization of Youth
imperial collapse clock
The puzzling geopolitics of US support for World Bank-proposed reforms An Africanist perspective
The IMF’s ‘austerity push’ Consortium News
How China is breaking the colonial effects of Western borrowing Alabama Moon (K Warner)
This is such a hilarious frame from Larry Summers.
If you think everyone else is on the wrong side of history, just like you think everyone else is driving on the wrong side of the road, guess what: you’re the one!
Origin: https://t.co/fK3b2rhjWJ pic.twitter.com/K5WDUfwMf7
—Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 17, 2023
Supply chain
FBI arrests former Polar execs accused of $52 million fraud the charging star
the class struggle
The immaculate banking event:
“Janet Yellen said that US lenders may withdraw credit in the wake of recent bank failures, enough to do some of the work of the Federal Reserve, but not enough to significantly change its economic outlook.” https://t.co/Tse607Bkb4
—Sven Henrich (@NorthmanTrader) April 16, 2023
Rolling back the “right to work” in states like Michigan sends a message to union-busting bosses Jacobean
Kroger Seeks Dismissal of Albertsons Merger Consumer Antitrust Case Retail Information Network
Workers across the country protest proposed Kroger-Albertsons merger Diving in the supermarket
Sanitation workers strike after death at Memphis landfill WREG
the bezzle
Trump Made Up To $1 Million From NFT Sales: Presentations CoinDesk
Inside the rise and fall of Kittyhawk Business Insider
Antidote of the day (through):
See the links of yesterday and Antidote du Jour here.
