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Do Animals Get Drunk? Natilus (Micael T)
Bear helps itself to 60 cupcakes from Connecticut bakery, scares employees Related Press (resilc)
The hidden mini statues of Budapest Budapest Circulate (BC)
France to launch bird flu vaccination programme after ‘satisfactory’ tests France24 (resilc)
The 2022 Tonga Eruption Created a Very Rare ‘Super Plasma Bubble’ in The Ionosphere ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Así el Volcán #Popocatépetl este 22 de Mayo, 2023.
.#Popocatepetl #VolcanPopocatepetl #VolcánPopocatépetl #PopocatepetlVolcano pic.twitter.com/9Xj8qm2EZg— Enrique Barquet (@enriquebarquet) May 23, 2023
Loop introduces new ‘living’ coffin which turns human flesh into compost Fascinating Engineering (Chuck L)
Effect of Free Medicine Distribution on Health Care Costs in Canada Over 3 Years JAMA (Dr. Kevin)
What performance-enhancing stimulants mean for economic growth Economist (Dr. Kevin)
Examining the role of the Catholic church in shaping ideal societies PhysOrg. Chuck L: “That is someplace between bizarre and hilarious. Doesn’t Professor Justin Tse have a clue that these two “social actions” had been something however genuine?”
#COVID-19
8) There’s additionally a brand new XBB household pressure of COVID spreading in China. 65 million circumstances per week can be ~5% of China contaminated per week when you think twice on the scale of China’s 1.2 billion inhabitants. However hey, pandemic over? #CovidIsNotOver https://t.co/vuIWS99yMc
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) May 26, 2023
The Director of the CDC quietly resigned after a convention to declare COVID over contaminated 181 individuals. We desperately want a brand new media. pic.twitter.com/buTtTiYETI
— Weapons are Put up-Start Abortifacients (@ritaresarian) May 26, 2023
Local weather/Surroundings
As electric cars boom, locals fear Chinese battery plant will harm land in drought-stricken Hungary Related Press (resilc)
Recent reduced abyssal overturning and ventilation in the Australian Antarctic Basin Nature (guurst)
Top Solar Firm Warns Excess Capacity Risks Wave of Failure Caixin World
‘Outraged and furious’: Germans rebel against gas boiler ban Monetary Occasions
Amazon Gives Up a Key Part of Its Climate Pledge, Deletes Blog Post That Announced ‘Shipment Zero Initiative’ Enterprise Insider
California Advances Bill Banning Hedge Fund Water Profiteering Bloomberg (furzy)
China?
‘No need to exaggerate’: risk of imminent Taiwan conflict is overhyped, says cross-strait affairs expert South China Morning Put up
US and China hold more trade talks despite strained ties Monetary Occasions. Makes it sound as if the sidebar dialog was deliberate…and is at odds with with the assertion under. So perhaps not deliberate?
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China refuses to speak with the US after the assembly in Vienna – Assistant Secretary of State for Indo-Pacific Safety Affairs Eli Ratner
“Chinese language officers refuse cellphone calls, conferences and any dialogue with American representatives,” he mentioned.— Spriter (@Spriter99880) May 27, 2023
Factbox: What is Volt Typhoon, the alleged China-backed hacking group? Reuters
Previous Blighty
Rishi Sunak warned over possible UK recession in 2024 Guardian (Kevin W)
Punch-drunk Britain Chris Gray
Peruvian police seize 58kg of cocaine bearing pictures of Nazi flag Guardian (resilc)
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
John Mearsheimer Ukraine Salon YouTube (Robin Okay)
UKRAINE CLAIM OF ATTACK ON RUSSIAN SHIP, THE IVAN KHURS, DEBUNKED Larry Johnson
#UPDATE Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov advised China’s particular envoy Li Hui on Friday that there have been “critical obstacles” to resuming peace talks, blaming Ukraine and Western international locations.https://t.co/z4OKh01amg pic.twitter.com/ZDJvONs0IF
— AFP Information Company (@AFP) May 26, 2023
Rep. Nadler ‘Wouldn’t Care’ If Ukraine Used F-16s to Strike Russian Territory Antiwar
Tech-Mythologies New Left Assessment. On Diia, Ukraine’s wunderapp.
Because of the hour, I’ve not run the Der Spiegel article by way of a translator to see what it says. Nonetheless, the Twitter feedback counsel it depends on the 5/six guys and a ship concept:
It took 5 investigative writers with German journal ‘Der Spiegel’ to trace down who blew up the Nordstream pipelines
Their conclusion –
Ukraine did it however with out #Zelensky ‘s data.Additionally they tracked down Santa Claus’s secret hideout – The North Pole pic.twitter.com/TvWDaM2bHo
— White Don (@don570don570) May 26, 2023
Russian tanks reach the Atlantic near Lisbon… Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)
In a single day two kamikaze drones attacked the executive constructing of the Transneft oil pumping station within the village of Litvinovo (Pskov Oblast, bordering Belarus). pic.twitter.com/TzJHFjssoT
— Pierre Davide Borrelli (@PierreDBorrelli) May 27, 2023
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Bill Gates’s younger Russian ‘lover’ and her links to notorious Kremlin spy Anna Chapman Day by day Mail (Li)
Turkiye
Analysis: Turkish lira’s long decline a symbol of strife Reuters. Kevin W: “The boys at The Duran had been simply saying that the Turkish Lira has been below assault to assist Erdogan lose the election.”
Yeah… I’m considering Turkey is just about gone at this stage. Solely the second largest military in NATO, no huge deal. 🤷♂️ https://t.co/rz7xpbYjGT
— Philip Pilkington (@philippilk) May 26, 2023
Syraqistan
The Devil’s In The Details When It Comes To Pashinyan’s Karabakh Peace Proposal Andrew Korybko (Micael T)
Afghanistan Opium Survey 2021 UN Workplace on Medicine and Crime (resilc)
‘He slipped and died’: How Israel hides its troop deaths The Cradle (Kevin W)
BREAKING: On Sunday 28 Might, the #Israeli Ministerial Committee on Laws chaired by Yariv Levin (MoJ, Likud) and Itamar Ben Gvir (Jewish Energy) will take into account – for endorsement – the draft invoice tabled by Ariel Kallner (Likud) imposing a 65% tax on international support to Israeli and… pic.twitter.com/VLv1AStw74
— Itay Epshtain (@EpshtainItay) May 24, 2023
Massive Brother is Watching You Watch
Imperial Collapse Watch
Jamie Raskin and Rachel Maddow, brought to you by Peter Thiel and Lockheed Martin Accountable Statecraft (resilc)
Marine Corps touts armed Long Range Unmanned Surface Vessel Process and Function (resilc)
At 100, Kissinger basks in US praise with no accountability Agence France-Presse
Closing The Case Of Regime Changer Roman Protasevich And His Ryanair Flight To Minsk Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
US would rather see the world end than lose its supremacy World Occasions (guurst)
More and More Teenagers Are Coming to School High, N.Y.C. Teachers Say New York Occasions (resilc)
GOP Clown Automotive
Is DeSantis’ War on Big Tech a Scam? Revolver (Li)
Abortion
A Judge Has Temporarily Blocked South Carolina’s Extreme Abortion Ban New Republic (furzy)
Inside Google Founder Sergey Brin’s Secret Plan to Build Airships Bloomberg (furzy)
Hedge Fund Treasury Trade With a History of Blowups Is Back Again Bloomberg (furzy)
Debt Ceiling
Can Biden, McCarthy Avoid Losing in Debt-Ceiling Fight? Bloomberg (furzy)
$49.5 Billion in U.S. Treasury? For These Billionaires, That’s Nothing New York Occasions (BC)
Yellen says US will run out of money by June 5 if debt ceiling not raised The Hill. Ahem, not that she had a lot credibility.
The Bezzle
Neuralink: Elon Musk’s brain chip firm says US approval won for human study BBC (resilc)
Ron DeSantis Signs Bill Protecting Elon Musk If His Rockets Explode and Kill Workers New Republic
Guillotine Watch
Oh, Rats: Hamptonites Are Freaking Out Over Vermin Vainness Truthful (furzy)
Class Warfare
Former Maryland trash hauler graduates from Harvard Law School Guardian (resilc). Distinctive circumstances like this held as much as reinforce the parable that the system is meritocratic.
An economist from one of many richest personal faculties in America proposing to empty your checking account whereas poorly disguised as a blue-collar employee in model new denim and Carhartt. https://t.co/ADrHJlZIOK pic.twitter.com/94Jqnb8PCC
— Hunter Pauli (@paulimeth) May 25, 2023
Antidote du jour (Tracie H):
And a bonus (guurst):
Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeee first leap! 🤗🤗pic.twitter.com/rrj5YPBesV
— Figen (@TheFigen_) May 25, 2023
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
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