Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
Why Gen Z prefer dogs to babies Unherd
‘You don’t wish to decide up your trash, don’t come to the mountain,’ mountaineer Tenzi Sherpa stated, as he shared visuals of trash left behind on Mount Everest pic.twitter.com/dYZxcN1j7r
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 31, 2023
An Anthropologist of Filth, by Ian Penman Harpers (Anthony L). On Chuck Berry.
The Long, Slow Death of Global Development American Affairs Journal. Anthony L: “The lengthy demise of world growth – however no actual questioning of the Improvement axiom.”
Quote of the week: Steve Keen’s vision for a new economics The Political Economic system of Improvement (Chuck L)
Models of antiquity aeon
Local weather/Surroundings
‘Unpredictability is our biggest problem’: Texas farmers experiment with ancient farming styles Guardian (Kevin W)
Supreme Duplicity Counterpunch. On the Clear Water Act.
IAEA Team In Japan For Final Review of Fukushima Nuclear Plant Water Discharge Related Press
What Lessons Do The Chinese Hydropower Shortages In Summer 2022 Hold For The World? China Water Danger (guurst)
The Unexpected Problem With EVs: They ‘Tire’ Quickly PCMagazine (resilc)
Insurers’ climate alliance loses nearly half its members after more quit Reuters (Kevin W)
China?
US Indo-Pacific Command says a Chinese language J-16 fighter “flew instantly in entrance of” a US RC-135 recon airplane over the South China Sea on Might 26, calling it “an unnecessarily aggressive maneuver”
Video launched by the US reveals the RC-135 shaking after the J-16 flies in entrance of it: pic.twitter.com/1YEnArDTn1
— Chris (@chrstphr_woody) May 30, 2023
Report: Taiwan Receives Stinger Missiles as Part of Free Military Aid Package from US Antiwar (resilc)
Biden refuses to lift sanctions on Chinese defense minister Accountable Statecraft
Nvidia to turn Taiwan into a world-class AI hub Asia Occasions
North Korea space launch fails after rocket crashes into sea DW
India
It’s A Political Fantasy To Imagine That India Will Ever Join “NATO Plus” Andrew Korybko
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning European e-newsletter. Word additional down in Hyperlinks the US criticizing Kosovo:
EU AND US SLAM POLAND’S ‘LEX TUSK’: Alarm bells are going off in EU capitals and Washington over a brand new Polish regulation that can enable a authorities fee to ban individuals from holding public workplace — doubtlessly blocking opposition candidates from working on this 12 months’s elections.
“The brand new regulation is a instrument of political intimidation and persecution to stop change on the subsequent elections in Poland,” Manfred Weber, chief of the center-right European Folks’s Occasion, informed Playbook. “It’s a legislative scandal within the coronary heart of Europe.”
What’s in it: The brand new invoice, which President Andrzej Duda said he’ll signal into regulation, would create a fee meant to analyze Russian affect in Polish politics. The fee would have the ability to ban individuals from public workplace for a decade. Poland’s ruling Legislation and Justice (PiS) celebration say it’s an effort to root out Kremlin brokers. Poland has been on the forefront supporting Ukraine since Russia’s full-scale invasion started final 12 months.
However the actual goal might be another person: The regulation comes forward of this fall’s pivotal parliamentary election that has the ruling celebration and opposition in a neck-and-neck race. The opposition warns the fee is geared toward harassing political rivals — particularly Donald Tusk, a former Polish prime minister and European Council president who heads the opposition Civic Platform celebration (a member of the EPP).
The “new laws … might be misused to intrude with Poland’s free and truthful elections,” the U.S. state division stated in an unusually robust statement. “We share the issues expressed by many observers that this regulation to create a fee to analyze Russian affect might be used to dam the candidacy of opposition politicians with out due course of.”
EU vows to step in and act: “I can guarantee you that we are going to not hesitate to take speedy motion as crucial after we see that there’s house and wish for such motion,” the Fee’s Vice President for Values and Transparency Věra Jourová stated throughout a press convention.
“Now we have a particular concern now concerning the state of affairs in Poland,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders informed reporters. “A particular committee in a position to deprive residents of their proper to be elected in a public workplace” types the main focus of concern.
THE IMPARTIALITY OF THE ECHR – CONCERNS AND RECOMMENDATIONS European Centre for Legislation & Justice (Micael T)
Greece and Poland Join Forces to Seek German War Reparations Greek Reporter
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
The American military veterans who’ve fallen in Ukraine Washington Submit
Drones Strikes In Moscow – Missile Strikes In Ukraine Moon of Alabama (Chuck L)
The Importance of Uniform as Ukraine Contemplates an Offensive Larry Johnson
15th Annual Kyiv Security Forum “For Our and Your Freedom / Fighting for NATO” Kyiv Safety Discussion board
West steps up pressure on Turkey to admit Sweden into Nato Monetary Occasions
Not vital in and of itself however indicative. Dima reported on Monday that Russia had taken out a bridge in Southern Ukraine that was key to a possible assault route. Extra of the identical:
Kosovo
US penalises Kosovo after violent unrest BBC (furzy). Alexander Mercouris gave a short backgrounder here beginning at 1:07:40.
Maidan-style coup attempt unfolding in Belgrade — Russian ambassador TASS
Syraqistan
>US declares death of neoliberalism and demands new global consensus Center East Eye. Chuck L: “Horses and barn doorways.”
Taliban claims: ‘We will conquer Iran soon’ amid water dispute Jerusalem Submit (resilc)
The Taliban is using leftover American gear to fight Iran Job & Function (resilc)
Imperial Collapse Watch
So embarrassing the AUKUS deal to additional convert Australia into an extension of the US navy has THEIR authorities getting “chilly toes” earlier than our personal authorities.https://t.co/MZRsH8GL6v
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 29, 2023
What we know about China’s hacking of Navy systems Job & Function (resilc)
2024
Biden’s Age, the Economy and Trump: 11 Skeptical Biden Voters Discuss New York Occasions. Resilc:
I believe a rematch would trigger lots of people to disengage from the method altogether. You’ll have lots of people questioning our democracy or democracy as an entire. There’s going to be lots of people who, if we had good candidates, would exit and vote who, this time round, simply don’t actually care. Irrespective of who wins, it’s going to feed into numerous extremist views. It will add gas to the flames or the hearth of what we noticed for the final eight years. No person is basically glad. There’s numerous discontent. And so I believe that we’ll see that worsen underneath both of their presidencies.
Biden
Biden Accuser Tara Reade: My Two Choices in US Were to Walk Into Cage or be Killed Sputnik (UserFriendly). Whoa!
“Safe Harbor”: New Evidence Offers Insight into Hunter Biden and his Collapsing World of Corruption Jonathan Turley
GOP Clown Automobile
Unnecessary Solutions to Imaginary Problems The Bulwark (resilc)
DeSantis tries to connect with voters during first full day of campaigning in Iowa France24
FBI
US House committee chairman plans to hold FBI director in contempt of Congress Anadolu Company
The FBI as advanced persistent threat – and what to do about it The Register
After over 50 Years of Running Domestic Terrorism, Shouldn’t We Finally Indict the FBI as the country’s leading Domestic Terrorist? Canadian Patriot (Micael T)
Debt Ceiling
Debt ceiling bill clears key procedural hurdle to advance to House floor The Hill
Senate braces for last-minute conservative demands on debt deal Politico
McCarthy: Student loan payment pause ‘gone’ under debt ceiling deal The Hill
The Debt Ceiling Deal Is an “F You” to Poor People Jacobin. That’s a characteristic, not a bug.
There is always more money for defense contractors Well-liked Info (resilc)
Our No Longer Free Press
Vatican chastises bishops who stoke division on social media Reuters (resilc)
Has Musk Ruined Twitter? American Conservative
AI
A.I. Poses ‘Risk of Extinction,’ Industry Leaders Warn New York Occasions (resilc)
Lawyer Cited 6 Fake Cases Made Up By ChatGPT; Judge Calls It ‘Unprecedented’ ars technica.com
AI chatbots aren’t trustworthy. Could OpenAI, Google or others fix it? Washington Submit (furzy)
I criticized Amazon’s insurance policies in a blogpost.
Now, their legal professionals are attempting to break me.
It is a thread on:
1. What I stated about Amazon
2. How Amazon’s legal professionals have retaliated
3. Why it issues to Amazon clients, sellers, stockholders, and even Amazon itself pic.twitter.com/qIZhDQAFNK— molson (@Molson_Hart) May 30, 2023
Class Warfare
The Hidden Working Class History of the Memorial Day Massacre Widespread Goals (ma)
Purdue Pharma allowed to shield Sackler owners from opioid lawsuits Monetary Occasions
And a bonus (furzy):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Jane Goodall take the rehabilitated chimpanzee, again into the wild, and he’s extremely grateful to her.
🎥 Jane Goodall pic.twitter.com/u2JZcsL9ff
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) May 29, 2023
A second bonus:
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour here.
