Links 02.02.2023 | naked capitalism

Monogamous meadow voles reveal the neuroscience of love Scientific American. Please do not speak to the marketing department.

The Fed will be in the midst of a mess with a debt limit axioms

Tl;dr on Powell Stephanie Kelton, Lens

The key to dollarization phenomenal world

Chapter 2: “Rainbows and Butterflies” American banker. Part two of five part series. A more revealing URL: why-wells-fargos-fake-accounts-problem-fested-for-the-long.

Climate

Net zero requires huge tracts of land. Habitat conservation is in the details. Anthropocene

Fusion Energy: a different approach Mother Pelican. German since January.

Soil contaminated with air pollution displaces carbon (press release) University of California, Riverside. Original.

Water

California releases its own plan to cut the Colorado River AP

#COVID-19

Face to face with the new reality of Covid-19 New England Journal of Medicine. “There is something to be regretted about the politicization of the Covid-19 pandemic.” Worth reading; the authors seem to have reached a level of sanity. Readers?

The number of cases of COVID-19 in the world is decreasing, but the number of deaths is increasing Center for Research and Policy in Infectious Diseases. “WHO called for caution in interpreting trends due to reduced testing and reporting delays.”

Using a dynamic causal model to test previous projections and propose a 12-month projection of the long-term impact of the COVID-19 epidemic in the UK. Public health frontiers. From the abstract: “The previous 12-month forecast of the scale of the epidemic until October 2022 underestimated its consequences by a fifth. This analysis attempts to explain the reasons for the underestimation before proposing new long-term forecasts… The increase in transmissibility, together with public reaction, provide plausible explanations for why the model lowers the 12-month forecasts through October 2022. The forecast for 2023 may greatly underestimate the projected significant next wave of COVID-19 infections. Vaccination alone will not stop the epidemic. The COVID-19 epidemic in the UK is not over. The results call for investment in public health precautions.” Ah, the public.

China?

We wanted China’s Covid Zero to end, but not like this New York Times. Matthew 27:24.

“China’s vanishing market confidence” presents a major test for the Communist Party SCMP

Philippines grants US greater access to bases amid China fears Reuters

Myanmar

In Myanmar, resistance forces adhere to self-rule Foreign policy. It’s hard to think otherwise than that Myanmar’s NUG doesn’t get the support of the In This House crowd. as they are fighting the fascist regime.

India

Citigroup’s Wealth Division Ends India Securities Margin Lending Adani – Source economic times

Adani pulls out of US$2.5bn share sale in big blow to Indian tycoon Asia Channel News

Dear old Blighty

Blankets, food banks and closed pubs: Brexit tore Britain apart Foreign policy

* * *

British workers unite for biggest strike in a generation Al Jazeera. “Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, train drivers and university lecturers… Around 300,000 people on strike on Wednesday are teachers, according to the Congress of Trade Unions.” Soon, firefighters.

Unions try mass strikes after UK Action Day Bloomberg. Host: UK unions out of the worst in the country [sic] day of strikes for a decade, threatening further coordinated action to force the government into wage negotiations.” ZOMG ZOMG is very bad where the whips and chains

Deputies approve new powers to prevent strike disruption BBC. Wawers:

Conservative MP [(!!)] also expressed concern about the bill, saying it was “poorly written” and vague.

The former business secretary said he supported the aims of the law and would not vote against it, but hoped it would be amended in the House of Lords.

He criticized the so-called “Henry VIII clause” in the bill, which would have allowed .

Or, in the original German, Ermachtigungsgesetz.

The strikers not only deserve the wages they demand, we need them to get it if the economy is to survive. UK Tax Research

European disconnect

Hungarian President: Hungary seeks an early ceasefire in Ukraine Hungary Daily News

Orban under scrutiny by NATO for purge of senior military leadership FT

New not-so-cold war

Patrick Lawrence: the pathology of Ukrainian nationalism sheer post. Thoughtfully worth reading.

Estonian Prime Minister showed a giant statue of Zelensky in the style of the Statue of Liberty Ukrainian truth

* * *

Ukraine’s EU membership: there will be no shortcuts to joining, officials warn ahead of summit BBC. After rolling on tanks. Please.

* * *

How many Su-27 interceptors are left in Ukraine? Forbes

* * *

Binge and troubled finances: how an American group of veterans collapsed in Ukraine New York Times

Military tourists have been fighting on a virtual front since the Ukrainian-Russian war Phys.org

* * *

The war in Ukraine and von Clausewitz: a strategy against. simple tactic [1945[1945г

Support for Ukraine justified by realism about US interests National review

Policy and strategy Valdai discussion club. It’s always worth reading carefully; Valdai is like a combination of Brookings and CFR; analytical propaganda. Or, indeed, vice versa. Fascinating example mirror image by Russian “scientists” at the entrance to Wikipedia.

Caribs

Four main suspects in Haitian president’s assassination are in US custody AP

Biden administration

Corporate and employee harassment hit new all-time low in fiscal 2022 PROF

US restores protection of Tongass National Forest in Alaska Smithsonian Institution

2024

Delaware? DOJ remains silent on curious omission from searched locations Jonathan Turley

State Police

When officers beat Tyre Nichols, they were watched by a crime-fighting camera New York Times

Police body cameras threaten public safety Tayi

Technology

AI as a systemic risk in a polycrisis (PDF) cepAdhoc. “As our increasingly dynamic and interdependent world deviates from past observations used for design and learning, AI systems will become less reliable.”

Werewolf robot resembles a Terminator model Manufacture.no

Assange

It became known: Sweden destroyed a significant part of its documents about Julian Assange Il Fatto Cuotidiano

healthcare

‘Hospital Purgatory’: Confidence in healthcare falls as criticism grows louder and larger Overview of the Becker Hospital

sports table

Basketball dog walking Kottke.org

Imperial crumbling clock

CEPR Sanctions Watch January 2023 CEPR (GF).

Diplomatic immunity London Review of Books

class war

Owning farmland is now cool, even if you’re not farming AgWeb. Plus, you can always hire sharecroppers!

What is stoicism? Definition and 9 Stoic Exercises to Get Started Daily stand. Surely a stoic store seems a bit…controversial?

Independent media need you to spread the word on social media FAIR. Readers?

Antidote for the dayway):

See yesterday’s links and Antidote du Jour here.

Printable, PDF and Email