Links 03/24/2023 | naked capitalism

Rattlesnake Roundup: Texas tradition under fire Reuters (repeated)

Smoked bat, bacon and duck: Suvarnabhumi’s bloodhounds are busy with Chinese luggage Thailand (furry)

Big Bide wants you to believe that people who use toilet paper walk around with poop. Live hacker (Dr. Kevin). Valley, Southeast Asians even big on bum guns.

German monks created the world’s first powdered beer New Atlas (fluffy)

FDA declares lab-grown chicken safe to eat CBS

Paradigms gone crazy London Review of Books. Anthony L.: “Steve Shapin on Thomas Kuhn”.

#COVID-19

Taxpayers paid billions for this: so why did Moderna consider quadrupling the price of a COVID vaccine? CounterPunch (remastered)

Preventing Long Covid Eric Poplar

Can an addiction drug cure long-term Covid? Rolling Stone (ma)

US is trying to make antivirals more available against COVID Market Review. Gah Paxlovid uses advanced mutations.

Climate/environment

Canadian scientists have created a new method for the destruction of toxic “eternal chemicals” guardian (resilk)

Chip makers battle spreading US crackdown on Forever Chemicals Financial Times

Cape Verde’s debt relief: a climate deal that could be a model for others Der Spiegel. Resilc: “So write off the useless debt and this will solve the climate problem?”

Wall Street bets on Ithaca’s Green New Deal New York Focus. Sam M.: “Private Equity seems to be coming to local energy and heating and cooling systems under the guise of reducing carbon emissions.”

China?

We DO NOT control China, TikTok CEO told Congress Daily mail (resilc)

China Reminds US It Can and Will Destroy TikTok Forced Selling TechCrunch

Old Blighty

Breakfast index reaches new high after UK food shortage Bloomberg

Beauty France

Macron sticks to pension reform bill amid escalating protests France24 (repeated)

Bordeaux town hall set on fire amid French pension protests BBC (Kevin W.)

In Search of a Lost Empire: The Fight for the Sahel Brad Pierce (User friendly. From February, still German.

New not-so-cold war

How close partnership with China is changing Russian domestic politics Gilbert Doctorow (Chuck L.)

The “junior partner” meme doesn’t represent real change Moon of Alabama

Little-known traders now rule the Russian oil markets OilPrice (resilc)

Senior U.S. diplomat Blinken urges all ICC members to comply with Putin’s arrest warrant Reuters. Pretty cheeky for a non-ICC country

Hungary delays Sweden’s NATO vote over rule of law criticism bloomberg

The West is increasing stockpiles of ammunition in anticipation of the offensive of Ukraine on the principle of “all or nothing” Brian Berletic, YouTube

Diana Shoshoaca in the Romanian Parliament demands to annex part of the territory of Ukraine Odessa magazine

Timber industry. The industry is becoming uncompetitive. Poland Posts English

I saw Gonzalo’s analysis of Vazquez’s video and other alleged military scenes in Ukraine that Gonzalo described as propaganda plays when they first aired. His opinion was persuasive. We marked Lyra’s second YouTube presentation of this series, where he revealed that several alleged battlefield scenes were actually created on the same site. Oh, and the actors were all too neat and tidy.

COVER Seymour Hersh

in Syracuse

Israeli army reservists criticize judicial reform D.W. (revised)

Paralysis Day begins in Israel to protest judicial reform Jerusalem Post (revised)

Agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia will bring Riyadh and Damascus closer middle eastern eye

To put it more succinctly:

Selling the Iraq War: A Practical Guide CounterPunch (remastered)

Big Brother is watching you

The US agency abandoned facial recognition and faced big problems Wired (BC)

License plate watch courtesy of the Homeowners Association intercept

Congress shocked to find 10 year olds.e vice (resilc)

Imperial crumbling clock

The US military will fight the next big war with Xbox-style game controllers Task and purpose

Trump

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has criticized Trump for creating “false” expectations of his arrest and for encouraging Republicans to try to “intervene” in the investigation as the indictment remains in limbo. Daily Mail (Lee). ZOMG, Lambert at Water Cooler yesterday revealed how Bragg participated in the Brady violation by hiding exculpatory material from the grand jury. I think this accusation is dead.

Advice for Alvin Bragg from Former Trump Prosecutors New Yorker (furry)

January 6th Coup Victim Demands Retraction From Fox News And Tucker Carlson Over ‘Lies’ CNN (fuzzy)

Biden

House fails to override Biden’s first veto Hill (Kevin W.)

The Ethics Commission accuses Graham of fundraising for the election campaign during an interview with Fox in the Senate building. Hill

Our press is no longer free

A bomb disguised as a flash drive exploded when inserted into a journalist’s computer Boeing Boeing (resilc)

Woke up to watch

World Athletics bans transgender women from women’s world ranking competition BBC

AI

Writers Guild of America will allow AI in scriptwriting as long as writers keep credit Diversity

The danger is not that AI is destroying us, but that it is driving us crazy Guardian (Paul R.)

Supply chain/inflation

This is not a wage-price spiral. It’s “greed”! Heisenberg Report

rotten cans

Shares of Deutsche Bank fell due to a new bout of stress Bloomberg

Clash of cultures: The challenge of uniting fierce rivals UBS and Credit Suisse Financial Times (Kevin W.)

Large and small companies lose access to credit due to banking stress Wall Street Magazine

Credit Suisse and UBS among banks facing Justice Department sanctions on Russia Bloomberg (furry)

Taxpayer profits are bondholders’ pain Barrons (Kevin W.)

Book Publishers Won’t Stop Until Libraries Are Dead TechDirt (Paul R.)

class war

Job posting platform Indeed lays off 2,200 employees TechCrunch (British Columbia)

Disappearing phone support is driving us all crazy Washington Post (Paul R.) Most of my anger comes from this or the alternative when you finally get them, the incompetence of customer service, or the sheer misrepresentation of the supplier’s legal obligations.

Antidote of the Day (Chet G):

And a bonus (Carolyn W):

See yesterday’s links and Antidote du Jour Here.

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