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Anti-Covid nasal spray prepared quickly Bangkok Submit (Furzy Mouse). The second after Bharat, linked to yesteday.
Coverage stringency and psychological well being through the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal evaluation of knowledge from 15 international locations The Lancet. metastudy. I discover the loss of life resuls extra attention-grabbing than the psychological well being outcomes, though these are vital too. From the Outcomes: “As a result of early and focused motion resulted in decrease ranges of virus circulation, common coverage stringency was decrease in international locations that pursued elimination methods than international locations that pursued mitigation methods within the 15-country pattern… and the Nordic international locations subset…. International locations pursuing an elimination technique additionally had fewer each day deaths (per 100 000 inhabitants) within the 15-country pattern…. and the Nordic subset…. Thus, …., .”
Modelling long-term COVID-19 hospital admission dynamics utilizing immune safety waning information (preprint) medRxiv. Mannequin examine. The Abtract: “Immune waning is vital to the well timed anticipation of COVID-19 long-term dynamics. We assess the influence of periodic vaccination campaigns utilizing a compartmental epidemiological mannequin with a number of age buildings and parameterised utilizing empiric time-dependent vaccine safety information. Regardless of the inherent uncertainty, we present that .” Oopsie. Helpful chart:
Look! Up within the sky! It’s an air taxi. They’re coming to Los Angeles LA Occasions
It’s Time to Think about the Broader Socioeconomic Impression of Air Taxis Aviation Right this moment. From 2020, nonetheless germane.
As soon as-Spurned Superjumbos Return to Skies as Journey Roars Again Bloomberg. The A380.
NASA is anxious SpaceX’s Starship may destroy its iconic launch pad 39A Attention-grabbing Engineering
China?
Bitcoin crashed, the wealth of the richest Chinese language shrunk by 89 % What China Reads
‘Thoughts-reading’ machine to detect porn may velocity China’s policing of illicit content material, say researchers South China Morning Submit
Indonesia Tunes Out the U.S. WSJ. #4 in world inhabitants, so Atlanticists, good job.
India
1000’s ransack railway station as protests intensify over India’s army hiring plan Guardian
The Bezzle
Bitcoin Teeters Round $20,000 Amid a Unstable Crypto Winter Storm Barron’s
The Coin That May Wreck Crypto NYT. Tether. Commentary:
As a lawyer who served within the SEC Enforcement Division for 18 yrs, I see purple flags when a monetary agency like @Tether_to engages a 5-person store within the Caymans for an “attestation,” after which shills it as a sound audit. And no SEC skilled would dare disagree.https://t.co/4G8OWHOn8p
— John Reed Stark (@JohnReedStark) June 19, 2022
Miners as intermediaries: extractable worth and market manipulation in crypto and DeFi Financial institution of Worldwide Settlements. “Since [validators or “miners”] can select which transactions they add to the ledger and during which order, they’ll have interaction in actions that may be unlawful in conventional markets resembling front-running and sandwich trades. The ensuing revenue is termed ‘miner extractable worth’ (MEV).” Regulatory arbitrage.
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Russia says japanese assault goes properly, strikes Ukraine with missiles Reuters. About that missile strike:
Russia’s protection ministry mentioned on Sunday it launched missile strikes through the previous 24 hours, with one assault by Kalibr missiles on a top-level Ukrainian army assembly close to the town of Dnipro killing “greater than 50 generals and officers.”https://t.co/Zrb8Wf98h2
— The Moscow Occasions (@MoscowTimes) June 20, 2022
So how did Russia know the place the assembly was?
Rumours that #Russia‘s strike on the command put up in #Dnipropetrovsk (50 officers/generals killed) got here as results of info handed to the Russia by excessive rating #Ukraine officers. #Zelensky‘s place is fragile, many in #Ukraine realise that defeat is inevitable.
— Clive Dunn (@cliveldunn) June 19, 2022
Personally, I feel it was was the command put up cleansing crew, a few of whom might have had relations in Donetsk.
Hummus On The Entrance: Volunteers Feeding Ukraine’s Vegan Troops Agence France Presse. Scraping the underside of the barrel on propaganda, right here.
* * * China Might oil imports from Russia soar to a file, surpass high provider Saudi Reuters
Italy’s Eni joins large Qatar fuel mission after Russian cuts France24
Germany to fireside up coal crops as Russia turns down the fuel Deutsche Welle
* * * West at inflection level in Ukraine battle M. Ok. Bhadrakumar, Indian Punchline
How the US May Lose the New Chilly Warfare Venture Syndicate
China prepared to produce parts for plane to Russia, says envoy Tass
Ukraine’s Doable EU Accession Not Universally Welcome Der Spiegel (Re Silc).
* * * St. Petersburg units the stage for the Warfare of Financial Corridors Pepe Escobar, The Cradle
The Return of Industrial Warfare Royal United Companies Institute (Re Silc).
Colombia’s new leftist president Petro guarantees to struggle inequality Reuters
Our Famously Free Press
Community of Syria conspiracy theorists recognized Guardian. Commentary:
The Guardian’s newest piece of McCarthyite propaganda is a first-rate instance of the malign tactic we uncovered in concrete element with our #masongate reporting: UK intel utilizing cutouts to smear antiwar figures w/o proof as Russian stooges.
Each outfit cited here’s a UK/US asset. https://t.co/7wRddOWGBQ— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) June 19, 2022
Emails verify pro-NATO warmonger Paul Mason works with intelligence companies WSWS. From earlier this month. Commentary on this persevering with controversy:
Yanis Varoufakis received to know Paul Mason very properly through the Greece disaster – so I requested him in regards to the controversy surrounding the British journalist.
Full interview right here: https://t.co/vHNX7sHqys pic.twitter.com/1VOWM9XHAL
— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) June 19, 2022
Pay attention all the way in which to the top.
What Makes Censors Tick? Los Angeles Evaluation of Books
UK/EU
Britain set for largest rail strike in a long time France24
Northern Eire Protocol: No off ramps, solely cliff edges RTE
The deafening silence over Brexit’s financial fallout FT
Assange
The UK’s Determination to Extradite Assange Exhibits Why The US/UK’s Freedom Lectures Are a Farce Glenn Greenwald. Commentary:
The prosecution of Assange remains to be indefensible! https://t.co/XnBnS5IMjI
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) June 18, 2022
Intelligence Neighborhood
What Spies Actually Suppose About John le Carré Overseas Coverage. “However what in regards to the successes?”
Imperial Collapse Watch
As jurors deliberate within the Fats Leonard case, Navy tradition that spawned the bribes is unchanged KPBS
Navy relieves itself of command Duffel Weblog
UK troops filmed having orgy at barracks, barred from NATO deployment NY Submit (Re Silc).
Guillotine Watch
Silicon Valley’s Horrible Bosses The Atlantic
Class Warfare
People Pawning Objects to Purchase Gasoline, Survive Inflation: Pawn Store Homeowners Newsweek (Furzy Mouse).
Thomas Piketty’s Case for ‘Participatory Socialism NYT
Chasing Cicadas Emergence
65,000-year-old ‘stone Swiss Military knives’ present early people had long-distance social networks The Dialog
Do we’d like a greater understanding of ‘progress’? BBC
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