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Tiny Fossils Reveal Dinosaurs’ Lost Worlds Scientific American
Physicists Just Learned Something Major About the Proton Gizmodo
A Bad Office Can (Potentially) Become a Good Apartment The challenges and complexities of cubicles out, bedrooms in. New York Magazine. CRE cope?
Climate
How an ARkstorm Could Wreak Havoc on Los Angeles Los Angeles Magazine
#COVID19
‘The NHS sold out its staff’: Doctors whose lives were devastated by long COVID to sue health service Sky News. Good. Now let’s do the rest of the Anglosphere.
Institutional COVID denial has killed public health as we knew it. Prepare to lose several centuries of progress. The Gauntlet
You don’t need to catch that wave T. Ryan Gregory and Arijit Chakravarty, Monkeys on Typewriters
China?
China’s slow response to economic turbulence leaves market bewildered Channel News Asia
Chinese retail investors hit by big losses in ‘snowball’ derivatives FT
China steps up support for Hong Kong’s role as financial hub for wealth products, bonds and green finance South China Morning Post
Chinese Modernization Is a Sure Path to Building a Great Country and Rejuvenating the Nation Xi Jinping, CPC Central Committee Bimonthly
100 years since death of Lenin marked by silence from China’s Communist Party. Why? South China Morning Post. See also….
How scary is China? The Economist
Myanmar
‘Worst leader’: Military’s winter of discontent Frontier Myanmar. Meanwhile:
Saw Chit Thu, the powerful Border Guard Force commander controlling the Shwe Kokko scam centre complex on the Myanmar-Thai border, told the BBC he met the no. 2 junta leader Gen. Soe Win in Hpaan to tell him he no longer wants to accept money and supplies from the military.
— Jonathan Head (@pakhead) January 24, 2024
Presumably flipping to Xi?
Myanmar’s Military Has Turned a Strategic Town in Sagaing Region Into a ‘Graveyard’ The Irrawaddy
India
In India, an algorithm declares them dead; they have to prove they’re alive Al Jazeera
Syraqistan
Netanyahu May Be Standing in the Way of a Two-State Solution. But He’s Far From Alone RAND. Indeed….
Netanyahu Has Got to Go SpyTalk
* * * Over 200,000 containers bound for Piraeus port delayed by Red Sea crisis Seatrade Maritime. Handy chart:
Suez Canal container ship volume pic.twitter.com/kIZ7imkMPj
— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) January 24, 2024
Red Sea naval forces struggle to contain Houthi attacks Splash 247
As more tankers divert from Suez Canal, there’s a ‘sea change’ in way Europe is buying crude Hellenic Shipping News
‘Opportunistic’ Chinese lines send ships to serve Red Sea ports FT
US urges China to help curb Red Sea attacks by Iran-backed Houthis FT. Commentary:
Absolutely unreal. The US is begging China to bail them out of the mess they put themselves in with Yemen.
Beijing’s response (as per the article): that “the Red Sea tension is a ‘spillover’ from the Gaza conflict, which should be ended as soon as possible”. Damn right!
The… pic.twitter.com/a0Fh49MCw7
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 24, 2024
Before we go to war with them, or after?
* * * ICJ to Deliver a Decision on Provisional Measures January 26th Internationalist 360°
Examining distinctions in SA, Indonesia and Slovenia ICJ cases against Israel Independent Online. South Africa.
Indonesia files lawsuit against Israel at ICJ Middle East Monitor
* * * Middle East tension escalates: Mapping recent strikes in the region Al Jazeera
Reporter’s Notebook: Covering an antiwar protest in Israel Al Jazeera
Israel’s advanced crowd control techniques:
It off. It sticks and sinks into your skin, and the stench alone is so strong that it makes sure you can not get used to it and just like Layla here, it will make you extremely ill so it puts you out of commission for a while. In my opinion, it is BIO-Warfare/Terrorism. –
— 👻♧Cryptic♤👻 (@Crypt_phantom17) January 23, 2024
The manufacturer sells an antidote, but only to cops.
European Disunion
Far Right, En Marche The Baffler
Germany’s train services halted in longest strike yet Deutshe Welle
Fewer, older, poorer: France’s farming crisis in numbers France24
Dear Old Blighty
How Britain’s political elite broke the development bargain FT
The bitter lessons of Brexit Martin Wolf, FT
New Not-So-Cold War
Russia accuses Ukraine of shooting down plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war in Belgorod region CBS
Russian military plane crash: Ukraine says no ‘reliable information’ regarding passengers aboard France24. So, POWs were on board.
* * * Rumors Ukrainian General Zaluzhny Will Soon be Fired–Replaced by GRU’s Budanov Weapons and Strategy. A very ugly scenario indeed. Hopefully just a wild rumor:
There are whispers from Kyiv that Zaluzhny will be fired and CIA favorite Kyrylo Budanov is taking over the Ukrainian Armed Forces. If it’s true here’s why:
The real President of Ukraine, Victoria Nuland, needs someone crazy enough to blow up a nuclear power plant and Budanov is… pic.twitter.com/xWDS8ReDbi
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) January 22, 2024
Kyrylo Budanov: the Ukrainian military spy chief who ‘likes the darkness‘ FT
* * * No European security without Ukrainian victory The Atlantic Council. Alrighty then.
NATO signs key artillery ammunition contract to replenish allied supplies and help Ukraine AP. Commentary:
$5,500 per unit for, at most, six weeks worth of shells. Scheduled for delivery in 2025. A howitzer shell cost about $800 as recently as 2018.
The problem in a nutshell: too expensive, not enough, late delivery. https://t.co/L7GfdEtfgq
— Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) January 24, 2024
* * * Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with CBS TV channel, New York, January 22, 2024 (transcript) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation
Reconstructing the Istanbul Accords The National Interest
South of the Border
Argentinians stage nationwide strike against Javier Milei’s far-right agenda Guardian
Our Famously Free Press
Skip the Last Two Paragraphs—and Other Time-Saving Tips for Healthcare News Consumers FAIR
L.A. Times Layoffs Are Latest Sign of Billionaire’s Clipped Ambitions WSJ
Boeing
Updated: FAA grounds expansion plans for Boeing 737 MAX production, approves path for MAX 9s to resume flights Leeham News & Analysis
Digital Watch
NYC first to designate social media as environmental toxin Axios
* * * Apple Shares the Secret of Why the 40-Year-Old Mac Still Rules Wired
The rise and fall of the standard user interface The Register
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Realignment and Legitimacy
Greg Abbott’s New Year’s Resolution: Sow Chaos At The Border Texas Observer. They write letters:
My statement on Texas’ constitutional right to self-defense. pic.twitter.com/seNFZdmujP
— Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX) January 24, 2024
I suppose now we’ll be arguing about that “invasion” means, along with “insurrection.”
Court allows Border Patrol to cut Texas’ razor wire along Rio Grande SCOTUSblog
Border battle lines: Dems call on Biden to seize control of Texas National Guard, as GOP allies back Abbott and Biden admin demands Texas give Border Patrol access to key park at center of border dispute FOX
How Greg Abbott’s Border Fight Bolsters Calls for an Independent Texas Newsweek
Guillotine Watch
How a Start-Up Utopia Became a Nightmare for Honduras Foreign Policy. Not nice people at all.
Class Warfare
US unions flexed their muscles last year, but membership rates fall to all-time low Associated Press
Rich People Don’t Talk to Robots Downtown Josh Brown. They have people for that.
Can Intellectual Humility Save Us from Ourselves? JSTOR. An entire issue on this topic.
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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