Archaeologists Find a Marble Statue in an Ancient Roman Sewer New York Times (Robin K)
Night Owls Had More Brainpower in Large UK Survey Bloomberg. Furzy cites:
Older adults who self-identified as “evening people” scored better on cognitive tests than those who identified themselves as “morning people,” results published yesterday in BMJ Public Health showed. The study used data from more than 26,000 people — with an average age in their 70s — out of the UK Biobank, a UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome Trust health research database that surveys about a half-million volunteers across the UK.
#COVID-19
Luckily, COVID only affects people who are old or already in poor health.
— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) July 12, 2024
NIH-sponsored trial of nasal COVID-19 vaccine opens Innovation Network(ma)
Climate/Environment
How is climate change affecting food prices and inflation? Aljazeera
Scientists release new research on planted mangroves’ ability to store carbon PhysOrg
Amazon Says It Now Runs On 100% Clean Power. Employees Say It’s More Like 22% Fast Company
China?
Confrontations in South China Sea surge, raising fears a miscalculation could lead to conflict Guardian
‘Freedom of Navigation’: China Trolls US Coast Guard, Sails Warships Near Alaskan Island Chain Sputnik (Kevin W)
guurst per below: “When in a hole, continue digging:”
JUST IN: The US has entered a new “great game” with China with President Biden just signing Tibet Resolution Act. Will be interesting to see Chinese reaction, they clearly do not recognize the current Dalai Lama as legitimate nor they wish for Tibet to be a “Autonomous region.” pic.twitter.com/c4cOfUmOXR
— Deep Barot (@deepbarot) July 13, 2024
China and Japan ignite Asian hypersonic arms race Asia Times
US slaps ‘symbolic’ tariffs on China steel, aluminum Asia Times (Kevin W)
India
India-Russia ties take a quantum leap in the fog of Ukraine war Indian Punchline (Kevin W)
Myanmar
Myanmar Banks Restrict Cash Withdrawals as Financial Crisis Intensifies Irrawaddy
Africa
Africans support Russia – EU’s Borrell RT (Kevin W)
Nigeria: Fuel shortage, queues worsen in Lagos, Abuja, others Adom Online
European Disunion
Across Germany, there’s been a huge spike in shoplifting cases, police statistics show. Experts attribute the rise to the increasing cost of living. pic.twitter.com/qanxlRRySE
— DW News (@dwnews) July 12, 2024
La belle France
Is France facing a summer of political chaos and unrest? The Local
Old Blighty
Gaza
Israel’s genocidal army is using fragmentation weapons in Gaza. They are designed to maximize casualties and are having devastating impacts on children.
Sanjay Adusumilli, an Australian surgeon who worked at the al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, told the Guardian:
“It was… pic.twitter.com/Bi5O7UmgtX
— Dimitri Lascaris (@dimitrilascaris) July 11, 2024
The Old Evil Chris Hedges (Robin K). “I returned to occupied Palestine….”
As fears mount of an Israel-Lebanon war, Hezbollah’s arsenal looms large Washington Post
Ships Fleeing the Red Sea Now Face Perilous African Weather Bloomberg
Weather Halts Container Shipping Around South Africa What is Going on With Shipping? (Christi I)
Palestinians Say Microsoft Unfairly Closing Their Accounts BBC
Democratic Socialists of America Pulls AOC Endorsement After She Spoke Out Against Antisemitism Haaretz (Robin K)
New Not-So-Cold War
Footage Shows Russian Iskander-M Missiles Take Out More of Ukraine’s Patriot Air Defences Military Watch
Moscow angered by US plan to site long-range missiles in Germany Guardian
Ukraine Abandons Krasnohorivka & Russia Storms Chasiv Yar HistoryLegends, YouTube
Syraqistan
Iraq condemns Turkish military ‘incursions’ into north New Arab
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Drones Over Prisons CourtWatch (Chuck L). For deliveries!
AT&T Says Criminals Stole Phone Records of ‘Nearly All’ Customers in New Data Breach Techcrunch
Imperial Collapse Watch
Silicon Valley and the Second American Century Programmable Mutter (Randy K)
Reacting To Biden’s Dangerous NATO Speech Tulsi Gabbard, YouTube
Uruguay coach Marcelo Bielsa blasts Copa América organizers after brawl: ‘Plague of liars’ Yohoo. GM:
The US hosted one of the best World Cups ever back in 1994, and will host it again in 2026.
But is it going to be as well done this time?
It is hosting Copa America this year as a preparation, and take a look at what is happening. Apparently they can’t even ensure basic security…
Lots of degradation has happened in these 30 years.
And this is far from everything, it is just what boiled over the other day. But overall the tournament has been run as everything else these days, e.g. they outsourced ticketing to Ticketmaster completely, the result of which was that tickets cost $200 and stadiums were empty. Great success. The whole fiasco with the state of the pitches is, of course, another obvious cost cutting, profit maximizing debacle. Etc. etc.
Trump
Musk Donates to Trump, Tapping Fortune to Swing 2024 Race Bloomberg (furzy)
Biden Agonistes
Live Election Updates: Donors Freeze Roughly $90 Million as Long as Biden Stays in Race New York Times
Democrats in disarray over Biden: ‘We’re totally, totally screwed’ Financial Times
Silver Bulletin 2024 presidential election forecast Nate Silver
Biden’s Press Conference Won’t Stem Tide of Defections Wall Street Journal (Li)
The foreign press is less charitable: Biden looks finished – there’s surely no coming back from this Telegraph and You could sense the embarrassment as Biden spoke, a sign of how low the presidency has sunk Guardian
Top Democrat on House Intel committee calls on Biden to step aside after press conference CNN
But….
Chris Matthews makes a prediction on Biden.pic.twitter.com/uPfDVwtBhU
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) July 12, 2024
Weird one… CNN reports that a prominent Democrat has claimed Biden’s advisors have threatened White House staffers, saying they will “beat the shit out” of anyone who says anything about Biden’s health that runs contrary to their narrative. Full report: https://t.co/bKUXT4Vct4 pic.twitter.com/mlyvpNev2c
— m o d e r n i t y (@ModernityNews) July 12, 2024
Biden Has 100 Million Reasons to Stay In Wall Street Journal
2024
The US Treasury is Denying Jill Stein Matching Funds the FEC Awarded – Campaign Manager Sputnik (Kevin W). Holy shit.
Operation DAWN Scott Ritter
Our No Longer Free Press
The European Commission offered 𝕏 an illegal secret deal: if we quietly censored speech without telling anyone, they would not fine us.
The other platforms accepted that deal.
𝕏 did not. https://t.co/4lKsaRsYoA
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 12, 2024
Benz is a bit of a drama queen but that does not make him wrong (hat tip Chuck L):
Here’s a more condensed version. If you haven’t watched yet, you’ll come out of it a changed person, I believe. https://t.co/E18VEXSxjw pic.twitter.com/kprVm5CrYj
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) July 12, 2024
“I’m BRAVE For Admitting Biden Is Declining!” – Jake Tapper Jimmy Dore, YouTube
Gunz
Alec Baldwin’s involuntary manslaughter case dismissed in “Rust” shooting CBS (Kevin W). Wowsers, dismissed with prejudice!
Central banks warn over surge in global sovereign debt level Financial Times
The Bezzle
Big Banks’ Stress Tests Are Flawed Bloomberg. We and many others said this from the very get go.
NYC’s Massive Link5G Towers Aren’t Actually Providing 5G Gothamist
Known as ‘Tesla of Euthanasia,’ ‘Suicide Capsule’ Banned by Swiss Authorities Weeks Before First Planned Use Venture Capital Post (Paul R). If this really is a not nasty way to die, why isn’t this remarketed to the US states that still execute prisoners?
Class Warfare
Food companies feel the pain as consumers reject higher prices Washington Post
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “While I’m not fond of the typical House Fly, I actually find these Green Bottle flies kind of pretty.”
And a bonus:
Can’t stop watching this.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/UeorhP5g8G
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) July 11, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
