South Africa requests ICJ to order Gaza ceasefire and halt Israeli attack on Rafah Al Jazeera
House passes Republican bill condemning Biden’s Israeli weapons moratorium politiko
Aid trucks begin landing via temporary pier in Gaza: US anadolu agency
Pro-Israel billionaire urges New York to crack down on Gaza protests: Report Al Jazeera. Who is the sovereign here? Explanation:
It is becoming increasingly difficult to believe that the actions of American business, politics, and media surrounding both the destruction in Gaza and the campus protests are not driven by intimidation and intimidation.
They act like they’re deathly afraid of what will happen if they don’t do what they’re doing.
— Joe Shogun (@BostonJerry) May 16, 2024
Massive pro-Israel rally held in Times Square. Here is the latest one. CBS. The headline is deceptive. “Dozens of demonstrators were inside a barricaded area covered with Israeli flags…”
discord in europe
Floating Bosch Parade creates a spectacle of online life on a Dutch river this is huge
gardening is an italian thing seed world
Dear Old Blighty
Sectoral balances show that the government has little control over its national debt. funding the future
A new war that’s not so cold war
Ukraine’s defense line extends as Russian troops advance BBC
NATO commander says Russia does not have enough troops to break through Kharkov Anadolu agency. Lay out the markers…
Local authorities say four construction workers died while building a fortress in Kharkiv region Ukraineska Pravda. A little late?
* * * Why Blinken’s Ukraine visit was ‘revolutionary’ but not a complete success Pravda in Europe. Blinken pledged allegiance to Azov by eating at Azov’s pizza shop. What more could these people want?
* * * President Vladimir Putin and President Xi Jinping pledge a new era, establishing the United States as a Cold War hegemon business standard
Dragon bear hug suggests unprecedented bond expansion Simplician thinker. Yes, the neocon genius minds succeeded in making the Russia-China alliance a reality, well done.
Sanctions on non-client Hungary:
A highly unusual (and justified) rant about sanctions against Russia by the Hungarian Foreign Minister. He denounced the immense hypocrisy taking place around his country and called for “rationality” given that the sanctions regime had failed to achieve its objectives and had harmed the EU more than Russia. .
this… pic.twitter.com/35aYxQgSLF
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) May 16, 2024
Biden administration
Visa changes will mean Americans will carry less physical credit and debit cards in their wallets A.P. “Visa’s changes mean Americans will be less likely to carry a physical credit or debit card in their wallets.” So if you lose your card, you won’t have to worry about it just once. Does that mean I have to call again and again? Wow, how convenient!
Manchin and Senate Republicans move to overturn retirement investment planning rules the hill
supremes
Supreme Court upholds CFPB funding and relief agency politiko
CFPB vs. CFSA Analysis credit slip
* * * Knight’s Errant: The Roberts Court and Erroneous Fact Findings (PDF) Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Ohio Law Journal. “These cases, their underlying erroneous factual findings, the persistence of erroneous facts, and the policy implications of uncorrected errors combine to create new predicaments that demand the attention of academia, lower courts, and… This provision proposes a theory and action that will protect our government against courts that seek to strengthen judicial power for political purposes. ”
antitrust law
Google cracked?
🚨New: Google is so afraid of being held accountable by the public that it just tried to pay the Department of Justice to prevent a jury trial…
We all know what happened the last time a jury heard a monopoly case against Google. Now they’re trying to avoid it happening again 🤯 https://t.co/XLQ6n8HdbB pic.twitter.com/6miZ8SeIll
— American Economic Freedom Project (@econliberties) May 16, 2024
Grove of Academy
Cal Poly Humboldt Encampment:
“Let us set the terms of struggle,” says the Humboldt Commune of the University of California. new quest
Maybe we can build a boat too. hedgehog review
police state surveillance
New data reveals 52,529 guns once owned by police were later used in crimes CBS. Wash with one hand and the other!
A police officer guarding the mayor’s home unfairly shot a man in the back, a lawsuit says. Gothamist. Oops.
digital watch
Wiley shuts down 19 academic journals over AI paper mill issue Register. Wow, OpenAI must have removed all these documents from the training set. BWA-HA-HA-HA-HA, just kidding.
Google’s call scanning AI could dial up censorship by default, privacy experts warn tech crunch
basil
Crypto Brothers Ahead of Top Candidates Bloomberg (DK). DK commented: “An accurate and clear observation of the ever-moving crypto space.”
supply chain
A new peak season paradigm develops in the Asian container market S&P Global
imperial collapse watch
AI-controlled fighter jet took Air Force leaders on historic flight.what it means for war A.P. “At the end of the hour-long flight, Kendall came out of the cockpit grinning. He had seen enough during the flight that he believed he had the ability to decide whether or not to fire a weapon in a war. He said he can trust this AI, which is still learning.
F-35 upgrade delays could take a year to resolve: GAO break through the defense
class war
Corrupt Democracy: Corruption at the Top and the Erosion of Democratic Values (PDF) Stanford University Graduate School of Business Research Paper No. 4166. From the summary: “The erosion of democratic values creates a potential cumulative effect even four months later. Invoking national identity in search of solutions may prove to be an ineffective antidote. It turns out, there’s some promise in providing exposure to a national stock index fund.” Oh.
Nature and human well-being: the olfactory pathway science
Failed Spy: Kurt Gödel’s Forgotten Role in the Atomic Bomb Story Nature
Il Campeonato Mondiale di Umali Business scope
Aging Antidote (via) faraj mail):
See yesterday’s link and antidote. here.
