What Jay Powell had to say in Jackson Hole FT
TD Bank prepares for $2.6 billion U.S. anti-money laundering fine The Wall Street Journal
Re-examining the number of bankruptcy filers Credit slip
climate
How to get capitalism to stop climate change Foreign Policy
AI tech giant hides polluting energy with outdated carbon accounting rules Business Standard
A giant, unregulated power plant in the cloud Books by Bert Hubert
‘We’re changing the clouds’: Unintentional geoengineering experiment is warming the Atlantic Ocean Earth.com
water
The strange heat island beneath Minneapolis Atlas Obscura
TechCrunch Minute: This startup wants to mine water on the moon TechCrunch
Syndemics
COVID-19 vaccine is coming soon. When is the best time to get vaccinated? NBC
Novavax shares have soared this year, but challenges remain. Buy or sell? Investor’s Business Daily
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Massachusetts health officials have recommended a nighttime curfew because the community faces a significant risk of EEE. Boston 25. EEE = Eastern Equine Encephalitis.
Could Mpox establish itself in the Indo-Pacific region? Diplomat
China?
China expresses ‘serious concerns’ over US nuclear strategy report Channel News Asia
Humanoid robots take center stage at WRC 2024 CGTN
PwC prepares for six-month China travel ban with Evergrande audit FT
India
Commentary: India is booming, but is this the structural growth story of the century or irrational exuberance from domestic investors? BNE Intellectual News
Shiraksta
US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln strike group arrives in the Middle East Anadolu Agency
A look back at Iran’s first aircraft carrier: Shahid Bagheri promises to extend range of stealthy drone fleet Military Watches
Ugly America Clyde Prestowitz (!), Clyde’s Newsletter. Commentary:
Gaza is covered with 42 million tonnes of rubble.
The lasting human, environmental and economic impacts of the genocide’s vast toxic remains – mountains of rubble that buried an estimated 10,000 dead – are simply staggering. https://t.co/VW0v9nCSiQ pic.twitter.com/locMxt7Vbd
— Thea Triofrancos (@triofrancos) August 17, 2024
Africa
Koch is investing in massive land grabs from pastoralists in West Africa Published by CMD
European Separation
As France’s summer break ends, the fierce battle to form a government resumes France 24
A new cold war
Scholz believes it is unlikely that Ukrainian forces will remain in Russia’s Kursk Oblast for much longer. Ukrainska Pravda
Russia seeks to turn humiliating invasion into military gain The New York Times
Russia says its invasion of Ukraine’s Kursk region has killed any chance of peace talks Anadolu Agency
Ukraine’s Kursk invasion paralyzes Russian railways BNE Intellectual News
* * * US says Russia and Ukraine cannot launch major attacks against each other Bloomberg
* * * Secret Russian documents reveal drills to lower nuclear weapons threshold amid escalating conflict (Excerpt) Simplicius, the Thinker
Ukraine attacks boost Russian separatists Foreign Policy
South of the Border
Deception predicted? New Left Review. Venezuela. “A careful review of the evidence shows that the election results are not only implausible, but incredible.”
2024
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to address the nation on Friday following reports of his support for Trump Anadolu Agency
* * * Meeting the ‘Indifferents’: Gaza’s Impact on the Democratic National Convention Al Jazeera
Republicans are the bad guys who kill civilians, Democrats are the good guys who kill civilians. Caitlin Johnston
* * * Trump or Harris? Moscow doesn’t care Valdai Discussion Club
Who is Philip Gordon, the foreign policy pragmatist who has captured Harris’s attention? FT. For NC, please see here.
* * * Police and FBI investigating maggot incident at Chicago Democratic National Convention Breakfast Wegner
The planet where the Democrats live is looking good. Gauntlet
Spook Country
US investigates Americans who collaborated with Russian state TV The New York Times
The right to be left alone Andrew P. Napolitano, New Jersey Herald
Digital Watch
‘CEO at war’: Urbit founder returns to revamp Moonshot Software Project Coindesk
No Opportunity to Exit: Silicon Valley’s Business Model and Politics American Affairs Journal
The era of excess n+1. Excerpt:
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— Alex (@genossse) August 21, 2024
* * * What’s the margin? AI business models are changing rapidly, says Cohere founder TechCrunch
Antitrust
What happens when a CEO throws out evidence in an antitrust trial? Matt Stoller, BIG
Zeitgeist Watch
US hospital tells family their daughter has been discharged, but she has actually died The Guardian (DS). DS wrote, “CalPERS isn’t the only one engaged in a cover-up in Sacramento. Waiting a year to provide the death certificate (required by law within 15 days) is a cover-up of medical malpractice, and not notifying the family who spent a year searching for her is the height of cruelty. There’s no mention here or in the SacBee report of an investigation by the State Medical Board. I’m at a loss for words.”
supply chain
U.S. uranium production recovering from sharp declines in recent years: EIA S&P Global
The Final Frontier
Russian robotic cargo ship Progress 89 docks at ISS with tons of fresh supplies (Video) Space.com
Sports Desk
‘More and more’ – Manchester City star gets unusual cosmetic surgery to improve athletic performance Manchester Evening News
Class struggle
How US tech giants colonized the world: Welcome to neo-feudalism Geopolitical Economic Review
You say you want a revolution Two Hearts by Charles Hugh Smith
Assessment of microplastic bioaccumulation in postmortem human brain by pyrolysis-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Preprint) Research Square. N = 12. From the conclusion: “Current data suggest that concentrations of microplastics and nanoplastics (MNPs) in the brain are on the rise, and parallels are drawn between the rapidly increasing environmental abundance of microplastics and the global increase in age-related rates of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, along with the potential role of anionic nanoplastics in protein aggregation, highlighting the urgent need to understand the impact of MNPs on human health.” Music interval.
Today’s antidote (Eltshire):
See yesterday’s link and the Antidote du Jour here.
