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A Connecticut Mechanic Discovered Paintings Value Tens of millions in a Dumpster Smithsonian
Pungent ft or one thing candy? Cultures all over the world reply to smells in the identical means Science
Local weather
Skilled wildland firefighter explains why he resigned Wildfire Right this moment. “Watching the mass exodus of our operational data is among the saddest evolutions I’ve witnessed.”
Lightning-sparked forest fires set to extend in North America Guardian (Re Silc).
Invasive pear bushes are reshaping the area’s panorama Larger Larger Washington
#COVID19
Up the road to loss of life: covid-19 has revealed a mortal betrayal of the world’s healthcare staff British Medical Journal. And no political consquences in any respect. It’s extraordinary.
You Are Witness to a Crime The Baffler. ACT-UP’s legacy; from 2021, nonetheless germane.
* * * Laughing Ourselves to Dying on the Gridiron Dinner Gregg Gonsalves, The Nation. I’m not the one one who’s ripsh*t about this.
The Failure of Covid.gov Is Worse Than Inexcusable Bloomberg. Identical to when healthcare.gov was launched. We be taught nothing:
The directions for locating and getting free masks, for instance, are labyrinthine: Clicking on “Be taught extra about masks and the place to get them” simply takes you to the usual Facilities for Illness Management explainer on masks. That web page is outdated — as of this writing, it was final up to date in August 2021 and nonetheless prominently options an illustration of material masks somewhat than the extra closely protecting N95 and KN95 fashions. 1 And it’s very tough to navigate. Among the many many various hyperlinks, one does certainly promise that will help you find free masks. However when you get to that locator, you be taught that: “This instrument exhibits an inventory of pharmacies that present free masks (N95 respirators). It doesn’t present their present stock.” (Emphasis within the unique.) I initially tried to make use of the hyperlink on cellular, and located just one distribution location listed in my ZIP Code. I later tried to look once more on my laptop, and found that extra places have been listed, however an invisible (and thus unnoticeable) scrolling interface was required to see the others. In any occasion, making an attempt to contact one of many listed pharmacies led me to an extended telephone tree, on the finish of which there was no details about present availability.
* * * An experimental COVID drug was so profitable that they’re shutting down trials early Fortune. n = 210. Sabizabulin.
The Tobacco Wars’ Classes for the Vaccination Wars New England Journal of Drugs
We Would possibly Be Wanting At COVID “Seasons” For Years To Come Buzzfeed
China?
Coronavirus: Shanghai finds a document 3,200 instances with Covid-19 signs as mass assessments uncover Omicron lurking in households in cloistered properties South China Morning Submit. Commentary, value studying in full:
Shanghai authorities *explicitly said* they have been *not* going to comply with these similar Zero-COVID protocols, not going to lockdown early at underneath 100 instances. They have been going to place “the financial system first”. https://t.co/rRsTNEqr79 pic.twitter.com/33Ui1Upu4z
— Naomi Wu 机械妖姬 (@RealSexyCyborg) April 15, 2022
China Lockdowns Fear Companies as Transport Uncertainty Grows Bloomberg
The Last Obliteration of China as a Covid-19 Function Mannequin The Nationwide Evaluation
Myanmar
Dry streets as Myanmar boycotts water pageant to protest junta France24. However the junta is doing its finest:
Right here is Junta’s Taylor Swift 😅 pic.twitter.com/9JvzwllhXA
— Kevin Linn (@Kevin_linnn) April 14, 2022
Ukraine Disaster Prompts China to Swing Behind Myanmar’s Junta USIP
The issue with postcards from Myanmar The Lowy Interpreter
Hundreds of Sri Lankans have a good time New 12 months at anti-government protest web site Channel Information Asia. Feels like Occupy:
This now steady protest is clearly not organized by anybody, however can also be organized by everybody. It is a motion with actual endurance. Sri Lankan persons are actually staying there, in entrance of energy, and solely getting stronger.
— indica (@indica) April 14, 2022
Syraqistan
Israeli forces assault Palestinian worshippers in al-Aqsa Mosque raid Center East Eye
UK/EU
Why Nineteen Eighties Oxford holds the important thing to Britain’s ruling class FT Context:
#BREAKING The flavour-starved archipelago, a worldwide hub for cash laundering and tax evasion, in 2019 spent KSh495B on dental providers and has no nationwide technique to stop tooth decay regardless of widespread dental struggling linked to conventional bland boiled teeth-rotting weight loss plan.
— gathara (@gathara) April 13, 2022
Asylum Seekers Deported From Israel to Rwanda Warn These Remaining: ‘Don’t Come Right here’ Haaretz. From 2018, nonetheless germane.
Marine Le Pen exploits price of residing fears as French run-off vote looms FT
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
Biden official admits US refused to deal with Ukraine and NATO earlier than Russian invasion Accountable Statecraft
China’s Ukraine Response Is All In regards to the US (Not Russia) The Diplomat
Welcome to the “RuZZkiy Mir” Evgenia Kovda (MR).
* * * Ukraine Reside Updates: Russia Seems Near Capturing Mariupol NYT
Russia accuses Ukraine of helicopter strike in cross-border assault International Information. The ultimate paragraph: “‘If such incidents proceed, then consequence from the armed forces of the Russian Federation will probably be assaults on resolution making centres, together with in Kyiv, which the Russian military has kept away from so far,’ the defence ministry mentioned.”
EXCLUSIVE: ‘What have the Russians executed to him?’ Household’s fury after ‘overwhelmed’ British fighter is paraded on Moscow state TV in handcuffs with a lower to the top and swollen eye after being captured with Ukrainians throughout battle for Mariupol Daiy Mail. “Captured earlier this week after his staff ran out of meals and ammo.”
Russian Mercenaries in Nice-Energy Competitors: Strategic Supermen or Weak Hyperlink? RAND Company
* * * Russian Black Sea Fleet’s Flagship Goes Down off Odesa Maritime Govt
Sunken Moskva May Be The Greatest Naval Fight Loss In 40 Years The Drive
* * * Day 49 of the Russian SMO – a couple of notes on the propaganda warfare (UPDATED!) The Saker. Extra on the Moska.
NED Funds Key Ukrainian Propaganda Organ, the Kyiv Impartial Covert Motion Journal
Unique: Russian geoeconomics Tzar Sergei Glazyev introduces the brand new world monetary system The Cradle. Massive if true. (Unsure about this venue; there’s no About web page or working Contact web page.)
The Caribbean
Honduran ex-leader Hernández to be extradited to US subsequent week BBC
Biden Administration
Provide Chain
Semiconductor common lead time breaks half-year barrier The Register
CF Industries: Union Pacific Curtails Fertilizer Shipments, Delaying Deliveries and Stopping New Rail Orders from Being Taken GreenStock Information
China’s COVID-19 Outbreak Introduces New Implications for the Transport Markets Hellenic Transport Information
Our Famously Free Press
Elon Musk Urges Larger Transparency at Twitter, Calling Platform The ‘De Facto City Sq.’ WSJ. The supply:
Elon Musk:
“I’m not enjoying the back-and-forth recreation. I’ve moved straight to the tip. It is a excessive worth and your shareholders will like it.” pic.twitter.com/4hJjHm4EdU
— Brian Chappatta (@BChappatta) April 14, 2022
Elon Musk and Promoting Tickets to the Finish of the World Matt Stoller, BIG
Elon Musk’s “Menace” to Restore Free Speech on Twitter Provokes Liberal Panic. Right this moment at 3 pm ET. Glenn Greenwald
Healthcare
Nursing Properties Are in Disaster. We Can’t Look Away Any Longer. NYT. Oh, I feel we will.
Individuals Gon’ Wild: Gonorrhea and Syphilis at Document Highs in 2020 Gizmodo
Decentralization: An Moral Obligation Endpoints Information. Reforming medical trials.
Class Warfare
San Francisco Rations Housing by Scoring Homeless Folks’s Trauma. By Design, Most Fail to Qualify. ProPublica. Traditional PMC complicated eligibility necessities + moralizing.
Branko Milanović – The evolution of Karl Marx: a evaluate of Kevin B. Anderson’s “Marx on the Margins” Branko Milanović, Courageous New Europe
12 finest methods to get automobiles out of cities – ranked by new analysis The Dialog
How Japan Constructed Cities The place You May Ship Your Toddler on an Errand Slate
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