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New York launches a marketing campaign for residents to entry books banned in different states Euro 25. The Brooklyn and now the New York public libraries.
John Adams’ Concern Has Come to Go David French, The Dispatch
Local weather
When the Earth Began to Sing Emergence
What Can One Illness Do to a Panorama? The Atlantic
In his new e book, Neil Hamilton lets the land communicate for itself The Gazette
A gold rush within the deep sea raises questions in regards to the authority charged with defending it Los Angeles Occasions
Stumbling Towards “Day Zero” on the Colorado River Audobon (Wukchumni).
#COVID19
White Home official: US should reply to rising COVID-19 circumstances ‘with care and warning, however not overreacting’ The Hill. So superior.
We’re Toying With a Ruinous Finish to COVID Journey Masking MedPage As we speak
The Drive to Vaccinate the World Towards Covid Is Shedding Steam NYT. All the pieces’s going in line with plan.
* * * COVID-19 Vaccination and Estimated Public Well being Impression in California JAMA. Findings: ” On this modeling research utilizing knowledge from the California Division of Public Well being, COVID-19 vaccination was estimated to have prevented greater than 1.5 million COVID-19 circumstances, 72 000 hospitalizations, and 19 000 deaths in the course of the first 10 months of vaccination, by means of October 16, 2021.”
Sturdiness of BNT162b2 vaccine in opposition to hospital and emergency division admissions as a result of omicron and delta variants in a big well being system within the USA: a test-negative case–management research The Lancet. n = 11,123 hospital or ER admissions. From the InterpretationL “Three doses of BNT162b2 [Pfizer] conferred excessive safety in opposition to hospital and emergency division admission on account of each the delta and omicron variants within the first 3 months after vaccination. Nonetheless, 3 months after receipt of a 3rd dose, waning was obvious in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 outcomes as a result of omicron variant, together with hospital admission.”
* * * The Race to Cut back Covid-19 Transmission: An Replace on 67 Intranasal & 6 Oral Vaccines Hilda Bastian, Completely Perhaps. From March, nonetheless extremely germane.
Nasal COVID-19 vaccine trials held at Vizag Institute Deccan Chronicle
China?
‘Pressing and grim’: Beijing on Covid-19 alert after sudden rash of circumstances South China Morning Put up
Three Sinovac Doses Fail to Shield Towards Omicron in Research Bloomberg
China’s Covid strictures scupper hopes of property revival FT
Myanmar
Junta forces ‘making locals’ lives depressing’ as violence engulfs central Myanmar Myanmar Now. The wet season is a month off.
How the Coup Shattered the Picture of Myanmar’s Navy The Diplomat. Word the extraordinarily equivocal function performed by Aung San Suu Kyi.
India
Store of man with no palms razed for ‘rioting’ in MP India As we speak
UK/EU
Macron reelected however Le Pen’s massive rating exhibits France more and more divided Politico
Marcron v. Le Pen: What the French election means for the US Accountable Statecraft
Mélenchon to ally with Greens, PCF, NPA in French legislative election WSWS. What a debacle:
The 2002 French Presidential Election could be essentially the most left election ever. The left wins ~41% of the vote collectively within the first spherical and would not make the runoff as a result of the left is break up ~7 alternative ways pic.twitter.com/JCdVlkhlx7
— Particular Pet🧦🐒 (@SpecialPuppy1) April 11, 2022
Deep in Macron Nation New Statesman
Janez Janša suffers heavy defeat as newcomer occasion wins Slovenian election Politico
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Giant hearth at oil depot in Russia’s Bryansk, close to Ukraine Reuters. Commentary:
Good morning from Bryansk, Russia.
Ukraine sends its regards.
— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 25, 2022
US a ‘co-belligerent’ in Ukraine warfare, authorized knowledgeable says Asia Occasions
Ukraine Newest: Blinken, Austin Pledge Extra Help on Kyiv Journey Bloomberg. I don’t need to be cranky about this, however we don’t know the place the “support” is ending up, and we particularly don’t understand how a lot Ukraine is promoting to 3rd events.
Ukraine desires great amount of apparatus for its nuclear energy crops, IAEA says Reuters. From not particularly dependable authority, we hear that Ukraine in the reduction of on nuclear energy plant upkeep after the 2014 coup, preferring the spend the cash on weapons. Simultaneosly they cranked the crops laborious. Not reassuring. If any readers can fill within the blanks on this story, that might be nice.
* * * Sitrep: Operation Z The Saker
The battle for Donbas: ‘the true check of this warfare’ FT
Will Russia Win the Conflict for the Donbas? The Nationwide Curiosity
US narrative gained’t survive defeat in Donbass Indian Punchline
Are there nonetheless Russian troopers in Belarus? Deutsche Welle
Conflict in Ukraine, by the numbers Duffel Weblog
* * * EU says pay for Russian fuel in euros to keep away from breaching sanctions Reuters however EU admits rouble funds for Putin’s fuel may not breach sanctions Telegraph
Russia poised to take advantage of Mongolia on Soyuz–Vostok pipeline BNE Intellinews
* * * How Not To Report On Ukraine Moon of Alabama
* * * Holding Putin Accountable Would Require an Precise Guidelines-Based mostly World Order Jacobin
Germany has a particular duty to cease Putin’s evil FT
Seven A long time of Nazi Collaboration: America’s Soiled Little Ukraine Secret Overseas Coverage in Focus. From 2014, nonetheless germane.
Russia to deploy Sarmat missiles by autumn in ‘historic’ nuclear improve Reuters
Zeitgeist Watch
Column: Amid growing abuse, officers flee youth sports activities AP (Re Silc).
Provide Chain
Tech corporations rip aside NEW washing machines to allow them to harvest their pc components in a bid to beat the worldwide microchip scarcity Every day Mail (dk).
Whistleblowers
I helped Indigenous peoples beat Chevron in courtroom and so they put me on home arrest. It didn’t work. Stephen Donziner
Gunz
Why extra individuals of coloration are shopping for weapons Axios
Guillotine Watch
The Air-Ambulance Vultures New York Journal
WeWork’s Adam and Rebekah Neumann: The place Are They Now? Vainness Honest. Learn all the best way to the tip.
Child Who Used to Drown Friends in RollerCoaster Tycoon Now Thriving at McKinsey Onerous Drive
Class Warfare
Amazon union might face a tricky highway forward after victory AP (Re Silc).
Microbiome consultants warn of an ‘invisible extinction’ of intestine micro organism that’s harming human well being Put up-Gazette
Antidote du Jour (by way of):
Bonus Antidote:
Bouncy infants! #sheep #animals #cute #love pic.twitter.com/AS3r2UZ7Fm
— AnimalMemeTV (@AnimalMemeTV) April 16, 2022
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