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Ohio man who suffered 20,000 bee-stings anticipated to recuperate, household says The Guardian (Resilc)
The Summer season Everybody Noticed the Sharks Slate (Resilc)
Investigators, Citing Looting, Have Seized 27 Antiquities From the Met NYT
E-book banning in U.S. colleges has reached an all-time excessive: What this implies, and the way we acquired right here Grid (Resilc)
The Battle for ‘Cop Metropolis’ Rolling Stone (TH)
The Seek for Scientific Proof for Premonitions The New Republic
#COVID-19
CanSino’s inhaled Covid-19 vaccine will get emergency use approval in China Bangkok Put up
Covid app that detects virus in your voice ‘extra correct than lateral stream assessments’ The Telegraph
Local weather/Setting
U.S. Photo voltaic Bottlenecks Are Inflicting A Resurgence In Coal OilPrice (Resilc)
China?
The way to make EVs with out China’s provide chain Asia Instances (Resilc)
The US shoots itself within the foot with sanctions in opposition to Chinese language PV merchandise: trade insider International Instances
China’s Visa Various Cuts Off Russian Banks Over Sanctions – RBC Moscow Instances
Tiny Tuvalu to ‘stand agency’ with Taiwan as Pacific competitors hots up Reuters
Myanmar
Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing to go to Russia Mizzima
Sri Lanka
IMF chief happy that Sri Lanka reached staff-level deal for $2.9 billion Enterprise Commonplace
India
Recognizing the Reality and the Hype About INS Vikrant’s Home Sourcing of Materials The Wire
India’s Electrical Car Push Is Using on Mopeds and Rickshaws NYT (Resilc)
In Affidavit, Former RSS Employee Claims High Proper Wing Leaders Concerned in Nanded Blast The Wire
Syraqistan
Iraq PM hosts US delegation for talks in Baghdad
4 sides profit from unstable Iraq Tehran Instances
Türkiye hosts Libya’s rival prime ministers on identical dates Each day Sabah
Previous Blighty
Liz Truss warns in opposition to predictions of an ‘Armageddon situation’ and tells Laura Kuenssberg that Britain has the appropriate ‘spirit’ to get by means of vitality disaster – whereas promising ‘rapid’ motion to assist if she turns into Tory chief TOMORROW Each day Mail (Resilc)
my present vitality invoice for my tiny 22 cowl restaurant is £2,928 a 12 months. That is my new quote. Uncertain what to truly do subsequent however as a enterprise that price would now be greater than I pay in hire and greater than I take some months. I merely don’t have the cash for this. pic.twitter.com/D8zPbOBNQI
— James Allcock (@jrmallcock) September 2, 2022
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant partly goes offline amid combating CBS
Zelensky says Russia is utilizing ‘nuclear weapon’ by occupying Zaporizhzhia The Hill
Retaining What Issues In Focus. Memory of the Future (ctlieee)
Second of fact within the Ukraine struggle Indian Punchline
Ukraine Conflict Day #192: Again To Faculty! Terrible Avalanche (guurst)
Lavrov warns Moldova about threats to peacekeepers AP
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev says West is enjoying ‘chess recreation with loss of life’ The Nationwide
Ukraine PM meets German Chancellor Scholz looking for extra navy assist DW
🧵Thread 🧵
The way to finish the struggle in Ukraine.
Germany can finish the struggle in Ukraine single-handedly. The US can not afford a proxy struggle with Russia if Germany backs out of sanctions in opposition to Russia. Let’s be sincere: Russia shouldn’t be a risk to Germany. It needs good relations with Europe.
— Kim Dotcom (@KimDotcom) September 3, 2022
* * * China Is Quietly Reselling Its Extra Russian LNG To Europe OilPrice (KS)
Russia’s Sberbank to dump sanctions-hit Swiss subsidiary ABC
Italy’s Salvini says West ought to rethink sanctions for Russia Politico
EU states bordering Russia looking for methods to halt vacationer entry ERR
Metal mill applies for decreased working hours on account of vitality prices Swissinfo
Will the vitality disaster spell the top for German bakeries? DW
🇩🇪📈🔌💰💥The vitality invoice for a bakery in Germany.
From 721 euros to 2588 euros,per thirty days…However Annalena Baerbock is anxious about supplying cash and weapons to Ukraine,not about this👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/0I4VLM21qD
— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZmilitary1) September 4, 2022
* * * Why Gorbachev Was One of many Biggest Failures in Historical past CounterPunch (Resilc)
Chileans reject new, progressive structure NPR
Imperial Collapse Watch
Airmen brace for particular obligation pay minimize in 2023 Navy Instances
Trump Raid
Trump calls Biden ‘an enemy of the state’ The Hill
GOP Clown Automobile
How a File Money Haul Vanished for Senate Republicans NYT (furzy)
Abortion
The VA says it can present abortions in some instances even in states the place it’s banned NPR
Research raises pink flags about corporatization of well being care, OHSU investigator says OHSU
The Bezzle
Crypto actual property: the property market constructed on digital belongings FT
Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has slammed bitcoin as pointless, wasteful, and largely a Ponzi scheme. Listed below are the economist’s 12 greatest quotes about crypto over the previous decade. Insider (Resilc)
Hackers Compromise The Youtube Channel of The South Korean Authorities To Promote a Crypto Rip-off CryptoPotato
Provide Chain/Inflation
Germany’s authorities agrees on €65 billion reduction package deal amid hovering vitality costs DW
World meals costs drop for fifth consecutive month: FAO UN Information
Class Warfare
New York Metropolis sues Starbucks for firing union-organizing barista The Guardian (Resilc)
Qatar deports employees who protested in opposition to unpaid salaries Center East Eye
Dealer Joe’s broke labor legal guidelines in effort to cease shops unionizing, employees say The Guardian (Resilc)
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
This fish likes to cuddle.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/PTjU1IzuA7
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 3, 2022
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
