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5 Loons Rescued on Lake Champlain Adirondack Almanack

When Pigs Cry: Software Decodes the Emotional Lives of Swine NYT (KS).

What Google Search Isn’t Exhibiting You The New Yorker. The positioning you’re studying now, for instance.

Courageous Search and Presearch say they don’t censor search outcomes Reclaim the Web (ctilee).

#COVID19

Signature Occasion, The Honorable Ronald A. Klain (transcript) The Financial Membership of Washington, DC

MR. RUBENSTEIN: Why do you assume so many Individuals don’t wish to be vaccinated? Is that this one thing you could have, largely, accepted as a truth that you simply’re not going to have the ability to vaccinate everyone?

MR. KLAIN: Nicely, I feel – 75 % of adults are totally vaccinated and half of those that are eligible have additionally been boosted. Vaccine resistance is a part of American historical past. It goes all the way in which again to George Washington having to require his troops to get the smallpox vaccine once they didn’t wish to get it on the verge – within the Revolutionary Struggle. These of – these individuals who lived via the polio vaccinations within the Fifties know that it took eight years to get the nation as vaccinated for polio as we’ve gotten it vaccinated for COVID in a single 12 months. So, hesitancy about new vaccines is type of an American custom. It’s a worldwide factor. We’re seeing it in Europe as properly. They’ve had a little bit extra penetration however they nonetheless have substantial vaccine hesitancy in some nations in Europe and different nations world wide.

The imperatives, then, are clear: Pursue a vax-only technique, and denigrate a key non-pharmaceutical intervention, masks, as a “Scarlet Letter,” shaming those that put on them. I feel I’ll need to placed on my yellow waders for Mr. Klain.

Not everybody is able to take the leap and cease carrying face masks NPR. “Not everybody is able to take the leap and cease carrying seatbelts.” “Not everyone is able to take the leap and begin smoking in public once more.” “Not everybody is able to take the leap and have random intercourse with out condoms.” I’ve by no means skilled two huge, world-class propaganda marketing campaign concurrently. It’s disorienting. What on earth is fallacious with these individuals?

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Two years of COVID: The battle to just accept airborne transmission Al Jazeera

Is Covid Over? No, However World Well being Funders Are Transferring On Politico. Due to course they’re.

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Lengthy Covid now main reason for long-term job absence, say quarter of UK employers FT

The immunology and immunopathology of COVID-19 Science. From the physique: “It’s now clear that COVID-19 can result in long-term illness—sometimes called Lengthy Covid syndrome or post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 an infection (PASC)—in a big proportion of survivors. Though there isn’t any common consensus within the definition of PASC, the American Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention defines it as a variety of recent, returning, or ongoing well being issues that individuals expertise 4 or extra weeks after first being contaminated with SARS-CoV-2. Against this, the World Well being Group defines it as a situation that happens in individuals with confirmed or possible SARS-CoV-2 an infection, normally 3 months from the onset of COVID-19 with signs and that final for not less than 2 months and can’t be defined by an alternate prognosis (Fig. 2). A scientific evaluation of 57 peer-reviewed research with 250,351 survivors of COVID-19 who met their inclusion standards for PASC confirmed that the median age of sufferers was 54.4 years, 56% have been male, and 79% have been hospitalized throughout acute COVID-19 (70). At 6 months, 54% of survivors suffered not less than one PASC symptom. Nevertheless, nonhospitalized COVID-19 survivors who developed PASC have been primarily middle-aged ladies.”

China?

Coronavirus: Chinese language chief Xi Jinping ‘involved’ about Hong Kong’s disaster, as high official warns of ‘protracted conflict’ and urges anti-epidemic work ‘as exact as acupuncture’ and Shanghai to Shenzhen, Chinese language cities rush to comprise Covid-19 wave as new instances cross 1,000 for second day South China Morning Put up. 1,000….

In Depth: The Winners and Losers of China’s Credit score Easing Caixin World

Myanmar

Myanmar Timber Exports Proceed, Regardless of Western Sanctions: Report The Diplomat

EXCLUSIVE UK urges ex-Myanmar ambassador to depart London residence citing junta ‘strain‘ Reuters

Fallout in Southeast Asia of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Middle for Strategic and Worldwide Research

India

India By accident Fired Missile Into Pakistan: Defence Ministry Agence France Presse. Whoopsie!

Ramachandra Guha: How the Gandhi household is actively facilitating Hindutva authoritarianism The Scroll

Tendulkar vs Warne 1998: Grasp’s peak, Wizard’s busted shoulder and a sly curator Indian Specific

Syraqistan

Yemen conflict deaths will attain 377,000 by finish of the 12 months: UN Al Jazeera

UK/EU

Chancellor Olaf Scholz May Save Germany, and Europe WSJ

Chile Reveals How Social Actions Can Win Elections Convergence

New Not-So-Chilly Struggle

All the features — wartime censorship, McCarthyism, arms dealing, Pentagon budgets, look charges, e-book offers — with not one of the pains (aside from Ukrainians):

I wish to be clear: We are going to defend each inch of NATO territory with the complete may of a united and galvanized NATO.

However we is not going to combat a conflict in opposition to Russia in Ukraine.

A direct confrontation between NATO and Russia is World Struggle III. And one thing we should try to stop.

— President Biden (@POTUS) March 11, 2022

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Russian Offensive Marketing campaign Evaluation, March 11 Institute for the Examine of Struggle

FIddling and didgling spherical Kyiv.

Russian warplanes, artillery widen assault, hit trade hub AP. Lviv. “American protection officers provided an evaluation of the Russian air marketing campaign, estimating that invading pilots are averaging 200 sorties a day, in contrast with 5 to 10 for Ukrainian forces, that are focusing extra on surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and drones to take out Russian plane.”

Ukraine conflict: Mykolaiv being shelled by Russian forces, regional governor says – and dropping metropolis dangers opening door to Odesa Sky Information

No Quiet Place Left on Earth The Pill. The primrose path in Mariupol, from one joyously treading it….

Evaluation: Is Russia repeating errors of previous wars in Ukraine? Al Jazeera

Defeating the Russian Battalion Tactical Group (PDF) Nic Fiore, Armor

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The Russian navy intervention within the Ukraine – a macro view The Saker. It stays unclear to me that Russia’s strategic goals as described right here — notably de-Nazification — might be achieved. “A person’s attain should exceed his grasp, or what’s a heaven for?” is all very properly on the private degree….

‘One other Afghanistan, however even worse’: First criticism of Vladimir Putin’s conflict on Russian state TV Night Commonplace. The Commonplace is owned by a “Russian businessman,” Evgeny Lebedev.

Is Biden Seeking to Reignite a Soiled Struggle in Ukraine? Current Go to by U.S. Protection Secretary Lloyd Austin Raises Issues Covert Motion Journal

Episode 205: Ukraine (with Ames) Half 1 (podcast) TrueAnon. Hoisting this one once more; it’s getting older like fantastic wine.

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Ukraine Is a Struggle With out Endgame Eric Levitz, New York Journal

Endgame in Ukraine: how might the conflict play out? FT

How Will Russia’s Struggle on Ukraine Finish? Ross Barkan, Political Currents

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Image Manipulation (1):

You don’t, below ANY circumstances, gotta hand it to Adolf fucking Hitler.

— Lee “Steeltoes and Sweatpants” Carter (@carterforva) March 12, 2022

Image Manipulation (2): The hive thoughts at work:

Made some modifications from the Trib model to make the Odessa Stairs scene from Eisenstein’s “Battleship Potemkin” extra specific.

This can be a cartoon higher understood in Russia/Ukraine 1/ pic.twitter.com/cZalL7bY1b

— Pat Bagley (@Patbagley) March 11, 2022

I curated a tweet on the Battleship Potemkin from ~~Bush Period conflict legal~~ Hero Of The Resistance™ and Atlantic editor David Frum the opposite day and, like clockwork….

Image Manipulation (3):

I’ll fortunately pay extra for gasoline for her. pic.twitter.com/MxUPgUnKYK

— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) March 11, 2022

My coronary heart! Cuteness overload!

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Bargaining Chip? Phenomenal World. Commentary on sanctions:

The financial sanctions imposed on Russia are unprecedented in scope and scale.

However I am undecided they will really “work”.

[THREAD]

— Paul Poast (@ProfPaulPoast) March 9, 2022

Closing Tax Havens Is the True Take a look at of the West’s Resolve Venture Syndicate. So, once more, what’s the Metropolis of London for, if not servicing oligarchs, together with Russian ones? And can nobody consider the actual property?

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Putin sees ‘constructive shifts’ in talks with Ukraine The Hindu

Borrell admits: Promising NATO membership to Ukraine was mistake Al Mayadeen

What Polls A couple of Ukraine ‘No-Fly Zone’ Actually Inform Us FAIR

Fb Introduces ‘Name In Drone Strike’ Button You Can Click on On All Russian Profiles Babylon Bee (ctilee).

Provide Chain

India, Russia in quest of various fee system, transport entry for commerce Container Information

IMO Council choices on Black Sea and Sea of Azov scenario Hellenic Transport Information. “Blue hall.”

Class societies begin pulling out of Russia Lloyd’s Record. On transport and classification societies, see NC right here; Russian ships could be laborious to insure, not less than within the markets Lloyd;s companies.

Our Famously Free Press

This retains taking place:

That is such an incredible and revealing clip. A reporter who covers the Pentagon reads an announcement from the DoD phrase for phrase, after which — when requested for proof — says that the proof is what she simply learn: particularly, the Pentagon denial! Completely what number of journalists assume: https://t.co/XGgQauWSNI

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 10, 2022

So long as the platforms do the Administration’s bidding, Lina Khan can go pound sand:

Full-scale world censorship regime from Google breezily introduced in these tweets. This conflict is being exploited to implement a scheme of data management beforehand unseen within the West, that’s not going wherever as soon as this conflict is over. Determine for your self if you happen to’re snug: https://t.co/A6zX8u2IUL

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) March 11, 2022

That stated, self-censorship is all the time the very best, and that’s in all probability what’s taking place….

Intelligence Group

Categorized US Intelligence Chat Rooms a ‘Dumpster Fireplace’ of Hate Speech, Says Ex-NSA Contractor SpyTalk

Class Warfare

A Nurse’s Story: My True Price of the Pandemic Labor Notes

The Crimson Scare Scarred the Left — However Couldn’t Kill It Jacobin

Faculty City No Mercy No Malice

Why daylight saving time is unhealthy – a neurologist explains The Dialog

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