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Expertise: I let a child chook nest in my hair for 84 days Guardian (Dr. Kevin)

Photographer Captures Uncommon Glimpse of Siberian Tiger in Its Pure Surroundings My Trendy Met

Levantine overkill: 1.5 million years of looking down the physique dimension distribution ScienceDirect (resilc)

Close by star may clarify why our solar didn’t have sunspots for 70 years PhysOrg (Kevin W)

Thousand-year-old oaks seed experimental ‘tremendous forest’ BBC (David L)

#COVID-19

Science/Medication
How can infections develop this quick when as much as 30% have already been contaminated within the final Omicron wave? Nicely, for starters, BA.2 is shortly rising previous 50% of infections and it’s 30-50% extra transmissible than the primary Omicron wave (BA.1).
— Invoice Comeau 🇨🇦🇺🇦 (@Billius27) March 24, 2022
GM has warned of this being attainable from the get-go (hat tip guurst):
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…that reinfections had been extra extreme than first ones by way of hospital admission—and in addition happen regularly. pic.twitter.com/3QzFssZ0Q1
— Chris Turnbull (@EnemyInAState) March 24, 2022
Asia
Hong Kong exhibiting China methods to reside with the virus Asia Occasions. Kevin W: “ROTFLMAO.”

Local weather/Surroundings

Ice shelf collapses in East Antarctica for first time Axios (David L)
Massive Oil Is No Longer “Unbankable” OilPrice (BC)
Surge into plastic recycling by chemical compounds and oil teams meets pushback Monetary Occasions
Largest American Wind Farm ever Constructed all-at-As soon as Opens in Oklahoma, Saves Prospects $1 Billion over Fossil fuels Juan Cole (resic)

Kim’s ‘monster’ ICBM check kills 4 years of restraint Asia Occasions (Kevin W)

Brexit

“Northern Eire has once more been caught within the backwash of Tory immigration paranoia. Non-Irish EU residents will lose the free, automated entry through the Frequent Journey Space to Northern Eire, which continues to be within the EU Single Market. That could be a breach of the spirit of the protocol” pic.twitter.com/ZBVxMZwWjW
— Brexit Bin 🇪🇺🕊🇺🇦 #BrexitReality (@BrexitBin) March 24, 2022

Previous Blighty

P&O ferry detained over crew coaching issues, says coastguard company Guardian (Kevin W)

Tübingen: Europe’s fiercely vegan, fairy-tale metropolis BBC (resilc)

Not So Chilly New Chilly Warfare

Replace on the Navy Scenario in Ukraine Larry Johnson (Chuck L)
From the French Ministry of Protection (hat tip Moon of Alabama), Ukraine : level de scenario
One month into the Russian particular operation within the Ukraine The Saker (Micael T). Fairly crucial of Russians forces not doing sufficient in the best way of post-Nazi-clearout administration.
Speech of the Head of the Major Operational Directorate of the Basic Employees of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation Colonel Basic Sergei Rudskoy through Moon of Alabama. The English language model of the Russian authorities websites had been accessible once more in a single day (I needed to see if there was a printed full textual content of Putin’s remarks on gas-for-roubles, however the President’s website didn’t have it). So this and different data would possibly nonetheless be accessible from the West, at the very least for now.
Naïve Militarism and the “Classes” of Neville Chamberlain The Racket (dk)
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President Biden and European Fee President Ursula von der Leyen on Decreasing Europe’s Dependence on Russian Power C-SPAN (Kevin C)
Diesel Disaster In Europe Worsens As Austrian Power Big Limits Gross sales OilPrice (resilc)
German Trade Powerhouse Shaken to Core by Warfare in Ukraine Bloomberg
Lessors fear as deadline looms for return of Russian planes RT (Kevin W)
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Washington Helped Set off The Ukraine Warfare American Conservative (guurst)
State Division: Blinken Hasn’t Spoken With Russian FM Since Earlier than Invasion Antiwar.com. Kevin W: “Almost seven weeks? Inconceivable.”
Ukraine Might Flip Into One other Infinite Warfare, Particularly if NATO Decides Extra Than Simply Peace is Wanted CounterPunch (resilc)
From guurst. No backstory, however discover a toddler is shrink-wrapped too:
Uma criança amarrada junto com seu pai, deixadas para morrerem de frio, esse é o governo do @ZelenskyyUa , é isso que os porcos americanos @JoeBiden apoiam!@Nilsonhandebol @matheuspggomes @LeonelRadde #LulaPresidente2022 BOLSOLÃO DO MEC Milton Ribeiro URUCUM Bananinha pic.twitter.com/fCtfRa62PD
— 🅰️NTIF🅰️ LUL🅰️ 13🇷🇺🇧🇷🇨🇺 (@etdeesquerda) March 22, 2022
EU governments are terrorizing journalists Defend Democracy
Is Ukraine Barreling Towards a COVID Surge? Atlantic. Resilc: “Take a look at EU charges, how may they not……”
Cuba supplied medical care to those youngsters freed from value, solely asking the USSR to pay for his or her flights.
Radiation therapy at the moment, for only a single affected person,value greater than the transportation for 100 folks.
Cuba did all of this throughout its worst financial disaster within the 90s
— 𝙇𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙫𝙚 🅉 (@LaborwaveCCCP) March 23, 2022
Ukrainian President Zelensky in talks with Academy to make Oscars look New York Put up. (J-LS). Kill me now

Lula Counters FBI-Backed “Corruption” Prosecution to Lead Brazil’s 2022 Presidential Race Mint Press (guurst)

Syraqistan

Saudi Aramco’s Jeddah oil depot hit by Houthi assault Al Jazeera. Kevin W: “Extra oil shortages?”
UN Particular Rapporteur says Israel is committing ‘pitiless’ apartheid in new report Mondoweiss (guurst)
Yemen guarantees ‘unprecedented surprises’ for Saudi Arabia throughout eighth 12 months of struggle The Cradle (guurst)
Taez, Yemen.
Begin of the brand new college 12 months. pic.twitter.com/S53FyFS2B9
— Pepe Escobar (@RealPepeEscobar) March 21, 2022
Saudi Arabian Grand Prix will go forward after missile assault BBC
We Have New Proof of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anybody Cares Jacobin (furzy). Releasing this in the course of the Ukraine struggle is tantamount to a Friday in August launch.

Assange

An open letter to British PM Boris Johnson: a modest proposal of a prisoner change Gilbert Doctorow. Received’t evah occur as a result of this can be a US drill, and Navalny is barely recognized right here (apart from intel-state-so-mad-they-can’t-see-straight hatred of Assange).

Imperial Collapse Watch

Our Elites Have to Acknowledge that America’s ‘Unipolar Second’ is Over RealClearDefense (Kevin W)
Roaming Expenses: Each Ends Burning CounterPunch (resilc). On Madeline Albright.

Biden

TK Mashup: the Media Marketing campaign to Defend Joe Biden Passes the Level of Absurdity Matt Taibbi

Trump

The “watermarked ballots” principle Ginni Thomas texted Mark Meadows. Slate (furzy)

Supremes

The Memo: Democrats hope GOP overplayed hand in Jackson hearings The Hill

Utah enacts anti-trans sports activities ban after Republican lawmakers override GOP governor’s veto CNN (Kevin W)

Police State Watch

The Met Simply Apologised After Strip-Looking Me. I Don’t Imagine a Phrase of It Novara Media (guurst)

Irate Google employees lash out at execs for slicing WFH workers salaries throughout heated city corridor assembly – whereas these returning to tech titan’s California HQ are livid the BIDETS are being faraway from restrooms Every day Mail. In a attainable zeitgeist shift, not solely no Ukraine tales above the fold, however not that many interval.

Digital Markets Act: EU targets Massive Tech with sweeping new antitrust guidelines CNBC (J-LS)

Why Boeing pilot Forkner was acquitted within the 737 MAX prosecution Seattle Occasions (furzy)

Class Warfare

After generations of stability, a household reckons with demise, money owed and a determined fall from the American center class Washington Put up. Resilc: “+ 23% of People who died within the final 5 years had a internet price of zero or much less.”
% Who Really feel Employer Cares About Their Wellbeing Plummets Gallup
Amazon Warehouses Are Relentless, Harmful Workplaces—however It’s Exhausting to Punish Them for It, Due to Invoice Clinton New Republic (resilc)
USW tries to isolate putting Richmond, CA Chevron employees simply as strike slows west coast manufacturing WSWS

Antidote du jour. CV despatched this as whereas again: