Mangrove loss has fallen dramatically, but the forests are still in danger WaPo. On mangroves, see NC here.
Avian botulism kills 40,000 birds, threatens millions more in Klamath Refuge San Francisco Chronicle (dk).
Rio Backed CEO After Blasts, Then Watchdog Investors Revolted Bloomberg
Frederick Soddy’s Debt Dynamics Economics from the Top Down
West Coast Wildfires
Video shows Clackamas County deputy fueling ‘antifa’ arson rumors Portland Tribune
Roaming Charges: Under Furious Skies Jeffrey St. Clair, Counterpunch (Carolinian).
44-year-old man charged with arson in an Oregon fire The Hill
#COVID19
Johns Hopkins researchers question controversial study linking Sturgis rally to COVID-19 spike CBS
Oxford and AstraZeneca resume coronavirus vaccine trial (free) FT
Nearly Half of Russians to ‘Never’ Vaccinate Against Coronavirus – Poll Moscow Times
Anders Tegnell and the Swedish Covid experiment (free) FT
Trump-Appointed CDC Officials Reportedly Meddled With Coronavirus Reports Forbes
Emails Raise Suspicions as to Whether the Bowser Administration Delayed and Finessed COVID-19 Data Before Moving Into Phase Two Washington City Paper
A Dentist Sees More Cracked Teeth. What’s Going On? NYT
From La Jetée to Twelve Monkeys to COVID-19 JSTOR Daily
Brazilian state of Bahia to test Russia’s vaccine, plans to buy 50 million doses Reuters
China?
Chinese Military Calls US Biggest Threat to World Peace Bloomberg
US-China row over detention of 12 Hongkongers in Shenzhen escalates, as families seek city government’s help to bring group back South China Morning Post
India
Delhi Police Spreads Riots ‘Conspiracy’ Net, Drags In Eminent Academics and Activists The WIre
As Bali attempts to forge a new era, we need to stop spinning fables about it and listen to Balinese TravelFish
Syraqistan
A new Great Game has begun in the Eastern Mediterranean Middle East Eye
The Growing Competition Between Africa’s Seaports Maritme Executive
Brexit
Brexit: Boris Johnson, state aid and a ‘rushed’ treaty RTE (PD). “At one point, facial recognition for sheep was being considered along Northern Ireland border” [puts head in hands].
UK/EU
Radically transforming the EU economy – and how to finance it Anne Petttifor, Progressive Post
Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn; This Land: The Story of a Movement – review Guardian
RussiaGate
On Blacklists and Russia “Hacking” American Democracy Yasha Levine, Immigrants as a Weapon
Rurality, Drug Trafficking, and Violence Noria
Trump Transition
Virus bill blocked in Senate as prospects dim for new relief Associated Press
Trump announces ‘peace deal’ between Bahrain and Israel BBC. Again, if Obama had done this, the drums would be pounding to give him a second Nobel.
The Big Corporate Rescue and the America That’s Too Small to Save Pro Publica
2020
How Trump Could Win The New Yorker
Project Lincoln:
The full @tooningout segment on the shameless grifters at @ProjectLincoln — as they interview the supremely grotesque @TheRickWilson (who raised $65k on a @GoFundMe for a film not delivered) — is really one of the funniest things you’ll ever see. #Resist https://t.co/thjOO93QO0
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 11, 2020
Fact checking Biden’s claims on the trade deficit, auto bailout and his yearly income CNN
What If Democrats Just Promised to Make Things Work Again? The New Republic
State Level Races Offer Democrats Chance for Policy Wins in 2020 Teen Vogue
Rhode Island just got hit with a massive wave of progressive primary victories Alternet (jo6pac).
Assange
The Idea Behind WikiLeaks: Julian Assange as a Physics Student Consortium News
US demands hinder Spanish probe into alleged CIA ties to security firm that spied on Assange El Pais
Realignment and Legitimacy
How Conspiracy Theories Are Shaping the 2020 Election—and Shaking the Foundation of American Democracy Time. Mom’s groups:
I can’t tell you how many of my mom friends and friends from high school believe this now and will be voting for Trump here in southern CA. I’m not talking 10, I’m talking hundreds of them.
— A L E X I S H A I N E S (@Itsalexishaines) September 11, 2020Readers?
QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey Logically (followed by Bloomberg).
12 Step American Collapse Program with Revolutions podcast host Mike Duncan (podcast) The Katie Halper Show. Nice get for Halper. Duncan makes a clear case against Trump, the man, the named individual. And then we get material like this:
[05:49]I don’t think that people ever recovered from 2008, and I think that then [they] have just been leveled by this second meteor strike. You know we had one, we were wobbling, and then we got blasted again by Covid.
Oddly, or not, there are no named individuals responsible for the failed “recovery” from 2008. (Also, if the 12 “steps” were listed, I missed on on my first listening.)
Crescendo 2020: ‘There’s No Reason Whatsoever To Expect Anything Resembling Calm’ Heisenberg Report (Re Silc).
10 Ways Trump Is Becoming a Dictator, Election Edition Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Police State Watch
Wall Street Is Making Millions Off Police Brutality Vice. From June, still germane. “Police brutality bonds.”
Our Famously Free Press
Tape shows: ethically, CNN chief a little shaky Matt Taibbi
Sports Desk
Baseball’s One-Year-Only Playoff Race Is Getting Weird Defector. Deadspin’s fired staff. Give the good guys some clicks. And about those playoffs:
I’d like to nominate cardboard humans watching baseball in a dystopian hell scape for photo of the year, thanks. pic.twitter.com/DeQmFjuM45
— 🇨🇦 Marshall Ferguson 🏈 (@TSN_Marsh) September 10, 2020
Guillotine Watch
Louis Vuitton Launches $961 Covid Face Shields Vanity Fair (Re Silc). Side coverage looks terrible. Glad they’re trying, though!
Class Warfare
An extraordinary summer of crises for California’s farmworkers National Geographic
A pandemic, a motel without power and a potentially terrifying glimpse of Orlando’s future WaPo
See Spot Scan: Ford Deploys Robot Dog WSJ
Symbolic Survival and Harm: Serious Fraud and Consumer Capitalism’s Perversion of the Causa Sui Project British Journal of Criminology. “It will be suggested that the acts of economic predation perpetrated by the men in the study represent attempts to escape anxiety through the avoidance of symbolic annihilation.” If this is true, there’s rather a lot of fraud going on just now. More than usual.
“Liberalism’s future now rests on a single question” New Humanism
What’s Wrong with Social Science and How to Fix It: Reflections After Reading 2578 Papers Fantastic Anachronism
Weekend History: When Fearsome ‘Pirate Cats’ Roamed the Upper West Side West Side Rag. From 2016, still germane.
Reggae Artiste ‘Toots’ Hibbert Has Died Jamaica Gleaner. Still germane:
Millions, billions around the world would still feel every word of the lyrics.
Antidote du jour (via)
Bonus antidote (SV):
I believe this is SV’s extremely literate cat, Hoople.
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
