2022-03-11

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• Urban spelunking: Flushing out the reason for that lone basement toilet

Horseshit

• They bought a Caribbean island to start their own country

Obit

• Emilio Delgado, Sesame Street actor for 45 years, dies aged 81

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing

• Virtue Signalling: The New Plague | Dr Vernon Coleman

• TikTok stars receive White House briefing on Ukraine

COVID / VaxCult

• People Are Getting Covid Shots Despite Hesitation

• Covid-19 deaths in Mass. will drop by 3700 under state’s new counting method

• Face mask mandates in schools do not lead to lower Covid transmission

• Axios-Ipsos poll: Media habits defined the Covid culture war

• Deltacron Variant Confirmed in Europe

• Antivirals, some Antibodies, work-well against BA.2 Omicron Variant of Covid-19

• Global death toll of Covid-19 more than three times higher than expected?

• China locks-down a City of 9Mil amid a new-spike in Covid-19 cases

• Estimating excess mortality due to the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020–21

  Although reported COVID-19 deaths between Jan 1, 2020, and Dec 31, 2021, totalled 5·94 million worldwide, we estimate that 18·2 million (95% uncertainty interval 17·1–19·6) people died worldwide because of the COVID-19 pandemic (as measured by excess mortality) over that period.

  • Covid deaths probably three times higher than records say

• Germany: New daily COVID-19 infections pass 250,000 for first time

• New Vaccine Findings Pose Tough Questions for Parents of Young Children

• Two years later, coronavirus evolution still surprises scientists and physicians

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Apple's Tim Cook raises concern over LGBTQ laws in the U.S.

• 2020 Census Undercounted Hispanic, Black and Native American Residents

Edumacationalizing / Acedemia Nuts

• America tried exporting woke education – the UK fought back

• Why Government Schooling Came to America

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Elite Dangerous abandons console development: No DLC, no “content” updates

TechSuck

• Linux Plans to Stop Building A.out Support on Alpha, M68k to See If Anyone Cares

Crypto con games

• UK tells operators to shut down crypto ATMs or face action

  • Bitcoin cash machines ordered to shut down in UK

• Russians liquidating crypto in the UAE to seek safe havens

• Bitcoin Was Made for This Moment. So Why Isn’t It Booming?

• The great NFT sell-off: has the digital collectibles craze hit its peak?

Economicon / Business / Finance

• ‘People are going to get real nervous’: Oil shock upends Fed strategy

• BMW Group posts strongest profits in 106-year history

• Will Inflation Stay High for Decades? One Influential Economist Says Yes

• London nickel market shut until next week after loss-making trade in China

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• U.S. eliminates human controls requirement for fully automated vehicles

• US VP Harris Visits Romania as Ukraine War Rages On

  • Watch: Kamala's Awkward Response When Asked About Ukraine's Refugee Crisis | ZeroHedge

  • Harris slammed for laughing after question about Ukrainian refugees

  “A friend in need is a friend indeed,” the veep added before laughing loudly at her own line. After the merriment died down, Duda confirmed that he had asked Harris to help speed up the consular process so Ukrainian refugees with family in the US could stay with them.

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• Biden to announce Friday US will revoke 'most favored nation' status for Russia

• Serious escalation: US believes North Korea testing intercontinental missile

• Toppling the dollar as reserve currency risks harmful fragmentation

World

• Israel's Knesset passes law barring Palestinian spouses

• India Accidentally Fired Missile into Pakistan

  • India says it accidentally fired missile into Pakistan

• Clean your plate, says the state: China is clamping down on food waste

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Global CO2 rebounded to peak level in 2021

Ukraine War

• Satellite images of flooding north of Kyiv, possible sign of ‘hydraulic warfare’

• Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, March 10

  The likelihood is increasing that Ukrainian forces could fight to a standstill the Russian ground forces attempting to encircle and take Kyiv. Russian forces also appear to be largely stalemated around Kharkiv and distracted from efforts to seize that city. Russian advances in the south around Mykolayiv and toward Zaporizhya and in the east around Donetsk and Luhansk made little progress as well in the last 24 hours. Russia likely retains much greater combat power in the south and east and will probably renew more effective offensive operations in the coming days, but the effective reach and speed of such operations is questionable given the general performance of the Russian military to date. There are as yet no indications that the Russian military is reorganizing, reforming, learning lessons, or taking other measures that would lead to a sudden change in the pace or success of its operations, although the numerical disparities between Russia and Ukraine leave open the possibility that Moscow will be able to restore rapid mobility or effective urban warfare to the battlefield.

• Russia-Ukraine War – What Happened March 10

• Bayou Renaissance Man: Something is deeply, dangerously wrong with US biological research overseas

• Biden ‘personally killed Polish jet deal’ despite Republican AND Democrats ramping up calls to give Ukraine combat planes to make Putin ‘fearful of what WE might do’

• Ukraine war: Large Russian convoy redeploys near Kyiv – satellite images

  Satellite images taken by a US firm of a large Russian military convoy near Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, show it has "largely dispersed and redeployed". The convoy was last seen near Antonov Airport, north-west of Kyiv, and its movement could signal a renewed push towards the city.

• The 40-mile-long Russian convoy near Kyiv has moved. Here's what it means for the Ukrainian capital

• Satellite Images Appear To Show Russian Convoy Near Kyiv Has Dispersed, Redeployed | ZeroHedge

• Here Are All The Latest News And Developments From The Ukraine War: March 11 | ZeroHedge

• London Internet Exchange says it's going to stop routing for Russian ISPs

• Russia Makes Crazy Claim That U.S. Is Training Birds To Spread A Ukrainian Bioweapon (Updated)

• Russia to go to UN with its claims of US-backed biological weapon plot

• More Nazi "Black Sun" Twitter is censoring reporting on Ukrainian Nazis on “abusive behavior” pretext

• Biden warns Russia will pay severe price if it uses chemical weapons in Ukraine

  • Ukraine war: Jen Psaki suggests Putin using chemical weapons is not a 'red line' for US | Daily Mail Online

• WHO advises Ukraine to destroy health lab pathogens to prevent disease spread

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• Deadly sniper and a 40-yo Canadian dad (and coder) – heads to Ukrainian warzone

• Bellingcat Open-Source Intelligence: Why Ukraine Is Winning the Information War

• Facebook and Instagram to temporarily allow calls for violence against Russians

• Russian state television goes off message by denouncing Ukraine war

• Russia plans to seize assets of western companies exiting country

• Russia Accuses U.S. of Financing Bio Weapons Research in Ukraine

• US officials believe Ukraine can maintain control of Kyiv for several more weeks

• Russia threatens to abandon American astronaut in space

• WHO advised Ukraine to destroy pathogens in health labs to prevent disease

• Russian Strikes Hit Western Ukraine as Offensive Widens

• IMF No Longer Sees Russia Debt Default as Improbable Event

• Why Belarus is so involved in Russia's Invasion of Ukraine

• Ask HN: Should Microsoft Brick PCs in Russia? | Hacker News

• Video analysis reveals attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant veered near disaster

• Drone likely flying from Ukraine crashes in Croatia

• UN council to meet on Russian claim of US labs in Ukraine

• Pressure mounts for U.S. to do more in Ukraine amid-frustration over Polish Jets

• Ukraine Needs Ground Air Defenses Way More Than MiGs. Here Are the Best Options

• Russia's Misinformation Offensive Impedes Diplomatic Efforts to End the War

• U.S. dismisses Russian claims of biowarfare labs in Ukraine

• If Bombing a Childrens Hospital Isn't Crossing a Red-Line – What Is?

• U.S. Ambassador Tells UN – Russia's Actions in Ukraine 'Constitute War Crimes'

• NATO – Russia using Belarus as a launch-point for Air-Operations against Ukraine

• Growing numbers of firms pull back from Russia

• The Stalinisation of Russia

• Why the US Won't Give Patriot Interceptors to Ukraine

• The Food War

• Drone downed in Zagreb is not Ukrainian – adviser to defense minister

• Ukraine military drone crashes into Croatian capital Zagreb

• Russia moves to ban WhatsApp and Instagram

• Russian prosecutors ask court to name Meta as “extremist organisation”

• U.S., G7 allies may strip Russia of 'most favored nation' status

• China censors online Ukraine debate, bars calls for peace

• Russia widens attacks as new cities targeted

• Ukraine war: People can welcome refugees into their homes – PM

• Boycotts, Not Bombs: Sanctions Are a Go-To Tactic, with Uneven Results

• Russia sees gold in Ukraine's nuclear plants

• Ukraine war: Putin seeks foreign volunteers to fight in Ukraine

• Ukraine says Russia fired at Belarus from Ukrainian airspace to drag it into war

• Captured Russian Pilot Says He Was Ordered to Hit Civilian Targets

• Why companies are abandoning Russia with barely a shrug

• Ukraine says Belarus leader was with Putin at time of 'false-flag attack'

• Soviet Era Mystery drone from Ukraine war crashes in Croatia

• Russia will ban Instagram in 48 hours

• Russia threatens to leave American astronaut in space

• Tech companies race to extract employees from Russia