2022-06-27

Worthy

• Overcoming Bias : UFOs as US PsychOp

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• Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left a double crater | Hacker News

• South Africa: 22 teenagers found dead in a bar. No one knows how they died

• Basement Fertility - by Bryan Caplan - Bet On It

Horseshit

• Viruses survive in fresh water by ‘hitchhiking’ on plastic, study finds

• A Texas road partially melted as a heat wave scorched the state

• Ask HN: Who is coordinating a plan to make small towns hipster?

• Hackers can bring ships and planes to a grinding halt

celebrity gossip

• Blue-check professor asks if the alleged attack on Rudy Giuliani today really qualifies as an ‘attack.’

Obit

• Billionaire Ray-Ban Owner Leonardo Del Vecchio Dies at 87

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• America Is Growing Apart

• Why we must nationalize Big Oil

• The USA Is Sliding into Fascism. How to Leave

Abortion

• With the end of Roe, the US edges closer and closer to civil war

• Colorado Christian center burned in mostly peaceful fashion.

• In 48 hours of protest, thousands of Americans cry out for abortion rights.

• The Supreme Court’s Faux ‘Originalism’

• Misunderstandings of pregnancy biology that cloud the abortion debate

• The leak, the threats, the violence — reaction to Roe is dark day for nation.

• Troubling calls for Clarence Thomas’ assassination spread across social media after Roe reversed | Just The News

• Tech Companies Won't Say If They’ll Give Cops Abortion Data

• ‘Night of Age’: Grannies Storm Kavanaugh’s Home

• Billie Joe Armstrong says he'll renounce his US citizenship over Roe v. Wade reversal

• The Supreme Court’s legitimacy crisis

• Republicans have hijacked the US Supreme Court. It’s time to expand it

• The No. 1 Period Tracker on the App Store Will Hand over Data Without a Warrant

Musk

• Tesla still dominates U.S. electric car sales

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• CDC Confirmed Post-Vaxx Death From Blood-Clotting Two Weeks Before Alerting Public: Emails

• Can our mitochondria help to beat long Covid?

• 40,000 National Guard Troops Face Unemployment As Vaccine Deadline Imminent

• Ireland's Covid Response, Part 4: The Definition of Insanity

• Monkeypox outbreak in U.S. is bigger than the CDC reports. Testing is 'abysmal'

  • HN comments

• WHO: Monkeypox is Not a Global Health Emergency

• Covid has deepened inequality – in six stark graphics

Culture War / Tribal / Re segregation

• Food deserts deepen urban America’s racial disparities

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Facebook is bombarding cancer patients with ads for unproven treatments

• Company behind Truth Social now under investigation by federal prosecutors

TechSuck

• Take It from a Software Engineer: Big Tech's Monopoly Is Stifling Innovation

Crypto con games

• Crypto Needs to Be Eradicated

• Singapore vows 'brutal and unrelentingly hard' action on dodgy crypto players

• The Rise of Cryptocurrency Ponzi Schemes (2017)

• Crypto-themed restaurant is no longer accepting crypto as payment

• Hedge Funds Are Betting Against Tether as Crypto Melts Down

• 3AC defaults of 670MM dollar loan

  • HN comments

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Cost of Owning a Home Surges Above the Cost of Renting One

• How a Recession Could Weaken the Work-from-Home Revolution

• Ukraine War’s Latest Victim? The Fight Against Climate Change

• The Queen of MMT: Inflation - by Stephanie Kelton - The Lens

• Asia’s Inflation Buffers Weaken

• Wall Street layoffs likely ahead as two-year hiring boom turns to bust

Shortages

• Energy Crunch Concerns Lead Japan’s Government to Call for Reduced AC Use

Gubmint / Poilitcks / Law Making

• ICS Advisory: Vulnerabilities Affecting Dominion Voting Systems ImageCast X

• The remaining Supreme Court cases this term

• Democrats are bankrolling ads promoting fringe Republican candidates. Here's why

• Thomas says Americans 'more interested in iPhones' than 'their Constitution'

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• State Department To Pay 'Havana Syndrome' Victims Six-Figures

• US to announce medium- to long-range surface-to-air missile system for Ukraine

• NATO to boost rapid-response unit from 40,000 to over 300,000 troops in apparent response to Putin's war

  • NATO to have over 300k troops at higher readiness, Stoltenberg says

  • NATO to put 300k troops on high alert in response to Russia threat

World

• Concerns grow that India is ‘back door’ into Europe for Russian oil

• G7 summit: Leaders detail $600bn plan to rival China's Belt and Road initiative

• Austria Returns to Coal Era as Russia Curbs Gas to Europe

• Asia Coal Prices Hit Record on Hot Global Competition for Fuel

Health / Medicine

• Influencers recount harrowing experiences with Daily Harvest crumbles

• Blood pressure e-tattoo promises continuous, mobile monitoring

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Climate change caused extinction of woolly mammoths

• The hope for a global conversion to austerity has failed to stop climate change

• How to rewild a country: the story of Argentina

• Space tourism could undo work to repair ozone layer

• Protecting the ocean requires better progress metrics

• Elitist environmentalists hate the working class.

• One man’s fight to end California’s ban on ferrets

Ukraine War

• Explosive Report Confirms Expansive CIA 'Stealth Network' Of Spies & Commandos Inside Ukraine

• Ukraine latest: Russia to default on foreign debt for first time since 1918

  • Russia defaults on foreign debt for first time since 1917 revolution

  • Russia in historic foreign debt default, report says

  • Russia Defaults on Foreign Debt

• Russia will soon exhaust its combat capabilities, Western assessments predict

• Boris Johnson warns Russian victory in Ukraine would be absolutely catastrophic

• Ukraine to join EU, Russia to send Belarus nuclear-capable missiles

• Russian missiles hit crowded shopping mall in central Ukraine – Zelenskiy