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• Arecibo telescope won’t be rebuilt

  • HN comments

Horseshit

• The Big Idea: Do governments really control their economies?

Rank Propaganda / Thought Policing / World Disordering

• The Hunt for Wikipedia's Disinformation Moles

Musk

• Fiona Hill: ‘Elon Musk Is Transmitting a Message for Putin’

Trump / War against the Right / Jan6

• New video from Jan. 6 shows Nancy Pelosi vow to ‘punch’ Trump if he marches on Capitol.

• Nancy Pelosi Conveniently Has Daughter Filming On J6.

Pestilence / Pox / COVID / VaxCult

• China's Zero Covid policy damages the country

• Why did he suspect a Covid surge was coming? He followed the digital breadcrumbs

• The Covid baby bump

Media / ShowBiz / Advertising

• Kanye West is buying Parler

  • HN comments

TechSuck

• Scanning phones to detect child abuse evidence is harmful, 'magical' thinking

  • HN comments

Crypto con games

• El Salvador's Bitcoin experiment: $60M lost, $375M spent

• Former FBI director said blockchain is easier to trace than paper money | Hacker News

Economicon / Business / Finance

• Hurricane Ian deals a glancing blow to fertilizer plants

Law Breaking / Police / Internal Security

• Rather than prosecuting car thieves, St. Louis wants to sue Kia and Hyundai for making their cars so easy to steal

• Has the CIA Done More Harm Than Good?

External Security / Militaria / Diplomania

• US will support sending ‘multinational rapid action force’ to Haiti

World

• Hong Kong protester dragged into Manchester Chinese consulate grounds and beaten

• Pope Francis calls for reforms to the United Nations in new book

  • HN comments

• Hunt statement: New UK finance minister scraps tax plan, reins in energy support

  • U.K. Reverses Nearly All Tax Plans to Reassure Markets

• China Delays Indefinitely the Release of GDP and Other Economic Statistics

Russia Bad / Ukraine War

• Russian Angara rocket launches mysterious military satellite: It was Russia’s third orbital launch in less than a week.

• Just witnessed a missile strike on Kyiv city

• 60 years after the Cuban missile crisis Russia's threats reignite Cold War fears

• Russia launches deadly new attacks on central Kyiv using drones

• 'Kamikaze' drones are the latest threat for Ukraine

Health / Medicine

• The “palaeo” diet bears little resemblance to the real thing

• You can now buy hearing aids over the counter in the US

• Sony releases its first over-the-counter hearing aids

  • HN comments

• Why so much drug use in the United States?

Environment / Climate / Green Propaganda

• Salton Sea faces ecological collapse; plan to save it with ocean water rejected

• Alaskan Snow Crab Fishery Closed as Canada, Russia Report Bumper Harvests