Sorry Developments on the climate crisis have not been encouraging. Greenhouse gas emissions that are supposed to be plunging are heading in the wrong direction. Chris Hedges put it this way: It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So
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Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Chas Danner writes about the arrival of the BA.5 COVID-19 surge in the U.S. Nora Loreto writes about the thousands of Canadians who died of COVID acquired in hospitals – and the many people who continue to get sick from it. Kenyon Wallace and
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Eric Topol discusses the ominous rise of the Omicron BA.5 COVID-19 subvariant. Katelyn Thomas reports that Quebec has joined the jurisdictions demanding that people manage their own risk while depriving them of the information needed to properly evaluate it. Nick Natale, John Lukens
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Monday Afternoon Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Andrew Nikiforuk writes that the decision to stop doing anything to limit the spread of COVID-19 is opening the door for a forever plague. Olivia Bowden and Kenyon Wallace report on the start of a summer COVID-19 wave in Ontario, while Cindy Harnett
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Jim Stanford laments the likelihood that we’re headed for a self-inflicted recession in the name of an arbitrary inflation target. – Acey Rowe talks to about the Craig Desson about the mechanisms used to perpetuate old wealth. And Rupert Neate writes about
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Danny Altmann discusses how infection with COVID-19 tends to produce weakness and long-term illness rather than immunity, while Tom Livingstone likewise notes that reinfection is worse than previously assumed. Hanna Geissler reports on the warning from experts that we’re looking at another new
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The Knocks feat. Donna Missal – Bang Bang
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Katherine Wu writes about the much-needed update to COVID-19 vaccines coming this fall – and the challenge getting people to receive them after months of false messaging about the pandemic being over. – Steven Lewis discusses how the privatization of health care
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Adeel Hassan reports on the dominance of the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron strains in the U.S. Phil Tank reminds us of the folly of the Moe government’s admonition that people should assess their own risk even while actively suppressing the data which could
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Ed Yong writes about the need for people to keep caring for and protecting each other to make up for being abandoned by business-driven politicians in the middle of a deadly and debilitating pandemic. Olivia Bowden discusses the considerations surrounding booster vaccine
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This and that for your Sunday reading. – Geoff Thompson reports on new research showing that the cognitive decline caused by COVID-19 is worse than previously known, while the European Academy of Neurology finds a greater risk of neurodegenerative disorders. And the Economist reports on findings that the vaccine development and
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib Mk. II: The End of the Road?
In the early history of humanity there were a couple of instances where our species came close to disappearing. Yet we hung on and tens of thousands of years later we reached a staggering one billion in number. That’s usually pegged at around 1814. Lo and behold, in barely two
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A brief roundup of news and coverage from the Saskatchewan NDP’s leadership campaign as Sunday’s convention approaches. – There’s been some more media coverage at a high level, including Adam Hunter offering an overview of the campaign; Global News interviewing Harvey; CKRM profiling both candidates; and Katia St. Jean offering profiles
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Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Mary Ziegler and Scott Lemieux both warn of the many other rights in imminent danger due to both the fact of the elimination of abortion rights by the Republican-dominated U.S. Supreme Court, and the excuses made for it. – Dylan Scott discusses how the decision will lead
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It’s really no biggie – if you weren’t in the front seat. Two men died when the Chinese Tesla clone pushed through a wall and plunged three storeys to the street below. “After the incident we immediately began to work with the public security department to find the cause of
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Cannons – Fire For You
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Assorted content to end your week. – Kit Yates weighs in on the work which still needs to be done to avoid further waves of COVID-19. And Marsha Barber writes that we can tell from even the limited information still being released that it’s delusional to suggest we’re out of
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The black robed Mullahs of the Supreme Court of Evangelistan have ruled. They cut their teeth on dismantling affirmative action and voter rights but yesterday they moved into the big leagues. Yesterday, a reliably rightwing court, did what it was expected of them. They struck down New York’s somewhat
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