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Accidental Deliberations: Tuesday Afternoon Links
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Archie Mitchell and Adam Forrest report on the revelation from the UK’s COVID inquiry that now-Prime Minister Rishi Sunak was entirely eager to let people die, and considered it more important to control scientists than COVID-19 itself. And Luke LeBrun highlights how
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Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Elizabeth Payne reports on yet another COVID-19 wave in Ottawa which is far exceeding both the case numbers and harmful effects of seasonal viruses. And Brian To-Dang et al. confirm that the lasting coronary artery impacts of a COVID infection. – Nicole Mortarillo
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Cynical Politics, Propaganda, and Hardening Hearts
I awoke this morning to hear an article in the news about Israel’s latest actions in Gaza. I won’t bore you with the details here. What I did find myself thinking was that even if Israel “flattens Gaza into a pile of concrete rubble”, that won’t solve the problem. It
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Lastlings – Far From Falling
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The dispute between Israel and the Palestinian people has been in and out of the news cycle my entire life. For years, the narrative in the news has been very much around “terrorism”, with the Palestinians being broadly characterized as the perpetrators of terrorism. There is no question that in
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Assorted content to end your week. – Crawford Kilian reviews Ryan Meili’s A Healthy Future as an important account of the insufficient political response to the COVID-19 pandemic, while David Climenhaga calls out the absurdity of Preston Manning’s prescription for disaster in pushing for even to be done to protect
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Al Jazeera reports on the World Meteorological Organization’s analysis showing that greenhouse gas emissions reached yet another new high in 2022. Fiona Harvey reports on the findings in the World Resources Institute’s State of Climate Action report, including the reality that transitional steps are several times
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Francesca Paris examines the cognitive disability facing many younger American adults (among others) as a result of long COVID. – Trish Hennessy discusses the need for a focus on social investments and preventative action to improve public health. – But both Graham
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Possessive cats.
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Cory Doctorow discusses how the concentration of wealth and power in corporate hands represents a threat to individual freedoms and the pursuit of social justice. And Pete Evans reports on new Statistics Canada showing that the gap between the wealthy few and
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: How War In Gaza Should Change The Rules Of War
Current international law on war is largely derived from the fallout of WWII. It’s seen a little bit of trimming around the edges, but for the most part it is the child of WWII. That it has lasted over 70 years with only minimal change is in some respects creditable.
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Effective Altruism
Coming out of the Silicon Valley libertarian sphere, Effective Altrusim is basically little more than 1980s era Reaganomics with a side order of philanthropy to paper over the rotting stench of unmitigated greed. For many people, their first exposure to it probably comes from the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Broadly
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Lisa Miskovsky – Still Alive
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Assorted content to end your week. – Adam Bienkov highlights the evidence from the UK’s COVID-19 inquiry which has demonstrated the utter neglect for public health from Boris Johnson and the political system around him, while Andrew Nikiforuk offers a reminder that the pandemic is still roiling around us. And Tinker
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This and that for your Thursday reading. – Bryan Harris, Steve Bernard and Chris Campbell discuss the danger that a drying Amazon rain forest will accelerate the climate breakdown. – Jordan Omstead reports on Canada’s place of shame as one of the countries looking to increas carbon pollution in the
Continue readingThe Cracked Crystal Ball II: Restructuring AHS – The Wrong Way
I was never particularly impressed with the AHS “Superboard” concept that was instituted in 2009 – it got some thing right (like centralizing procurement), but it also had the effect of gutting the ability for the system to respond to local needs. It effectively turned major decisions into political fodder
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Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Ajit Niranjan reports on the Copernicus Climate Change Service’s findings that 2023 is on pace to be the hottest year on record, with October’s temperatures at 1.7 degrees above the pre-industrial level. – Damian Carrington highlights a UN report warning of the destructive insistence of
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This and that for your Tuesday reading. – Peter Zimonjic reports on the latest audit from the federal environment commissioner showing that Canada is falling far short of meeting its greenhouse gas emission reduction commitments. And Brendan Haley discusses how a focus on a transition to heat pumps could provide
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