How Long Was the Queue? An Estimated 250,000 People Bloomberg. From the coverage, I would have thought a million. Commentary via alert reader DM, who writes: “Thisbee demonstrating his objection to the ridiculous coverage of the royals!”:
I’m with Thisbee on this one
Queen Elizabeth II’s Final Hearse Is a Jaguar She Designed The Drive. Lucas electrical components?
All hail our postliberal prince The Critic. Commentary:
Establishment projecting it’s own attitude onto everyone else.
I’m now getting a good idea why they had to take down corbyn.
— Mxv02 (@Mxv021) September 18, 2022
European Disunion
EU Unveils Anti-Crisis Plans to Force Firms to Supply Key Goods Bloomberg
Investors Watch for Italy’s Finance Chief: Here Are Some Options Bloomberg
Beware Italy’s ‘Mafia Entrepreneurs’ Bloomberg
The UK isn’t the only poodle around:
Europe busy destroying themselves for the sake of the American empire. Remarkable to watch pic.twitter.com/cJS8Q9Nd8p
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) September 19, 2022
New Not-So-Cold War
Putting Ukrainian battle successes into cold, hard perspective Responsible Statecraft
‘We’re Working 24/7’: Ukraine Keeps Its War Machine Humming Foreign Policy
Ukraine: The CIA’s 75-year-old Proxy Covert Action. Let it never be said the spooks can’t take the long view.
Ecuador reaches deal with China to restructure debt Reuters
Biden Administration
Is a Bidenomics Manufacturing Policy in Progress? Industry Week
Biden administration releases digital asset regulation framework Banking Dive
Biden hits the Covid trifecta Politico
SEC Claims All of Ethereum Falls Under US Jurisdiction Decrypt (Rev Kev).
What Happened to America’s Civil Libertarians? Matt Taibbi, TK News. “The implicit argument of Trump’s pursuers has always been that any rule-bending is worth it because, like Saddam Hussein, Trump was and is a unique danger, an ‘exceptional’ or ‘existential threat.’” “Sovereign is he who declares the exception.” —Carl Schmitt, Nazi legal theorist.
Intelligence Community
Pentagon orders audit of clandestine information warfare: report The Hill
Shortages
A Natural Gas Shortage Is Looming For The U.S. OilPrice.com
Adderall Shortages in US Spread to Two More Drug Suppliers Bloomberg
Our Famously Free Press
Fifth Circuit Upholds Texas Social Media Law LawFare. NetChoice v. Paxton (PDF). The opening salvo:
Never thought I’d say “God bless the Attorney General of Texas” (Paxton), but here we are.
How to Ditch Facebook Without Losing Your Friends (Or Family, Customers or Communities) Electronic Frontier Foundation
Sports Desk
Checkmate JoeBlogs
Ban on saliva to shine cricket balls made permanent by ICC ENCA. Droplet dogma infests cricket authorities.
Viking Textiles Show Women Had Tremendous Power Scientific American
Class Warfare
Dominant Employers May Add To Unemployment In Rural US As Fed Raises Rates International Monetary Fund (!).
AI Art Is Here and the World Is Already Different New York Magazine. Awesome. Now no image anywhere is trustworthy, Silicon Valley, good job.
Beware the rise of the black box algorithm FT. “The factors underpinning the Compas system, used in the US to measure the likelihood of reoffending, are not publicly available because they are treated as company property.” Oh.
Antidote du jour. From Cathy, who writes:
Aloha Yves and NC gang,
$50 check is “in the mail.”
I would be ignorant of just about everything going on in the world today if it weren’t for Yves, Lambert, the other posters and contributors (current & past), moderators, members of the various brain trusts and the commentariat (current & past) of Naked Capitalism. Even worse, if I were dependent on the MSM, I might think of myself as an informed person, when, in fact I would only have been mis- and dis-informed. That said, even my infrequent (and decreasing) ventures into “news” coverage reveal that is has become crazily incomprehensible, if not irrelevant, on almost any subject. (And this is an election year. Ain’t that just great?)NC has provided enough sunlight (even if it sometimes hurts the eyes) that I can attempt to make sense of things and resist the urge to just hide where no one can see me (see attached*).
$50 does not come close to the value of NC to me. So, I hope that I am taking advantage of someone else’s generosity to increase the value of my small contribution. But, really, it would be far better still if the full train has departed without me and faster donors sucked up all that generosity.
*This is our neighbors’ cat, Cyrus. And, yes, that is our carport storage closet, not that of Cyrus’ own family.
Mahalo for ALL you do, even the work that I can’t see,
Cathy
Bonus Antidote: A baby hummingbird sipping from a raspberry (via):
Double Bonus Antidote: I have to include this:
Really cool footage of a capybara running underwater. pic.twitter.com/QfUvITMBtW
— The Depths Below (@DepthsBeIow) September 15, 2022
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/links-9-19-2022.html“>here.
Antidote du jour. From Cathy, who writes:
Aloha Yves and NC gang,
$50 check is “in the mail.”
I would be ignorant of just about everything going on in the world today if it weren’t for Yves, Lambert, the other posters and contributors (current & past), moderators, members of the various brain trusts and the commentariat (current & past) of Naked Capitalism. Even worse, if I were dependent on the MSM, I might think of myself as an informed person, when, in fact I would only have been mis- and dis-informed. That said, even my infrequent (and decreasing) ventures into “news” coverage reveal that is has become crazily incomprehensible, if not irrelevant, on almost any subject. (And this is an election year. Ain’t that just great?)NC has provided enough sunlight (even if it sometimes hurts the eyes) that I can attempt to make sense of things and resist the urge to just hide where no one can see me (see attached*).
$50 does not come close to the value of NC to me. So, I hope that I am taking advantage of someone else’s generosity to increase the value of my small contribution. But, really, it would be far better still if the full train has departed without me and faster donors sucked up all that generosity.
*This is our neighbors’ cat, Cyrus. And, yes, that is our carport storage closet, not that of Cyrus’ own family.
Mahalo for ALL you do, even the work that I can’t see,
Cathy
A baby hummingbird sipping from a raspberry (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2022/09/links-9-18-2022.html“>here.
