NYC’s Bedbug-Sniffing Dogs Prepare for Retirement The City
‘Canary in the coal mine’: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds Reuters (Kevin W)
Pollution linked to antibiotic resistance PhysOrg (Robert M)
Digital content on track to equal half Earth’s mass by 2245 EurekAlert! (BC)
Google Resumes Its Attack on the URL Bar, Hides Full Addresses on Chrome 86 AndroidPolice
Study discovers how certain gut bacteria enhances cancer immunotherapy New Atlas (furzy)
#COVID-19
Let This Online Tool Fill Your Home With the Annoying Office Sounds You Secretly Miss Mental Floss. Kevin W: “Yes, this is for real. Here is the website-https://soundofcolleagues.com/”
Thailand Elite Card aims to lure expats seeking virus haven Bangkok Post (resilc)
Science/Technology
A look within cytokine storms Nature (David L)
Virus Vaccine Rush Leaves Little Recourse for Anyone It Harms BloombergLaw
Top Russian doctor quits over questionable ethics that rushed through coronavirus vaccine approval Pharmafile
US
The Real Pandemic Gap Is Between the Comfortable and the Afflicted New Republic
Are bread riots coming to America? The Week (resilc)
States Secretly Stockpiling Food for Need Ahead – “To the Roof!” YouTube (J-LS)
Home prices climb to record in coronavirus pandemic as buyers seek space Fox (J-LS)
Surge in Covid cases among children fuels fears over US school reopenings Guardian
Asia
Hong Kong confirms 48 new coronavirus cases as outbreak at European slaughterhouse sparks fears South China Morning Post (J-LS)
Finance/Economy
AMC Movie Theaters Will Reopen On Aug. 20 With 15-Cent Tickets Fortune
China?
U.S. Carrier Group Conducts Operations in South China Sea Bloomberg
Trump sets deadline for sale of TikTok operations in US Financial Times
Google Has Stopped Responding To Data Requests from Hong Kong Authorities CNet
China Sets Trial Run For Digital Yuan in Top City Hubs Nikkei
India
Tagore’s ‘Deenodaan’, Independence and the Gods’ Last Laugh The Wire (J-LS)
Syraqistan
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
Clearview Hires Prominent First Amendment Lawyer To Argue For Its Right To Sell Scraped Data To Cops TechDirt (Chuck L)
Imperial Collapse Watch
US sees embarrassing UN defeat over Iran arms embargo proposal Guardian
Lights! Camera! Kill! Hollywood, the Pentagon and Imperial Ambitions. CounterPunch
Trump Transition
‘Do you regret all your lying?’ White House reporter’s question startles Trump Guardian (resilc)
The implications of this criminal plea is enormous but the media has engaged in a pattern of willful blindness to mounting evidence of wrongdoing in the Russian investigation by FBI and DOJ figures. https://t.co/przBehGnYB
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) August 14, 2020
He does not include 9 million largely preventable foreclosures, getting rid of habeas corpus, and expanding the surveillance state:
What did you take responsibility for? Deepwater Horizon? Droning American citizens and their kids? The lead in Flint’s water? Not closing Gitmo? Jailing reporters? Name one thing? https://t.co/q2FvyFuZXN
— Jeffrey St. Clair (@JSCCounterPunch) August 14, 2020
2020
‘The President Was Not Encouraging’: What Obama Really Thought About Biden Politico (UserFriendly)
The Rise of Kamala Harris Wall Street Journal. Nooners.
Progressives cool on Biden foreign policy The Hill
The first ‘second gentleman’? Meet Kamala Harris’ husband, Doug Emhoff NBC
Forget the Nasty Insults. Trump Plans to Sabotage the Election. The Nation
A Geopolitical Earthquake Just Hit the Mideast New York Times
Post Office
Postal Service warns 46 states mail ballots may not be delivered in time to be counted The Hill
Why is the US Postal Service’s role in November’s election under scrutiny? – Guardian (Kevin W)
Reminder that USPS makes more deliveries in sixteen days than UPS and FedEx combined ship in an entire year
— James Medlock (@jdcmedlock) August 15, 2020
Michigan’s Postal Workers Say the Fix is In Mother Jones (resilc)
Why We’re Planning For An Election Day That Could Last Months FiveThirtyEight
Power to Protect the Mails Article I (dk)
The millions being made from cardboard theft BBC (resilc)
U.S. Probes Former NASA Official’s Contacts With Boeing Executive on Lunar Contracts Wall Street Journal
The New ‘FICO Score’ CalPERS and NY Common Are Using to Push Managers on Diversity Institutional Investor (jpr)
Dr. Ed’s Blog: Another Roaring Twenties May Be Ahead Eric Yardeni. Although my auto industry supplier friend says her sales have rebounded to nearly pre-Covid levels….but this is due largely to Mercedes orders.
Charter Can Charge Online Video Sites for Network Connections, Court Rules ars technica
Facebook abandons broken drilling equipment under Oregon coast seafloor OregonLive (Chuck L)
Facebook Goes After Apple Axios
The Scramble to Pluck 24 Billion Cherries in Eight Weeks New York Times. Resilc: “I thought they just grew in little bags.”
An Alphabet company is designing a road for autonomous cars in Michigan Endgadget (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour. Kris K: “Morpheus, the gentlest cat in the world”:
And a bonus (J-LS):
more snow leopards pic.twitter.com/9V43tgY6Zt
— Nature & Animals 🌴 (@AnimalsWorId) August 14, 2020
And an additional bonus (dk):
You guys remember the COVID infected settler biker zombies invading the land of my grandfathers with their entitlement?
Please leave the tatanka (buffalo) the fuck alone. https://t.co/DuPQGyHiHD
— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) August 14, 2020
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
