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A solution for food waste in Maine schools: Feed it to the pigs AP
How to build a more responsible corporate capitalism FT. “[T]o prosper well into the future, managers, and those who oversee them, need to take account of the wider health of the societies in which they operate.” Or be seen to.
Yield Curve Flips to Positive Again. Celebrate? John Authers, Bloomberg
Our Shrinking Economic Toolkits Project Syndicate
My Letter to the Editor of New York Times Magazine Sully Sullenberger
Broken Tyler.io (see also macOS 10.15 Vista). As soon as you assume that Apple is strangling the Mac product line while still collecting a premium price everything makes sense.
Syraqistan
Trump’s Syria Blunder Could Bring Order to Chaos Bloomberg. O felix culpa!
Hezbollah and Israel: Deterrence at the edge of destruction Middle East Eye
One Month After Worst Oil-Supply Halt, Aramco Says All Clear Bloomberg
Brexit
Brussels baffled by UK’s ‘complex’ proposals to fix Brexit deadlock FT. I didn’t know “baffled” was in the diplomatic lexicon.
Jeremy Corbyn warns MPs against backing Brexit deal – even if it is put to referendum Sky News
Nobody does class warfare better:
Boris Johnson Britain’s Biggest Crook 😱 After a decade of austerity where’s all the money gone? Into Tory bank accounts in the Bahamas in Panafcknma.. they keep you poor so they stay rich the Etonian oity toity
Mafia 😱 pic.twitter.com/5vRwwzq5RB— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) October 14, 2019
Cash-strapped English cathedrals become temples of enjoyment The Economist
The Koreas
South Korea to Deploy Snipers to Hunt Down North’s Sick Pigs Bloomberg
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite Is an Acid-Black Comedy That Eats at the Mind New York Magazine
China?
Measuring misery Reuters. Hong Kong misery index.
Hong Kong Has Weaponized The City’s Subway Against Protesters Buzzfeed
Why Hong Kong’s secret societies are attacking protesters PRI
Québécois (and Catalans) know where this leads. Fascinating thread:
The Weight of Words – a #HongKong protest art thread
Language has become another frontline of HKers' resistance. Canto and trad. Ch. are used almost exclusively in our art, & increasingly complex new words are created to describe increasingly complex political realities. 1/19 pic.twitter.com/xX2rX1P3se
— uwu *wears a scary mask* 😷 (@uwu_uwu_mo) October 13, 2019
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China auto sales fall again in ‘Golden September’ as turnaround hopes fade Reuters
Why US businesses should be worried about China’s corporate social credit system SCMP (the annotated version).
The NBA-China Disaster Is a Stress Test for Capitalism The Atlantic
Ecuador president, indigenous leaders agree to a truce France24
Ecuador: A Rebellion for the Renewal of Struggle Toward Freedom
New Cold War
Russia’s Energy Diplomacy Brings Geopolitical Dividends The National Interest
Impeachment
Finding a Vaccine for the Impeachment Derangement Virus The American Conservative
Secret testimony aimed at keeping Trump in the dark, says Adam Schiff Bloomberg
The House doesn’t have to be ‘fair’ in its probe. But it should give Trump due process. John Yoo, WaPo. If there’s anybody who “cancel culture” ought to be nuking, it’s John Yoo. But having rehabilitated George Bush, liberal Democrats are now platforming his torturers. “Look forward instead of looking backward,” I suppose (though I’d speculate we have Obama’s failure to prosecute torturers to thank not only for “Bloody Gina” Haspel as ([x] woman) head of Trump’s CIA, but for today’s open alliance between the intelligence community and liberal Democrats. So never say there’s not a silver lining).
Trump Transition
Macabre Video of Fake Trump Shooting Media and Critics Is Shown at His Resort NYT. Real-life Bush administration torture advocate legitimized by liberal Democrat house organ, no problemo. Videos, cue the hysteria.
President Trump and Bernard Arnault to Open New Louis Vuitton Factory in Jefferson County Texas Women’s Wear Daily
A Million People Are Watching ‘Fortnite’ Streamers Watch A Black Hole Ahead Of ‘Chapter 2′ Forbes
2020
Everything You Need to Know About the October Democratic Debate Time
Back in Action at the Debate, Bernie Sanders Has Much to Prove NYT. Sidney? Is that you?
Elizabeth Warren is still Trumpworld’s dream candidate Axios
Obama Legacy
The Obamanauts Corey Robin, Dissent. Strange that Robin couldn’t get this excellent review published in a high-circulation venue.
Health Care
The Fermi Paradox in US Health Care Donald M. Berwick, JAMA. It’s not “waste.” It’s rent.
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
Pandora’s Inbox: The Army and Social Media The Angry Staff Officer
Guillotine Watch
In the rush to harvest body parts, death investigations have been upended Los Angeles Times. The original headline was better: “Body Parts Harvesting Hinders Coronor Autopsies.”
Class Warfare
The ‘Glass Floor’ Is Keeping America’s Richest Idiots At The Top HuffPo
After ICE Raids in Mississippi, Community Is Still Reeling The Intercept (Re Silc). Funny how never arresting employers is a bipartisan consensus.
Situationism À L’Envers? Perry Anderson, NLR. Review of Adam Tooze’s Crash; Tooze’s preliminary response.
Revealed: Google made large contributions to climate change deniers Guardian. Gotta keep those data centers chill…
Capital stranding cascades: The impact of decarbonisation on productive asset utilisation (PDF) Louison Cahen-Fourot, Emanuele Campiglio, Elena Dawkins, Antoine Godin, Eric Kemp-Benedict Vienna University of Economics and Business
A working-class green movement is out there but not getting the credit it deserves Guardian
Antidote du jour (via):
The sunlit uplands…
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
