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Why experts are overwhelmingly skeptical of online voting Ars Technica
Don’t Steal This Book Matt Taibbi (UserFriendly)
“We Are Witnessing the End of Independent Central Banks” Der Spiegel (re Šilc)
The Mathematical Model of Modern Monetary Theory 3 Professor Steve Keen (UserFriendly)
The ‘world’s loneliest elephant’ is finally cleared to find a new home WaPo
#COVID-19
UK police deal with thousands of potential Covid-19 quarantine breakers Guardian (re Šilc)
A Supercomputer Analyzed Covid-19 — and an Interesting New Theory Has Emerged Elemental (Rocky)
Is India missing COVID-19 deaths? The Lancet
How Feces and Other Bodily Fluids Can Help Track COVID Outbreaks Der Spiegel
A Doctor Went to His Own Employer for a COVID-19 Antibody Test. It Cost $10,984. ProPublica (UserFriendly)
RISK FACTOR What’s your risk of catching Covid… from opening your post to going to work or a bar? The Sun
Everyone was drenched in the virus’: was this Austrian ski resort a Covid-19 ground zero? Guardian (re Šilc)
I do not see a single student wash their hands’: teacher’s diary of the first week back at school Guardian (re Šilc)
Brexit
Countdown to endgame on a Brexit deal RTÉ (vlad)
Big Brother IS Watching You Watch
Eight case studies on regulating biometric technology show us a path forward MIT Technology Review
The FBI’s ‘Civil Liberties Training’ Is A Farce American Conservative (re Šilc)
NSA spying exposed by Snowden was illegal and not very useful, court says Ars Technica
With the courts striking down the NSA’s mass surveillance programs and crediting the 2013 revelations,
And new laws having been written to curb abuse both at home and abroad,
As people around the country and members of Congress call for pardon,
How long should charges stand?
— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) September 4, 2020
Julian Assange
UK: Assange extradition hearing will be a key test for UK and US justice Amnesty International
A Special Note on CN Live!’s Coverage of the Julian Assange Extradition Hearings Beginning on Monday Consortium News
Black Injustice Tipping Point
Nearly all Black Lives Matter protests are peaceful despite Trump narrative, report finds Guardian (re Šilc)
Fascism and the Deadlock of Race Paganarch (UserFriendly)
THREAD:
After more than 6 months of watching people get scammed by the #QAnon phenomena, I’m going to make the below thread to explain to you exactly why it is an intelligence agency-backed psyop, what techniques are being used, and why you need to stop people falling for it.
— Suzie Dawson (@Suzi3D) May 25, 2018
Class Warfare
The Privileged Vs. The People American Conservative (re Šilc)
Labor Day Homage to New Orleans’ Rebuilders Capital & Main
1000 Strikes since March 1st – Tampa Fast Food Workers Strike – 100 Days of Breonna Taylor Protests Payday Report<
California Burning
The Former Prisoners Fighting California’s Wildfires Marshall Project
As second heat wave sears California, experts say health impacts will worsen with climate change LA Times
September 5, 2020. #CaliforniaWildfires – 3 on satellite:#CreekFire in Fresno County. #ValleyFire in San Diego County. #ElDoradoFire in San Bernardino County. @DrewTumaABC7 pic.twitter.com/PeCQZCoGZl
— Betty C. Jung (@bettycjung) September 6, 2020
Trump Transition
Trump’s opponents need to take his patriotic card away and portray him as the true enemy of the nation – it can be done Independent Patrick Cockburn
If Trump is re-elected in November, will we be able to absolve the Americans this time? Independent Robert Fisk
America Through Foreign Eyes review: a Mexican take on the US under Trump Guardian (re Šilc)
How Trump Draws on Campaign Funds to Pay Legal Bills NYT (re Šilc)
At Least 4 Boats Sink During ‘Trump Boat Parade’ in Texas, Officials Say NYT (re Šilc)
California neoliberals are so debased, a slumlord like Trump can outflank them on the evictions issue. https://t.co/ujoY1XhfYo
— Yasha Levine (@yashalevine) September 3, 2020
Russia
Lifting Embargo on American Non-Lethal Arms to Cyprus Is Aimed Against Russia Antiwar (The Rev Kev)
India
‘Worst is yet to come’: India coronavirus cases top four million Al Jazeera
Coronavirus Crisis Shatters India’s Big Dreams NYT
After Defence Ministers Meeting, India-China Agree to De-Escalate Tensions The Wire
India implodes its own new Silk Road Global Research Pepe Escobar
China?
2020
Silence of the Dems: Why Aren’t There More Prop. 15 Endorsements? Capital & Main
Donald Trump vs Joe Biden: markets rattled by risk of a messy election result FT
How New York City’s Democratic Socialists Swept the Competition American Prospect (re Šilc)
Why I will not vote for Joe Biden Al Jazeera (UserFriendly)
Biden Needs to Talk About Jobs on Labor Day. And Every Day. The Nation (re Šilc)
Trump’s Pick for Afghanistan Ambassador Wants to Withdraw US Troops Immediately Mother Jones. re Šilc: “go trump go.”
If you’re used to voting Republican, years from now your grandkids will ask what you did in this moment and you will have to tell them if you were a ‘John McCain Republican’ or ‘Donald Trump Republican.’
You can’t be both. The choice is yours. pic.twitter.com/q18qWHERYZ
— Pete Buttigieg (@PeteButtigieg) September 5, 2020
Antidote du Jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
