links for 2024-W35

2024-09-01 is 2024-W35-7*
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TikTok took down a video – included in the above – that called out Kamala Harris*


Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W35-4*

with the hundreds of millions that he collected from Autonomy’s sale / Mike Lynch (!?)*

the probability of our species going extinct in the next 100 years: one in six (!?)*

our species: “a vast collection of sleepwalkers” each with their own dream of selfhood (!g)*

the answer? … the answer is to question, to ask: Who am I? / self-inquiry (!? !g !*)*

politicians don’t care about people who don’t care about politics / h/t Plato (!?)*

former CEO of small US bank gets 24 years for stealing $47m to pay scammers*

a moment of choice: deciding on “a course that led to devastation and destruction” (!g)*
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links for 2024-W34

2024-08-25 is 2024-W34-7*
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quadcopters targeting men in their groins and genitals … entertainment for sociopaths*

“painful having to be face to face with all the hypocrisy” / Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan, MSF*

through indifference and apathy we become “willing executioners” complicit in evil (!?)**

Blinken displays “innocence, amateurism, naivety, and lack of understanding” (!?)*

the oxymoron of “sponsored results”: if they’re sponsored, they’re not results (!?)*


hidden in plain sight: the pivotal role UCL (!?) played in establishing eugenics*

“Daddy sold someone a plant.” They didn't water it, and it died. (!?)* / Mike Lynch

Jonathan Cook: Jonathan Freedland rewrites history to hide an ugly truth about Israel*
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links for 2024-W33

2024-08-18 is 2024-W33-7*
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to set the ’s is just simpler / copy editors obsess over possessive Harris*

image by Mr Fish / Dwayne Booth (!?)*


the world is a dangerous place … “the Pentagon is part of that danger” / Astore (!?)*


Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W33-3*


Aaron Maté’s father and brother on The Stream / Al Jazeera*

… a facilitator enters. She is airily pleasant, divinely certain. (!?)*

without this cosmic coincidence, life would have developed vastly differently (!?)*

Mattias Tranberg: Why are some people happy even as they’re dying?*

given weeks or at most a few months to live, now happier than ever / Simon Boas*
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links for 2024-W32

2024-08-11 is 2024-W32-7*
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since at least 1694 (King William III), wars have generated debt, massive debt, … (!?)*


how Chris Hedges sees the world as we know it – his clearest statement yet

Kamala Harris: willing to afflict the powerless for the powerful (!? !?)*

ten humanist commitments*

narrative for the US – winning subtext: Kamala and Coach Walz (!?) as model parents*

Israel is in a death spiral. Who will it take down with it?* / Jonathan Cook, journalist (!?)

in dogmatic religions, questioners are often condemned … huge blind spots (!?)*


Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W32-3*


John J. Mearsheimer: Who caused the Ukraine war?* / Mearsheimer and Walt (!?)*

“the worst kind of stenography for liars” (!?)*

service in Iraq in 2006 as praiseworthy, as “bringing freedom” or “spreading democracy”*
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links for 2024-W31

2024-08-04 is 2024-W31-7*
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our burning forests are expelling more CO2 than the existing trees are capturing (!?)*


Aaron Maté on current events / interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano 2024-W31-4*

a dysfunctional plutocracy of the superrich, by the superrich, and for the superrich*

defense attorney George Latimer and his client as they leave a court-martial hearing

Seymour Hersh on tracking down William Calley (1943–2024) in 1969* / archived obit*

too big to fail, then too big to jail, then too big to care / Cory Doctorow (!g)*



Caitlin Johnstone cites this tweet by The Economist’s Gregg Carlstrom in her latest*



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