A 20-Foot Sea Wall Won’t Save Miami – But Living Structures Can
How to rescue Miami…and other coastal cities that will otherwise be largely under water.
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Links 7/29/2021
Cuomo’s Incoherent “Come Back En Masse” Strategy Ignores Delta Dangers
Cuomo, like his Team Dem allies, insists the vaccines will allow him to stay the reopening course when Delta is throwing a big money wrench
Read more...Grassroots Fight for $15 Movement Has Won $150 Billion in Raises for Millions of Workers, Study Shows
The campaign to raise the hourly wage to $15 has been racking up successes, even if the press doesn’t much take notice.
Read more...The Infinite Loop of Empty Direct-to-Consumer Branding
Taking note of a weirdly hollow millenial-focused consumer brand type.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
Read more...CDC Reversal on Masks, Vaccinated as Covid Spreaders, While Boosters Look to Be Coming Late and Not Hugely Effective
If you weren’t worried about Covid, you should be, between rising infections and evidence of CDC incompetence.
Read more...Aducanumab: The Drug That Breaks Medicare?
Biogen plans to price-gouge for the barely-effective Alzheimer’s drug aducanumab to such a degree that it could bust Medicare.
Read more...Tom Englelhardt: Our Empire in Decline
Trying to understand America’s self-and-other-destructive empire fetish.
Read more...Links 7/27/21
Why Are UK Covid Cases Declining?
Doubts about the suddenly improved UK Covid case figures.
Read more...Andreas Malm Versus Property: ‘Because Nothing Else Has Worked’
Is going after property the only viable option for containing climate damage? Andreas Malm thinks so.
Read more...Competition from Online Platforms and the Impoverishment of Newspapers
How the Internet killed newspapers.
Read more...Hubert Horan: The Airline Industry Collapse Part 7 – Domestic U.S. Travel Picks Up but International Demand Remains Crippled
Hurbert Horan explains how major airline operators are still engaging in magical thinking.
Read more...Beware of World Economic Forum/Gates UN Food Systems Summit Trojan Horse
The Gates Foundation and the WEF are steamrolling normal UN processes as part of a campaign to discredit sound agroecology practices.
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