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Title hangup complicates Frontier City progress Adirondack Explorer (Bob). Bob feedback: “NY State requires clear title for ‘donated’ land, to stop what New York state simply did: construct on land with out clear title. NGO’s in the course of the inexperienced washing and actual property growth clarify why title insurance coverage is an efficient factor…..”

Water

We Want New Heroes, Not The Identical Outdated Politicians To Resolve Our Mounting Water Woes The Brockovich Report

There’s Plastic in My Plaque! Eric Topol, Floor Truths

#COVID19

Frequency, kinetics and determinants of viable SARS-CoV-2 in bioaerosols from ambulatory COVID-19 sufferers contaminated with the Beta, Delta or Omicron variant Nature.

From the Introduction:

To our data, there was no systematic massive scale research of culturability of virus in aerosols and whether or not that is constant throughout variants or whether or not that is affected by proximity to symptom onset and with differing patterns of host immunity. Thus, critically, the ultimate proof that human-generated aerosols <10 μm can harbour replicating virus stays largely unclarified.

From the Dialogue:

The frequency of aerosol virus culturability was excessive at ~60%…. A couple of third of sufferers have been in all probability non-infectious, 50% in all probability extremely infectious, and ~20% reasonably infectious by our definitions. These knowledge could also be according to the ‘super-spreader’ speculation… Right here we present for the primary time that asymptomatic individuals can also produce infectious aerosol <10 μm which is doubtlessly suspensible for a number of hours and could also be deeply inoculated by inhalation into the small airways and alveoli of the lung.

And from the Conclusion:

These knowledge help the necessity for prevention of airborne transmission danger utilizing higher air flow in public transports, and indoor environments, particularly hospitals, workplaces and faculties, and the usage of different airborne an infection controls in well being care amenities caring for COVID-19 sufferers.

Droplet dogmatists, sit down. And STFU.

China?

China’s ‘two periods’ 2024: give attention to work-life steadiness urged to cease staff being trapped by ‘invisible extra time’ South China Morning Submit

China will launch large, reusable rockets subsequent yr to prep for human missions to the moon Stay Science

Extra ladies in China selecting singledom as economic system stutters Channel New Asia

Jonathan Spencer, Sri Lanka, and Political Anthropology Journal of the Affiliation for Political and Authorized Anthropology

Organiser of ‘white get together’ in Sri Lanka apologises after backlash BBC

India

Irula Individuals: An Important However Invisible Element Of The World Healthcare System Madras Courier. Superb.

Syraqistan

U.S. Pushing for Gaza Stop-fire Earlier than Ramadan, however Sinwar Seems to Favor Escalation Haaretz. Sinwar = Hamas “chief within the Gaza Strip.”

Why Ramadan Issues within the Israel-Hamas Warfare Overseas Coverage

Complete viewing hours by Arabs enhance by 80% throughout Ramadan Center East Economic system. From 2022, nonetheless germane.

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Ship with Chinese language metal hit by missiles in Houthis’ first deadly assault; two sailors killed S&P World. Saudi-bound (!). Filipino crew.

Houthis: Risk to Telecommunications and Seabed Warfare Internationalist 360°

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Leaked Israel foyer presentation urges US officers to justify battle on Gaza with ‘Hamas rape’ claims The Grayzone

UN finds ‘grounds to consider’ Hamas dedicated sexual violence on October 7 FT. No forensics, no sufferer interviews. And IDF minders?

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Gaza: What are the Village Leagues Israel plans to switch Hamas? The New Arab

‘Carry the burden’: Anger grows in Israel over army exemption for ultra-Orthodox France24

In opposition to Solutionism New Left Overview. Within the quick run, intractability. In the long term….

Ras al-Hekma: How Egypt is exchanging land to unlock Gulf funds The New Arab

European Disunion

Is Greece Ripe for Sortition? Equality by Lot

Nadya Tolokonnikova on Pussy Riot, Life as Efficiency Artwork, and How Anonymity is Her Energy (interview) Colossal

New Not-So-Chilly Warfare

Sending troops to Ukraine: A obligatory however badly offered debate Le Monde

How Western Troops Might Be Despatched To Ukraine And Not Begin World Warfare III 1945. Mercs! Yeah, that’s the ticket!

America’s New Twilight Battle With Russia Overseas Affairs. The deck: “To Prevail, Washington Should Revive Containment.”

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Putin guarantees help to chief of pro-Russian Moldovan autonomous area of Gagauzia Ukrainska Pravda

Russia hits Ukraine’s port of Odesa throughout Zelenskiy and Greek PM go to Reuters

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Surprisingly Weak Ukrainian Defenses Assist Russian Advance NYT (March 2) and Ukraine battle: Japanese residents brace for Russian advance BBC

Zelensky in bind over methods to draft extra troops as Russian forces advance WaPo. If Large Z gained’t throw the final tranche of heat our bodies into the meatgrinder, you’ve actually gotta query his dedication.

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Turkish oil terminal halts Russian oil enterprise amid strain from US: report Turkish Minute

Russia oil fleet shifts away from Liberia, Marshall Island flags amid US sanctions crackdown Hellenic Transport Information

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US pilot warns Kiev regime about F-16’s deficiencies, calls it ‘prima donna’ InfoBrics

South of the Border

Peru’s Prime Minister Otarola resigns over allegations of influence-peddling France24

The Caribbean

Haitian gang chief warns of civil battle if premier doesn’t resign Anadolu Company

Biden Administration

Joe Biden to suggest massive tax rises for billionaires and company America FT

What Brookings students hope to listen to in President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union deal with Brookings Establishment

Rep. Massie bringing Julian Assange’s brother as visitor to State of the Union FOX. A Republican. Naturally.

Secret Service Finds Biden Making an attempt To Dig Personal Grave On White Home Garden The Onion

Digital Watch

Copilot can’t cease emitting violent, sexual photos, says Microsoft whistleblower The Register

Google Says It’s Purging All of the AI Trash Littering Its Search Outcomes Gizmodo

AI pervades on a regular basis life with virtually no oversight. Colorado and different states are scrambling to catch up Related Press. Wherever you encounter a PMC gatekeeper working off a guidelines (and perhaps interviews), that gatekeeper’s place is a candidate for alternative by an AI. Unhealthy as the present programs are, think about attempting to achieve a human and by no means having the ability to.

How Apple Sank About $1 Billion a Yr Right into a Automobile It By no means Constructed Bloomberg. Extra genius capital allocation choices made by oligopolies that may’t ship on product: Boeing, Google, now Apple.

World Warfare II ‘Rumor Clinics’ Helped America Battle Wild Gossip Smithsonian

Our Famously Free Press

“The Locusts Of The Newspaper World”: How Fortress Funding Group Decimated Newspapers Earlier than Gutting Vice Defector. Effectively value a learn on non-public fairness.

Healthcare

HHS response to money circulation issues from Change cyberattack insufficient, suppliers say Healthcare Finance

New Distinctive CMS Code Assigned to React Well being V+C Built-in Cough Remedy Respiratory Remedy. So, loads of upcoding with CMS’s “flu-ification” coverage, the place all respiratory viruses are thrown in the identical bucket? Or am I too cynical? Readers?

Zeitgeist Watch

The Case In opposition to Kids Harper’s

Imperial Collapse Watch

Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions The Hill

Guillotine Watch

Colorado household charged $4,000 in charges after liked one dies unexpectedly, landlord says loss of life meant she broke her lease CBS

Class Warfare

Labor unions finish Starbucks boardroom struggle after progress on bargaining Reuters

Giant Pork Producer Faces Stunning Employee Retaliation Allegations Manufacturing.web

The Flour Warfare JSTOR Day by day

America’s strongest union leaders have a message for capital FT

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