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"Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow

RIP and Infected

• USA last week ... 88,700
• USA this week ... 99,805
• Worldwide ... 344,454

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/may/26/stanley-ho-the-billionaire-macao-casino-tycoon-dies-aged-98 "The billionaire and bon vivant was considered the father of modern gambling in China. He had a four-decade monopoly on casinos in Macau and maintained his dominance after its industry opened to foreign companies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cobb American Jazz Drummer. Cobb joined Miles Davis in 1957 as part of the latter's First Great Sextet.

Hitler's Alligator? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(alligator) https://www.rbth.com/arts/2017/02/22/legends-of-the-moscow-zoo-reptilian-rumors-and-killer-crocs_707748

Gregg Bemis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Lusitania#Gregg_Bemis'_salvage_efforts

Gianfranco Terenzi (January 2, 1941 - May 20, 2020) was a Sammarinese politician who served as captain regent on four occasions. He was a member of the Sammarinese Christian Democratic Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gianfranco_Terenzi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captains_Regent

Enn Mikker (5 August 1943 - 17 May 2020), alternatively referred to as Vormsi Enn, was a prominent Estonian esoteric practitioner, sometimes introduced as a "witch" or a "miracle healer". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vormsi_Enn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_esotericism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_neopaganism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uralic_neopaganism

Follow-Up

Witness K and Bernard Collaery and no fucking justice. https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6768177/sad-times-collaery-laments-now-fragile-democracy-as-hearing-held-in-secret/

Things

COVID Commission https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2020/05/16/national-covid-19-coordination-commission-scrutinised/15895512009844 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/23/covid-commission-boss-nev-power-steps-back-at-gas-company-amid-conflict-of-interest-concerns https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-26/nt-andrew-liveris-appointed-economic-reconstruction-commission/12286374

That $60B https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2020/05/23/jobkeeper-60-billion-pascoe/

Corruption, corruption, corruption ... have we got corruption? https://voiceofaction.org/rampant-corruption-goes-unpoliced-as-hundreds-of-billions-fly-out-the-door/

News and media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_Corp_(2013-present) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_journalism

Drew Pavlou https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/may/24/how-a-20-year-old-student-put-the-spotlight-on-australian-universities-cosy-relationship-with-china

Rat Aggression https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/25/us-city-lockdowns-rat-aggression-lack-food-waste

Raccoons https://slate.com/technology/2016/09/raccoons-are-taking-over-urban-environments.html

War Games https://www.ft.com/content/271127af-9b74-4d90-b0f2-4ecca6946206?segmentID=e6160008-420d-8b25-9bf3-42de48bfe773 https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12333269

Shanghai Cooperation Organisation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Cooperation_Organisation

Hypersonics https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-ZF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avangard_(hypersonic_glide_vehicle) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3M22_Zircon

Stacks

Pizza Arbitrage https://themargins.substack.com/p/doordash-and-pizza-arbitrage https://themargins.substack.com/p/zirp-explains-the-world https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/05/why-do-food-delivery-companies-lose-money.html

Grandma's Facebook https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-52758787

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