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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

DAVID DAVIS: Our clumsy quarantine system is destroying livelihoods and making the UK a laughing stock… and it’s based on science as reliable as a weathervane in a whirlwind Daily Mail

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?

Iran looks to China as US sanctions bite FT

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.