Chicken Track of the Day
Sage Thrasher, Gunnison, Colorado, United States. Twelve minutes! I assume folks grow to be fascinated with the mimicry and marvel what is going to come subsequent?
In Case You Would possibly Miss…
- Kamala’s speeches on the economic system (transcripts).
- Election integrity.
- Negotiations restart at Boeing, as suppliers and prospects start to really feel ache.
- Potential excellent news on the nasal spray entrance (albeit a mouse research).
Politics
“So lots of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in actual fact a rational administration of symbolic capital.” –Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles
Trump Assassination Makes an attempt (Plural)
“Biden pretends to squish a bug on the desk on The View after Whoopi Goldberg in contrast Trump to an insect following two assassination makes an attempt” [Daily Mail]. • Forty days to go, so there’s nonetheless time for the sunshine bulb to go on in some lone gunperson’s mind….
Wowsers:
Prepared for a mindf**ok?
This video features a exact POV rendition of the golf course assassination try on Trump
It’s 2 1/2 years outdated https://t.co/eUr52mziLk
— Walter Kirn (@walterkirn) September 25, 2024
Unsure what to make of this….
2024
Lower than fifty days to go!
Friday’s RCP Ballot Averages:
As soon as once more, the Democrats should be very puzzled to have digital unanimity throughout the political spectrum that “Harris is the one,” and but the election is a digital tie. How can this be? Maybe a number of extra Republicans, generals, or celebrities will flip the tide.
* * * Kamala (D): “FULL TRANSCRIPT: Kamala Harris’ Speech At Pittsburgh, PA (Sept. 25, 2024)” [The Singju Post (venue)].
And I promise you I might be pragmatic in my method. I’ll interact in what known as “daring, persistent experimentation.” As a result of I consider we shouldn’t be constrained by ideology and as an alternative ought to search sensible options to issues. Real looking assessments of what’s working and what’s not. Making use of metrics to our evaluation. Making use of details to our evaluation. And keep centered, then, not solely on the crises at hand, however on our large targets. On what’s greatest for America over the long run.
And a part of being pragmatic means taking good concepts from wherever they arrive. Pay attention, you all know my profession. Andrea shared it with you. I’m a religious public servant. I additionally know the restrictions of presidency. I’ve all the time been and can all the time be, and be clear about this, I’ve all the time been and can all the time be a robust supporter of employees and unions. I additionally consider we have to interact those that create many of the jobs in America.
Look, I’m a capitalist. I consider in free and honest markets. I consider in constant and clear guidelines of the highway to create a steady enterprise surroundings. And I do know the facility of American innovation. I’ve been working with entrepreneurs and enterprise homeowners my entire profession.
And I consider firms have to play by the foundations. Respect the rights of employees and unions and abide by honest competitors. And in the event that they don’t, I’ll maintain them accountable. And if anybody has a query about that, simply have a look at my file as Lawyer Common.
Have a look at my file in California, taking up the massive banks for predatory lending.
For Kamala’s file on taking up large banks, see NC right here. On the mortgage settlement after the Crash, see NC right here. And in any case, in the event you consider Biden now, Kamala was virtually co-president throughout his total time period. So why are we solely listening to about this now, 40 days earlier than the election? (And when did folks begin saying “Franklin Roosevelt” as an alternative of “FDR”? Beneath Obama, wasn’t it? It all the time bugged me that now we omit “Delano,” too.
Kamala (D): “Learn the transcript of Kamala Harris’ unique solo MSNBC interview” [MSNBC]. The beginning:
RUHLE: Madam Vice President, you simply laid out your financial imaginative and prescient for the long run.
HARRIS: Sure.
RUHLE: However, nonetheless, there are many People who don’t see themselves in your plans. For many who say, these insurance policies aren’t for me, what do you say to them? [what a banal softball –lambert]
HARRIS: Nicely, if you’re hardworking, in case you have the desires and the ambitions and the aspirations of what I consider you do, you’re in my plan.
I’ve to inform you, I actually love and am so energized by what I do know to be the spirit and character of the American folks. Now we have ambition. Now we have aspirations. Now we have desires. We will see what’s doable. Now we have an unbelievable work ethic.
However not everybody has the entry to the alternatives that enable them to realize these issues. However we don’t lack for these issues. However not everybody will get handed stuff on a silver platter. And so my imaginative and prescient for the economic system — I name it a chance economic system — is about ensuring that every one People, wherever they begin, wherever they’re, have the flexibility to truly obtain these desires and people ambitions, which embrace, for middle-class households, simply having the ability to know that their laborious work permits them to get forward, proper?
I believe we will’t and we shouldn’t aspire to have an economic system that simply permits folks to get by. Individuals need to do extra than simply get by. They need to get forward. And I come from the center class.
The remainder of it’s in substance the identical because the Pittsburgh speech, besides (naturally) no point out of FDR (Pittsburgh being a union city). Commentary:
Sturdy interview for @KamalaHarris simply now w/@SRuhle on @MSNBC. Good, detailed dialog on the economic system. The @VP made case for her plan and the values behind it.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) September 25, 2024
I believe Axelrod is stretching it with “dialog.” (Right here the Every day Mail makes use of “the way you gonna pay for it” as a gotcha; NC readers find out about MMT, so there’s no gotcha right here. Kamala doesn’t know, and so slithers off into “fair proportion” foofra).
Kamala (D): “Large advert spending pours into defining Harris within the ‘blue wall’ battlegrounds” [NBC]. The deck: “Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are absorbing greater than half of the presidential campaigns’ advert spending, with each side attempting to fill in voters’ perceptions of Harris.” And: “Harris’ marketing campaign is working an equal mixture of optimistic and unfavorable advertisements on broadcast TV, in response to the monitoring agency AdImpact, whereas former President Donald Trump’s marketing campaign is working nearly completely unfavorable and distinction advertisements — an indication of how centered voters and each campaigns are on defining Harris as she runs in opposition to a three-time candidate who has impressed entrenched views amongst American voters. ‘It’s easy: Everybody has made up their thoughts about Donald Trump. Trump’s numbers are the stickiest issues in politics; they don’t transfer,’ stated Alex Conant, a Republican strategist and presidential marketing campaign veteran. ‘What’s moveable is Harris — we’ve seen plenty of motion in her numbers since she entered the race,’ Conant continued, noting the dramatic enhance in Harris’ favorability numbers since she took over because the Democratic Celebration’s presidential candidate. ‘And there are plenty of voters who haven’t made up their minds about her as a result of she’s new to the marketing campaign, so there’s a capability to introduce new info. That’s why you’re seeing Trump pounding unfavorable details about Harris and Harris feeling the necessity to give optimistic info to push again.’ The development is much like how the 2 events dealt with the identical interval within the 2020 election — when Joe Biden ran a considerably increased share of distinction and optimistic advertisements in contrast with Trump, who relied totally on distinction and unfavorable advertisements however nonetheless ran a small share of optimistic spots.”
* * * Trump (R): “Trump Ought to Be Operating Away With the Election. Why Isn’t He?” [The Free Press]. “With solely a handful of interviews and a few assist from a sympathetic press corps, Harris has shed her picture as essentially the most unpopular vp in latest historical past and rebranded as a viable candidate. However extra to the purpose, Trump has allowed her to rebrand…. As an alternative of working laborious to persuade voters Harris is unfit for the highest job, the Trump marketing campaign has wasted an excessive amount of time on two issues: silly stuff and dangerous stuff. First, the silly. On Saturday, Trump posted a video on Fact Social, hawking silver ‘Trump Cash.’ … Final week he paid a go to to a bar in Greenwich Village, the place he purchased a burger with cryptocurrency (all a part of a Trumpworld crypto push). None of this screams ‘I’m laser-focused on delivering victory in November. Second, the dangerous. Hanging out with nutso racist troll Laura Loomer. Preemptively blaming the Jews if he loses in November. Indulging an unproven, sinister fantasy about pet-eating Haitian migrants in Ohio. Greenlighting J.D. Vance’s onstage look with Tucker Carlson final Saturday—simply weeks after Carlson interviewed a Nazi apologist [Darryl Cooper] who he known as the ‘greatest and most sincere widespread historian working in the USA in the present day.’ All of this—the silly and the dangerous—hurts Trump’s reelection probabilities. (Although no less than the Trump marketing campaign was good sufficient to snub Mark Robinson from a latest North Carolina rally after reviews revealed the gubernatorial candidate calls himself a ‘black Nazi’ on porn web sites.) All of that is to say: We’re a good distance from Butler, Pennsylvania. Within the aftermath of the Trump assassination try, folks across the former president described him as a modified man.” • Yep. As I identified on the time, Trump had the chance to “flip” from a “Heel” right into a “Face” (which he tried for a second initially of his acceptance speech on the Republican Nationwide Conference, however he didn’t persist in it). There’s nonetheless an opportunity for him to make a populist flip within the subsequent 40 days, as a result of IMNHSO Kamala’s help can not however be shallow within the newly persuaded, however the bell will quickly sign the tip of the spherical.
Trump (R) (Smith/Chutkan): “The fruits of Jack Smith’s 2-year investigation into Trump will land on Tanya Chutkan’s desk in the present day” [Politico]. “On Thursday, Smith’s prosecutors are scheduled to undergo Chutkan a 180-page file distilling their case in opposition to Trump — the fruits of a two-year investigation that included secret grand jury testimony from former Vice President Mike Pence and former chief of workers Mark Meadows. It’s doubtless the particular counsel’s ultimate likelihood earlier than Election Day to put out his case for why Trump deserves to be placed on trial and convicted. The submitting — a authorized transient accompanied by supporting reveals — is anticipated to comprise never-before-seen proof about Trump’s efforts to subvert the final election. It may embrace snippets of interviews prosecutors carried out with a few of Trump’s prime advisers, paperwork Smith procured from the Nationwide Archives and a log of Trump’s Twitter exercise as violence raged [oh come on] on Jan. 6, 2021. However prosecutors will not be going to file these paperwork publicly. They have to first submit them ‘underneath seal’ to Chutkan, who will then resolve how a lot of the proof is match for public launch. It’s all a far cry from the dramatic courtroom showdown Smith’s staff had been making ready for a yr in the past, after they hoped to carry the case shortly earlier than a jury. However it’s more likely to embrace damaging particulars for Trump simply weeks earlier than Election Day. Trump’s attorneys oppose any disclosure of the proof that prosecutors have amassed, arguing that it quantities to interference within the ultimate weeks of the marketing campaign. They’ve repeatedly known as for your complete case to be dismissed in gentle of the Supreme Courtroom’s July 1 resolution granting broad immunity for official presidential acts. However of Smith’s transient is to advise Chutkan on how a lot of the case can proceed in gentle of the immunity ruling. Prosecutors are anticipated to argue that almost all of Trump’s allegedly felony acts had been in his capability as a politician, not as president — or that any purportedly official acts will not be entitled to immunity.” • “The very function” my Candy Aunt Fanny.
Trump (R): “Watchdog report on Justice Division’s Jan. 6 response gained’t be executed by election” [Politico]. • How odd.
Trump (R): “In blow to Trump marketing campaign, Nebraska gained’t undergo with electoral vote change” [Scripps]. “In a blow to the Republican social gathering and its presidential nominee, Donald Trump, Nebraska’s governor stated Tuesday he wouldn’t name a particular session to alter how electoral votes within the state are awarded. The choice follows a key state senator saying he wouldn’t help the trouble. Former President Trump and his allies have been pressuring the state to alter its 32-year legislation that awards electoral votes by congressional district as an alternative of a statewide vote, in any other case referred to as a winner-take-all system. In winner-take-all states, the candidate successful the favored vote receives the entire state’s electoral votes. However in Maine and Nebraska, the state’s widespread vote winner receives two electoral votes, and the favored vote winner in every congressional district receives one electoral vote. Nebraska has three congressional districts, and the Republican social gathering believes their candidate will win two together with the 2 electoral votes coming from the state’s widespread vote. But it surely’s Nebraska’s 2nd District that’s pushed the social gathering to rally for a change within the electoral system, because the Omaha-based seat has tilted blue lately and could possibly be the one electoral vote to resolve a 269-269 tie.” • However no.
* * * “It’s not simply Springfield, Haitians being flown to small cities nationwide” [Center Square]. Be aware lack of company in “being flown.” This continues all through the story. Springfield, MO: “‘resulting from an inflow.’” Sylacauga, AL: “being dropped into their neighborhood.” Espresso County, TN: “are scheduled to reach.” Charleroi, PA: “has grown.” Del Rio, TX: “descended on.” Is it an excessive amount of to ask who, if anybody, organized the flying, the inflow, the arrival, the expansion, and the descent? Absolutely it might not have been laborious for the author to have included this info within the story. Is there a Haitian refugee program, as for the Hmong? (For instance, a number of Somalis selected Lewiston, ME due to low price of residing and low cost land, regardless of the snow. Extra adopted. The method was natural.)
* * * “The Undecided Voters Are Not Who You Suppose They Are” [Ron Brownstein, The Atlantic]. “When most individuals take into consideration a voter nonetheless attempting to make up their thoughts, they in all probability think about an individual who is extremely more likely to vote however unsure whether or not to help Harris, Trump, or a third-party candidate. Each political events, nevertheless, are extra centered on a special—and far bigger—group of undecideds: potential voters who’re extremely more likely to help Harris or Trump, however uncertain if they may vote in any respect. Campaigns sometimes describe the primary group of dependable however conflicted voters as persuadable; they often describe the second group as irregular voters. Persuadable voters get essentially the most consideration from the media, however campaigns acknowledge that irregular voters can loom a lot bigger within the end result—particularly in presidential elections when extra of them in the end take part.” And: “Among the many operatives and strategists that I spoke with in each events, the perfect estimate is that simply 4 to 7 % of voters within the battleground states are such persuadables—folks extremely more likely to vote however genuinely unsure about whom they may help.” However: “Catalist, a Democratic voter-targeting agency, shared with me knowledge hardly ever disclosed in public, primarily based on its modeling, that try and quantify the variety of rare voters in every of the swing states who lean strongly towards Harris or Trump. That analysis reveals, first, that throughout the battleground states white folks with no school diploma routinely account for 70 % or extra of the Trump-leaning nonvoters; and, second, that folks of shade make up a giant majority of Harris’s potential targets throughout the Solar Belt battlegrounds, in addition to in Michigan. Within the three large Rust Belt battlegrounds—Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin—working-class white girls with no school diploma, Catalist’s projections present, additionally make up a big share of the voters who lean Democratic however don’t vote recurrently. Web page Gardner, a Democratic knowledgeable on voter turnout, informed me. “Persons are discouraged about their lives and really feel … I’m attempting actually laborious and I’m not getting wherever.” In opposition to that backdrop, she stated, the problem for Democrats is ‘giving them some form of company to really feel like my vote issues, as a result of lots of people really feel that nobody is listening to them.’” • This accords nicely with alert reader ChrisRUEcon’s remark yesterday: “These ‘undecideds’ are doubtless Chris-Arnade-Dignity adjoining” (for “undecided,” learn “irregular”). When you squint, you may see Kamala attempting to make the irregular voters consider their vote counts; I’m unsure her logos, ethos, and pathos are as much as the duty, although. Trump taking on a MacDonald’s grill would blow that verbiage away.
“Happiness swings votes – and America’s present temper may scramble expectations of younger and outdated voters” [The Conversation]. “Analysis worldwide signifies that blissful folks want preserving issues the identical, they usually are likely to vote for the incumbent in political elections. Voters who aren’t as blissful are extra open to anti-establishment candidates, seeing the federal government as a supply of their discontent. These findings could assist to clarify the Democratic Celebration’s waning help amongst younger folks…. The altering political preferences of sad younger People are significantly revealing when put next with these of older People, who’ve been getting happier lately…. The 2024 presidential candidates appear to have intuited this. The Harris marketing campaign is all about “pleasure” and celebrating happiness and neighborhood. The Trump marketing campaign adopts an angrier tone and a grievance-filled method.” • Change (not blissful) vs. Extra of The Similar (blissful). In some way, I don’t assume the irregular “dignity” voters (see above) are blissful. However will they be sad sufficient to get off the sofa?
Democrats en Déshabillé
“NYC Mayor Eric Adams indicted on 5 federal public corruption prices, together with bribery and wire fraud” [CNN]. Nicely, a lot for Black cop with a million-watt smile. Extra: “The indictment alleges unlawful actions stretching again to 2014, from when he was Brooklyn Borough president. ‘For almost a decade, Adams sought and accepted improper priceless advantages, reminiscent of luxurious worldwide journey, together with from rich international businesspeople and no less than one Turkish authorities official in search of to achieve affect over him,” the indictment reads. Particularly, Adams acquired luxurious journey and different advantages from a Turkish official and later in change pressured the NYC Fireplace Division to open a Turkish consular constructing with no hearth inspection, the indictment says. The mayor ‘engaged in a long-running conspiracy,’ Damian Williams, the US Lawyer for the Southern District of New York, stated Thursday. ;Mayor Adams took these contributions despite the fact that he knew they had been unlawful,’ Williams stated. “He knew these contributions had been makes an attempt by a Turkish authorities official and Turkish businessmen to purchase affect with him.’ Adams stated Thursday morning he was not shocked by the costs and inspired the general public to “wait to listen to our protection earlier than making any judgments,” including he wouldn’t be altering his day-to-day obligations in gentle of the indictment.” • Turkey? Why?!
Realignment and Legitimacy
“The Potential Nationwide Safety Penalties of Unplanned Home Navy Missions” [Lawfare]. The headline, mixed with the “Lawfare” venue, offers me pause. What missions have they got in thoughts, precisely? It reads like Imperial bafflegab, but when I needed to translate this concluding paragraph into one thing extra menacing, it might not be laborious to do: “Many interrelated elements needs to be fastidiously examined when contemplating using the navy. The protection mission and core capabilities developed to hold it out usually don’t correspond to the talents wanted to carry out home duties. Critical and sure dangerous penalties circulate from diverting the armed forces and the sources that help them to missions extra appropriately tasked to home companies. These penalties embrace distracting the navy from its most important perform—deterring and if essential preventing America’s wars—and blurring the traces between what civilians are educated and resourced to do and what’s anticipated from knowledgeable navy.”
“Speedrunning The Historical past Of The Intelligence State” [Mike Benz, RealClearPolitics]. Good analysis, and you need to think about studying in full. Right here’s the way it begins out: “We’ll form of speed-run the important historical past all the best way as much as the current, however we’re going to begin within the yr 1948. That is the form of “12 months Zero” of the founding of the intelligence capacities of the U.S. authorities. As an alternative of studying what you’d discover in an bizarre historical past e-book, we’re going to begin with a doc that I’m curious if anybody has ever seen, known as “The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare.” Do you know that George Kennan, in 1948, wrote this memo known as ‘The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare’? George Kennan is named a godfather determine of American diplomacy and the Central Intelligence Company. He was well-known for his ‘lengthy telegram’ and was the chief strategist of the containment technique in opposition to the Soviet Union through the Chilly Conflict. However earlier than all that, when all of this was getting began, he penned this top-secret memo, which was not declassified for 60 years. It was declassified in 2005, and I believe it helps elucidate the story as we’re going to proceed right here. We’re going to undergo this memo, however I need to give some context first. “The Inauguration of Organized Political Warfare” was written simply 12 days after the Central Intelligence Company did its first authorities overthrow operation, its first election-rigging occasion. That was on April 18, 1948, and this memo was written simply 12 days after that.” • Fairly an introduction. Learn the entire thing, and also you’ll see why I place it right here. It’s laborious to attract connections with out making a yarn diagram — particularly within the right-wing fever swamp — however Benz avoids that right here. Very clarifying.
Syndemics
“I’m in earnest — I cannot equivocate — I cannot excuse — I cannot retreat a single inch — AND I WILL BE HEARD.” –William Lloyd Garrison
Covid Sources, United States (Nationwide): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; contains many counties; Wastewater Scan, contains drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); “Iowa COVID-19 Tracker” (in IA, however nationwide knowledge). “An infection Management, Emergency Administration, Security, and Common Ideas” (particularly on hospitalization by metropolis).
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Morbidity and Mortality
“Predictors for COVID-19-Particular and Non-COVID-19-Particular Deaths: A Cohort Examine in Taiwan” [Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health (RK)]. N = 2196. From the Abtract: “Predictors for coronavirus illness 2019 (COVID-19)-specific and non-COVID-19-specific deaths haven’t been extensively studied. This cohort research in Taiwan investigated predictors for COVID-19-specific and non-COVID-19-specific deaths amongst hospitalized sufferers with extreme acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) an infection. From January to July 2022, 2196 COVID-19 sufferers at Taipei Metropolis Hospital had been consecutively recruited on this cohort research… Our research findings recommend that vaccination and Paxlovid remedy are essential for decreasing SARS-CoV-2-specific mortalities, whereas comorbid sufferers want cautious monitoring to scale back non-COVID-19-specific deaths.”
Science Is Popping
“Towards a Radically Easy Multi-Modal Nasal Spray for Stopping Respiratory An infection” (PDF) [Advanced Materials]. Mouse research (sigh). See the Battle of Curiosity assertion (web page 18). However, very large if true. The Summary:
Nasal sprays for pre-exposure prophylaxis in opposition to respiratory infections present restricted safety (20–70%), largely resulting from their single mechanism of motion—both neutralizing pathogens or blocking their entry on the nasal lining, and a failure to maximise the seize of respiratory droplets, permitting them to probably rebound and attain deeper airways. This report introduces the Pathogen Seize and Neutralizing Spray (PCANS), which makes use of a multi-modal method to reinforce efficacy. PCANS coats the nasal cavity, capturing giant respiratory droplets from the air, and serving as a bodily barrier in opposition to a broad spectrum of viruses and micro organism, whereas quickly neutralizing them with over 99.99% effectiveness. The formulation consists of excipients recognized from the FDA’s Inactive Ingredient Database and Usually Acknowledged as Protected listing to maximise efficacy for every step within the multi-modal method. PCANS demonstrates nasal retention for as much as 8 hours in mice. In a extreme Influenza A mouse mannequin, a single pre-exposure dose of PCANS results in a >99.99% discount in lung viral titer and ensures 100% survival, in comparison with 0% within the management group. PCANS suppresses pathological manifestations and affords safety for no less than 4 hours. This knowledge recommend PCANS as a promising daily-use prophylactic in opposition to respiratory infections.
And from the Conclusion:
PCANS presents a promising chemoprophylactic method in opposition to respiratory infections. In addition to its potential to behave as a primary line of protection in opposition to respiratory pathogens and rising variants for which there are not any vaccines obtainable, our method may be probably used as an added layer of safety with present vaccines. Given its broad-spectrum prophylactic exercise and shelf stability, we anticipate PCANS holds the potential for international distribution, particularly in international locations with low vaccination charges in opposition to respiratory pathogens. Alongside, the advantages of PCANS can be prolonged to immunocompromised sufferers, high-risk people with co-morbidities, and vaccine-hesitant populations. Its pocket-sized spray format permits for straightforward portability, making it handy to hold throughout social gatherings and journey. With these important advantages, we consider PCANS will expertise speedy widespread adoption, enhancing the accessibility of respiratory an infection prevention.
Let’s see what the regulators assume. And Huge Pharma.
TABLE 1: Every day Covid Charts
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LEGEND
1) ★ for charts new in the present day; all others will not be up to date.
2) For a full-size/full-resolution picture, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Home windows) on the chart thumbnail and “open picture in new tab.”
NOTES
[1] (CDC) This week’s wastewater map, with sizzling spots annotated. Retains spreading. NOTE The date appears to be flawed, however the variety of websites has modified so that is new.
[2] (CDC) Final week’s wastewater map.
[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* extremely popular. XDV.1 flat.
[4] (ED) Down, however price noting that Emergency Division use is now on a par with the primary wave, in 2020.
[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Positively down.
[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). The visualization suppresses what’s, in share phrases, a big enhance.
[7] (Walgreens) Huge drop continues!
[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.
[9] (Vacationers: Positivity) Down. These sh*theads at CDC have modified the chart in order that it doesn’t even run again to 1/21/23, because it used to, however now begins 1/1/24. There’s additionally no approach to alter the time vary. CDC actually doesn’t need you to have the ability to take a historic view of the pandemic, or examine one surge to a different. In an any case, that’s why the form of the curve has modified.
[10] (Vacationers: Variants) What the heck is LB.1?
[11] Deaths low, however positivity up.
[12] Deaths low, ED up.
Stats Watch
GDP: “United States GDP Development Charge” [Trading Economics]. “The US economic system grew at an annualized fee of three% within the second quarter of 2024, unchanged from the second estimate and above an upwardly revised 1.6% enlargement within the first quarter.”
Employment State of affairs: “United States Preliminary Jobless Claims” [Trading Economics]. “The variety of folks claiming unemployment advantages within the US dropped by 4,000 from the earlier week to 218,000 on the interval ending September twenty first, under market expectations of an increase to 225,000, and reaching a brand new 4-month low. Regardless of this decline, the declare depend remained above the averages seen earlier this yr, because the US labor market has softened since its post-pandemic peak, though it stays traditionally tight.”
Manufacturing: “United States Sturdy Items Orders” [Trading Economics]. “New orders for manufactured sturdy items within the US had been loosely unchanged from the prior month in August of 2024, in comparison with the revised 9.8% surge in July which was the very best in 4 years, and contrasting sharply with market expectations of a 2.6% drop. The end result challenged the rising pessimism over manufacturing exercise in the USA, suggesting the present slowdown could also be short-term.”
Manufacturing: “United States Kansas Fed Manufacturing Index” [Trading Economics]. “The Kansas Metropolis Fed’s Manufacturing Manufacturing index fell to -18 in September 2024, from 6 within the earlier month, marking the bottom studying in 14 months and means under forecasts of 9.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing, employees union to renew talks on Friday” [Reuters]. A lot for the “ultimate” a part of “Greatest And Ultimate Provide.” “Negotiators from Boeing and the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Staff (IAM) will meet with federal mediators in a bid to interrupt the impasse, after two days of earlier talks collapsed every week in the past….”
Manufacturing: “Can the Machinists Save Boeing from Its Administration?” [Labor Notes]. “Whereas Boeing wailed that the strike could trigger mortal wounds to the corporate, the Machinists union has for many years been preventing in opposition to the corporate’s self-wounding practices: rampant outsourcing, undermining of high quality inspections, transferring work to non-union retailers, and hollowing out what was once a coveted family-sustaining job. Firm insurance policies have resulted within the lack of skilled employees, manufacturing delays, mismatched and shoddy elements, and the disastrous high quality lapses that led to an Alaska Airways door plug blowout in January. It was the union that was initially accountable for pushing the separation of high quality inspection from manufacturing pressures, stated Steve Cabana, a high quality assurance inspector for 13 years. ‘Having high quality separate within the supervisory chain is the one means high quality can have any tooth,’ he stated. ‘I can have a look at a course of and cease it.’ This isn’t true at distributors the corporate buys elements from, Cabana stated, the place they’ve ‘the identical administration system for manufacturing and high quality.’ ‘That’s how the corporate figured it may lower your expenses by outsourcing, as a result of different folks didn’t have the identical rigorous requirements,’ Cabana stated. ‘It’s a fragile community of suppliers who actually aren’t compensated all that nicely for the work that they do,’ stated Mylo Lang, an apprentice machinist at Auburn with six years on the firm. ‘They’ve actually been squeezing them, in actual fact, over time.’ In Boeing’s personal crops, the corporate has tried to slash inspections, too. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires in-person inspections by certified employees, however in 2017 Boeing tried to hurry up manufacturing by having mechanics log off on their very own work. On the firm’s meeting plant in North Charleston, South Carolina, which at present has no union, the dearth of employee energy and enter meant the corporate examined out cuts to high quality inspections there first, round 2017, then expanded into the Puget Sound crops, the place union members rallied to cease the cuts, flooding conferences and making the query a store flooring situation.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing confirms manufacturing of 737s has halted” [Fortune]. “Boeing’s manufacturing of 737 jets has come to a “full halt” because the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Staff (IAM) strike continues, in response to a Financial institution of America analyst observe despatched out on Tuesday. Two separate representatives for Boeing confirmed the manufacturing stoppage to Fortune. ‘Airplane manufacturing in Washington state is quickly paused together with work on the 737 MAX, 767, 777/777X, P-8, KC-46A Tanker, E-7 Wedgetail,’ a spokesperson wrote Fortune in an electronic mail Wednesday. ‘Work at our Fabrication websites in Washington and Oregon may also quickly pause. Staff not represented by this union will proceed to report back to work as regular.’ Boeing’s inventory fell greater than 2% on Wednesday, on the time of publication. The stoppage’s full impression on precise deliveries of the planes ‘stays unsure,’ BofA analysts wrote. However the tempo has nonetheless ‘slowed considerably.’ Solely two 737s have been delivered within the final week, which they are saying is ‘nicely under regular ranges.’ As for the 787 jets—a special, much less embattled mannequin—Boeing has made zero deliveries over the previous week, and has solely delivered two in all of September. However BofA ‘expects Boeing to take care of the identical ranges of rollouts in comparison with final month” as a result of Consequently, BofA maintained its score on the inventory as impartial.” • That “unaffected by unions” (carbon fibre) makes me assume. I consider Boeing promised to make the subsequent plane, the “797,” in Seattle, presumbly additionally from carbon fibre, in the event that they started it through the lifetime of the contract at present being negotiated. However did Boeing promise the 797 could be constructed with union labor? Readers?
Manufacturing: “Spirit Aerosystems starting to see results of Boeing strikes – reviews” [Airport Technology]. “Boeing elements provider Spirit AeroSystems has reportedly warned it might start furloughing staff quickly if the strikes on the plane producer’s manufacturing crops proceed for much longer. The provider, which is ready to fall again underneath Boeing’s management subsequent yr, is at present utilizing the lull in work on the plane factories to deal with a backlog of orders however will quickly start seeing the results of the work stoppage.”
Manufacturing: “Boeing strike squeezes California aerospace suppliers, together with Unbiased Forge in Orange” [Orange County Register]. “Machine device and metallic retailers throughout the area are feeling the results of the Boeing strike, as is a posh provide chain that stretches the world over…. ‘This could possibly be devastating for us,’ stated Andrew Flores, president of Unbiased Forge Co. Inc. ‘Forgings are the beginning of most elements made within the aviation enterprise, and that’s the very first thing they need to cease.’… The corporate is also nervous a few second strike that emerged earlier this week when unionized machinists with a normal aviation unit owned by Textron Corp. in Kansas walked off their jobs for increased wages and advantages, Flores stated.” • Hmm. Solely Textron, then?
Manufacturing: “Boeing strike leaves Asian airways sweating on airplane deliveries” [The Business Times]. “The Seattle manufacturing facility strike crippling manufacturing at Boeing is triggering delays to 737 Max deliveries throughout Asia, a area that’s already residence to among the greatest order backlogs for the flagship plane. The US producer is because of hand over 981 Max jets to carriers in Asia, led by Air India and Indonesia’s Lion Air, by 2030, in response to knowledge from Cirium. That’s near one-third of all scheduled deliveries of the plane worldwide over that interval. However with Boeing at loggerheads with the Worldwide Affiliation of Machinists and Aerospace Staff, which represents some 33,000 Boeing staff who’ve been putting for nearly two weeks, issues are escalating concerning the reliability of the airplane pipeline. Responding to queries from Bloomberg Information, Korean Air Strains, Vietjet Aviation and Japan Airways stated they had been both struggling supply delays because of the strike, anticipating planes to reach late or involved about handover dates slipping. Others together with Singapore Airways stated they had been working with Boeing on supply schedules in gentle of the manufacturing facility shutdown.
Manufacturing: “Senators need to see main adjustments at Boeing. The FAA says that would take years” [Politico]. “The pinnacle of the Federal Aviation Administration warned senators Wednesday that guaranteeing troubled planemaker Boeing rights its ship will take years — not months — even with the FAA wanting over its shoulder…. However [FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker] stated that whereas Boeing has improved on short-term challenges in its manufacturing traces, ‘[we] could be kidding ourselves to assume you may change 170,000 folks, tradition in 18 months — so it’s going to be an extended haul.’”
Tech: “Tens of millions of Automobiles Might Be Hacked and Tracked Due to a Easy Web site Bug” [Wired].
At present’s Worry & Greed Index: 67 Greed (earlier shut: 65 Greed) [CNN]. One week in the past: 60 (Greed). (0 is Excessive Worry; 100 is Excessive Greed). Final up to date Sep 25 at 1:55:41 PM ET.
The Present Cinema
Coppola’s Megalopolis:
#AMCTheatres #Megalopolis 🎟️🍿🥤 pic.twitter.com/IiaP66e2J0
— MAC (@mci41827) September 26, 2024
Common derision from the reviewers, which intrigues me. Has anybody seen it?
Gallery
Fairly fashionable:
Incantation, 1797 pic.twitter.com/Etgr3YnUjN
— Francisco Goya (@artistgoya) September 26, 2024
Class Warfare
“Amazon Logistics underneath investigation for alleged labor violations” [Seattle Times]. “Seattle’s Workplace of Labor Requirements is investigating Amazon Logistics — the corporate’s huge community of supply providers — for alleged violations of labor legal guidelines, together with the town’s ordinance requiring paid sick time for gig employees that went into impact this yr. The investigation seems centered on Amazon’s Flex drivers, who function like gig employees and make deliveries for the corporate utilizing their very own autos and on their very own schedule.”
Information of the Wired
“The historical past of telecoms is at an finish” [Intermedia]. The deck: “In his newest e-book, William Webb argues that we largely have all of the connectivity we’d like. The telecoms business must refocus away from technical innovation and in direction of effectivity. Governments and regulators, he says, will want a brand new mindset.” • Maybe even an excessive amount of.
“The facility of leisure: How on a regular basis hobbies cease cognitive decline” [Study Finds]. “In neighborhood facilities throughout the nation, seniors collect for e-book golf equipment, chess matches, and artwork courses. These social hubs of psychological stimulation could also be extra than simply nice diversions – they could possibly be unofficial cognitive well being clinics, in response to new analysis. The research means that partaking in cognitively stimulating leisure actions (CSLAs) could be key to preserving cognitive perform in older adults with gentle cognitive impairment (MCI). This analysis affords hope for these trying to stave off cognitive decline and probably cut back their threat of growing dementia.” • Possibly I ought to cease studying Mannequin Railroader and construct a format, Perky Pat-style. Not.
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