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By Lambert Strether of Corrente.<\/p>\n

More on the election shortly; I felt I needed to catch up with this rest of the world. \u2013lambert<\/p>\n

Bird Song of the Day<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Blue-and-white Mockingbird, Monta\u00f1a de Izopo\u2013Sector Las Moras, Francisco Moraz\u00e1n, Honduras. \u201cLonger cut of quiet song of clipped low phrases with sudden louder bursts interspersed, including mechanical-sounding vocalizations. Also heard are Painted Redstart, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Wilson\u2019s Warbler, Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush, and Hairy Woodpecker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In Case You Might Miss\u2026 <\/p>\n

CIA Democrats.
\nKamala and Biden teams at odds.
\nBoeing to borrow billions, delays 777X, plans drastic white-collar cuts.<\/p>\n

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Politics<\/p>\n

\u201cSo many of the social reactions that strike us as psychological are in fact a rational management of symbolic capital.\u201d \u2013Pierre Bourdieu, Classification Struggles<\/p>\n

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2024<\/p>\n

Less than thirty days to go!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Friday\u2019s RCP Poll Averages:<\/p>\n

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If you ignore the entire concept of margin of error and go with the narrative, another good week for Trump, especially in MI and PA, tbough not, oddly, in the two hurricane swing states, GA and NC. Of course, we on the outside might as well be examining the entrails of birds when we try to predict what will happen to a subset of voters (undecided; irregular) in a subset of states (swing), and the irregulars especially might as well be quantum foam, but presumably the campaign professionals have better data, and have the situation as under control as it can be MR SUBLIMINAL Fooled ya. Kidding!.<\/p>\n

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Kamala (D): \u201cTensions rise between Harris and Biden teams as election nears\u201d [Axios]. \u201cBiden gave an impromptu press conference in the White House briefing room Friday just as Harris was about to do an event in Michigan, ensuring that her event would get less TV coverage than it otherwise would have. Earlier in the week, Harris criticized Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for not taking her call about the recent hurricanes, only for Biden to praise DeSantis soon after for being \u2018gracious\u2019 and \u2018cooperative.\u2019 (A person familiar with the situation told Axios that Biden hadn\u2019t been briefed on Harris\u2019 comments.) Biden has been eager to boast about a robust jobs report, helping to end the strike by the longshoremen\u2019s union and other perceived victories recently. Harris has been trying to focus on voters\u2019 pocketbook concerns, including inflation. One person involved with Harris\u2019 campaign told Axios: \u2018The White House is lacking someone in the room thinking first and foremost about how things would affect the campaign.’\u201d \u2022 I\u2019m starting to think \u201croom\u201d needs to be one of those words. Once you notice it, it\u2019s everywhere. Started witb \u201cadults in the room,\u201d I think. Remember then?<\/p>\n

Spook Country<\/p>\n

\u201cFBI\u2019s role in Hunter Biden laptop scandal is worse than you know\u201d [Andrew McCarthy, FOX]. \u201cStill, the enduring relevance of the laptop is not as a Biden story, but as a story of the political corruption of the government\u2019s law-enforcement and intelligence apparatus \u2013 pillars of our rule of law and our national security. Think about this: The FBI took possession of the laptop in December 2019, and quickly authenticated it \u2013 not hard to do because there was a mountain of publicly available information for purposes of corroborating the data, which was incontestably Hunter Biden\u2019s. What\u2019s the significance of that? Well, Election Day wasn\u2019t until November 3, 2020. Hence, while early voting was already underway in the weeks before the election, the FBI had already known for nearly a year that the laptop was the real deal. Despite that, the bureau induced major social media titans, such as Twitter (now X) and Facebook, to suppress derogatory reporting about the Bidens \u2013 specifically, the New York Post\u2019s mid-October 2020 reporting on the laptop. How? By deceptively intimating that the Post\u2019s reporting was likely the result of an influence operation carried out by Russian intelligence. In reality, this was an influence operation carried out by current and former U.S. intelligence officials. The FBI was not alone. The government\u2019s \u2018Intelligence Community\u2019 routinely shares information. The IC, too, is prone to hype Russian \u2018interference\u2019 in U.S. elections. Yet, such \u2018influence operations\u2019 are longstanding: Moscow interfered in American politics throughout the Cold War; it has continued to do so since the Soviet Union\u2019s fall up to the present day. Influence ops are also reciprocal: U.S. spy agencies routinely sought to influence Soviet politics and, now, seek to undermine Putin. If they didn\u2019t, what good would they be? For all the heavy-breathing by the media-Democrat complex, modern Russia is a basket-case country run by a mafia-style regime whose election-influence ops are often laughably amateurish. They are, moreover, a negligible ripple in the multi-billion-dollar ocean of American campaign messaging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Democrats en D\u00e9shabill\u00e9<\/p>\n

\u201cThe CIA Democrats in the 2024 elections\u201d [WSWS] From September. \u201cThere are 34 Democrats drawn from the ranks of the military-intelligence apparatus who are running for Congress this year, a continuation of the influx that began in force in 2018. For the fourth consecutive election, the CIA Democrats will grow in influence and numbers, further cementing the ties between this big business party and the most lethal agencies of the capitalist state\u2026. Besides the numerical increase, the influx of CIA Democrats is escalating qualitatively. Two of the original class of CIA Democrats who won seats in the House of Representatives in 2018 are now seeking to move up to the Senate. Former CIA agent and Pentagon official Elissa Slotkin is giving up her Michigan House seat to run for the Senate seat left vacant by the retirement of three-term Senator Debbie Stabenow. Former National Security Council official turned congressman Andy Kim is running in New Jersey to replace incumbent Democratic Senator Bob Menendez, who was convicted on corruption charges and resigned. Both are favored to win\u2026. In Virginia, former CIA agent Abigail Spanberger is not seeking reelection to her House seat, announcing plans instead to run for governor of Virginia next year, when Republican Glenn Youngkin leaves after the single term he is allowed under the state constitution. Spanberger is the heavy favorite to win the Democratic nomination. Spanberger\u2019s replacement in the House is likely to be the most prominent new military-intelligence Democrat: Eugene Vindman, a career military officer born in Ukraine.\u201d Oh man. Vindman? More: \u201cBesides Eugene Vindman, another high-profile military-intelligence operative is seeking a House seat as a Democrat: Maggie Goodlander, the wife of National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.\u201d The bottom line: \u201cThese numbers demonstrate that the influx of State Department, National Security Council, Pentagon and CIA operatives into Congress, by means of the Democratic Party, is not an accidental phenomenon, or the product of one election cycle. It is the outcome of a definite policy, which has two components. First, the Democratic Party leadership is deliberately cultivating military-intelligence candidates and creating opportunities for them to run in Democratic-leaning congressional districts where they are likely to be elected. Second, sizeable sections of the national security apparatus see the Democratic Party as their preferred vehicle for advancing the interests of American imperialism, to which they have devoted their own careers.\u201d \u2022 We might as well be in Tsarist Russia, except the Okhrana got itself elected to the Duma. <\/p>\n

Syndemics<\/p>\n

\u201cI am in earnest \u2014 I will not equivocate \u2014 I will not excuse \u2014 I will not retreat a single inch \u2014 AND I WILL BE HEARD.\u201d \u2013William Lloyd Garrison<\/p>\n

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Covid Resources, United States (National): Transmission (CDC); Wastewater (CDC, Biobot; includes many counties; Wastewater Scan, includes drilldown by zip); Variants (CDC; Walgreens); \u201cIowa COVID-19 Tracker\u201d (in IA, but national data). \u201cInfection Control, Emergency Management, Safety, and General Thoughts\u201d (especially on hospitalization by city).<\/p>\n

Lambert here: Readers, thanks for the collective effort. To update any entry, do feel free to contact me at the address given with the plants. Please put \u201cCOVID\u201d in the subject line. Thank you!<\/p>\n

Resources, United States (Local): AK (dashboard); AL (dashboard); AR (dashboard); AZ (dashboard); CA (dashboard; Marin, dashboard; Stanford, wastewater; Oakland, wastewater); CO (dashboard; wastewater); CT (dashboard); DE (dashboard); FL (wastewater); GA (wastewater); HI (dashboard); IA (wastewater reports); ID (dashboard, Boise; dashboard, wastewater, Central Idaho; wastewater, Coeur d\u2019Alene; dashboard, Spokane County); IL (wastewater); IN (dashboard); KS (dashboard; wastewater, Lawrence); KY (dashboard, Louisville); LA (dashboard); MA (wastewater); MD (dashboard); ME (dashboard); MI (wastewater; wastewater); MN (dashboard); MO (wastewater); MS (dashboard); MT (dashboard); NC (dashboard); ND (dashboard; wastewater); NE (dashboard); NH (wastewater); NJ (dashboard); NM (dashboard); NV (dashboard; wastewater, Southern NV); NY (dashboard); OH (dashboard); OK (dashboard); OR (dashboard); PA (dashboard); RI (dashboard); SC (dashboard); SD (dashboard); TN (dashboard); TX (dashboard); UT (wastewater); VA (wastewater); VT (dashboard); WA (dashboard; dashboard); WI (wastewater); WV (wastewater); WY (wastewater).<\/p>\n

Resources, Canada (National): Wastewater (Government of Canada).<\/p>\n

Resources, Canada (Provincial): ON (wastewater); QC (les eaux us\u00e9es); BC (wastewater); BC, Vancouver (wastewater).<\/p>\n

Hat tips to helpful readers: Alexis, anon (2), Art_DogCT, B24S, CanCyn, ChiGal, Chuck L, Festoonic, FM, FreeMarketApologist (4), Gumbo, hop2it, JB, JEHR, JF, JL Joe, John, JM (10), JustAnotherVolunteer, JW, KatieBird, KF, KidDoc, LL, Michael King, KF, LaRuse, mrsyk, MT, MT_Wild, otisyves, Petal (6), RK (2), RL, RM, Rod, square coats (11), tennesseewaltzer, Tom B., Utah, Bob White (3). <\/p>\n

Stay safe out there!<\/p>\n

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Ulp (1):<\/p>\n

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Ulp (2):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u201cmilking: ~12 hours a day in close contact w\/ cows. <\/p>\n

udders ~ high viral loads<\/p>\n

need PPE to stop H5N1 bird flu and protect farmworkers, but hard to wear for hours in heat.<\/p>\n

need full head helmet w\/ powered, purified airflow.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u2014 Devabhaktuni “Sri” Srikrishna (@sri_srikrishna) October 15, 2024<\/p>\n

If we were planning for a second pandemic \u2014 on top of Covid already weakened immunue systems at a population level \u2014 it\u2019s to see how we could be doing a better job. And wastewater:<\/p>\n

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Vaccines<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Nasal Vaccines Offer Better Protection from COVID and Flu\u2014No Needle Needed\u201d [Scientific American]. \u201cVaccines delivered through the nose are now being tested for several diseases. In the U.S., early clinical trials are showing success. Two of these vaccines have generated multiple immune system responses against the COVID-causing virus in people who received them through a puff up the nose; earlier this year their makers received nearly $20 million from Project NextGen, the Biden-Harris administration\u2019s COVID medical initiative. Researchers are optimistic that a nasal spray delivering a COVID vaccine could be ready for the U.S. as soon as 2027. Although recent efforts have focused on inoculations against SARS-CoV-2, nasal vaccines could also protect us against the flu, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), and more.\u201d \u2022\u00a02027 [bangs head on desk].<\/p>\n

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TABLE 1: Daily Covid Charts<\/p>\n

Wastewater<\/p>\n

This week[1] CDC October 5<\/p>\n

Last Week[2] CDC (until next week):<\/p>\n

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Variants [3] CDC October 12<\/p>\n

Emergency Room Visits[4] CDC October 5<\/p>\n

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Hospitalization<\/p>\n

New York[5] New York State, data October 10:<\/p>\n

National [6] CDC September 21:<\/p>\n

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Positivity<\/p>\n

National[7] Walgreens October 7:<\/p>\n

Ohio[8] Cleveland Clinic October 5:<\/p>\n

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Travelers Data<\/p>\n

Positivity[9] CDC September 16:
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Deaths<\/p>\n

Weekly Deaths vs. % Positivity [11]CDC September 28:<\/p>\n

Weekly Deaths vs. ED Visits [12]CDC September 28:<\/p>\n

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LEGEND<\/p>\n

1) \u2605 for charts new today; all others are not updated.<\/p>\n

2) For a full-size\/full-resolution image, Command-click (MacOS) or right-click (Windows) on the chart thumbnail and \u201copen image in new tab.\u201d<\/p>\n

NOTES<\/p>\n

[1] (CDC) Still some hot spots, but I can\u2019t draw circles around entire regions this week. Good news!<\/p>\n

[2] (CDC) Last week\u2019s wastewater map.<\/p>\n

[3] (CDC Variants) KP.* very popular. XEC has entered the chat.<\/p>\n

[4] (ED) Down, but worth noting that Emergency Department use is now on a par with the first wave, in 2020.<\/p>\n

[5] (Hospitalization: NY) Definitely down.<\/p>\n

[6] (Hospitalization: CDC). I see the \u201ceverything in greenish pastels\u201d crowd has gotten to this chart.<\/p>\n

[7] (Walgreens) Big drop continues!<\/p>\n

[8] (Cleveland) Dropping.<\/p>\n

[9] (Travelers: Positivity) Up, though lagged.<\/p>\n

[10] (Travelers: Variants).<\/p>\n

[11] Deaths low, positivity down.<\/p>\n

[12] Deaths low, ED down.<\/p>\n

Stats Watch<\/p>\n

Manufacturing: \u201cUnited States NY Empire State Manufacturing Index\u201d [Trading Economics]. \u201cThe NY Empire State Manufacturing Index plummeted to -11.9 in October 2024, down from 11.5 in September and surprising analysts who expected it at 3.8. This marks the worst reading since May, pointing to a renewed contraction in the New York State and at a solid pace.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing\u2019s crisis is getting worse. Now it\u2019s borrowing tens of billions of dollars\u201d [CNN]. \u201cIn a regulatory filing early Tuesday, the company announced plans to borrow $10 billion from a consortium of banks. It also separately announced plans to raise $25 billion by selling stock and debt. The $10 billion borrowing plans would be included in the $25 billion that Boeing filed to raise\u2026. Boeing\u2019s credit rating has plunged to the lowest investment-grade level \u2013 just above \u201cjunk bond\u201d status \u2013 and major credit rating agencies have warned Boeing is in danger of being downgraded to junk. That would raise its cost of borrowing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manufacturing: \u201cOfficial: Boeing 777X delivery delayed until at least 2026\u201d [Mile Lion]. \u201cUp till recently, Boeing was still making optimistic noises about a late 2025 debut for the aircraft, with Emirates CEO Tim Clark stating at the 2023 Dubai Airshow that he hoped to get his first B777-9 by October 2025. But that was always going to be a tall order, and now we have official confirmation of what\u2019s perhaps the worst-kept secret in aviation: the Boeing 777X is officially delayed till at least 2026. Keep in mind, it\u2019s not just the work stoppage that\u2019s the problem. The B777X has had a torrid time with its certification, with the FAA chiding the airline at one point that its proposed certification schedule was \u2018outdated and no longer reflect the programme activities.\u2019 While the all-important Type Inspection Authorisation (TIA) was granted in July 2024, enabling the company to begin the certification process, it\u2019s not all been smooth sailing. Just a couple of months ago, the test fleet was grounded after a routine post-flight inspection revealed the failure of a thrust link that mounts the engine to the aircraft.\u201d \u2022 Yikes.<\/p>\n

Manufacturing: \u201cEmirates\u2019 Clark raises \u2018looming\u2019 specter of Boeing bankruptcy protection\u201d [The Air Current]. \u201cIn an email to The Air Current following the announced Oct. 11 delay to the certification of Boeing\u2019s 777-9 flagship jetliner, [Emirates president Sir Tim Clark, Boeing\u2019s largest twin-aisle jet customer,] said, \u2018Unless the company is able to raise funds through a Rights Issue, I see an imminent investment downgrade with Chapter 11 looming on the horizon.’\u201d \u2022 Or nationalization.<\/p>\n

Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing Is Flexing the Financial Muscle It Has Left\u201d [Bloomberg]. The deck: \u201cInvestors are betting that a backlog of almost 5,500 aircraft will eventually unlock a mountain of cash.\u201d More: \u201cWell, the company has about 5,500 aircraft that it has already sold and only needs to assemble and deliver. Investors see a mountain of cash locked up in that backlog. All the company has to do is settle a nasty strike of 33,000 machinists, revamp its work culture to put quality above all, stabilize its supply chain, finish work on the new 777X aircraft and crank out planes. In fewer words, Boeing needs to execute. This is a daunting task, and most investors believe the company has finally chosen the right person to pull off this historic turnaround after Kelly Ortberg was hired as chief executive officer in August. The thermometer for investor sentiment around Boeing\u2019s ability to right the ship will be reflected in the price of the new shares, which could raise $10 billion or more to help shore up its finances.\u201d \u2022 So I guess that\u2019s why Ortberg is busting the machinist\u2019s chops? For \u201cinvestor sentiment\u201d?<\/p>\n

Manufacturing: \u201cBoeing layoff plan suggests deep white-collar job cuts\u201d [Seattle Times]. \u201cThe exclusion for now of 33,000 Machinists from the planned cuts means that Boeing can reach the 10% target stated in the slides for the Commercial Airplanes unit only through deep cuts among the white-collar staff, including engineers and nonunion salaried employees\u2026. Perhaps the thinking is that laying off Machinists now might inflame passions and make the strike more difficult to settle. If that\u2019s so, blue-collar layoffs could come later. Still, the need for the layoffs has little to do with the Machinists\u2019 strike. It\u2019s a restructuring by new CEO Kelly Ortberg designed to address the broader and deeper problems Boeing faces\u2026.The only way forward for Boeing is to start building planes again and to ramp up production back to the rates planned before the January blowout. To achieve those rates, it had been hiring machinists at a rapid clip. Whenever the strike ends, it will need most of those machinists ready to swing into action.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Today\u2019s Fear & Greed Index: 74 Greed (previous close: 76 Extreme Greed) [CNN]. One week ago: 70 (Greed). (0 is Extreme Fear; 100 is Extreme Greed). Last updated Oct 15 at 1:03:44 PM ET.<\/p>\n

TheCurrent Cinema<\/p>\n

The production process for silent films:<\/p>\n

On this day in 1893, silent superstar Lillian Gish was born in Springfield, Ohio. In 1988, I wrote to her asking if silent films had actual dialogue written out in the scripts or if there was just a general description of what was being said. This was her remarkable reply. pic.twitter.com\/Tzv8EgnZhz<\/p>\n

\u2014 Steve Stoliar (@StoliarSteve) October 14, 2024<\/p>\n

Worth the clickthrough to avoid Twitter\u2019s stupid cropping.<\/p>\n

Photo Book<\/p>\n

Via alert reader Wukschumi:<\/p>\n

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\u201cTime is what you make of it.\u201d I wish! <\/p>\n

Class Warfare<\/p>\n

Slaves (implicit):<\/p>\n

yeah the clear goal of this technology is to be able to outsource in-person service jobs to hyper-exploited workers in the global south, not liberate human labor from service work. <\/p>\n

\u2014 Cassie Pritchard (@hecubian_devil) October 13, 2024<\/p>\n

Of course, the goal is never to \u201cliberate human labor.\u201d Who would be silly enough to imagine that?<\/p>\n

Slaves (explicit). ANC = African National Congress:<\/p>\n

Imagine having a housekeeper that doesn’t vote ANC, doesn’t have 55 uncle’s funerals to attend every year, won’t steal your food, and you only have to pay for it once?<\/p>\n

Sign me up pic.twitter.com\/IW8XrREn5Q<\/p>\n

\u2014 Keanu (@Keanubtc) October 11, 2024<\/p>\n

\u201cYou only have to pay for it once.\u201d Indeed. Now if we can just get them to reproduce\u2026<\/p>\n

News of the Wired<\/p>\n

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\nAbout Lambert Strether<\/p>\n

Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (\u201cBecause markets\u201d). I don\u2019t much care about the \u201cism\u201d that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don\u2019t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered.
\nTo me, the key issue \u2014 and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me \u2014 is the tens of thousands of excess \u201cdeaths from despair,\u201d as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics \u2014 even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton\u2019s wars created \u2014 bright shiny objects by comparison. Hence my frustration with the news flow \u2014 currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press \u2014 a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. What kind of political economy is it that halts or even reverses the increases in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let\u2019s call such voices \u201cthe left.\u201d Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn\u2019t allowed to get back into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! I love the tactical level, and secretly love even the horse race, since I\u2019ve been blogging about it daily for fourteen years, but everything I write has this perspective at the back of it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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