Wealth Club

California’s succulent smugglers: plant poachers seed Asia’s desire for dudleya SCMP

Aquarius Rising New York Review of Books

16 of UK’s largest van fleets to go electric: 18,000 electric vans by 2028 Treehugger

Beyond Goop and Evil The Baffler

Florida police ‘use Taser on drunk and disorderly Royal Navy sailors’ on shore leave from £3bn warship Politico

For safety’s sake, we must slow innovation in internet-connected things MIT Technology Review

The Air Force is determining ‘the appropriate process’ for Elon Musk smoking pot The Verge

Burn, Baby, Burn

Firefighters battle to gain on blazes across Northern California San Francisco Chronicle

WISCONSIN’S FLOODS ARE CATASTROPHIC—AND ONLY GETTING WORSE Wired

Hurricane Alley

Hurricane Florence Expected to Rapidly Intensify; Serious Rainfall Threat for U.S. East Coast Weather Underground

CBS’s Moonves Toppled by Harassment Allegations, Redstone Clash Bloomberg

Russia

Space: Another frontier for the US-Russian rivalry CNN (The Rev Kev)

Moscow Has Upped the Ante in Syria Consortium News (furzy)

Syraqistan

Syria: Rebel-held areas bombed as Turkey reinforces outposts Al Jazeera

Iran Develops a $5 Billion Weapon to Fight Sanctions WSJ

China?

Why Beijing will sacrifice its middle class in trade war with Donald Trump SCMP (furzy)

India

Rupee Tumbles as Current-Account Deficit Widens to 5-Year High Bloomberg

Sweden

Swedish election: political uncertainty looms after deadlock Guardian

Brexit

Brexit: clash of the pygmies EUReferendum.com

Open warfare between top Tories over Boris Johnson ‘suicide vest’ jibe at May Independent

Democrats in Disarray

Booker heading to Iowa in October Politico

Waste Watch

Enormous amounts of food are wasted during manufacturing – here’s where it occurs The Conversation

Health Care

For new cancer treatments, less is more WaPo

Big Brother IS Watching You Watch

ARE NEW YORK’S FREE LINKNYC INTERNET KIOSKS TRACKING YOUR MOVEMENTS? The Intercept

At Stake in Lawsuit: What Can Bosses Access on Your Personal Devices? WSJ

Gunz

California Tries New Tack on Gun Violence: Ammo Control NYT

SEC halts trading in two cryptocurrency products, citing market confusion Reuters

Tariff Tantrum

Ford insists it won’t build Chinese-made car in US despite Trump tweet The Hill

Trade war fears scupper Volvo Cars initial public offering FT

Ports compete to build ‘white elephant’ gas terminal Handelsblatt

China Invites Top Wall Street Executives to Beijing, FT Reports Bloomberg

Class Warfare

‘Monster’ Turns Our Farmers into Serfs and Sharecroppers American Conservative

EU seeks new powers for money laundering crackdown FT

Under Trump, the jobs boom has finally reached blue-collar workers. Will it last? WaPo

Land of Forever Tomorrow The Weekly Standard

Public Employees’ Pay, Benefits and Rights Become Campaign Issues Governing.com

WILL THE REAL VOTER FRAUD CRIMINALS PLEASE STAND UP WhoWhatWhy.org

How Purdue’s ‘one-two’ punch fuelled the market for opioids FT

Net Neutrality

ISPs Engage In Last Gasp Bid to Derail California’s Net Neutrality Law Motherboard

Trump Transition

The Deceptive Contrast Between Trump and Kavanaugh The New Yorker (furzy)

Divided America of Trump era challenges ad industry France 24

White House expected to warn of sanctions, other penalties if international court moves against Americans WaPo

Trump waives millions in claims against Stormy Daniels in new fallout from illegal payoff LA Times

Imbalance in NATO spending between US and Europe is no accident Handelsblatt. A view from Germany.

Bob Woodward said Trump nearly provoked North Korea into war with a single tweet Business Insider

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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.