One thousand sausage dogs invade beach for meet-up BBC
Severe solar storm could supercharge auroras across US, impact power grids, NOAA warns Space.com
Is a repeat of the 2019 repo crisis brewing? FT. The deck: “Pain and SOFRing.”
Climate
Tracking map: Here’s the latest forecast track of Hurricane Milton Orlando Sentinel
Milton threatens to trigger flood insurance reckoning for Congress Politico
No, Hurricane Milton was not ‘engineered’ BBC
* * * Wildlife numbers plummet 73 percent over past half-century, report finds Al Jazeera
Water
What’s in Floodwaters? Scientific American
2023 ‘driest year’ for global rivers in 33 years: World weather agency Anadolu Agency
Syndemics
All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant Salon
China?
China launches US$70 billion swap tool to enhance stock market liquidity South China Morning Post
How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China Bloomberg
China Builds A New Eurasia Noema
China’s Golden Week travel surges but spending lags pre-pandemic numbers Channel News Asia
Upgrade to ASEAN-China free trade agreement almost completed, important in time of growing protectionism: PM Wong Channlel News Asia
Commentary: US not walking the talk in Southeast Asia as Biden skips ASEAN Summit again Channel News Asia
The Reality of Afghanistan’s Land Link With China The Diplomat
Syraqistan
On the Brink New Left Review
* * * Biden speaks with Netanyahu, pledges ‘ironclad’ support for Israel Al Jazeera
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel The White House
US sway over Netanyahu tested as Israel vows ‘deadly’ Iran hit South China Morning Post
* * * Israeli troops move away from Irish forces in Lebanon BBC. Meanwhile:
BREAKING
White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X after calling for Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon to be burned alive pic.twitter.com/EQj7QnOJI8
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) October 9, 2024
Israeli army orders Beirut’s southern suburb residents to evacuate Anadolu Agency
How long will Israel’s war in Lebanon last? FT
* * * The Killings They Tweeted Airwars
* * * Smotrich Forgets to Mention One Thing About His Plans for Israel: The Cost Haaretz. Smotrich, 2016:
In a documentary produced by Arte, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says he wants a “Jewish state,” adding that, “It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.” pic.twitter.com/E2SBu1LJvD
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 10, 2024
* * * Yemen’s Houthis to play bigger role in Middle East conflict? Deutsche Welle
Protesters assaulted as illegal Palestinian land sales continue in New York and New Jersey MR Online
The Sermon Every Jew But Me Heard Every Week The Debate Link
The New Great Game
Is proposal that “international consortium” should build Kazakhstan’s nuclear plant merely cosmetic? BNE Intellinews
European Disunion
France’s minority government set to present make-or-break austerity budget France24
Pelicot trial: French court hears how mass rape went undetected for years France24
Dear Old Blighty
New Not-So-Cold War
Erik Andersson’s informative Nord Stream update Bud’s Offshore Energy (BOE)
* * * Russia’s Air Force Is ‘Dropping Like Flies’ in the Skies Above Ukraine The National Interest
New Batch of Russian Su-34 Strike Fighters Delivered to Air Force: Intensive Strikes on Kursk Continue Military Watch
* * * NATO chief warns of Ukraine’s toughest winter as Russia intensifies strikes Anadolu Agency
Ukraine can get through winter without power cuts – Ukraine’s energy minister Ukrainska Pravda. “[I]f the Russians do not succeed in destroying the critical energy infrastructure that survived the previous attacks.”
* * * America’s NATO Ally Warns Ukraine Membership May Trigger World War III Newsweek. Hungary.
Boychukgate Bandera Lobby Blog
After Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s Enduring Impact War on the Rocks
Biden Administration
2024
Donald Trump pledges to end double taxation for expat Americans FT
Book Nook
From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy Literary Hub
Police State Watch
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts The Register
Japanese Researchers Feature Regularly Among Ig Nobel Prizewinners Nippon.com
Groves of Academe
Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’ Guardian. From Columbia.
Class Warfare
Handy chart:
“It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans.”
— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@doctorow) October 9, 2024
I was captain of a ship much like the New Zealand one that just sank. Mine almost sank too The Telegraph
Researchers Think Throwing Boeing 777 Parts In The Sea Will Track Down MH3700 Jalopnik
Antidote du Jour (Wendy Rathey);
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
