Physicists Generated Sound Waves That Travel In One Direction Only ScienceAlert. Oh, great. Expect better sound weapons.
The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’ Guardian (Chuck L). From April, still germane.
The Crackdown on Compounded GLP-1 Meds Has Begun Wired
TikTok Execs Know About App’s Effect On Teens, Lawsuit Documents Allege NPR
Climate/Environment
Clean Energy Transition Faces Looming Metal Supply Crunch OilPrice
Dramatic images show the first floods in the Sahara in half a century Guardian (Kevin W)
China?
China to Boost Debt Quota in Bid to Stimulate Economy Wall Street Journal
China is not coming to rescue the global economy this time Financial Times
Philippines confronts China over South China Sea at ASEAN meet France24
🇨🇳 China has completed the world’s first fully unmanned paving construction project
Unmanned construction drone swarms paved and rolled across a 157.79km stretch on the Beijing-HK Expressway, completing the world’s first fully unmanned road paving project⬇️
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On the afternoon of… pic.twitter.com/EHfKS9olHQ— ChenKojira 🇨🇳 (@ChenKojira) October 9, 2024
North Korea says it will permanently ‘shut off’ border with South Independent
Africa
Sudan’s RSF accuses Egypt of involvement in air strikes on its forces Aljazeera
European Disunion
Viktor Orban’s exchange of pleasantries with Ursula van der Leyen in Strasbourg yesterday Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)
EU weighs creating migrant ‘return hubs’ to speed up deportation Radio Free Liberty
The EU is helping Turkey forcibly deport migrants to Syria and Afghanistan Politico
Europe must unite to avoid financial crisis, IMF managing director tells Euronews EuroNews
France Hits Big Firms, Wealthy to Trim ‘Colossal’ Debt Pile Bloomberg
Old Blighty
Gilts Risk Buyer Strike If Borrowing Surges, Citi Economist Says Bloomberg
Israel v. the Axis of Resistance
U.S. Journalist Arrested, Charged In Israel Glenn Greenwald
Israel has displaced 3 million people since Oct 2023 Stephen Semler
“Land and conquest.” The Floutist (Dr. Kevin)
Scholz announces further arms exports to Israel Tagesschau via machine translation (guurst)
* * * Gaza like Japan after nuclear bombs, says Nobel Peace-winning group head Anadolu Agency
* * * Two Lebanese soldiers killed in Israeli airstrike hours after UN peacekeepers HQ fired on Guardian (Kevin W)
🤔 Yonatan Netanyahu
Back in the late 1980s, during my modern Israel study phase, I read both Binyamin Netanyahu’s book A Place Among the Nations, and Yonatan Netanyahu’s Letters.
Yoni was the elder brother; the golden boy. Bibi was always trying to measure up, but never… pic.twitter.com/wHOlr00nCJ
— Will Schryver (@imetatronink) October 10, 2024
Iraq’s resistance enters the war with new targets, advanced weapons The Cradle
* * * We discussed in a recent post that Israel has gotten itself in a position that if it can execute it, an overwhelming pre-emptive strike would be its best play. We discussed the possibility of using nuclear weapons, including as an EMP (I had a discussion with a top technologist who is nuclear physics adjacent who disagreed pretty forcefully that this would represent a big leap and was beyond what Israel might try. I need to get more detail). But give the Galant maintaining that Israel’s attack will be “lethal, precise, and surprising” could point to a different sort of WMD deployment, say operatives somehow gassing underground bunkers for the nuclear program or for Iran’s leadership.
Iranian lawmakers ask the National Security Council to authorize creation of Nuclear Weapons International Affairs (Micael T)
Iran’s Quds Force commander Qaani under investigation for suspicion of espionage Shafaq
New Not-So-Cold War
Russian Iskander Missile Strike Destroys Shipboard Western Weapons Arriving in Ukraine – Reports Military Watch
UK could send troops to Ukraine on training mission The Times
Despite Chrystia Freeland’s denials, her grandfather was complicit in the Nazi genocide The Breach (Anthony L)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
” rel=”nofollow”>Hacked Robot Vacuums Across the U.S. Started Yelling Slurs Gizmodo (Paul R)
What we know about the Internet Archive cyber attack Kim Crawley (Allen K)
Old devices, idle servers can be turned to spy on us, China’s top security agency warns South China Morning Post
Imperial Collapse Watch
It’s been said lately that the West is “agreement-incapable,” meaning Western powers have casually broken international understandings, negotiated in bad faith as a delaying, lulling, or targeting tactic, and undermined agreements reached by their own supposed leaders.
Why?⬇️… pic.twitter.com/523QroFBg3
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) October 11, 2024
Biden’s Intent Is To Sow Chaos – Netanyahoo And Zelensky Are Working For Him Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Monbiot is right about the wickedness of capitalism. Yet he acts as its propagandist Jonathan Cook (Chuck L)
Putin first promised this capability, IIRC in 2018:
A Sarmat 2 can hit the US from the South… pic.twitter.com/o9jlMM2D5a
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) October 10, 2024
Biden
Blinken’s sad attempt to whitewash Biden’s record Responsible Statecraft
Trump
‘The Apprentice’ director talks Donald Trump’s portrayal in film NPR (furzy)
Read the JD Vance Dossier Ken Klippenstein (furzy)
Trump fans not giving up. Watch out for your cats:
Two Haitians, in their own words tell you the truth about eating cats and dogs. Please share this with someone who only consumes state run media. pic.twitter.com/MEe4R81R7E
— Insurrection Barbie (@DefiyantlyFree) October 10, 2024
Kamala
Kamala Harris featured on cover of Vogue in glowing profile: ‘National rescue’ Fox (Kevin W)
Kamala Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff doesn’t deny bombshell stories he slapped his ex and got his children’s nanny pregnant Daily Mail (Li)
2024
DOJ sues Virginia over alleged voter roll purges too close to Election Day WRIC
Our No Longer Free Press
Elon Musk’s X Engaged in a ‘Pattern of Election Interference’ to Help Trump: Reports New Civil Rights Movement (furzy). I fail to see how what Musk does is any different from what other medias moguls have done, notably the Murdoch and the Sulzbergers, save that Musk is more crass. The real issue is not “election interference” but that Musk is a publisher via exercising editorial influence, and therefore X and Facebook (which does the same thing but less obviously) should lose their Section 230 liability waiver.
Trump Camp Worked With Musk’s X to Censor My Reporting Ken Klipperstein. Per above, like the mainstream media on the Hunter laptop. But again, they are publishers….
Flyover Watch
US local news 2024: On the front page frontline BBC. Bernard M: “Ys PRINT newspapers. A fabulous investigation of several papers in tiny rural enclaves.”
Iowa steps in to feed 1.3M chickens after company files for bankruptcy Des Moines Register (Robin K)
Judge: Tyson supervisors ‘unprofessional’ but not abusive to USDA inspector Iowa Capital Dispatch. Robin K: “Nevermind unsanitary conditions, a corporate nonce says an inspector cannot ‘stop the line’.”
Mr. Market is Giddy
Central bankers left holding the baby Think.ing
Class Warfare
Boeing to cut 17,000 jobs as losses deepen during factory strike CNBC
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Amazing 🤎🩶 pic.twitter.com/Fg7H8Bz2HS
— 𝕾𝖍𝖆𝖍 🏴 (@S___h___a___h) October 8, 2024
A second bonus (Chuck L):
You need to see this!
Dog warns his owner that this dolphin is in distress and needs help.
The dog and the dolphin became lifelong friends after this.
Such a great feel good story!
👀❤️ pic.twitter.com/bIZZXI6pgy
— AmericanPapaBear (@AmericaPapaBear) October 10, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
