We need raw awe aeon (Michael T)
How I hunt down fake degrees and zombie universities Nature (Dr. Kevin)
New insights into the Denisovans: New hominin group that interbred with modern day humans ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
DNA evidence rewrites story of people buried in Pompeii eruption ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
Groundbreaking Discovery: Keto Diet May Hold the Secret to Easing Autoimmune Disorders SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
Climate/Environment
Ultra-rich using jets like taxis, climate scientists warn BBC (Chuck L)
The energy transition has a mining problem Global Witness
‘We barely made it out’: Californians desperately flee their homes amid raging wildfires CNN (Kevin W)
China?
House panel questions chip manufacturing equipment makers over any ties to China The Hill (Kevin W)
Trump election victory: Why China’s economy is more vulnerable to any new tariffs this time Reuters
JD Logistics unveiled full suite of unmanned products @ CeMAT ASIA 2024
Called Zhilang robots
Includes handling robots, ladder robots & 3D shelves + auxiliary facilities like automatic warehousing, picking workstations & empty box auto return lines.
Achieves HD storage w/ storage… pic.twitter.com/2yrN0C67cF— tphuang (@tphuang) November 5, 2024
Myanmar
2 million at risk of starvation in Myanmar state amid ‘total economic collapse’ Reuters
Africa
Bloodbath in Ethiopia: 48 killed in restive Oromia region; what’s the conflict all about?
European Disunion
EU’s trade war nightmare gets real as Trump triumphs Politico
Gas Reliance Persists as Europe Faces Winter Energy Crunch OilPrice
Scholz sets stage for German snap election as government collapses Politico (Kevin W)
EU needs to become ‘omnivorous’ – Macron RT (Kevin W)
Israel v. The Resistance
Qatar says Hamas ‘no longer welcome’ in Gulf state: Report Anadolu Agency. Looks like bye bye to Qatar as a back channel.
The Israeli army admitted it’s staying in north Gaza. Here’s the next phase of its plan. Mondoweiss
Under the cover of the election:
“Expulsion of terrorists’ families law” just passed in the Knesset in its 2nd and 3rd readings and is now part of Israeli law. The government plans to use this law to expel Palestinian citizens of Israel. They’ve been promising this law to their genocidal base for a long time. https://t.co/hcGRCemnPi
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) November 7, 2024
* * * In the trenches, Israel struggles on the Lebanese battlefield The Cradle
Norman Finkelstein debates Elijah Magnier on resistance of Hamas and Hezbollah against Israel India & Global Left. Important. Finkelstein is brutal.
* * * Israeli police with weapons enter French-owned church compound in Jerusalem Alarabiya (Kevin W)
Israeli Drone Strike Injures Six UNIFIL Peacekeepers in Lebanon Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
* * * In historic first for football hooligans, Israeli men got beat up so bad that their government needed to help them escape
After making racist chants, attacking peoples private property and targeting an Arab taxi driver, Israel football hooligans – many of them soldiers – were… pic.twitter.com/E4WnLs9Di0
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) November 8, 2024
New Not-So-Cold War
Mark Sleboda: Why Trump Can’t & Won’t Force Russia to End its SMO and Thus Save the West-backed Kiev Putsch Regime, more… Rachel Blevins. Most readers have worked this out but useful to have a compact review.
Trump mulls Ukraine peace plan that puts British troops in 800-mile buffer zone Telegraph. Alexander Mercouris called this scheme “neocon heavy” and points out that as of now, there’s no evidence that this is more than lobbying Trump via the press.
Europe already ‘Trump proofing’ Ukraine war aid Responsible Statescraft (Kevin W)
Blinken and Barro talked about assistance to Ukraine Top News in UA
Open letter from Ukrainian leftists to international social democracy Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
NRO chief: “You can’t hide” from our new swarm of SpaceX-built spy satellites ars technica
Imperial Collapse Watch
Trump 2.0
The True Dangers of Trump’s Economic Plans Foreign Affairs (Dr. Kevin)
SITREP 11/8/24: Trump’s Arrival Throws Things Askew Simplicius
Let’s Assume Trump Is Serious About Some Policies, What Are The Effects? Ian Welsh
Is the Biden administration setting a trap for Trump to prevent his peace initiatives? Anti-Spiegel (Micael T)
Trump to worsen our plight: Palestinian, Lebanese victims of Israel’s wars Aljazeera (Micael T)
The World According To Trump (by Col. Wilkerson) Chris Hedges (fk). Important factoids like that the casualties in Lebanon so far are “massive” as in 4,000 (!!!) and that what matters to a modern army is not KIA, which can be kept low with good battlefield surgery, but “WIA”.
Trump’s expected military reset: Culture war counteroffensive The Hill
Trump is Eyeing Iran Hawk Brian Hook as First Foreign Policy Pick Dropsite News (Chuck L)
The Return of Trump’s Iran Obsession Daniel Larison
2024 Post Mortems
BREAKING: Jack Smith moves to vacate remaiing deadlines in Trump’s DC criminal case. pic.twitter.com/o6969qte47
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 8, 2024
🧵The ballot measures last night say a few things about voters’ feelings about the economy.
Here is how they played out.PAID SICK LEAVE
All three measures requiring employers to provide paid sick leave PASSED (AK, MO, NE)
All 3 states went to Trump1/x
— Pavlina R Tcherneva (@ptcherneva) November 6, 2024
Revenge of the Silent Male Voter
What I learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
On election day, I caught the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Sitting across from me an elderly woman wore a t-shirt with the image of Trump pumping his fist in…
— Claire Lehmann (@clairlemon) November 6, 2024
Pelosi Blames Biden (and Harris Too?) Ken Klippenstein. Chuck L: “If the “robust primary” of 2020 had had anything to do with the Democrats’ selection of their presidential candidate it wouldn’t have been Biden.”
Democrats join 2024’s graveyard of incumbents Financial Times (BC)
Donald Trump made gains throughout NYC as Dem margins plummeted Gothamist
A ‘republic if we can keep it.’ Perhaps we cannot. Washington Post. Robin K: “Blaming the abused: WaPo’s PMC lashes out.”
Our No Longer Free Press
Democrat-linked TV host threatens Musk over ‘Russia ties’ RT (Kevin W)
Mr. Market Parties On
Risk assets rally but bond market views Donald Trump’s victory with caution Financial Times
Global trade remains in contraction at start of fourth quarter S&P Global
The world faces its worst trade wars since 1930s Economist
Afterburners on zooming sovereign debt supply Reuters
Average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises for 6th straight week Associated Press
AI
“Meta will allow U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its AI models for military purposes… a shift from its policy that prohibited the use of its technology for such efforts.”https://t.co/WsexbfgmUS
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 7, 2024
Class Warfare
Ambulance hits cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then bills him $1,800: lawsuit PennLive (Dr. Kevin)
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “This damselfly lives at the San Diego Botanic Garden. There were a few flitting around these plants on the border of a pond.”
And a bonus (Chuck L):
He looks so happy. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6YTTZJsGHG
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 5, 2024
A second bonus (guurst):
Просто весело проводит время 😁 pic.twitter.com/evNxElJxAK
— Etna (@Etnaetoya) November 8, 2024
A third (Chuck L):
A 74-year-old man in Florida pulled his puppy out of an alligator’s mouth. pic.twitter.com/CO0WHFt5xZ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 8, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
