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Baby pygmy hippo the star at Chon Buri zoo Bangkok Post
Reassessing William the Conqueror History Today (Anthony L)
Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux review – savage with a sensitive side Guardian (Anthony L)
Ask Ethan: Could we determine if UAPs/UFOs are aliens? Big Think
How El Nino and mega ocean warming caused the greatest-ever mass extinction ScienceDaily
Why do we have earlobes? They make no evolutionary sense. Popular Science (Dr. Kevin)
World-leading expert reveals alarming reason for soaring young bowel cancers – a childhood bug that’s in one of five people’s guts Daily Mail. Important. Notice victims typically not overweight and often very active. I wonder if some drink meal replacements. I see ads on YouTube sometimes for ones that claim to be super healthy and are clearly intended to be consumed daily.
#COVID-19
Whatever you want to believe, COVID-19 still surges through Kansas. Even worse waits in the wings. Kansas Reflector (Robin K)
Climate/Environment
Farmers use ‘magic dust’ to capture millions of tonnes of carbon
BBC. Robin K: “Volcano centric.”Climate Change Will Force a New Political Perspective on Migrants Bloomberg
Banana wine: Malawi’s growing industry to beat climate change BBC (Robin K)
In early September, the average temperature in 13 provinces in China hit the highest record in history, and 2 provinces were the second highest in history! The temperature in some areas was 6～8C higher! @extremetemps pic.twitter.com/lsJd2I1RJj
— Jim (@yangyubin1998) September 11, 2024
SOUTH AMERICA HEAT WAVE
Fierce heat from North to South
38.3 Santa Marta COLOMBIA beat its September record for the 4th time
40.2 Girardot COLOMBIA Sept record tied again36.2 Nickerie SURINAME: station all time record
Next days the heat will be exceptional in the Amazons >40C pic.twitter.com/giKbrCzqzk
— Extreme Temperatures Around The World (@extremetemps) September 10, 2024
Staggering’ destruction in Yemen after deadly flash flooding Digital Journal
Nigeria floods affect one million people after dam collapse Aljazeera
China?
China’s goals in Africa “Debt trap” or equality? Anti-Spiegel (Micael T)
Chinese troops to join Brazil’s military drills with US forces Reuters (Robin K)
China’s deepening footprint in the South Caucasus Asia Times (Kevin W)
European Disunion
Card payments disrupted throughout Germany Tagesschau (guurst)
Old Blighty
Our values: killing pensioners to save money Alex Krainer (Micael T)
‘Special’ relationship: PM Starmer blames Tories for ‘broken’ Health Service in England but they warned that ‘he is placing Britain on the path to destitution’ International Affairs (Micael T)
Gaza
Eiland, who is also an advisor to the Israeli Min of Def Gallant, after praising the spread of diseases as a key tool for military victory, now suggests to completely block humanitarian aid to northern Gaza and starve its population to death. 96% acute malnutrition already. pic.twitter.com/2PxbfFwcIY
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) September 12, 2024
Infected wounds, maggots and no escape. Gaza’s humanitarian crisis hits new lows as sanitary conditions plummet CNN. ma: “You might need to put a trigger warning on this article. And I did not realize Israel has not been allowing medical evacuations, limited as those were, for four months.”
This is Zionism pic.twitter.com/cpeDRKrBQc
— Ahmed Alnaouq (@AlnaouqA) September 10, 2024
Palestinian child awaits Gaza evacuation as pacemaker battery nears depletion ABC (ma). The fact that this is an MSM account is progress of sorts.
New video, witnesses challenge Israel’s account of U.S. activist’s killing Washington Post. Exclusive, not paywalled. Susan C:
Surprisingly good report from the Washington Post. Ferocious comments critical of Israel too. I served with the International Solidarity Movement in the West Bank twice some 20 years ago. The purpose is to use your international status, your obvious presence, simply and nonviolently, to protect Palestinians from the Israeli military and violent settlers.”
Palestine’s UN envoy sounds alarm at Israel-Hamas escalation in Gaza Skip Kaltenheuser, Washington Diplomat
How Israel’s genocide in Gaza is creating enemies on all sides Middle East Eye (guurst)
Israel and the Coming Long War Foreign Affairs. Lordie.
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Canadian FM says she has recently suspended 30 permits for arm shipments to Israel Times of Israel. Robin K: “Canadians gesture.”
New Not-So-Cold War
Putin issues new warning to NATO RT (Kevin W)
What are Storm Shadow missiles and why are they crucial for Ukraine? BBC (Kevin W)
Ukraine SitRep: End Of The Kursk Incursion – Long Range Missiles – Ending The War Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
‘They Have Stolen Our Business’: When You Leave Russia, Putin Sets the Terms Bloomberg (ma)
UK already permitted Kiev to use Storm Shadow, but will not admit it publicly — paper TASS (guurst)
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
EXPOSED: HOW ISRAELI SPIES CONTROL YOUR VPN Mint Press. Important.
Apple Vision Pro’s Eye Tracking Exposed What People Type Wired (BC)
EU kicks off an inquiry into Google’s AI model The Register. Personal data concerns.
Syraqistan
US imposes sanctions on suppliers to Pakistan’s ballistic missile program Reuters
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Dangerous Silence on Nuclear War Consortium News. Robin K: “As I recall, having seen it while sitting on my apartment couch in Austin, TX, the ad in question was pulled after appearing on network TV one time. In the ’60s, that was not censorship but, um, just good taste, so we were told.”
Military Alliances of the Great Powers Global Affairs (Micael T)
Trump
Judge drops 2 counts against Trump in Georgia election probe CBS
Trump says he won’t participate in another presidential debate CNN (Kevin W)
🚨NEW POLICY ALERT🚨
President Trump announces a new plan to eliminate all taxes on OVERTIME pay.
“The people who work overtime are among the hardest working citizens in our country — When you pass 40 hours a week, your overtime hours will be tax free.” pic.twitter.com/YQvSOUHr0w
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 12, 2024
THEY’RE EATING THE DOGS pic.twitter.com/lQqMW5l8pT
— Tarquin 🇺🇦 (@Tarquin_Helmet) September 11, 2024
I LOVE THE INTERNET!!!🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/6wNGaxLTzL
— il Donaldo Trumpo (@PapiTrumpo) September 10, 2024
German Foreign Office try to dunk on Trump’s debate performance but get their numbers wrong and provoke the ire of a close adviser to the man who may well be the next president of the United States Eugyppius (Micael T). Might get that case of TDS seen to.
JUST IN: Former top Clinton adviser calls for an internal probe of ABC for rigging the debate against Trump.
Former adviser to Bill & Hillary Clinton Mark Penn says ABC needs to launch an investigation to search for an effort of “rigging the outcome” of the debate.
“I actually… pic.twitter.com/B2G3EwZHr0
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 12, 2024
According to a CNN poll, Kamala Harris has LOST support of voters on who they trust to handle the economy, and Trump has gained pic.twitter.com/PSlgUXpnhB
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) September 11, 2024
Kamala
THE HOLES IN HARRIS’S DEBATE VICTORY Seymour Hersh
2024
Black voters in key battleground states highly motivated to vote in November: poll The Hill
Goldman Sachs says Harris has a slight edge over Trump but it all comes down to Georgia Fortune
NYPD Commissioner Edward Caban resigns amid federal investigation Gothamist. This matters because, per Mayor Bloomberg, the NYPD was the 7th biggest army in the world as of the crushing of Occupy Wall Street. Presumably he was excluding reserves in the measurement of national armies. If his math was right then, it’s plausible on the same basis that the NYPD is still in the top 10.
Our No Longer Free Press
🇺🇸🇷🇺 Gonzalo Lira’s picture near the US Embassy in Moscow!
The Gonzalo said too much for Ukraine to handle and they ensured he died in a Ukrainian prison.
US did nothing to this day. pic.twitter.com/zt5Q2NEeG4
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) September 12, 2024
USPS’ long-awaited new mail truck makes its debut to rave reviews from carriers Associated Press (Kevin W)
AI
https://newrepublic.com/article/185490/ray-kurzweil-ai-machines-proving-right” rel=”nofollow”>The Machines Are Proving Ray Kurzweil Right—Sort Of New Republic (Anthony L)
The Bezzle
Man Arrested for Creating Fake Bands With AI, Then Making $10 Million by Listening to Their Songs With Bots Futurism. Micael T: “Only Spotify and VC, PEs are allowed to earn money from stealing IP.”
Class Warfare
Rent, utilities rise faster than home value Free Republic. Robin Kash: “The cost of rent and utilities in 2023 rose faster than home values for the first time in a decade, the latest sign that a distorted housing market has pushed more people into renting.”
Treasury proposes rule to prevent large corporations from evading income taxes Associated Press (Robin K)
France: Class Struggle, 2024 Edition Contre-attaque, translated by Alain Marshal
Antidote du jour. William B: “A small painted turtle races across the 7th green at Inverwood GC, headed to the pond.”
And a bonus (Robin K):
A squirrel starting to store supplies for the winter…😊 pic.twitter.com/xsKy1x6rWK
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 10, 2024
A second bonus (Robin K):
Where’s the ball? 😂 pic.twitter.com/5dDzekBos0
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) September 9, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
