I need a fear of life. Aeon (Michael T.)
How to get rid of fake degrees and zombie universities Nature (Dr. Kevin)
New insights into Denisovans: a new hominin group that interbred with modern humans ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
DNA evidence rewrites the story of those buried in Pompeii eruption ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
Breakthrough: Keto diet may hold the secret to alleviating autoimmune diseases SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
Climate/Environment
The ultra-wealthy are using jets like taxis, climate scientists warn BBC (Chuck L)
Energy transition has mining problems global witness
‘We just barely made it out’: Californians desperately flee their homes amid raging wildfires CNN (Kevin W)
China?
House committee questions semiconductor equipment maker over relationship with China The Hill (Kevin W)
President Trump wins: Why China’s economy is now more vulnerable to new tariffs Reuters
JD Logistics unveils full suite of unmanned products at CeMAT ASIA 2024
called Zhilang robot
In addition to handling robots, ladder robots, and 3D shelving, it includes ancillary equipment such as automated warehouses, picking workstations, and automatic empty box return lines.
Delivering HD storage with storage… pic.twitter.com/2yrN0C67cF— tphuang (@tphuang) November 5, 2024
myanmar
2 million people in Myanmar at risk of starvation amid ‘complete economic collapse’ Reuters
Africa
Bloodshed in Ethiopia: 48 killed in reactionary Oromia region. What on earth is a conflict?
discord in europe
Trump’s victory turns EU trade war nightmare into reality politiko
Gas dependence continues as Europe faces winter energy shortages crude oil price
With the collapse of the government, Mr. Scholz prepares for a snap general election in Germany Politico (Kevin W)
EU needs to become ‘omnivore’ – Macron RT (Kevin W)
israel vs resistance
Qatar says Hamas is ‘no longer welcome’ in Gulf states: Report Anadolu agency. It seems to be goodbye to Qatar as a back channel.
Israeli forces have acknowledged their presence in northern Gaza. This is the next step in that plan. Mondo Weiss
Using the election as a cover:
The Terrorist Family Expulsion Law was just passed in the second and third readings of parliament and is now part of Israeli law. The government plans to use this law to expel Palestinians from Israel. They have long promised this law to their genocidal base. https://t.co/hcGRCemnPi
— BM (@ireallyhateyou) November 7, 2024
* * * Israel struggles in the trenches on the battlefield in Lebanon cradle
Norman Finkelstein discusses Hamas and Hezbollah’s resistance to Israel with Elijah Magnier India and the global left. important. Finkelstein is brutal.
* * * Armed Israeli police invade French-owned church compound in Jerusalem Arrabiya (Kevin W)
Six UNIFIL peacekeepers in Lebanon injured in Israeli drone attack Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
* * * For the first time in the history of football hooligans, an Israeli man was assaulted so badly that the government had to help them escape.
After chanting racist chants, attacking people’s private property and targeting Arab taxi drivers, Israeli football hooligans, many of them soldiers… pic.twitter.com/E4WnLs9Di0
— MintPressNews (@MintPressNews) November 8, 2024
A new war that’s not so cold war
Mark Sreboda: Why President Trump can’t force Russia to end SMO and therefore save the Western-backed Kiev Putsch regime, and more… Rachel Blevins. Most readers have resolved this, but a brief review would be helpful.
President Trump considers Ukraine peace plan that would put British troops in 800-mile buffer zone Telegraph. Alexander Mercouris called the plan “neocon heavy” and noted that there is currently no evidence that this is anything more than lobbying Trump through the press.
Europe already ‘blocks Trump’ from supporting Ukraine war Responsible Politician (Kevin W)
Blinken and Barro spoke about aid to Ukraine UA top news
Open letter from the Ukrainian left to international social democracy Machine translation by Nachdenkseiten (Micael T)
big brother is watching over you
NRO chief: ‘You can’t hide’ from SpaceX’s new fleet of spy satellites Ars Technica
imperial collapse watch
US lacks aircraft to win air war with China asia times
Trump 2.0
The real dangers of Trump’s economic plan Foreign Affairs (Dr. Kevin)
Sitrep 11/8/24: Things tilt with the arrival of President Trump. Simplicius
Let’s assume that Trump is serious about some policies. What is the impact? Ian Welsh
Is the Biden administration setting a trap to thwart President Trump’s peace efforts? Anti Spiegel (Michael T)
President Trump worsens our plight: Palestinian and Lebanese victims of Israel’s war Al Jazeera (Michael T.)
The World of Trump (written by Colonel Wilkerson) Chris Hedges (FK). The number of casualties in Lebanon so far is “huge” at 4,000 (!!!), and it is not the KIA that matters for modern militaries, but the “WIA” which can be kept low by good battlefield surgery. Important facts such as “.
President Trump predicts military reset: culture war counterattack the hill
President Trump eyes Iran hawk Brian Hook as his first foreign policy candidate Drop Site News (Chuck L)
President Trump’s renewed obsession with Iran Daniel Larison
Postmortem in 2024
BREAKING: Jack Smith is moving to override remaining deadlines in President Trump’s D.C. criminal case. pic.twitter.com/o6969qte47
— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) November 8, 2024
🧵Last night’s voting measures tell us a few things about how voters feel about the economy.
Here’s how they played.paid sick leave
All three measures passed requiring employers to provide paid sick leave (Alaska, Missouri, Nebraska)
All three states went to Trump.1/x
— Pavlina R Cherneva (@ptcherneva) November 6, 2024
Revenge of the silent male voters
What we learned about Trump’s landslide victory from one night in New York City.
On election day, I took the subway from Brooklyn to Manhattan. The older woman sitting across from me was wearing a T-shirt with a picture of President Trump raising his fist…
— Claire Lehman (@clairlemon) November 6, 2024
Pelosi criticizes Biden (Harris too?) Ken Krippenstein. Chuck L.: “If the 2020 “strong primary” had anything to do with choosing the Democratic presidential nominee, it wouldn’t have been Biden. ”
Democrats join the graveyard of incumbents in 2024 Financial Times (BC)
Donald Trump gains gains across New York City as Democratic margins plummet gothamist
“If we can maintain it, it will be a republic.” Probably not. Washington Post. Robin K: “Condemning the Abused: WaPo PMC lashes out.”
Our press is no longer free
Democratic TV host threatens Musk over ‘Russia ties’ RT (Kevin W)
mr market party on
Risk assets rise, but bond markets are cautious about Donald Trump’s victory financial times
World trade continues to contract at the beginning of the fourth quarter S&P Global
The world faces the worst trade war since 1930s economist
The aftermath of expanding sovereign debt supply Reuters
Average U.S. 30-year mortgage interest rate rises for 6th consecutive week Associated Press
A.I.
“Meta allows U.S. government agencies and contractors working on national security to use its AI models for military purposes. This prohibits the use of its technology for such efforts. This is a change from the previous policy.https://t.co/WsexbfgmUS
— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) November 7, 2024
class war
Ambulance hits cyclist, takes him to hospital, then charges $1,800: Legalt PennLive (Dr. Kevin)
An immediate antidote. Tracy H: “This damselfly lives at the San Diego Botanical Garden. I saw a few flying around these plants at the edge of the pond.”
And bonus (Chuck L):
he looks very happy. ❤️ pic.twitter.com/6YTTZJsGHG
— Nature is amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 5, 2024
Second bonus (Gust):
Просто весело проводит время 😁 pic.twitter.com/evNxElXXSAK
— Etnaetoya (@Etnaetoya) November 8, 2024
Third person (Chuck L):
A 74-year-old Florida man pulled a puppy out of an alligator’s mouth. pic.twitter.com/CO0WHFt5xZ
— Nature is amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 8, 2024
See yesterday’s link and antidote. here.
