Dear patient readers,
Apologies for the lack of original posts. One we expected to come in didn’t and finding a replacement chewed into time to draft one of our own.
Daring rescue of deer trapped upside-down between buildings (video) BoingBoing
EU state declares war on beavers RT (Kevin W)
100 Unsettling Pictures Of Liminal Spaces That Might Give You The Heebie Jeebies Bored Panda. I only got started, given 100, but some seemed cool.
Scientists explore origins of horseback riding through human skeletons PhysOrg (Anthony L)
Archaeologists discover southern army fought at ‘Europe’s oldest battle’ Antiquity (Anthony L)
The joy of foraging aeon. I am a coward about stuff like this but I have no doubt many readers are enthusiasts. I remember Into the Wild.
Swiss police make arrests over suspected death in ‘suicide capsule’ Guardian
This should be in every medical waiting room. pic.twitter.com/g2vYcKFicd
— Robert Lufkin MD (@robertlufkinmd) September 23, 2024
Pain is ‘dramatically’ different in men and women The Hill. Articles like this are a big pet peeve of mine. Statistically, in classes as large as “men” and “women” the differences within a class will be greater than between classes. Yours truly has very high pain tolerance. I am sure that there are many men with very low pain thresholds. In fairness, this article does say acculturation plays a role.
‘The final warning sign’: drug-resistant typhoid is spreading in Pakistan Bureau of Investigative Journalism (Paul R)
#COVID-19
Are things ‘back to normal’?
Hmm. pic.twitter.com/ttQcGMji4b— tern (@1goodtern) September 24, 2024
Genetic tracing of market wildlife and viruses at the epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic Cell. Lambert featured yesterday in Water Cooler but important no to miss.
Acute COVID-19 severity markers predict post-COVID new-onset psychiatric disorders: A 2-year cohort study of 34,489 patients Molecular Psychiatry (Robin K)
Long COVID syndrome: An unfolding enigma The Indian Journal of Medical Research (Robin K). I had not seen this before: “Risk factors for long COVID include… reactivation of Epstein Barr (EB) virus and human herpes virus 6”
Microbiota-Based Therapeutics for COVID-19 and Sequelae Human Microbiome (book extract) (Robin K)
COVID-19 Infection and Medicines in Pregnancy in Canada European Psychiatry (Robin K)
Climate/Environment
Most electric-car batteries could soon be made by recycling old ones Economist (Kevin W)
Is recycling beyond fixing? Here’s why California thinks so. Washington Post (Kevin W)
World’s Biggest Cement Producers Bet on Green Alternative Bloomberg. ma: “These people are just diddling themselves…..all very clever, but will never scale remotely in time to matter…..”
Plan to refreeze Arctic sea ice shows promise in first tests New Scientist
California governor signs law banning all plastic shopping bags at grocery stores CNN
China?
China’s PLA launches intercontinental ballistic missile into Pacific Ocean Reuters
Japan says it received no advance notice of China’s intercontinental ballistic missile launch Anadolu Agency
European Disunion
Farming must pay for its emissions, says EU chief climate scientist Financial Times
Northvolt resembles a hostage drama Aftonbladet via machine translate (Micael T)
Old Blighty
Keir Starmer claims keeping winter fuel payments could have sparked Liz Truss-style meltdown on markets and warns UK faces taking more asylum seekers – as he begs Brits to be ‘patient’ with his ‘painful choices’ in Labour conference speech Daily Mail
Gaza
Footage from the aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Gaza today.
The victims are people standing in the street. A street vendor. People walking.
Israel doesn’t even bother with the pretense that there is a military target here anymore. https://t.co/JR7PtQSrqZ— Mohammad Alsaafin (@malsaafin) September 24, 2024
The Exhilaration of First Strikes: In Lebanon, Israel Repeats the Mistakes of 2006 Resistance News
Lebanon’s Hezbollah launch rocket targeting Mossad base near Tel Aviv Reuters. Israel shot it down. I have not seen accounts as to whether this was Hezbollah’s best missile type; they have held those back so far.
Voices of Lebanon: People fleeing for their lives as Israel attacks Aljazeera
Israel in TURMOIL: Hezbollah CRUSHES IDF’s Lebanon Offensive | Ghadi Francis & Lowkey Danny Haiphong, YouTube
A contrary view to Danny Haiphong’s interviewees. An open issue is that Israel, including the IDF, has low tolerance for pain. Norman Finkelstein: “Israel Is A Crazy State” Glenn Greenwald, YouTube
Going From “The Civilian Buildings Are Hamas” To “The Civilian Buildings Are Hezbollah” Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W)
Blinken Rejected Officials Who Concluded Israel Deliberately Blocked Humanitarian Aid to Gaza. ProPublica (Robin K)
BREAKING
China lambasts Isrаеli аttacks and gives full support to Lebanon and Palestine
“We will stand with our Arab brothers” pic.twitter.com/9r84QVT4Eo
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) September 24, 2024
The Bankruptcy of the ‘No Daylight’ Approach Daniel Larison
Lebanon: Memories of War New York Review of Books (Robin K)
Former MI5 Agent Annie Machon says Israeli intelligence service Mossad bombed their own embassy in London in 1994
They then stitched up two prominent Palestinian activists to take the blame
Samar Alami and Jawad Botmeh received 20 year sentences for a crime they didn’t commit pic.twitter.com/IiCZXYQ5fX
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) September 24, 2024
New Not-So-Cold War
Zelensky looks to Biden to back Ukraine ‘Victory plan’ BBC (Kevin W). Good luck with that.
SITREP 9/24/24: PR Tour Sours as Ukraine’s Lackluster ‘Victory Plan’ Met with Doubts Simplicius
US must get out of Ukraine – Trump RT
Power games over Ukraine’s electrical grid spark rule-of-law fears Politico. WFT? Still whining about Zelensky removing the energy chief weeks ago? And calling Ukraine an EU candidate in the subhead?
Imperial Collapse Watch
Joe Biden has just delivered a warmongering rant at the United Nations.
He demanded war against Russia, war against Iran, and threatened China all in one 25-minute speech.
Biden’s legacy is a world in flames, with his successor only expanding these global wars. pic.twitter.com/KYAPBccLRS
— Andre Damon (WSWS) (@Andre__Damon) September 24, 2024
Excellent speech by dr. Marty Makary:
“I’m trained in gastrointestinal surgery. My group at Johns Hopkins does more pancreatic cancer surgery than any hospital in the United States. But at no point in the last 20 years has anyone stopped to ask, why has pancreatic cancer doubled… pic.twitter.com/W3DefjkK3b— Camus (@newstart_2024) September 24, 2024
Trump
Trump Hack Continued Into Last Week Semafor
From Politico’s EU morning newsletter:
TRUMP IS COMING FOR YOUR JOBS: “You will see a mass exodus of manufacturing from China to Pennsylvania, from Korea to North Carolina, from Germany to right here in Georgia,” former U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday.
Zero-sum vision: Debuting his plan for “relocating entire industries” to the U.S., Trump promised a 15 percent “Made in America tax rate” and said he would appoint a manufacturing envoy whose “sole task … will be to go around the world and convince major manufacturers to pack up and move back to America.” Autoworkers, he said, would get special attention. (As if Germany’s embattled car industry didn’t have enough to worry about.)
Haitian group in Ohio files criminal charges against Trump and Vance over false pet-eating claims Associated Press (furzy)
Bombshell transcripts: Trump urged use of troops to protect Capitol on Jan. 6 , but was rebuffed Just the News. Yes, this is a stone right wing site. But it quote a transcript released by a Congresscritter.
California Passes Law To Ban or Restrict Smartphones in School Reuters
Our No Longer Free Press
Cognitive warfare in the West Voltaire.net (Micael T)
British Intel’s ‘Counter-Disinfo’ War Goes Global Kit Klarenberg (Micael T)
The Bezzle
Caroline Ellison Sentenced for Two Years in FTX Fraud Crypto Times
September consumer confidence falls the most in three years CNBC (Kevin W)
Private Credit Faces Worst Reckoning Since ‘08, NY Life CIO Says Bloomberg. CalPERS of course joined this party late, meaning it is sure to have heavier exposure to weaker credits.
Class Warfare
Striking Boeing machinists denounce company’s “Best and Final Contract Offer” WSWS. Note that there has been no negotiation after the strike was called.
5,000 Kansas Private Jet Workers Strike – Duke Football Players Aid NC Amazon Union Drive – Boeing Strike Enters 2nd Week Mike Elk
They fight the world’s richest man for their dignity Aftonbladet (Micael T)
Amazon, Tesla, Meta Considered Harmful To Democracy The Register
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