The Heroic Trade of the Brothers Grimm Hudson Assessment (Anthony L)
Scientists Discover ‘Spooky’ Quantum Entanglement Inside Particular person Protons House
Chilly climate alerts from New Mexico to Florida, with one other winter storm anticipated ABC Information (Kevin W)
France sees temperatures as little as -33C ConnexionFrance
You Are What Your Ancestors Didn’t Eat Nautilus (Micael T)
Are Some Extremely-Processed Meals OK? New Examine Has Solutions Wall Road Journal. Doesn’t handle ultraprocessed meals like whey protein. These aren’t precisely enjoyable to eat however will be made fairly tasty.
The Midlife Transition: Confronting Mortality and Rebirth Neo-Feudal Assessment (Micael T). I need to confess that I don’t relate to this.
Local weather/Setting
Earth shattered warmth data in 2023 and 2024: is international warming dashing up? Nature
Local weather Fashions Can’t Clarify What’s Taking place to Earth Atlantic
Permafrost thaw beneath Arctic lakes poses shock air pollution risk New Scientist
California and environmental teams sued Exxon over plastics. Now Exxon is putting again. Grist. Attorneys in the home, be happy to appropriate me, however I imagine CA has fairly sturdy anti-SLAPP legal guidelines in order that the defendants can countersue and delay the underlying case (delay is mostly seen as unfavorable to plaintiffs). Nonetheless, I doubt that issues a lot to Exxon, because the level is more likely to impose prices (and authorized payments will do exactly nice) and deter others.
Thailand Bans Imports of Plastic Waste To Curb Poisonous Air pollution Guardian
Cava disaster: Spanish fizz should adapt amid torrid droughts Drinks Worldwide
Lords Of The Untamed Wild Nomea (Anthony L). From final month, nonetheless germane.
California Burning
1000’s instructed to desert properties as enormous wildfire rips by way of Los Angeles suburbs BBC. Lead story and BBC is aware of I’m not within the US. Apparently the large danger is extraordinary excessive winds, which might blow sizzling embers far and vast.
Los Angeles firefighters concede they can’t comprise flames as enormous wildfires unfold quickly close to metropolis: Stay updates Every day Mail
California wildfires dwell updates: New blazes erupt as crews battle Palisades Fireplace NBC
Los Angeles mayoral candidate Rick Caruso calls into Fox Information and says “there’s no water popping out of the hearth hydrants” within the Palisades.
The mayor is overseas. The assets aren’t in place to handle this catastrophe.pic.twitter.com/sBi1RV5Twg
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) January 8, 2025
Getty Villa Museum grounds catch fireplace Los Angeles Occasions
China?
1/6
Very attention-grabbing FT article: “Chinese language enterprise capitalists are hounding failed founders, pursuing private property and including them to a nationwide debtor blacklist once they fail to pay up, throwing the nation’s start-up funding ecosystem into disaster.”https://t.co/0xWJMWoTVF— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) January 6, 2025
Key part from underlying Monetary Occasions story:
As soon as blacklisted, it’s almost inconceivable for people to start out one other enterprise. They’re additionally blocked from a variety of financial actions, equivalent to taking planes or high-speed trains, staying in lodges or leaving China. The nation lacks a private chapter regulation, making it extraordinarily tough for many to flee the money owed.
O Canada
Canadian PM Trudeau’s Resignation is Completely Regular Ian Welsh (Micael T)
The Authoritarian Legacy of Justin Trudeau Reclaim the Internet (Micael T)
European Disunion
EU will defend borders, says French minister in response to Trump’s Greenland threats Monetary Occasions
Subsequently, the courtroom returned the weapon to a 17-year-old gangster Aftonbladet by way of machine translation (Micael T)
Israel v. The Resistance
South Lebanon as we speak |
Regardless of a ceasefire in place for weeks now, and no hostilities between Israel and south Lebanon
Israeli forces proceed in full pressure to flatten and demolish the properties of displaced Lebanese civilians pic.twitter.com/8uzfSQMA6o
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) January 6, 2025
Chris Hedges: Genocide — The New Regular Consortium Information (Robin Okay)
Col. Larry Wilkerson: Israel’s Battle Growth: A Expensive Gamble Backfiring Dialogue Works, YouTube
After Iraq, Libya, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria, the Pentagon assaults Yemen Voltaire.internet (Micael T)
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
WaPo Editors – Ending The Conflict Is Worse Than Shedding Moon of Alabama
Trump’s Ukraine aide postpones journey to Kiev – Reuters RT
🇺🇦🇷🇺 RUSSIA CAPTURES THE BIGGEST LITHIUM DEPOSIT IN UKRAINE!
The village of Shevchenko to the west of Kurakhovo, the place the most important lithium deposit in Ukraine is positioned was captured by the Russian military, this was introduced by Ukranian deep state mappers.
The Russians introduced… pic.twitter.com/4Ujpi4PyzH
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 7, 2025
“Whoever involves us with a sword will perish by the sword!” – 1000’s of international mercenaries killed in Ukraine Worldwide Affairs (Micael T)
Digital warfare can be ineffective towards Ukrainian FPV drones on fiber optics: shotguns are wanted – plenty of them TopWar (Micael T). Erm, there have been articles on Russia having deployed one of these drane again in March: Russian Fiber Optic Drone Beats Any Jammer Forbes
Syraqistan
Why water shortage is essential think about Syria’s protracted battle The Week
Massive Brother is Watching You Watch
Hackers Declare Large Breach of Location Knowledge Big, Threaten To Leak Knowledge 404media
Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand ‘surges 1150%’ The Register (Dr. Kevin)
1/6
AOC’s Blatant January sixth LIES Glenn Greenwald
Trump 2.0
Trump Declines to Rule Out Army Motion to Receive Greenland, Panama Newsweek
Trump Imagines New Sphere of U.S. Affect Stretching From Panama to Greenland Wall Road Journal. Amusing to see the Journal ‘splain Trump.
JUST IN – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s invoice textual content that may formally change the title of “The Gulf Of Mexico” to “The Gulf Of America”. – Every day Caller pic.twitter.com/XbFqZUoaLx
— Insider Paper (@TheInsiderPaper) January 7, 2025
Disaster? What Disaster? A Video for Elon Musk on the Deficit Steve Eager
Trump’s Commerce Insurance policies Spark Uncommon Earth Uncertainty Metallic Miner
Decide quickly blocks launch of particular counsel report on Trump instances as courtroom struggle simmers Related Press
Elbridge Colby and the Reurn of Republican Realism Drop Website (Robin Okay)
Our No Longer Free Press
Meta ending fact-checking program: Zuckerberg The Hill
BBC Center East Editor Collaborated With CIA, Mossad Consortium Information
Mr. Market is Moody
Continued Labor Market Deterioration Indignant Bear
Versus: Labor Market Dynamics Retighten, Job Openings Soar Once more. Fed Faces State of affairs of Strong Job Market, Re-accelerating Inflation Wolf Richter
Financial institution of Japan analysis refutes the primary predictions made by economists in regards to the impacts of huge bond-buying packages Invoice Mitchell. Necessary. It confirms a degree many, together with yours really, have made repeatedly over time: QE isn’t cash printing and doesn’t generate inflation.
Antitrust
Massive Landlord Settles With US, Will Cooperate In Worth-Fixing Investigation ars technica. This was quick for at the very least one defendant. See date on this text: US Justice Division accuses six main landlords of scheming to maintain rents excessive Related Press
How the OS/2 flop went on to form fashionable software program The Register (Kevin W)
AI
A malfunctioning Waymo left a passenger caught within the autonomous automobile because it drove circles round a parking zone Enterprise Insider
On the Intersection of A.I. and Spirituality New York Occasions
Cybertruck driver used ChatGPT to plan Las Vegas assault, police say CBS 42
The Bezzle
Carvana: A Father-Son Accounting Grift For The Ages Hindenburg Analysis (Micael T)
The Nice Crypto Crash Atlantic
Class Warfare
Why the Left wants to look at Star Trek: It has classes for as we speak’s techno-optimists Yanis Varoufakis, Unherd
New federal rule will take away medical debt from credit score stories ABC (Kevin W)
The case towards ‘Western’ Marxism MR On-line (Anthony L)
Antidote du jour (Chet G):
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
