As deep freeze grips the South, North Carolina gators chill out YouTube (furzy)
Climate change: Four new emperor penguin groups found by satellite BBC
Cicada brood map 2024: When and where billions of the bugs will emerge Vox (furzy)
How We Turned the Tide in the Roach Wars Atlantic (furzy). From last year, still germane.
Exploring Prehistoric Times: Dinosaur Footprints Found In Thailand Thaiger (furzy)
Iceland’s Dance With Fire: New Fissures Paint the Landscape in Flames SciTech Daily (Chuck L)
#COVID-19
Massachusetts General Hospital has declared a critical incident under a “capacity disaster”
Some professors at Harvard assured the crisis phase of covid was over.
I sure would be embarrassed if shown up by someone I keep proclaiming superiority over.https://t.co/gc6S6u9Orm
— AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (@fitterhappierAJ) January 23, 2024
Surge in cases leads to over 10 fatalities Bangkok Post (furzy)
Climate/Environment
Growing Fruit And Veg In Urban Farms Isn’t The Green Choice We Imagine ScienceAlert (Chuck L)
Floating Solar Farms: Southeast Asia’s Answer to Land Scarcity OilPrice
I can indeed. The numbers that economists have fitted their models to have nothing to do with climate change. Like so many others, @BillGates has fallen for the greatest swindle in the history of humanity. See https://t.co/eZDzXlQFv5 for the gory details. https://t.co/THuhGSO3KQ
— Dr. Steve Keen (@ProfSteveKeen) January 23, 2024
China?
China Boosts Stimulus by Allowing Banks to Keep Smaller Reserves Bloomberg
Good Foreign Policy article in which Howard French makes the point that the “sudden” shift in China’s economic prospects wasn’t sudden at all. “The two main causes cited for this new conventional wisdom have been known for years.” @hofrenchhttps://t.co/vWh9t2yDIS
— Michael Pettis (@michaelxpettis) January 24, 2024
European Disunion
From Politico’s morning newsletter:
TODAY: EUROPE’S PLAN TO DE-RISK FROM CHINA: Brussels will today add some more meat to its “economic security” stew — first scooped by Playbook last year. “The world is changing. It’s time for a ‘reality check’ about the risks we face at this time of profound geopolitical turmoil and fast technological change,” the Commission’s Executive Vice President Valdis Dombrovskis told Playbook ahead of an announcement today….
What’s in that proposal, you ask? Playbook had a look so you don’t have to. Basically, the law will ramp up rules to monitor foreign takeovers. The idea is to shield the EU’s crown jewels, such as robotics, biotech or aerospace companies from being snatched up by China and others. Under the new law, all EU countries will be forced to check certain foreign takeovers to make sure they don’t undermine the EU’s security interests.
More proposals: Brussels will also advocate for “some uniform” EU export controls — which are currently decided by each EU country individually — in an effort to close loopholes.
Preparations for six days of standstill Tagesschau via machine translation (guurst)
French farmers up pressure on government as protests spread Reuters. Notice URL.
Refugees leaving German state over new cash rules – Bild RT (Micael T)
Gaza
‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 109: Israeli forces storm Al-Khair Hospital, bomb Palestinians sheltering in tents in Khan Younis Mondoweiss
Israel’s war on Gaza live: Attacks surge as Khan Younis battles intensify Aljazeera
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2024: The Coming Foreign Policy Peril Douglas Macgregor, American Conservative
US-British Strikes on Yemen Seek to Provoke Wider War with Iran Brian Berletic
In short, the US will blockade the shipping waterways so the world economy suffers and begins to demand an end to the Ansarallah blockade of Israeli ships.
Keep in mind that your global shortages are entirely due to the US now, in a desperate American bid to protect Israel. pic.twitter.com/tUfIcRgpdw
— Sharmine Narwani (@snarwani) January 23, 2024
Weapons for Israel (II) German Foreign Policy (Micael T)
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Netanyahu promises billions in government aid to battered north Times of Israel. Kevin W: “If he does not, then he will find that ‘The North Remembers.’”
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No progress in cease-fire in Gaza, prisoners swap with Hamas: Israeli official Anadolu Agency. Per Alex Christaforu on Tuesday, Axios ran a rumor otherwise, but it was not picked up by other MSM outlets and now we see why.
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This is quite significant, and illustrates that the Jewish diaspora might progressively be shifting against what Israel is doing.
France has the world’s third largest Jewish community (behind the U.S. and Israel) and Jacques Attali 👇 is probably the most prominent Jewish voice… https://t.co/tsH3OFfQuR
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) January 23, 2024
War on Gaza: Israel’s antiquities director displays stolen artefacts in parliament Middle East Eye (Kevin W)
New Not-So-Cold War
Hoo boy: Russian military transport plane crashes near Ukraine, killing 74: Victims include 65 Ukrainian prisoners of war, says Moscow Financial Times
UPDATE: OFFICIAL RUSSIAN STATEMENT ON PLANE CRASH Head of the State Duma’s Defense Committee,
Andrey Kartapolov: “At around 11:00, an IL-76 plane from the Russian Aerospace Force crashed near Belgorod airport. On board were 65 former Ukrainian soldiers, prisoners of war, who…
— Higgins Adventures Network (@RandyHiggins757) January 24, 2024
Patrick Lawrence: Russia’s Turn From the West ScheerPost (Chuck L)
Turkey approves Sweden’s NATO membership bid after 20-month delay Reuters
🇷🇺SERGEY LAVROV:
“It’s impossible to understand how the Americans still try to tell us ‘okay we’re enemies, we called you enemy, we said that you must be strategically defeated, but we still need to visit your strategic nuclear bases’.
Because this treaty provides for the… pic.twitter.com/vvxFTRfDa5
— Sony Thang (@nxt888) January 23, 2024
🇫🇷 It looks like the French got it in Kharkov again.
It is reported that the strike in Kharkov was carried out on officials from the French Ministry of Defense at the time of handing over to them the identified bodies of French military intelligence officers killed during the…
— Zlatti71 (@djuric_zlatko) January 23, 2024
Syraqistan
Iran’s Rouhani rejected by electoral council in blow to centrists Financial Times
Western Values
Supreme Court Rejects Attempt to Silence Palestinian Human Rights Advocacy Center for Constitutional Rights (Chuck L)
Columbia University Scolds Students for ‘Unsanctioned’ Gaza Rally Where They Were Attacked With Chemicals Intercept
WORLD BANK GROUP INSTITUTION AGREES TO SETTLE CASE ALLEGING IT ABETTED MURDER CADTM (Micael T)
The Berlin War Cabinet on the prowl Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
NATO state’s citizens told to invest in tanks RT (Micael T)
Imperial Collapse Watch
Israel and Ukraine Both Need 155mm Artillery Shells. Can the U.S. Meet Demand? Wall Street Journal
Türkiye rebelled against rampant Western intelligence vz.ru via machine translaton (Micael)
America has always been at war with itself South China Morning Post (furzy)
Trump
Federal appeals court lets Trump gag order stand in federal January 6 case CNN (furzy)
Don’t fall for the trumped-up charges against Fani Willis Salon (furzy). Comes off as desperate.
Biden
Joe Biden Steps Up Attack on Supreme Court Newsweek (furzy)
Virginia County Admits Election Tally in 2020 Shorted Joe Biden Ground News (furzy). From a few days ago
2024
Trump and Biden Say the General Election Has Begun. Haley Disagrees. Wall Street Journal
GOP Clown Car
Goodbye to Ron DeSantis & Stable Genius Donald Trump Confuses Nikki Haley and Nancy Pelosi Jimmy Kimmel, YouTube (furzy)
BREAKING: Arizona Republican Party chair Jeff DeWit caught on secret recording trying to bribe Kari Lake not to run for the Senate.
Holy s***!
“There are very powerful people who want to keep you out,” he said.
At one point during the secret recording, Lake was asked to name… pic.twitter.com/9r1DoDzITD
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 23, 2024
Immigration
Imitation Nation 99% Invisible. UserFriendly: “This is a truly horrific way to treat new immigrants from war zones.
Gunz
US appeals court revives Mexico’s $10bn lawsuit against gunmakers BBC
Our No Longer Free Press
Why Is Music Journalism Collapsing? Honest Broker (Micael T)
Police State Watch
Virgilio Aguilar Méndez is Facing Murder Charges for an Officer Who Died of Natural Causes While Attacking Him ScheerPost (Chuck L)
The Bezzle
FTX Sold $1 Billion of Grayscale’s Bitcoin ETF After SEC Approval: Report Business Insider (furzy)
Why Technical Analysis (TA) Works Using Bitcoin as an Example MishTalk. Furzy: “More dog du jour: I see a head & shoulders top too.”
Interesting pic.twitter.com/0KP4cgM3TB
— ʎllǝuuop ʇuǝɹq (@donnelly_brent) January 23, 2024
Guillotine Watch
After Auschwitz, Elon Musk Goes Full Crazy With New Claim About Holocaust New Republic (furzy)
Class Warfare
Opinion: Three ways to help millennials overcome the cost of living crisis CNN. Mark G: “Filipovic humps the shark.”
Reports Expose Deep Harms of Corporate Tax Cuts and ‘Trickle Down’ Ideology Common Dreams (furzy)
Did Stock Buybacks Knock the Bolts Out of Boeing? Les Leopold
The Los Angeles Times plunges into ‘chaos’ as brutal layoffs loom and senior editors call it quits CNN (Paul R)
The LA Times laid us off in an HR zoom webinar with chat disabled, no q&a, no chance to ask questions. As a colleague described it, “that was like a drive-by.” https://t.co/CYmSedLMRF
— Jared Servantez (@jservantez) January 23, 2024
Antidote du jour. Due to inbox overload, I am late to take up this submission by George D:
Here’s a pic of our dog Merlin guarding the entrance to our cat’s sleeping igloo until he gets back from the sandbox.
And a bonus:
Incredible colour and texture changes in this octopus at rapid pace 🐙 pic.twitter.com/9wLgofj38v
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 20, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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