Mutation May Lead to New Species of Cat, Scientists Say Futurism
America’s top pediatricians for having ‘tons of babies’ to save the world: ‘There will be countries of starving adults’ The Guardian
Cockroaches Are Everywhere Now, And It’s All Because Of A Human Science Warning
Thank you, Cicadas, for making the Democratic Love of Nature Atmos
Climate/Environment
All Three Sides of the Global Energy Challenge Convertible Economist
Debate Erupts Over Environmental Forcing Benefits of ARCH2 ‘Hydrogen Hub’ in Appalachia Inside Climate News.
Water
As water dries up, Mexico City and Bogotá stare at ‘Day Zero’ Grist
After 5 years without drinking water, Santee asks: When will our tap water be safe? Flatwater Free Press. Santee is a town in NE Nebraska.
An epidemic
How ‘successful’ COVID-19 infections change your immune cells Medical Xpress
We Know How To End TB. We Just Need Will. Dominance
We have reached a stage where the most basic theories of human society need to be repeated and explained in one-syllable terms, as if they were new discoveries.
Our time will be seen as attacking thought and knowledge.
— Dr. David Berger, aBsuRdiSTe cROnickLeR (@YouAreLobbyLud) May 27, 2024
China?
China’s middle class is still confused about spending – especially locally, survey finds South China Morning Post
China’s gold rush shows the Chinese still have money to spend – just not at Starbucks or Gucci Business Insider
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US delegation arrives in Taiwan, President Lai Ching-te extends goodwill to China after training Channel News Asia
Assessing the US-China Energy Competition: From Cambodia’s Perspective (Part 1) Khmer Times
Syracistan
At least 30 dead as Israel targets Rafah: Gaza news office Anadolu Agency
Hamas fires rockets at Israel’s Tel Aviv, prompting first outcry in months Al Jazeera
The New York Times explains how gangsters now rule in Israel Pearls and Irritations
Israeli Military Police Investigate Reservist Calling for Expulsion of Masses in Gaza Haaretz
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The General Staff of the IDF has failed to control units, especially reserve units, in recent months. In Gaza, the West Bank and bases in Israel, soldiers filmed themselves destroying Palestinian property and civilian infrastructure / Amos Harel– Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 26, 2024
The most important thing.#IsraelThe Knesset decided, in its first reading, to “cut off all contacts and relations with them.” @UNRWA and we consider this organization as a terrorist organization”.
The ultimate goal of Israeli crimes is to push the Palestinians to leave #Palestine where…
— Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 (@ejmalrai) May 26, 2024
The message of Israel’s torture chambers is aimed at all of us, not just the Palestinians Middle East Eye
Will Gen Z change America’s foreign policy toward Israel? Responsible Statecraft
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US to lift freeze on sales of offensive weapons to Saudi Arabia: Sources Al Arabiya
A Saudi prince promised pain to the US in retaliation for oil cuts, the report said. His threat seems to have borne fruit. Business Insider
The breakup of Europe
European banks in Russia face ‘extreme risk’, Yellen says Euractiv
Le Pen to Meloni: Let’s join forces and form the EU Parliament’s number 2 party Politico
‘He’s taking us straight to World War III’, Italy slams NATO chief: Apologize or delete Pamphlet
Half of Italians struggling to make ends meet – Eurispes Ansa
A Threat to Energy Security in the European Political Order Hungarian Conservatives
The New Cold War
SITREP 5/26/24: NATO’s Yipping Chihuahuas Tighten Their Leash As Russia Prepares Next Wave Simplicus the Thinker
MORE ON RUSSIAN NUKE TESTS AND EXIT OPTIONS Larry Johnson, Sonar21
My discussion on WION: NATO’s big rise
– Russia’s early warning system has been attacked, strengthening the US’s first strike capability. Also, the US/UK/NATO attack lit up the Russian area with NATO weapons pic.twitter.com/pqCFabQFQF– Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) May 26, 2024
Fixed Wing Drones Seen Over Orenburg Oblast Militarnyi Region. “…the likely target is the Voronezh-M over-the-horizon radar.” Yet to see any extensive confirmation of this.
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Russia’s Most Active Electronic Warfare Is Changing The Atmosphere On The Front Line – Military Watch Reports
Baltic states and Poland may send troops to Ukraine if Russia succeeds, says RBC-Ukraine media
If all three Baltic countries committed all their Ground Forces, 100% of their active personnel and all their equipment, they would be contributing fewer soldiers than the AFU lost in the Battle of Mariupol, fewer armored vehicles than the AFU lost in 2023… pic.twitter.com/RuIPbxlvsz
– Russians with Attitude (@RWApodcast) May 26, 2024
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Can Ukraine’s Zelenskyy stay in power without elections? Deutsche Welle
Berdyaev and the Ukrainian War Gordon Hahn, Landmarks: A Journal of International Dialogue
Old Blighty
Popular Nation New Left Review. “Corporate American Anglophilia.”
The Caucasus
Georgia parliamentary committee rejects president’s veto of AP ‘foreigners’ segregation law
South of the Border
US-backed Peruvian government:
Peru’s Unpopular Leader Hits New Low: 5% Approval Rating.
— Marcelo Rochabrún (@mrochabrún) May 26, 2024
Spook Land
‘I don’t know how this happened’: Secret $3B plan undermining Biden’s tech policy Politico
Biden
The Left Is Not Joe Biden’s Problem. Joe Biden. How Things Work
Democracies en déshabille
The fight against international sanctions by Democrats The Hill
Incredible work by AIPAC. pic.twitter.com/TeZgCekfmB
– Ish Aderonmu (@LegalishCA) May 22, 2024
The AI
GOOGLE CEO SAYS NO SOLUTION TO ITS AI GIVING MISINFORMATION IN THE WILD Futurism
For AI to Deliver Its Promises, People Need to Trust CNET
Imperial Collapse Watch
Toxic Nexus Open Magazine
Unipolarity is not over Global Studies Quarterly
The US is the only superpower in the world – Biden RT
Health care?
When Healthcare Crowdfunding Fails The Baffler.
Police State Watch
A huge effort to fix these devices that will be used to harm us before we know it is disgusting.
— Read Let This Make It Big (@JoshuaPHilll) May 26, 2024
How to power both walk and manipulate the snake-inspired robot Tech Xplore
Academe qualifications
Kevin O’Leary’s dystopian tale of destroying the lives of campus protesters The Hill
Faced with pro-Palestinian protests, universities must realize they are businesses – and act like them The Globe and Mail
Missing Links in Textbook History: Debating the War Scheerpost
Our Famously Free Press
The motives for running this story and presenting it like this – in the context of the arrest, torture and killing of Palestinians on a large scale – are cynical, ugly and murderous. It’s hard to explain the hatred I have for our imperial ogre that grinds its holes and holes. pic.twitter.com/5AdOhKRbzY
— New Left EViews (@NewLeftEViews) May 26, 2024
@The Atlantic published the reason for the killing of Palestinian children today. pic.twitter.com/CGTh3Aexxw
– Writers Against the Gaza War (@wawog_now) May 26, 2024
Class War
No water, no shade: How real estate developers, agriculture companies and construction companies got politicians to reject heat laws for Florida’s foreign workers Rent Seekers
Newsom has promised 1,200 tiny homes for homeless Californians. A year later, no one has opened Cal Matters
The Doubtful Claim That We Have Governing Constraints
The Homeless: The Politics of Escape and the Housing Crisis Adolph Reed, Jr., Social Project. Good read.
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