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Your therapist wants you out of ScienceBlog (Dr. Kevin)

Critical Public Health Threat: Deadly Fungus Found in Commercial Soil, Compost, and Flower Bulbs ScienceTech (ma)

US investigates nearly 70 suspected human cases of H5N1 bird flu Telegraph

Lab-grown pet food to hit UK shelves as Britain becomes first country in Europe to legalize farmed meat Guardian

Danish parasite farm starts looking to feed European livestock PhysOrg

Heparin: Common Blood Thinner Emerges as Potential Cobra Bite Antidote ScienceBlog. If you are in the cobra area, Dr. Kevin recommends carrying a dose and practicing putting a sterile saline gun on your calf, for example, so you don’t have to close it in a real emergency. He recommends using BD-II 1ml insulin syringes with 12 or 13 mm needles (a bag of ten can cost ~$10). We have cobras here but only in the country, and yours truly doesn’t do nature/wilderness hiking, so I’m not at risk. The only victims of cobras I know here are….furzy dogs! His friend laughed and said he had an Arlington (cemetery) in his backyard.

#Covid 19

Climate/Environment

Deadly floods engulf parts of South Asia as extreme weather ravages vulnerable region CNN

Four years to fix Central Asia’s water crisis… Central Asia is at risk of entering a state of chronic water shortage as a major canal project nears completion in Afghanistan Intellinews.

China puts 15 provinces under state of emergency as deadly floods sweep north South China Morning Post

How effective are buried power lines in preventing widespread power outages in situations like Beryl? ABC 13 (Kevin W)

The breakup of Europe

European leaders discuss migration and Ukraine at UK summit as concerns grow over US direction Associated Press (Kevin W)

Germany found a way to exterminate Ukrainian Vzglyad people through machine translation (guurst)

How the French “partners” rejected the Anti-Spiegel world through machine translation (Micael T). Important.

A Trump-Vance White House could destabilize Europe’s security — and end up bringing Russia and China closer together The Conversation. Kevin W:

Key sentence – ‘Putin’s Russia has proven to be an unreliable negotiating partner in the past, as the collapse of the Minsk ceasefire agreements of 2014 and 2015 clearly shows.’ WTF

Old Blighty

No more ‘basket-case Britain’: Europe welcomes Starmer’s reset on UK-EU ties Guardian (Kevin W)

The Caucuses

Gaza

We volunteered at the hospital in Gaza. What we saw was indescribable. Politico (Tom H)

UN court orders Israel to stop occupying Palestinian territories The Guardian (Dr. Kevin). But this is only a non-binding, advisory opinion.

Strong ICJ Verdict Against Israel Highlights Need for UN Action Sam Husseini

Jordan after trying to sabotage China-led Palestinian talks: Report The Cradle (Chuck L)

Lying in bed, nightmares and shivering. The war in Gaza is damaging mental health, especially for children The Associated Press (ma)

Israel’s right-wing minister Ben-Gvir visits Al-Aqsa Al Jazeera (Kevin W)

US Launches Effort to Stop Russia from Arming Houthis with Antiship Missiles Wall Street Journal (Robin K). This is almost funny. The headline and the front picture of an exploding tank show that Russia is not doing this. But paragraph 5 says, my emphasis: “The combination of intelligence that is Moscow you may be planning providing military support to Yemen…” Ahem, the US needs intelligence to figure out that Russia might be helping the Houthis? After the US supplied and directed weapons to kill people off the coast of Crimea, Putin warned that Russia was willing to pull US assets out of the theater, saying that Russia now views it as supporting operations that the US opposes in other parts of the world. This humble blog went so far as to say that if the US had any sense it would see the Houthis and Hezbollah at the top of the list.

The New Cold War

Russia may use nuclear missiles in response to US missile deployment in Germany – MFA TASS (guurst)

SITREP 7/19/24: West Searches for New Deflection in Russian “Barrel Crisis” Simplicius

Russia Sentences Evan Gershkovich to 16 Years in Prison on Espionage Charges Moscow Times

Syracistan

Will European Powers Return to Afghanistan and See the Taliban? Sputnik (Robin K)

Big Brother Watching Watching

USPS shared customer mailing address with Meta, LinkedIn and Snap TechCrunch (BC)

Imperial Collapse Watch

Mark Sleboda: Putin and China Just Put the US Military on HIGH Alert and War Is Coming to Eurasia Danny Haiphong, YouTube. Note the comment at 23:10, of the Pentagon’s new announcement that it is planning for decades of conflict. So elected leaders have no say?

Biden

Memo: Biden on The Hill

Biden’s family begins discussing his plan to exit the 2024 NBC race.

Trump

Trump did not say he would not defend the Taiwan Asia Times

Trump Assassination Attempt Post Mortem

ANOTHER REVIEW OF THE FAILED TRUMP ASSASSINATION – WAS IT A STAGE? Larry Johnson

The police did not have the ‘manpower’ to watch the building to shoot the Trump rally shooter who was fired from the Washington Post (crazy). Note that Lambert sent a tweet yesterday, which was a Facebook post, that was supposed to be the Butler Police Chief who said it was fake that the police did not do well. They were asked to provide only 7 men with road details

Vance

How Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley funded the sudden rise of JD Vance Financial Times (Kevin W)

JD Vance on Tech and the Internet Search the Net (Micael T)

Why Trump chose Vance as VP is about the US foreign policy of Responsible Government

Abortion

Storm Lake has a complicated history with abortionist Art Cullen (Chuck L)

Ours is No Longer Free

Facebook and Instagram’s algorithmic selection of cheap groups revealed in new PsyPost research (Paul R)

Meta Policy on Zionism Exposed: CyberWell Scrambles After Israel’s Encounter Revealed Mint Press News (Chuck L)

Not being trusted

Antitrust as a Detractor of Copyright UCLA Law Review

The AI

Academic writers ‘shocked’ after Taylor & Francis sell access to their research on Microsoft AI The Bookseller (Paul R)

Crowdstrike 404

Companies around the world hit by Microsoft close the Financial Times. The best story.

CrowdStrike and Microsoft: all the latest news about IT outages around the world The Verge

Russia Is Untouchable As IT Companies Burn Globally Sputnik (Robin K)

Class War

Even a PhD is not enough to clear the Financial Times class results

Antidote du jour. Tracie H:

My husband pointed out this little cat stumbling around blindly in our back yard. There are stray cats out there, and we wouldn’t know about its birth. I saw that there was no parent, so I picked it up and its little eyes were so wide that it couldn’t open them, if it was old enough to open them. They were leaking green fluid which made me worried that it was not normal, so we went to the vet. The vet gave an estimate of its age for about 2 weeks, due to the presence of a tooth or two, he put a small drop of flea treatment (the fleas were almost bigger than a cat, called “Indie” on Independence Day (it was the weekend), and equally appropriate, in the spirit of the type of adventure from Indiana Jones He also gave us anti-infection medicine, and the sweet receptionist who was feeding the puppies with bottles had some advice on those methods.

However, when we returned home, we found out that his mother had come out of hiding (a shy, shy cat that we are familiar with but did not realize was in the family’s house) and was wandering around screaming all the time. So, hoping that the cat’s eyes would be fine without medication, since we hadn’t started yet, and we felt that Mom would take care of Indie much better than we could, we put little Indie in her new basket here (sorry for the unattractive cardboard tag that we didn’t take time to remove!) and brought her back to the porch. The mother, Zsa-Zsa with her beautiful long shiny fur, was reluctant to come out to her while we were watching, so we left. When I later went to get the basket I was greeted by the foul smell of strong urine. It’s interesting. I’ve been bothering him about that flea medicine. I think you washed it with the only liquid.

And a bonus (Chuck L):

See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here.

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