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Fierce battle over ‘Holy Grail’ of shipwrecks BBC (Kevin W)

‘Surprising breakthrough’ marks step towards revealing hidden structure of prime numbers AAAS (Dr. Kevin)

Measures to prevent golf cart-related injuries urgently needed CMAJ (Dr. Kevin)

CDC conducts extensive investigation into bird flu contracted by Missouri resident Kansas Reflector (Robin K)

#Covid 19

Australia receives first case of COVID-19 highly contagious strain called XEC ABC Australia (Kevin W)

Climate/Environment

New method targets PFAS removal from wastewater PhysOrg (Chuck L)

New Coral Discovery May Solve Marine Mystery of “Missing Plastic”| SciTech Daily (Chuck L)

Making waves: Boxwall Flood Barrier leaves sandbags high and dry Thaiger (hairy)

China?

Chinese hackers reach US telecom firms, national security officials worry CNN

NATO calls for Asia, Taiwan moves: should Beijing worry as Japan’s Ishiba leaves? South China Morning Post

China’s Options for Retaliation in High-Charge Dispute with EU over EVs Sputnik (Kevin W)

Breast Cancer in China Lancet (red)

South of the Border

The mayor of Mexico’s state capital is killed less than a week after taking over the Associated Press. Robin K: “Sheinbaum is going to have a tough six years, even if he’s got a lot of support.”

Africa

Chagos islanders have left their homes because of the US military base in protest of a deal on their future that was made without them Associated Press (Robin K)

The breakup of Europe

The EU needs the return of migrants immediately, say 17 countries including Germany, France Politico

German government budget 2025: Attack on artistic freedom WSWS (Micael T)

IS-top takes government money guarantee – despite fat ambassador’s salary Aftonbladet with machine translation (Micael T)

Old Blighty

Who is Morgan McSweeney? Labor election expert replaces Sue Gray as Independent chief of staff (Kevin W)

Israel v. Axis of Resistance. FWIW, I told Lambert a few days ago that I don’t believe Israel will attack until after Yom Kippur, which starts on Oct 11. Everyone should be in shul by then. It would be your goal to give Iran an opportunity to launch a counter strike at that time.

Israel’s Killing Day 367: Israel orders evacuees from Gaza, increases bombings in Lebanon Mondoweiss (guurst)

Israel sends thousands of soldiers to Lebanon Financial Times. Note that “in” may be a stretch. Alastair Crooke told Judge Napolitano on Monday that Israel does not amount to a short border entry that cannot be adhered to, but also improves visibility by focusing on reaching villages that are known to be unfriendly to Israel (perhaps full of Christianity? ) to take pix, and then they are leaving. Note the title of the archived version is out of date; maybe readers can post a new version later.

More than 100 rockets fired at Haifa in heaviest attack on city since war The Times of Israel

Israel attacks military positions in central Syria, killing 5 Xinhua

‘Death sentence’: Asbestos released by Israeli bombs will kill generations Aljazeera

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Scott Ritter : Middle East One year after October 7, 2023. Judge Napolitano, YouTube. Many important stories, such as why the earthquake event in Iran was highly unlikely to be a nuclear test. Ritter also explains how Israel will need to redo any strike plans due to the possible addition of S-400s to Iran’s defenses. Ritter thinks that Israel should find a way to withdraw from Iran because it knows that doing so would lead to the destruction of Israel. But Norman Finkelstein described Israel as a country gone mad and Alastair Crooke, along with others, said how many Israelis see the country on an eschatological path. So a reasonable assumption might be too generous.

A look at Gaza City before and after October 7, 2023 Associated Press (Robin K)

A terrible year, 76 years of oppression: a visual guide to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Thomas Fazi (Micael T)

How Netanyahu stole defeat from the jaws of victory The Middle East Eye (guurst)

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Blinken Approved Policy For Bomb Aid Trucks, Israeli Cabinet Members Propose Dump Site (Chuck L)

Israel reveals its military losses RT (Kevin W). You haven’t seen any comments that this is considered low

Irish troops ‘willing to get the job done’ in Lebanon as Israeli attack continues The Irish Times

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Perfidy in Tehran Alastair Crooke. Aurelien helps celebrate!

General Qassem Soleimani wins: Israel falls into the trap of the Axis of Resistance Lucas Leiroz (Chuck L)

Legal Experts Criticize Biden For Commending Israel’s Extrajudicial Killing Of Hassan Nasrallah Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)

Revealing the IDF Level of Incompetence | Greg Stoker, TMR YouTube. It makes Scott Ritter’s assessment look more helpful.

What Escalating Middle East Conflict Could Mean for the Global Economy New York Times

Year of war creates cracks in Israel’s borrowing capacity Reuters

The New Cold War

What if Russia blocks the export of its raw materials? DW

Exclusive: Russia’s Lavrov Warns of US ‘Dangerous Consequences’ in Ukraine Newsweek. I plan to post on this.

More than 1,000 people have been evacuated after a Ukrainian drone attack set fire to a fuel storage facility in Crimea Anadolu Agency.

Ukrainian official photographed lying on a bed of money RT. Robin K: “Maybe you’re reading it to send it to North Carolina where the US no doubt originally intended to go.” Moi: “If this isn’t a deep hoax, someone has really bad judgment or something, everyone in Ukraine of any importance is in theft, so this kind of thing doesn’t register there as provocative.”

Why Europe’s leadership wants war Al Jazeera (Kevin W)

Syracistan

Pakistan: Imran Khan supporters clash with police as army closes capital, internet shuts down Economic Times

The Chinese Embassy in Pakistan has said that at least two people there were killed and a third injured after an attack on a convoy of aircraft near the Karachi airport. Aljazeera

Big Brother Watching Watching

Former UK Prime Minister Suggests Netanyahu Plant Eavesdropping Device In His Bathroom The Cradle (Chuck L)

American Water, the largest water utility in the US, is targeted by cyberattack ABC (Kevin W)

Imperial Collapse Watch

The future of US air power in a turbulent Asia Times (Kevin W)

Kamala

2024

America’s Most Important Presidential Election of Our Lifetime: The Right-Wing of the Two-Party System The Orinoco Tribune

NC fixes voting rules in devastated states by Helene Axios (Kevin W)

Hurricane Milton is a Category 5. Florida orders evacuations and evacuations to clear debris from Helene The Associated Press (Kevin W)

Immigration to another country

The US is accepting citizenship applications at the fastest pace in years, according to the Los Angeles Times. Robin K: “‘Immigration officials said the period is not driven by the election or any political agenda.'”

Abortion

The Supreme Court has upheld a lower court’s decision banning emergency abortions in Texas. The New Republic (furzy)

Ours is No Longer Free

Meta Criticizes Criticism of US-Israeli War Caitlin Johnstone (with audio)

Censorship Industrial Complex US Government Counterpopulist Blowback Michael Shellenberger (Robin K). Interview with Mike Benz

Mr. Market is Giddy

The S&P 500 is probably not this expensive. It’s a disaster waiting to happen. MarketWatch(s)

Global markets are soaring as the $8 billion conglomerate faces key WION tests

The country’s economic slowdown MROnline

Not being trusted

Monopoly Round-Up: The Fed Took $3k From You And Gave It To Jamie Dimon Matt Stoller. Note that the practice of the Fed paying interest on bank deposits as a way to manage interest rates is a new, post GFC gimmie. In the past, the Fed used open market operations, which did not enrich the banks.

Guillotine Watch

I have worked for Democrats for years. Billionaires With Unrestricted Influence Newsweek (Li)

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