Video shows a baby kangaroo outside in Colorado CNN (Dr. Kevin)
US authorities capture and kill Instagram-squirrel BBC (furzy) 🙁
The Saga of a Famous Scientist – and His Rodent Dystopia The Chronicle of Higher Education (Anthony L)
Variety of Mystical Experience Book Forum (Anthony L)
Shrinkage Degrees London Literature Review (Anthony L). Controversies about Mendel.
The Seventy Percent Harper’s (Anthony L)
Significance of H5N1 swine flu Sharon Astyk (ma)
#Covid 19
>AP: Public Health Department Banned from Offering COVID Vaccine MedPage (Carla R)
See how Covid DWARFS Flu as needed in ICU/HDU. pic.twitter.com/AJyb2mgF3J
— tern (@1gootern) October 26, 2024
Climate/Environment
Spain flood disaster: death toll rises to 205 as more troops join The Guardian (Kevin W)
No country in the world has recorded as many lightning strikes as Spain in recent days. pic.twitter.com/IHDrNlwuKe
— Nahel Belgherze (@WxNB_) October 31, 2024
China?
China is strengthening its hand in the world’s mining Economist
China’s Skydio curbs ring US alarm Asia Times (Kevin W)
Analysis: Trade war could hurt US farmers AgUpdate
Apartheid and China Louis-Vincent Wa offered (Anthony L)
The Koreans
US Provides Evidence That North Korean Soldiers Are On The Ground In Ukraine Larry Johnson
North Korea test-fires new intercontinental ballistic missile – and warns it is ‘strengthening nuclear power’ Sky
North Korea promises to ‘strongly support and assist’ the Russian army until it wins in Ukraine Anadolu Agency
Africa
Malawi begins nationwide oil measure amid VOA shortage
O Canada
Canada’s economy may have missed the central bank’s third-quarter growth forecast by Reuters
South of the Border
Mexico’s New President Faces His First Crisis The New York Times (Robin K)
The breakup of Europe
Dozens are being investigated in Italy amid the government data hacking scandal and illegal documents The Record (Anthony L). From a few days ago, still germane.
The German Coal Industry and the Rise of Hitler: A Reassessment Center for New Economic Thought
Old Blighty
UK rout deepens as Reeves budget worries spread across markets Bloomberg
Car sales are in turmoil as shock decision leaves market at risk of collapse The Telegraph
Angry farmers have warned that the Government’s brutal rise in inheritance tax could put Britain at risk of food shortages.
Israel v. The Resistance
Israel’s siege of northern Gaza ushers in the Financial Times’ ‘darkest hour’. If you lost the pink paper….also note that they put this piece outside the paywall.
Israeli atrocities are nothing new. The only thing new is the Middle East Eye (guurst) scale.
Israel has ended all medical evacuations from the Gaza Drop Site
Using bulldozers, the Israeli forces were seriously injured today (Thursday) the @UNRWA Office at Nur Shams Camp, north of #WestBank.
The office will no longer be used.
It was the hub for delivering basic services to more than 14,000 Palestinian refugees in the camp, including… pic.twitter.com/QFAR4LcPRb— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) October 31, 2024
****** Israel wants to enforce any ceasefire agreement in Lebanon, Netanyahu told the American delegation to Reuters. Lordie. Should we take this as a serious proposition?
#CONTINUED: Three fireworks exploded in Tel Aviv early today. Explosives were reported in Hod HaSharon near the Mossad HQ and near the train station in Tira, an area north of the city. Additionally, the house in Tira was hit by an errant missile, not Hezbollah… pic.twitter.com/xzVS3HLgrE
– Uzbek Now (@UzbekNow) November 2, 2024
Can you think of any other country in the world that blows up several places of worship every week for a whole year with complete impunity?
— BM (@ireallyhateyou) October 31, 2024
****** IRGC Vows Unthinkable Response to Israel Tasnim. Alexander Mercouris discusses this issue at the top of his Friday show. Note that we have been skeptical of the claims of usually trusted analysts like Larry Wilkerson that Iran has been talked into not retaliating…by things like US diplomacy. After the new president Pezeshkian was recently tricked by the US into thinking there might be a willingness to mend relations and had to eat tons of crows in public to restore some level of credibility, the idea that Iran will listen to the US seems surprisingly far-fetched. . In addition, Iran was very clear that any retaliation by Israel would lead to an Iranian response. So the question seemed to be not whether Iran would strike Israel again to maintain its deterrence regime, but when and how hard.
Israel’s time for ‘zugzwang’ and Iran Indian Punchline
****** More US bombers, warships headed for Middle East The Hill
RELATED: Progressives Demand Biden Explain US Military Involvement in Israel’s ‘Escalating Wars’, Float Israel War Powers Resolution Zeteo
The New Cold War
The Forest and the Trees: Ukraine’s Strategic Dissipation Big Serge
Find Out Where Most Ukrainian Refugees Are Fleeing As of February 2022 Sputnik (Kevin W)
Russia says it is unhappy with Turkey’s arms supply to Ukraine
🇷🇺⚡- Russia has designed the first portable thermal guided interceptor drone. – RN pic.twitter.com/9s1fnKIg4e
— Zlatti71 (@Zlatti_71) November 1, 2024
Türkiye plans ‘foreign agents’ law – Bloomberg RT (Kevin W)
BRICS
Why the Expanded BRICS Supports Russia’s Established Grain Exchange Council on Foreign Relations
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Loss of American Leadership Seen From WWII Ian Welsh
Abu Ghraib Torture Case Against Virginia-Based Defense Contractor Begins and Ends
2024
Julia Roberts ad sparks debate over gender gap, marriage vote The Hill Lambert has questioned the wisdom of taking sides in the bedroom.
You haven’t seen the MSM broadcast yet. Maybe anything Epstein is too dangerous because some shoes can come off?
UPDATE: The October surprise is here! The Daily Beast recently released over 100 hours of recordings of Jeffrey Epstein talking about his relationship with Trump and spilling inside information on the Trump White House.
This is great. 🔥
Michael Wolff, who has written about Trump’s time in… pic.twitter.com/kSB7sYxr62
– Brian Allen (@allenanalysis) November 1, 2024
‘Union Joe,’ Harris and Trump all made gains for unions — but Politico wasn’t enough
Judge orders Musk to return to PA court for ‘illegal action’ Fox (audio)
US says ‘Russian influencers’ behind misleading election video Financial Times (Kevin W)
Texas tells DOJ that election monitors are not allowed at the polls Texas Tribune (furzy)
Pennsylvania Supreme Court Blocks Absentee Vote Counting Again USA Today (Kevin W)
Maersk CEO predicts more trade tensions after US election Financial Times
Mr. The Market Should Be More Afraid
US Debt Could Drive the Next Financial Crisis
Nearly half of Americans think there will be a “total recession” in the United States in the next decade, a survey suggests. Newsweek
Inflation Doesn’t Want to Cooperate: PCE Price Indices for Core, Primary Services, and Durable Goods Get Worse Mom Wolf Richter
The AI
AI and the Global Economy: A Double-Edged Sword That Could Cause Market Meltdowns Forbes
Bezzle
Microsoft Ed Zitron Cult
Class War
Are you trash? Know the Signs of the Babylon Bee
Amazon Employees ‘Shocked’ by How Execs Made Back-to-Office Decision Gizmodo (Kevin W)
The Decline of the New Yorker Working Artist (Anthony L)
More than $1M in farm loans rise as agriculture economy slumps via Agriculture Dive
Eugenics movement increases in political discourse, STAT academic publications (Dr. Kevin)
Antidote du jour. Tracie H:
A little over a week ago, at the end of one of our long Monday work days in LA, hubby and I found three gray motherless kittens on our doorstep. We left them there for a few hours hoping that the mother cat would come, but no. Because of how clean and free of fleas they were, we’re pretty sure the neighbor left them. So we are feeding the bottles and, already overcrowded in the cat department, we will soon be trying to find them homes.
And a bonus:
Goose trying to help??? O my heart🥹🥰 pic.twitter.com/PvxaKWZWAR
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 1, 2024
Second bonus:
Bobcat after the boy saves him from the fire pic.twitter.com/RG1GqYCf9u
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) November 1, 2024
See yesterday’s links and the Antidote du Jour here
