Seahorse Love Works in Mysterious Ways Nautlius (Micael T)
How Tsarist Russia sought to make a tropics on the Black Sea aeon (Anthony L)
NASA space capsule carrying largest asteroid samples ever collected lands safely in Utah ABC Australia (Kevin W)
Country Music Doesn’t Deserve Its Conservative Reputation Jacobin (Micael T)
Lorna Finlayson, The Sycophant New Left Review (Anthony L)
The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor Antigone (Anthony L)
China is facing an alarming mpox outbreak. Could this be next global health crisis? ZMEScience (Dr. Kevin)
#COVID-19
Cardiologist and Covid vaccine critic Dr Aseem Malhotra wins 2023 Rusty Razor award The Skeptic (ma)
Covid antiviral drug linked to ‘transmissible’ mutations, research finds Financial Times
China lab suspected of Covid leak stripped of US funding for violating biosafety rules Telegraph (ma)
Climate/Environment
Lego abandons efforts to make bricks from recycled plastic bottles after finding it didn’t reduce CO2 emissions New York Post (Kevin W)
The threat of wildfires is rising. So are new artificial intelligence solutions to fight them Associated Press (Kevin W)
China?
Macron Is Pushing Europe Into a $900 Billion Fight With China Bloomberg
Hostility Between the United States and China Looks Increasingly Inescapable National Interest (Chuck L)
Biden Hosts Pacific Islands, With a Rising China in Mind New York Times (Kevin W)
US Flouts International Law With Pacific Military Claims Antiwar.com (Kevin W)
In the ostensibly dictatorial China, how are criticism and complaints handled?Very different from the tale you’ve been fed! Eastern Angle (Micael T)
The Philippines accuses China’s shadowy maritime militia of destroying coral reefs in South China Sea (furzy)
Seoul stages military parade and warns North of ‘overwhelming’ response Financial Times
Canada-India Spat
Nijjar affair poses an existential dilemma Indian Punchline (Chuck L)
Unpacking India-Canada tensions amid Trudeau’s bombshell allegations Aljazeera
CSIS’ questionable history with India and Sikh separatists Canada Files (Micael T)
Africa
Under French-backed military ruler Mahamat Deby, Chad is a “pressure cooker waiting to explode” People’s Dispatch (furnace)
Niger coup: Macron says France to withdraw troops and ambassador BBC (Kevin W)
Armenia-Azerbaijan
Nagorno-Karabakh: Hundreds feared injured in fuel blast DW
Nagorno-Karabakh: Thousands flee as Armenia says ethnic cleansing under way BBC. Lead story
European Disunion
Italy’s prime minister stunned over Germany’s decision to fund migrant NGOs Anadolu Agency
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine SitRep: Battlefield Reports Show Lack Of Armor And Certain Munitions Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Analysis of Ukraine’s Escalating Crimean Strike Campaign Simplicius the Thinker
spokeswoman for the command of the Ukrainian forces “South”.
She emphasized that these were “two symbols of the city that could be seen by the crews of all ships entering the port.”
Gumenyuk, of course, did not say that foreign instructors and mercenaries were accommodated 👇 pic.twitter.com/HwKwpRuEqq
— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) September 25, 2023
Ukraine-Russia war: Pope hits out at Poland over weapons withdrawal Telegraph. Kevin W: “What. The. Fuck. A Pontiff of the Catholic Church is complaining that not enough weapons are being sent to a war.”
This War Wasn’t Just Provoked — It Was Provoked Deliberately Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W)
Trudeau calls praise for Nazi-linked veteran ‘deeply embarrassing’ BBC
WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE WESTERN POLITICAL CLASS? Gaius Baltar (Micael T, Chuck L)
Ukraine ‘Sucked the Oxygen’ Out of World Food Program Newsweek (Micael T)
DIAMONDS AREN’T FOREVER FOR THE BELGIANS – WAR AGAINST RUSSIA INSTEAD John Helmer
SHOCKING NEW DETAIL: U.S. Army Hospital in Germany Is Treating American Soldiers Hurt Fighting in Ukraine.
NY Times writes, “The Army’s Landstuhl Regional Medical Center has quietly started admitting Ukrainian Army soldiers who were wounded in combat, most of them American… pic.twitter.com/Iie9cP8ZNd
— Simon Ateba (@simonateba) September 24, 2023
Exclusive Interview With Ukraine’s Spy Boss From His D.C. Hotel Room The Drive (Kevin W)
Syraqistan
Ben Gvir threatens to implode Israeli govt over concessions to Palestinians The Cradle (furnace)
Just Say No to Mideast Defense Pacts American Conservative
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
FBI Agents Are Using Face Recognition Without Proper Training Wired
Imperial Collapse Watch
Don’t Listen to the Hawkish Doomsayers Daniel Larison
Sewage, Squatters, Disease: U.S. Military Barracks Are Depressing Hellholes, Watchdog Finds Vice (guurst)
🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 Danish shipping giant @Maersk is pulling away from US Military contracts just as logistics becomes a top pentagon concern@gCaptain has been working with Sal & former Maersk executives to uncover this story. STANDBY as we investigate. https://t.co/zNs348BUd6
— John Ʌ Konrad V (@johnkonrad) September 24, 2023
Can I have some of what he is smoking? I commented on our system being Mussolini-style corporatism back in 2010, but since when is any national leader going to cede power to the likes of Klaus Schwab, particularly as Western leaders are already threatened by the rise of the Global South? Put it another way, “How many divisions does the Vatican have?”
World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab has urged governments to grant the WEF ‘full governmental control’ over their nations as part of the Great Reset agenda for humanity. During his speech, Schwab outlined his plans for the merging of state and corporate power. Speaking at… pic.twitter.com/TUaYkp1Dk4
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2023) September 22, 2023
Trump
Trump Floats the Idea of Executing Joint Chiefs Chairman Milley Atlantic (David L)
Biden
“We are gonna shut down the federal government …”
But guess who we are going to still pay for … 😡I can’t believe that Joe Biden actually said this. They need to seriously control his teleprompter better. Whoever control the teleprompter is the real President of the USA.… https://t.co/rzrmd9jlcX
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) September 26, 2023
Lawmakers warn that US is heading for shutdown as budget talks stall Financial Times
GOP Clown Car
Here’s who made the second Republican presidential debate Politico
Why Tuberville breakthrough isn’t ending military impasse The Hill
Democrats en déshabillé
Defiant Menendez refuses to resign after indictment The Hill
The Menendez Scandal Reflects The World That SCOTUS Built Lever News (Chuck L)
AI
Facebook Can Be Sued Over Biased Ad Algorithm, Says Court The Verge
Principal Program Manager Nuclear Technology Microsoft (Paul R). See also: Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of ‘leccy The Register
Americans Finally Start to Feel the Sting From the Fed’s Rate Hikes Wall Street Journal
Jamie Dimon Warns World May Not Be Prepared for Fed at 7% Bloomberg
The Bezzle
Self-driving cars cause a traffic jam in Austin, Texas.
Shocking footage from Austin showed around 20 Cruise-operated Chevrolet Bolts causing traffic mayhem.
“Are you telling me they have no way to get out of this?” a man shouts in the video.
— KanekoaTheGreat (@KanekoaTheGreat) September 23, 2023
Costco now offering virtual medical care for $29 CBS. Paul R: “I don’t understand this but it sounds worrying.”
Class Warfare
“Go full force”: Autoworkers press for all-out strike, as Biden intervenes to facilitate UAW sellout WSWS
Why America Has a Long-Term Labor Crisis, in Six Charts Wall Street Journal
I will forever be grateful to the artist who put a tapeworm statue in front of Chase Bank in Beverly Hills. So fitting. (And yes, this is a permanent installation.) pic.twitter.com/8yRTJpaWtr
— Lisa Pease (@lisapease) September 26, 2023
Antidote du jour. Brian P: “I’d like to submit the attached picture of our dear departed Bonnie the cock-eared dog and Pumpkin my grandmother’s cat coming to an uneasy truce.”
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
