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Cats like to play fetch like dogs. The game is rooted in both species’ hunting instincts PBS

The pet-brain effect: How cats and dogs can save you from cognitive decline BBC

Turkey’s stray dogs, once ‘masters of the road,’ face new peril WaPo

Dogs can remember names of toys years after not seeing them, study shows Guardian

Letter: Future will be shaped by the heresies of heterodox economics FT:

But if elite capture and the resulting torpor in economics have not been total and complete, it is because there are economics departments in a handful of US universities which have put up an active and spirited resistance for years, with The New School in New York, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Missouri Kansas City perhaps being pre-eminent in this long battle of economic ideas. These and other economics departments are at the centre of a lively intellectual community (often referred to as “heterodox economics” by many of its own), many of whose members are also associated with the Union of Radical Political Economics (URPE).

Climate

‘Oh my God, what is that?’: how the maelstrom under Greenland’s glaciers could slow future sea level rise Guardian

Arrhenius 1896: First Calculation of Global Warming Protons for Breakfast. Commentary:

EV Battery Makers Have Been Doing It Wrong Clean Technica

Syndemics

University of Alberta researchers retract COVID study, citing multiple errors CBC

Mild at First: A Brief History of The 1918 Bird Flu Pandemic Jessica Wildfire, OK Doomer

Poliovirus that infected a Chinese child in 2014 may have leaked from a lab Science. “The exact source of that virus is unclear, as is the route by which it infected the child, and the authors are careful not to point fingers. But the paper underscores the fact that accidental releases of poliovirus are remarkably common.”

CDC Confirms Human H5 Bird Flu Case in Missouri (press release) CDC. “There is no immediate known animal exposure. No ongoing transmission among close contacts or otherwise has been identified.”

Mask bans disenfranchise millions of Americans with disabilities STAT. The deck: “Medical exemptions to these bans are nothing more than Band-aids.”

Fast-spreading mpox variant detected in Congo’s densely populated capital Business Standard

Colorado farmworkers are coming down with bird flu after tending to sick animals without PPE KGNU

China?

Sorry Mr. Sullivan, But You Just Got China So Wrong The China Academy

China urges US to ‘maintain’ stable climate policies Anadolu Agency

Chinese start-up aims for nuclear fusion at half the cost of US rivals FT

For China, Africa’s allure grows amid feuds with West. But do risks outweigh its promise? South China Morning Post

‘Special forces-styled travel’? Changing face of mainland Chinese travellers triggers Hong Kong tourism rethink Channel News Asia

The Koreas

Tens of thousands in South Korea protest lack of climate progress Channel News Asia

Koreans in Uzbekistan: K-pop and a brewing cultural clash Al Jazeera

Syraqistan

Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ during October 7 chaos ABC Australia

Autopsy of Turkish-American activist shows she was killed by sniper’s bullet to the head: Nablus governor Anadolu Agency. Commentary:

Sarah Wilkinson in her own words Jewish Voice for Labor. Commentary:

European Disunion

Europe’s economy survived ‘terrible prophecies’ but must now tackle trade with China: EU’s Gentiloni CNBC. Commentary:

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Macron’s coup is a shameless affront to democracy The Telegraph

Mass protests erupt in France after Macron picks Barnier as PM Al Jazeera

Dear Old Blighty

Starmer defends cutting winter fuel payments BBC. Oblique commentary:

Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report Guardian

UK health minister says NHS needs to make ‘three big shifts’ to survive FT

Boris Johnson faces ‘serious questions’ over new business with uranium entrepreneur Guardians

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine’s Kursk offensive has triggered doubts among Russian elite, spy chiefs say FT

US and UK spy chiefs praise Ukraine’s ‘audacious’ Russia incursion and call for a Gaza cease-fire AP

The War in Ukraine Is Already Over—Russia Just Doesn’t Know it Yet Reason

Outgunned and outnumbered, Ukraine’s military is struggling with low morale and desertion CNN

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Zelenskyy on long-range strikes on Russia: We need to find key to one country, others will follow suit Ukrainska Pravda

Deep Strikes Into Russia Have Limited Value, Pentagon Says Bloomberg

U.S. Air Force F-35s Demonstrate Ability to Use Makeshift Runways Close to Russian Borders Military Watch

There was genuine risk of Russia using nuclear weapons at start of Ukraine war, CIA boss reveals The Telegraph

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US arms advantage over Russia and China threatens stability, experts warn Guardian

Far Eastern Economic Forum: perhaps the least covered international event by Western major media this week Gilbert Doctorow

South of the Border

Former Brazilian President Bolsonaro leads ‘free speech’ rally in Sao Paulo Al Jazeera. Commentary:

2024

Harris and Trump offer very different visions for the economy ahead of Tuesday’s debate PBS

What Awaits a Harris Presidency The Atlantic

Antitrust

A Post-Google World Matt Stoller, BIG. The deck: “Another Google antitrust trial starts on Monday. If Google loses, it’ll be three strikes. At some point, they will give up and realize that the writing is on the wall for their current business model.”

Digital Watch

Nearly half of Nvidia’s revenue comes from just four mystery whales each buying $3 billion–plus Fortune

Why AI Can Push You to Make the Wrong Decision at Work Brain Facts

The Worsening Raspberry PI Rp2350 E9 Erratum Situation Hackaday

The Final Frontier

Problem statement:

Groves of Academe

Jewish Faculty letter to CU presidents re Task Force report (PDF) Google Drive. Columbia. Meanwhile in Texas:

Stanford’s writing program is firing their lecturers and gutting the department Literary Hub

Imperial Collapse Watch

Amphibious Ship Suffers Breakdown, Marking at Least Third Navy Mechanical Issue This Year Military.com

Class Warfare

Upending a longstanding paradigm, cardiologists embrace ZIP codes, not race, to predict heart risk STAT

Watch: Cruise ships chopped in half are a license to print money The New Atlas

Early science and colossal stone engineering in Menga, a Neolithic dolmen (Antequera, Spain) Science

Antidote du jour (Keith Weller):

See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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About Lambert Strether

Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to markets. Could be a second FDR saving capitalism, democratic socialism leashing and collaring it, or communism razing it. I don’t much care, as long as the benefits are delivered. To me, the key issue — and this is why Medicare for All is always first with me — is the tens of thousands of excess “deaths from despair,” as described by the Case-Deaton study, and other recent studies. That enormous body count makes Medicare for All, at the very least, a moral and strategic imperative. And that level of suffering and organic damage makes the concerns of identity politics — even the worthy fight to help the refugees Bush, Obama, and Clinton’s wars created — bright shiny objects by comparison. Hence my frustration with the news flow — currently in my view the swirling intersection of two, separate Shock Doctrine campaigns, one by the Administration, and the other by out-of-power liberals and their allies in the State and in the press — a news flow that constantly forces me to focus on matters that I regard as of secondary importance to the excess deaths. What kind of political economy is it that halts or even reverses the increases in life expectancy that civilized societies have achieved? I am also very hopeful that the continuing destruction of both party establishments will open the space for voices supporting programs similar to those I have listed; let’s call such voices “the left.” Volatility creates opportunity, especially if the Democrat establishment, which puts markets first and opposes all such programs, isn’t allowed to get back into the saddle. Eyes on the prize! I love the tactical level, and secretly love even the horse race, since I’ve been blogging about it daily for fourteen years, but everything I write has this perspective at the back of it.

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    1. Randall Flagg

      I had to check the calendar and the date of that article, thought it was April Fool’s Day for a second when I read that article. Wow. Reason magazine? That one read like unreason.
      What do they do, have rotating list of propagandists across various media? Hey, it’s your turn this week to churn one out for Ukraine?

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    2. Ignacio

      Ukraine has won because it has won Schwennesen’s heart. and as this individual writes “wars are won in the heart of a people, not through the rational calculations of military planners”. We little ignorants should know. No matter what goes on the ground, in Schwennesen’s heart Ukraine will have won after the last Ukrainian is buried.

      Great P.O.S.

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    4. Bugs

      Reason used to be a libertarian rag with a fairly consistent editorial line and writers with decent credentials. Seems it’s gone total neocon neolib now. Sad.

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    5. VTDigger

      Not known for being deep thinkers over at reason…libertarianism is pretty high-school level stuff to begin with. Mine! It’s my stuff!!

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    6. DJG, Reality Czar

      Thanks, Rev Kev.

      I was going to point out that one doesn’t have to read past this sentence, which arrives early on: “The moral scales have now firmly settled on the side of the Ukrainian defenders, and it is far likelier that Russia itself splinters into its constituent republics than that Ukraine falls to its erstwhile invaders.”

      I will also remind peeps that Reason Magazine is High Libertarian Thinking. They aren’t just the usual libertarians — white boys who don’t want to pay taxes — they are Serious Libertarians.

      Nevertheless, a few months back, I noted two letters to the editor in Harper’s Magazine by white-lady academic types who also advocate “empire splintering into constituent republics.” So the meme is out there among our Intellectual Superiors.

      It is one thing to be stupid. It is another thing to be so stupid as to advocate courses of action that are lethal. How many people would die during a breakup of the Russian Federation?

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      1. The Rev Kev

        Probably millions I would say. But more importantly, what happens to the 5,580 nukes that Russia has? The Pentagon developed plans to send in special forces to seize them if Russia fell apart but could they get to all 5,580 nukes? And if you are talking about a group like ISIS, they have no need to try and get ahold of a coupla dozen nukes. They would only need to get one.

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      2. upstater

        >“empire splintering into constituent republics.”

        Sounds like a great idea for Anglo-America, doesn’t it? Probably somewhere in the bowels of Reason’s archives there is a wealth of constitutional convention ideas and advocacy. Hopefully that happens someday and leads to a peaceful breakup of both the US and its Canadian pet.

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      3. Polar Socialist

        Russia would use nukes long before any separatist movement could gain enough traction to be a serious concern. Not on the separatists, but on those who’d be funding them and on those who Russia would feel as a external threat.

        It’s right there in their nuclear doctrine. That’s why this kind of thinking is advocating lethal actions.

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        1. The Rev Kev

          Russia came out the other day and told Washington that if they think that they can set Europe on fire and walk away, that they will not get away with it and the oceans to either side of the US won’t protect them at all. Never heard Russia make such a direct threat before.

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          1. timbers

            “Never heard Russia make such a direct threat before.” And long overdue. But words are cheap, actions speak louder than words. Show us actions, Russia. Please.

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      4. lyman alpha blob

        Many years ago in Harper’s there was a cover article about breaking the US up into constituent pieces because it was getting to complicated and unwieldly – I believe they’d settled on five as a good number. This was to be a voluntary breakup, similar to the peaceful dissolution of the USSR, not one imposed by an eternal enemy.

        I have tried many times to find a link to this article but came up empty, both in searches of the interwebs and on Harper’s own website. I may have to physically search the archives stored in my attic to track it down. It would be a nice counterpoint to all this palaver about cutting Russia up.

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      5. The Rev Kev

        ‘I noted two letters to the editor in Harper’s Magazine by white-lady academic types who also advocate “empire splintering into constituent republics.” So the meme is out there among our Intellectual Superiors.’

        It is. And it is called by the euphemism of ‘decolonising Russia’ to give it a patina of respectability. You can Google that term to find articles and conferences on that subject but here is one by Foreign Policy-

        https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/04/17/the-west-is-preparing-for-russias-disintegration/

        You have to remember that this was after all the end game for Project Ukraine.

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      1. sarmaT

        In order for Zelensky to become President of Russia, he needs to film a TV series of him becoming President of Russia first. It’s the victory plan he wanted to present to Biden.

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    8. sarmaT

      It’s a tough competition in the rubbish (or creative writing) department today. Guardian adds that

      The US and its allies are capable of threatening and destroying all of Russia and China’s nuclear launch sites with conventional weapons,

      and Military Watch that

      in the post-Soviet years Russia’s fighter aviation industry has fallen significantly behind leaving it without a fighter with comparable offensive applications to the F-35.

      Not to mention the bollocks from the mouths of spy chiefs that have been especially active recently, for reasons known only to Bond, James Bond.

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    9. divadab

      Just cancelled my youtube subscription to ReasonTV channel. I wonder how much they were paid to run this sick piece of utter disinformation?

      War propaganda should be anathema to Libertarianism. These people are fakes and liars.

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  2. communistmole

    This is off-topic, but: Aryna Sabalenka, from one of the countries that must not be named, has just won the US Open in tennis, beating Jessica Pegula in the final, heiress to a fracking billionaire, after beating a loan shark billionaire heiress in the semi-finals (both heiresses from the USA).

    A good day for the international proletariat!

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    1. petal

      Don’t forget to include that Pegula’s parents own the Buffalo Bills and the Sabres. Big new stadium coming for the Bills with taxpayer help. I’m so glad she lost. Cannot stand them.

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      1. Wukchumni

        Nope springs eternal for Long Suffering Bills Fans*, and why shouldn’t taxpayers play along all season long and then sum?

        *LSBF for 33 years now, I know the drill.

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    3. Bosko

      I like your framing, communistmole: I’m a tennis fan, and I’m not even sore that you posted a spoiler (jk, I really don’t care and probably would have seen the results elsewhere… I mostly only watch highlights at this point). I didn’t know that about Pegula’s family. Sabalenka seems like a nice young woman, with a big, genuine smile–she was featured in the recent Netflix series. Unfortunately, she had to run through my new favorite player in the women’s game: China’s Zheng Qinwen. Professional tennis sure puts an interesting mirror to the US’s waning geopolitical dominance…

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      1. Wukchumni

        Tennis was so hot in the 70’s, it might have required a warning label…

        The few remaining players out there now seem to be a fly in the ointment or vice versa to pickleball players~

        One of the cabin owners in our mountain community was a tennis instructor for over 25 years, and I asked what happened to the game?

        1.) Repetitive injuries with all those sudden stops and more. Remember ‘tennis elbow’?

        2.) Gyms became popular in the 1980’s-just as tennis began to fade.

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  5. The Rev Kev

    “Sorry Mr. Sullivan, But You Just Got China So Wrong”

    I can see why this Chinese scholar has five million followers as he is not pulling any punches. But halfway though it I realized something. You can bet that somewhere in the Chinese government that there would be a branch devoted to studying and analyzing American politics. Those poor sobs. Can you imagine? All the different power fiefdoms struggling for control with a President that is now MIA and a Vice President who is only thinking of getting elected and not to helping run the country. Alcohol consumption must skyrocket every four years when the Presidential elections occur as they try to get a grip on just what the hell is happening. Pretty sure that they do not look forward to giving their superiors their briefings as some of it would sound too outlandish to believe, even for them.

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    1. gk

      Sullivan, in Foreign Affairs, around Oct 10: “Although the Middle East remains beset with perennial challenges, the region is quieter than it has been for decades”. Why does anyone take him seriously?

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  6. Jester

    Western Europeans fail to understand the extent to which they were f*cked by the 2008 subprime crisis.
    It’s actually quite extraordinary: if you take the example of France in 2008 we were almost on par with the US in GDP per capita, $45.5k vs $48.5k, a small 6% difference.… pic.twitter.com/Pf0Qbg47aq
    — Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) September 3, 2024

    Western Europeans fail to understand that it was just a foreplay.

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    1. Yves Smith

      *Sigh*

      This is not exactly correct.

      Yes, US subprime DIRECTLY did a lot of damage to German banks.

      However, Ireland, the UK and Spain all had their own large housing bubbles.

      Eurobanks (and ONLY Eurobanks) also allowed their traders to speculate in subprime CDOs in a way that allowed them to book all theoretical profits from the CDOs after hedge costs up front and paid the traders hefty bonuses on them. These trades blew up as the insurance proved to be no good. This was done on a scale at UBS that forced a government rescue. Paribas and SocGen were also big victims. I explain this in very gory detail in ECONNED.

      The other reason the Europeans have had a decade of crappy growth was the refusal across the EU to force the banks to take big writedowns and recapitalize. And a big reason for that was EU budget rules. They could not run big enough deficits to compensate for the deflationary effect of cleaning up bank balance sheets.

      So while our housing bubble did hurt a lot of European banks and investors, there was plenty of self harm too.

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      2. vao

        Let us not forget the banking cataclysm in Iceland.

        And since Europe is a mosaic of countries, there were also a number of banking disasters with national idiosyncrasies not linked to the real-estate and CDO crash.

        Typical is Austria, whose entire banking system was whacked when the foolhardy bets on Eastern Europe went sour: Volksbank (Romania, Russia); Erste (Romania, Hungary); Bank Austria (Ukraine); Raiffeisen (Ukraine); Hypo Alpe Adria (Balkans). Both Hypo-Alpe-Adria and Volksbank had to be taken over by the Austrian State before being liquidated. The others managed to survive after writing off massive losses in their Eastern European businesses.

        In Germany, a whole group of regional banks (linked to the shipping sector) had, because of the so-called “shipping crisis”, to be either saved from bankruptcy at taxpayers’ expense: HSH Nordbank, Norddeutsche Landesbank; or transferred to other institutions: Bremer Landesbank (to the Norddeutsche Landesbank); or taken over by other institutions: DVB Bank.

        I agree: Europe did not, and does not need the help of the USA to muck up royally its own financial sector and its economy at large.

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        1. The Rev Kev

          I would call Iceland a special case. During the financial crisis the UK used an anti-terrorist law to freeze the British assets of Icelandic banks. Who knew that Iceland was a terrorist state? But they got their own back. They tried and sent to prison about 20 bankers which had caused the crash in Iceland much to the horror and protests of EU officials.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      Thanks for that reminder about Larry. Apparently Larry does not play well with others as No. 10 is his turf, not those stupid humans or any assorted cats. And he has seen so many Prime Ministers come and go by that now, High Chancellor Starmer does not impress him at all. Larry is one helluva battle cat.

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  9. DJG, Reality Czar

    Stanford fires its creative-writing program. You may wish to click through to the underlying Stanford Daily article, which doesn’t clarify matters.

    Of all the names mentioned, I recognize only Eavan Boland. (Stegner, of course, but I can’t say that Stegner’s reputation has held up. Does anyone still read Big Rock-Candy Mountain?)

    This is the central issue with creative-writing programs. Lots of peeps are parked there writing lots of things that have little impact on the wider culture and a wider audience. These programs seem to be the place where one goes to muddle on after publishing that first “tenure” novel or book of poetry. As a writer who has made his way without an M F A, I am skeptical.

    I am also reminded of how ineptly arts organizations are managed. They aren’t even managed. I’m not sure what word to use. I recall a theater company in Chicago that hired an “edgy” new artistic director who then immediately fired the ensemble of artistic associates / actors who were the founders of the theater. Victory Gardens Theater and its staff / artistic associates over the last two decades have been famous for nasty internal battles, resident playwrights with no fixed term, bizarre public battles, political posturing of all kinds (and always very loudly), and general disorganization.

    Maybe Emily Dickinson had good ideas about where writers should write.

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    1. Yves Smith

      One of my college roommates, Alice Goodman, got the first summa in Harvard’s creative writing program, and that was about ten years after it had been established. She could quote pages of verse. She wrote the libretto for Peter Sellars’ Nixon in China shortly after getting her undergraduate degree. She later became an Anglican priest. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Goodman

      In general, and sadly, I think that who “makes it” in creative writing, just as in visual arts, depends on attracting patrons or other promoters.

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      1. Mikel

        Patrons or other promoters.
        Here in LaLa Land, I use the phrase “co-signers and cliques”.
        Co-sign means having enough people with pull and power giving talent the nod. Cliques is having family or old friends that “make it” and one rides those the coattails.

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    2. Mikel

      “…the underlying Stanford Daily article, which doesn’t clarify matters.”

      Enter LLMs?
      Look at the area where the school is located.

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  10. Wukchumni

    Gooooooood Moooooooorning Fiatnam!

    It was business as unusual in the green felt jungle of lower Manhattan as the platoon avoided NVidia sticks sharpened to a fine point and then slathered with breathtaking returns if you’d only bought in way back when-seen one ersatz punji stick trap-seen ’em all… was the thinking.

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  11. Katniss Everdeen

    RE: Israeli forces accused of killing their own citizens under the ‘Hannibal Directive’ during October 7 chaos ABC Australia

    Had to check the date on this article. It’s 2 days ago.

    Max Bluementhal, Aaron Mate and Katie Halper, among others, have been talking about israel’s use of the Hannibal Directive since a few weeks after Oct. 7, which israel ultimately admitted invoking.

    While mass murder in Palestine has been “justified” by the number of israelis killed on 10/7 by Hamas, there is no way to determine how many were killed by Hamas and how many by israel. israel has refused to allow an independent investigation. And as Blumenthal et al. have pointed out, some of the damage done to kibbutz homes was too extensive to have been done by the small arms Hamas was carrying, and many of the corpses were so completely incinerated that it was impossible to distinguish whether they were Palestinian or israeli.

    As noted in the article there was “mass Hannibal,” and uncontrolled “panic” among “command-less” israeli forces. And then there were the Apache gunships:

    “Twenty-eight fighter helicopters shot over the course of the day all of the ammunition in their bellies, in renewed runs to rearm. We are talking about hundreds of 30-millimetre cannon mortars and Hellfire missiles,” reporter Yoav Zeitoun said.

    As usual with israel, things are not always as they seem, but violently exploiting those obscurities is as straightforward as it gets.

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    1. Carolinian

      Somebody should tell Kamala/Biden as well since they are still pushing discredited claims about the event. Also the NYT needs a memo.

      This Scheer/Hugh Wilford link is a bit hard to read (also on video) due to the automated transcription but discusses the remarkable incompetence of the CIA and it’s contribution to our own MIC. It could be that competence more than democracy dies in darkness. Naturally buffoons love censorship.

      https://scheerpost.com/2024/09/07/the-cia-the-worlds-first-secret-empire/

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    2. The Rev Kev

      They know exactly what happened that day and there was no confusion. That is why the 1,000 vehicles destroyed that day are being shredded and buried. So that there will never be a forensics examination of them to find out what happened to them.

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  12. Carolinian

    Re the Raspberry Pi link–this is way over my pay grade but my brother gave me one of the souped up RPI 5 boards and it puts out a fine image on my video projector. He knows that I like Linux, not that I’m an electronics geek. I have a couple of other Pi in a drawer and have never used the GPIO pins or tried any “projects.”

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  13. The Rev Kev

    “Mild at First: A Brief History of The 1918 Bird Flu Pandemic”

    ‘The flu resurfaced at an army base on the other side of the state. This time, it caused an outbreak among soldiers in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions. The military did nothing. They didn’t care if their soldiers got sick, or even if some of them died.’

    That is not true at all. The Army arranged to have three top medical specialists to go to that camp – Fort Riley in Kansas I think – and find out why there was so many dead and dying soldiers. They found dead soldiers stacked up like cord-wood and so blackened by the course of that virus that it was impossible to identify which where white and which were black. It was something like out of The Andromeda Strain. The odd thing was that years later they never really talked about their experiences, not even in their autobiographies and for most people, that whole episode got dropped down the memory hole.

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    1. vao

      The odd thing was that years later they never really talked about their experiences, not even in their autobiographies

      All right, how do we know about that episode then? Who else reported on it and about those three physicians?

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  14. Wukchumni

    Ahhhh
    Here come the Sum King
    Here come the Sum King
    Everybody’s laughing
    Everybody’s happy
    Here come the Sum King
    Quando para mucho mi amore de felice corazon
    Mundo paparazzi mi amore chica ferdi parasol
    Questo obrigado tanta mucho que can eat it carousel

    Mean Mister Musk sleeps in the dark
    Slaves in the park trying to save Tesla
    Sleeps in a hole in the internet
    Saving up to buy a 1-way ticket to Mars
    Keeps who knows what up his nose
    Such a means oriented man
    Such a means oriented man
    Such a dirty rich man
    Dirty rich man

    Sun King, by the Beatles

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bNMxWGHlTI

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  15. Well Worn

    What has drawn the Israelis to such savagery – – intentionally shooting, bombing, and starving children? I think commentator Chris Cosmos was right when he recently wrote that (I paraphrase here) nothing has changed – – the Jew has always been, and will remain, this way.

    As my admittedly brief research appears to show, many scholars, including Jewish rabbis, argue that Western morality plays no role here. Pursuant to Jewish religious duty, Israelites are commanded to exterminate the non-Jew, or at least certain ethnic tribes, including the Palestinians. That dictate applies to the eradication of noncivilians and civilians alike, whether man, woman, or child.

    Although Israel would of course prefer that it remain on the receiving end of our sympathy as to the Holocaust of WWII, that nation is likely not terribly occupied with what the rest of us think. As far as the US-Israel relationship goes, all that matters to Israel is that the US continue to (1) remain the mother lode of Jewish enrichment, and (2) supply weaponry to help Israel exterminate the non-Jew.

    Originally, I thought that a partial explanation for Israel’s mayhem was based on that previous holocaust (as opposed to today’s Jewish implementation of holocaust against the Palestinians). In short, decades ago, the Jews were the victims of the Nazi bullying, and now, decades later, the Jews themselves had become the bully. I think now that the Jews very unlikely care whether we feel sympathy or not. Any such feeling would be irrelevant.

    But if today’s holocaust were not tragic enough, we Westerners, especially we Americans, have made it all the more so. We step into the fray to aid the slaughter. The “beacon of light” lands a hand to enable one peoples to exterminate another. And we congratulate ourselves in doing so, proud to supply the bombs so Israel can blow the limbs off children.

    A few minutes ago I watched again the video posted on NC earlier this week of the little girl dancing so beautifully. As I did so, I bore in mind that Israel and America, with the eager assistance of the British, continue to work diligently to kill thousands of such children. Purposely, intentionally, deliberately. Bibi, Smotrich, and Biden dropping their bombs from a safe distance, living their safe, ice-cream lives. We are beyond sick. Our “leaders” are the Masters of today’s Universe in the same way that Goebbels was the Master of his.

    Even if it didn’t work, British officers’ willingness to contemplate using smallpox against the Indians was a sign of their callousness. “Even for that time period, it violated civilized notions of war,” says Kelton, who notes that disease “kills indiscriminately—it would kill women and children, not just warriors.”

    But Kelton cautions against focusing too much on the smallpox blanket incident as a documented method of attack against Native Americans. He says the tactic, however callous and brutal, is only a small part of a larger story of brutality in the 1600s and 1700s. During this period British forces tried to drive out Native Americans by cutting down their corn and burning their homes, turning them into refugees. In Kelton’s view, that rendered them far more vulnerable to the ravages of disease than a pile of infected blankets.

    https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smallpox-blankets

    The Israelis are now committing the same savagery against the Palestinians. Destroying their homes, their crops, and intentionally killing their civilians. May God have no mercy on the Israelis’ soul, and that goes for the Americans who are contributing to this mass murder. What in the f – – – is wrong with us in the West? Forget the smartphone, the social media influencers, the electric vehicle, and other trinkets of today’s life; we remain the same execrable beings as those in the past. We might even be worse, in that we claim to have learned from the past, but in practice we have learned nothing. Nothing.

    So what does the US Government see as the benefits of the above? As tempting as it is to complicate it, our so-called leaders seek to continue to enrich themselves, not just with literally money, but, more importantly, the power which money confers. And power apparently trumps lives every time. So, dear boys and girls, sorry, but our “leaders” are going to continue to aid Israel as it “advances” to snuff you out.

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