One thousand sausage dogs invade beach for meet-up BBC
Severe solar storm could supercharge auroras across US, impact power grids, NOAA warns Space.com
Is a repeat of the 2019 repo crisis brewing? FT. The deck: “Pain and SOFRing.”
Climate
Tracking map: Here’s the latest forecast track of Hurricane Milton Orlando Sentinel
Milton threatens to trigger flood insurance reckoning for Congress Politico
No, Hurricane Milton was not ‘engineered’ BBC
* * * Wildlife numbers plummet 73 percent over past half-century, report finds Al Jazeera
Water
What’s in Floodwaters? Scientific American
2023 ‘driest year’ for global rivers in 33 years: World weather agency Anadolu Agency
Syndemics
All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant Salon
China?
China launches US$70 billion swap tool to enhance stock market liquidity South China Morning Post
How the US Lost the Solar Power Race to China Bloomberg
China Builds A New Eurasia Noema
China’s Golden Week travel surges but spending lags pre-pandemic numbers Channel News Asia
Upgrade to ASEAN-China free trade agreement almost completed, important in time of growing protectionism: PM Wong Channlel News Asia
Commentary: US not walking the talk in Southeast Asia as Biden skips ASEAN Summit again Channel News Asia
The Reality of Afghanistan’s Land Link With China The Diplomat
Syraqistan
On the Brink New Left Review
* * * Biden speaks with Netanyahu, pledges ‘ironclad’ support for Israel Al Jazeera
Readout of President Joe Biden’s Call with Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel The White House
US sway over Netanyahu tested as Israel vows ‘deadly’ Iran hit South China Morning Post
* * * Israeli troops move away from Irish forces in Lebanon BBC. Meanwhile:
BREAKING
White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X after calling for Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon to be burned alive pic.twitter.com/EQj7QnOJI8
— What the media hides. (@narrative_hole) October 9, 2024
Israeli army orders Beirut’s southern suburb residents to evacuate Anadolu Agency
How long will Israel’s war in Lebanon last? FT
* * * The Killings They Tweeted Airwars
* * * Smotrich Forgets to Mention One Thing About His Plans for Israel: The Cost Haaretz. Smotrich, 2016:
In a documentary produced by Arte, Israeli finance minister Bezalel Smotrich says he wants a “Jewish state,” adding that, “It is written that the future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.” pic.twitter.com/E2SBu1LJvD
— Middle East Eye (@MiddleEastEye) October 10, 2024
* * * Yemen’s Houthis to play bigger role in Middle East conflict? Deutsche Welle
Protesters assaulted as illegal Palestinian land sales continue in New York and New Jersey MR Online
The Sermon Every Jew But Me Heard Every Week The Debate Link
The New Great Game
Is proposal that “international consortium” should build Kazakhstan’s nuclear plant merely cosmetic? BNE Intellinews
European Disunion
France’s minority government set to present make-or-break austerity budget France24
Pelicot trial: French court hears how mass rape went undetected for years France24
Dear Old Blighty
New Not-So-Cold War
Erik Andersson’s informative Nord Stream update Bud’s Offshore Energy (BOE)
* * * Russia’s Air Force Is ‘Dropping Like Flies’ in the Skies Above Ukraine The National Interest
New Batch of Russian Su-34 Strike Fighters Delivered to Air Force: Intensive Strikes on Kursk Continue Military Watch
* * * NATO chief warns of Ukraine’s toughest winter as Russia intensifies strikes Anadolu Agency
Ukraine can get through winter without power cuts – Ukraine’s energy minister Ukrainska Pravda. “[I]f the Russians do not succeed in destroying the critical energy infrastructure that survived the previous attacks.”
* * * America’s NATO Ally Warns Ukraine Membership May Trigger World War III Newsweek. Hungary.
Boychukgate Bandera Lobby Blog
After Prigozhin, the Wagner Group’s Enduring Impact War on the Rocks
Biden Administration
2024
Donald Trump pledges to end double taxation for expat Americans FT
Book Nook
From Beowulf to Foucault: On the Literary Influences of Cormac McCarthy Literary Hub
Police State Watch
Cops love facial recognition, and withholding info on its use from the courts The Register
Japanese Researchers Feature Regularly Among Ig Nobel Prizewinners Nippon.com
Groves of Academe
Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’ Guardian. From Columbia.
Class Warfare
Handy chart:
"It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500 million essentially rounds to zero from the perspective of the wealthiest Americans."
— Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK (@doctorow) October 9, 2024
I was captain of a ship much like the New Zealand one that just sank. Mine almost sank too The Telegraph
Researchers Think Throwing Boeing 777 Parts In The Sea Will Track Down MH3700 Jalopnik
Antidote du Jour (Wendy Rathey);
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
ISRAEL
Children torn up burned and crushed
Cities knocked down turned to dust
Homes ravaged none escape
Girls savaged grown men raped
Settlers steal with great zeal
Shrapnel steel wounds won’t heal
Hiding spots sniper shots
Tents and cots food that rots
Columnists journalists
Can’t exist you have lists
Clinics bombed medics slain
Wells blown up we drink rain
Polio sewage flow
Lying low fireworks show
Leaflets dropped moments prior
Everything turns to fire
Blast wave hits bodies tossed
Blood and gore Holocaust
War on kids by the West
Israel delenda est
Israel delenda est
‘What the media hides.
@narrative_hole
BREAKING
White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X after calling for Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon to be burned alive’
Going by his biography, I’m calling out this guy as a Zionist. He even lived and worked in Israel for four years so he probably picked up their values and he is probably one of those people behind the scenes who make American foreign policy what it is today-
https://matthewrjbrodsky.com/about/
Maybe the Irish government should call in the US Ambassador to Ireland for a please explain session. Twitter may have suspended him but is he still working in the White House?
Funny I used to chat with this guy in my old newsroom which included many Palestinians and he seemed perfectly normal. Crazy how this past year has brought out the absolutely insane in people
Perhaps he is a deeply burrowed mole whether by plan or temperament and his true self only now is apparent 。
“White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X…”
That such an immoral person could be working in the White House, and still working after advising the killing of Irish peacekeepers tells us that we have a uniquely shameful and dangerous President and administration.
When Georgia attacked Russian peacekeepers in Ossetia along the Russian border, President Bush did not intervene when Russia responded in defense and the Georgian people soon removed the offending president. When security adviser John Bolton interfered with President Trump’s negotiations on a possible peace in Korea, Bolton was shortly dismissed by Trump and removed from the White House by the Secret Service.
I was curious about this and looked at several articles to get his background and current responsibilities. Every article in a cursory search describes home as a former Trump WH advisor and currently a consultant to Republican candidates. He would certainly fit right in with the Biden WH, but that claim seems inaccurate.
The Irish peacekeepers are toast if they stay there. The war is only heating up.
And Israel wouldn’t be entering Lebanon if it wasn’t already divided.
Wouldn’t be the first time that the Israelis have attacked & killed UN troops as they have form here and are already now firing on UN posts in southern Lebanon-
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2574732/middle-east
Do we have hurricane Milton in Florida today after Helene in North Carolina last week?
This level of storms and destruction is not normal. Except that now it is.
Only one thing telling us to look out.
Doesn’t help that there are more people and things in the path of turbulent weather.
The planet hasn’t stopped changing and evolving.
> White House advisor Matthew Brodsky suspended from X after calling for Irish peacekeepers in Lebanon to be burned alive.
Isn’t this the problem with all those State Department people resigning over Israel’s conduct in Gaza in the first 3-6 months? Are people like Brodsky the only ones left in the administration?
>No, Hurricane Milton was not ‘engineered’ BBC
But on platforms like X and TikTok, posts alleging – without evidence – that the US government is secretly controlling the weather have been viewed millions of times.
Many were published by accounts known for spreading conspiracy theories, as well as misinformation about Covid-19 or vaccines.
Is this the same “news” organization that has been reporting on Gaza for the last year. Yeah, they’re just the right source for setting me straight on “misinformation.”
My first impression reading the headline was. Was this article necessary? For what reason was it written? The only one that came to mind is when you have a censorship agenda and want to pile up motives for its implementation.
All while subtly sowing doubt about climate change. Win win!
Same here. Supposedly this “misinformation” was read by millions. My guess is it was subsequently believed by only Kyrie Irving.
If these corporate media types are really so concerned about people believing incorrect things, perhaps they could use their enormous influence to push for higher education budgets and an end to bloated military budgets to fuel wars of choice. This schoolmarm/hall monitor mentality doesn’t appeal to anyone, except maybe Hillary Clinton, who I heard from some dude on the internet was actually an alien lizard in disguise.
>Rockdale County soil and water supervisor collapses, dies shortly after speaking about BioLab chemical plume: Officials
Sketchy on details. Maybe the BBC can get in front of this one before conspiracy theories start to swirl on social media.
According to the Fulton County Medical Examiner’s Office, Johnson died at Grady Memorial Hospital. The ME said that due to the circumstances of the incident, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation has agreed to accept the case.
A cause of death is still pending, as an autopsy needs to be completed.
>On the Brink New Left Review
Following this setback, the Israeli military resorted to one of its tried and tested tactics, prosecuting an indiscriminate bombing campaign (with US-supplied F-35s) against the densely populated districts of Beiru
The most moral army in the world, sic, sick…
“Commentary: US not walking the talk in Southeast Asia as Biden skips ASEAN Summit again”
I never had the impression that Biden was ever really interested in Asia. His focus – his obsession really – remains with the Ukraine and he is willing to let US interests in other parts of the world flounder as he is wrapped around the axle of the Ukraine. Even Gaza represents nothing more than an unwelcome distraction for him as he has no say in what is happening there. The only reason why he cancelled his trip to Ramstein to meet Zelensky is that images of him hugging Zelensky while Floridians are treading water would not go down so well. I think too that the only interest that he has in Asia is AUKUS as that is a tool aimed at China. ASEAN countries then would only interest him in those who would join AUKUS against China.
From the beginning, members of this administration have made clear the intent to contain, control and undermine the economy of a benign 5,000 year old civilization of 1.4 billion. This intent reversing presidential policy in place since 1972. The “problem” has been that containing and undermining China has proven quite impossible.
What then remains for the Presidential policy reversal on China, as a benign China continues to develop and thrive?
“It is written that future of Jerusalem is to expand to Damascus.” I doubt it. Because why would God only allow them just up to Damascus? Just as Mormons conveniently experienced divine Godly communications at just the right moment to adjust the direction of the wind sails after too many noticed their ship was sailing towards Crazy Land, my expectations are the Zionists too will find ways to ever expand the land God told them is rightfully “their’s”. With The West having no reverse gear, at some point the Israeli escalations might become too great for the US to fund. Or someone strong enough will put an end to it. Interesting times we live in.
Looks like Israel sees all this as their greatest chance to get Greater Israel going and not just Netanyahu either. In some western countries you can be punished for the saying “From the River to the Sea” as that is a Palestinian saying but Zionists have their own saying “From the River to the River”–
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/greater-israel-from-the-euphrates-to-the-nile/
With ultra-orthodox families popping out six or seven kids each, they are going to need Lebensraum and they know where that means. And I still reckon that the two blue stripes on the Israeli flag represent the two rivers.
It should become clearer to people as to who was really behind the Sept 11 World Trade Center and the false flag implications. I have always called it America’s Reichstag fire.
It gave the Bush Vulcans, most of whom are Zionist, the ability to start trying to clear out the Middle East for Israeli expansion using US goyim blood and money to do their dirty work for them on their attempted Eastern expansion.
I seem to recall hearing Gen Wesley Clark who is half Jewish, boasting about removing five countries in seven years.
I still wonder who REALLY engineered the ‘73 oil embargo. With friends like Israel you don’t need enemies.
Whatever is Jacob Dreyer aiming at in that Noema article, “China Builds a New Eurasia “?
To describe it as incoherent would be charitable.
Just finished it and had the same thought as you, so I was looked at his other articles. They are basically the same in terms of style, subject and incoherence.
This one is a doozy:
https://www.noemamag.com/author/jacob-dreyer/
I always wondered about the idea of ethnicity, and why it applies to some places and not others.
“Russia’s Air Force Is ‘Dropping Like Flies’ in the Skies Above Ukraine”
Strange article this as the clickbait title is not supported anywhere in the body text. In one part it says-
‘Airpower is a fundamental aspect of modern warfare. Yet, Russia’s airpower has failed to achieve total air dominance, even though its force is more advanced, better equipped, and far more numerous than the opposing Ukrainian Air Force.’
But I think that that is part of Russian doctrine. To not dominate the airspace of an entire country but only that airspace over the fighting itself. No point in losing pilots and planes in pointless battles but instead having the enemy fly all the way over to where you are based. This is kind what the RAF did to the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain. And where he say-
‘The constant deployment of mostly older warplanes, in many cases from the Soviet era, indicates that Russia is accelerating the age of these systems due to constant wear-and-tear and shoddy maintenance practices.’
Sounds like the Russians are using up their old gear first so their new gear is ready in case NATO does something stupid.
Strange article this as the clickbait title is not supported anywhere in the body text Agreed. I dislike the formatting as well, with an analysis of the article preceding the text to guide one along I guess. I’d rather do my own thinking.
John Russell is a very appealing journalist at More Perfect Union. Here he is at a county fair in Michigan, among the deplorables and fifth columnists. He also gives Oliver Anthony his due. Much plain-spoken eloquence:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_sVwib2rdE&t=612s
Russell also has a report on Elliott Country, Kentucky, that explains all too well the current U.S. distemper:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfxvHqTCy2w&t=27s
I find it interesting that John Russell goes in and announces he is leftist, and his interview subjects out-left him. (Or are they all sneaky fascists trying to take him in?)