In the end, the American buffalo has come residence Nationwide Geographic
HARVARD ASTRONOMER HUNTING FOR UFOS ON THE OCEAN FLOOR MAY HAVE FOUND… SOMETHING SyFy
Irish pub proprietor rebuilds bar from Banshees of Inisherin The Guardian
The Seductive Imaginative and prescient Of Inexperienced Aviation NOEMA
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER MYSTERIOUS RADIOACTIVE ROCK ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE MOON Futurism
Local weather/Setting
How We’ll Mess Up The Setting on the Moon Clive Thompson, Medium
Groundwater springs fashioned throughout glacial retreat are a big supply of methane within the excessive Arctic Nature. From the summary: “Our findings reveal that climate-driven glacial retreat facilitates widespread launch of methane, a constructive suggestions loop that’s most likely prevalent throughout different areas of the quickly warming Arctic.”
Local weather scientists cowl Sichuan’s Dagu glaciers with Tencent-sponsored hi-tech blanket to impede their soften amid world warming South China Morning Submit
Poisonous Bomb Trains
Rail union says Virginia derailment renews questions on Norfolk Southern’s security practices AP
Norfolk Southern recordsdata criticism, says different corporations ought to share blame in East Palestine derailment CBS Information
#COVID-19
On covid California’s supreme court docket simply mentioned the quiet half out loud Ko-fi
🚨🚨Unhealthy information…actual time Incapacity Knowledge from US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) rose 857k in June to a brand new all time excessive of 34.15 million. The speed of change is accelerating once more. If this was a inventory it’s a get away chart and reacceleration of pattern. Each employed girls & males… pic.twitter.com/lvIdMKq8Xn
— Edward Dowd (@DowdEdward) July 8, 2023
Previous Blighty
We’d like extra EU employees, admits main Tory Brexiter The Guardian. “We’re not permitting folks to return right here to work in sectors just like the meals trade, regardless that there are acute labour shortages in these sectors…My proposal is that we start bilateral negotiations with EU member states, beginning with nations like Bulgaria, Romania and the Baltic states…”
Newest knowledge from Sir Tony Blair, battle prison and mentor to present Labour chief Sir Keir Starmer:
‘Let NHS sufferers skip the queue.’
Blair needs to complete the job he helped the Tories begin: privatising Britain’s common well being care system.
Vote for the uni-party! pic.twitter.com/tXo2J0uCvl
— Jonathan Prepare dinner (@Jonathan_K_Cook) July 6, 2023
La belle France
French parliament passes legislation granting police eyes and ears into your telephones Fascinating Engineering
India
The Fable of Underdevelopment Phenomenal World. “Authorized autonomy and land reform in Jammu and Kashmir.”
European Disunion
‘We might not stand idly by’: Lagarde pledges ECB motion if each earnings and wages rise CNBC
Company earnings have been greatest driver of inflation in Europe, IMF admits Geopolitical Economic system Report. From June 26, nonetheless germane.
Dutch authorities collapses over bitter migration row Hurriyet
China?
China’s Premier simply consulted these economists. What’s their view on the economic system? Pekingnology
Bashing China Has Changed The Diplomatic Dialogue Moon of Alabama
Biden advised China’s Xi to ‘watch out’ after Putin assembly RT
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
They’re Able to Battle Once more, on Synthetic Legs Nicholas Kristof, New York Occasions
We’re shifting ahead: Zelenskyy posts a video with commanders Ukrainska Pravda
Aside from being morally disgusting, dropping unmarked minefields leaving scattered explosives to kill kids for years, cluster bombs are a weapon that admits the vaunted “counter offensive” is a failure.
In case you are going ahead you don’t sow a minefield in entrance of you.
— Craig Murray – (@CraigMurrayOrg) July 8, 2023
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‘We have now bold plans’: Anti-Putin forces plan contemporary assaults inside Russia The Guardian
Ukraine vows it gained’t use cluster bombs in Russia Straits Occasions. Reassuring, particularly with even the CIA now claiming the Ukrafascists are uncontrolled.
The response to studies that CFR neocons have had backchannel talks with Russia:
Ukraine MFA calling Council on International Relations institution bigwigs “tankies” & “traitors” 🍿 https://t.co/FdMYDcvorA
— Mark Ames (@MarkAmesExiled) July 7, 2023
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Zelenskyy brings defenders of Azovstal from Türkiye to Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda
Kremlin says Turkey return of Azov leaders violates agreements Al Mayadeen
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US unemployment hit a historic low this yr – however it’s even decrease in Russia Enterprise Insider
Syraqistan
How the Taliban crushed the CIA’s heroin bonanza in Afghanistan The Cradle
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Israel strikes targets in Lebanon after rocket hearth from border Al-Monitor
Lebanon’s Navy Might Be the Subsequent Casualty of Its Financial Disaster World Politics Overview
Deputy Lebanon central financial institution governors’ menace to collectively resign ‘harmful’ – minister Arab Information
An invasive pest is threatening Lebanon’s worthwhile pine nut trade NPR
South of the Border
Greater than meets the silk press: Kamala Harris and U.S. imperialism Hood Communist
Imperial Collapse Watch
The US Military is on the lookout for assist from AI to foretell what its enemies will do minutes and even hours earlier than they do it Enterprise Insider
The Military is determined for sensible, match troopers. How these $200M match camps get recruits into form. USA As we speak. Been seeing plenty of adverts like this:
Biden Administration
FBI investigates Biden Iran envoy over labeled data SEMAFOR
Is the Chocolate Monopoly Below Siege? BIG by Matt Stoller
The Missouri v. Biden Injunction is a Uncommon Win for Freedom The Wayward Rabbler
2024
Why the Cease Trump effort all comes all the way down to South Carolina Politico
Democrats en déshabillé
California legislative employees’s look ahead to a union simply obtained even longer Cal Issues. “legislative leaders declared help for the hassle this yr, even designating the measure as Meeting Invoice 1. However this week, that invoice was modified to not take impact till 2026.” Stylish. The Democratic Social gathering at present holds veto-proof supermajorities in each homes of the legislature.
The Supremes
The Supreme Court docket makes virtually all of its selections on the ‘shadow docket.’ An writer argues it ought to fear People greater than luxurious journeys. Enterprise Insider
Weapons, A Wealth Tax And Struggle On Regulators: What We’re Watching On SCOTUS’s Docket Subsequent Time period Speaking Factors Memo
Healthcare
Hospitals’ newest “innovation”: “patient-centric cost capabilities” HEALTH CARE un-covered
Police State Watch
Mark Zuckerberg Splurges on Non-public Safety For Himself Whereas Financing ‘Defund the Police’ Lee Fang
Massive Brother Is Watching You Watch
Sacramento Sheriff is sharing license plate reader knowledge with anti-abortion states, information present The Sacramento Bee
AI
AI robots at U.N. reckon they may run the world higher Japan Occasions
Digital Watch
Tech
A gaggle of San Franciscans realized that they will disable Waymo and Cruise robotaxis by putting a visitors cone on the automobile’s hood.
They’re now encouraging others to do it: “Hell no, we don’t consent to this.” pic.twitter.com/ZrYhy4OATy
— David Zipper (@DavidZipper) July 6, 2023
The Bezzle
In-space manufacturing startup aces pharma experiment in orbit Ars Technica
Spook Nation
One of many zillion federal brokers now employed by NBC Information, @BarbMcQuade, spent weeks earlier than the 2020 election spreading the CIA lie that the Hunter Biden laptop computer was “Russian disinformation.”
She now has a e-book on disinformation: like Dick Cheney writing a e-book on human rights: https://t.co/Su9BZ8HuKK
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 8, 2023
Zeitgeist Watch
Lights, Digital camera, Arrest: Quebec Video Creator Arrested for Simulating Crimes to Acquire Social Media Traction The Deep Dive
Class Warfare
TEXANS DIE FROM HEAT EXHAUSTION AFTER GOVERNOR BANS WATER BREAKS Texas Observer
Antidote du jour (by way of):
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Who’s gonna inform him he’s not a canine? pic.twitter.com/H4817rtVa7
— B&S (@_B___S) July 6, 2023
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