Dogs, Cats, Horses And Even Parrots Are Inheriting Big Money The Messenger (Dr. Kevin)
Year of the Dragon 2024: is your luck in? Predictions for all 12 Chinese zodiac signs for health, money, work and love South China Morning Post
Japan lands on Moon but glitch threatens mission BBC
What happens when a school bans smartphones? A complete transformation Guardian (furzy)
#COVID-19
The Second Most Important Story In The World Ian Welsh (Micael T)
Wearing a mask too!!!
Must watch:
💡”The best way to prevent Long COVID is to prevent #COVID in the first place.“
💡”The burden of disease and disability from #LongCOVID is on par with the burden of cancer and heart disease.” 🔥
Thank you @zalaly. pic.twitter.com/Gzo3FGteD6
— Eric Feigl-Ding (@DrEricDing) January 19, 2024
Long Covid and the asymptomatic persistence of SARS Cov 2 in 40% of adults is a health crisis, and a ticking time-bomb pic.twitter.com/NxGOjmgVjj
— AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (@fitterhappierAJ) January 20, 2024
Climate/Environment
Stellantis warns of EV ‘bloodbath’ as Ford cuts F-150 Lightning output Financial Times
Firefighters Used to Bet on Wildfires Easing at Night. Not Anymore. Wall Street Journal
China?
Resigning as a Director-General from China’s state system Pekingnology (Lance N)
Old Blighty
British life-style: Space minister (!) Andrew Griffith mixed up Mars and the Sun International Affairs. Micael T: “Truss, Truss every where, not a single braincell.”
European Disunion
Germany is the ‘tired man’ of Europe, says finance minister Financial Times (Kevin W)
Inside Brazil’s Elite SpecOps Unit Storming the Favelas HistoryLegends. Readers?
Gaza
In a sick society like Israel’s, blanketing refugee camps with explosives is like a day at a furry convention
(Did Mike Pence sign one of those shells?) https://t.co/HOeWivFAok
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) January 19, 2024
* * * Netanyahu’s Gamble: Is Israel preparing for another war? Alastair Crooke, Rumble. Important.
Israeli strike on Damascus kills four Iranian Revolutionary Guards Reuters
Rifts emerge among top Israeli officials about how to handle the war in Gaza ABC Australia (Kevin W)
* * * The U.S. Plan for a Postwar Middle East Isn’t Gaining Much Traction Wall Street Journal
Gaza will be the grave of the Western-led world order Al Jazeera
Nasrallah: October 7 foreshadows the Liberation of all Palestine Resistance News, from Al-Manar (Sayed H). From early January, still relevant.
* * * Erdogan’s double game: Praising Palestine, aiding Israel The Cradle (Micael T)
New Not-So-Cold War
Erdogan’s family business is delaying our NATO entry Expressen via machine translation . Micael T: “Whatever it takes to stop Sweden’s entry into NATO!
Andrey Sushentsov: Here’s why Russia and the US are set for a long confrontation RT
Key points of Sergey Lavrov’s press conference TASS
Russia and Iran Agree To Sign a Bilateral Strategic Pact (Plus, The Friday Roundtable with the Judge) Larry Johnson
Shock and Awe: Putin orders hunt for property of Russian Empire, Soviet Union International Affairs (Micael T)
🇬🇧🚨‼️ Planning for war with Russia.
Realistically Russia was on good relation with Ukraine 10 years ago.
So you can be at war against anybody, maybe even France. What historically is most likely.
🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/vKIS17fCIq
— Lord Bebo (@MyLordBebo) January 19, 2024
Belarus’s New Nuclear Doctrine: WION, Indian English language global news service Gilbert Doctorow (guurst)
Western Values
First US nitrogen gas execution raises questions of cruelty, torture Anadolu Agency
EU to blacklist people for pro-Hamas ‘incitement’ EU Observer. John B believes this is the text: COUNCIL DECISION (CFSP) 2024/385 of 19 January 2024 establishing restrictive measures against those who support, facilitate or enable violent actions by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
Donald Tusk Sends Riot Police to Purge Media of Critical Journalists – and Suddenly the EU Has Nothing to Say About the ‘Rule of Law’ Daily Skeptic (Micael T)
Shocked by far-right revelations, Germans consider ban BBC (furzy)
AfD ban debate – counterproductive and dangerous Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)
‘Dream team’: How all the EU’s top jobs could be held by women Politico (Kevin W). It’s well known that putting a woman in charge is a sign an institution is in terminal decline. Women are left holding the bag. Of course, that does not change the fact that women like Annelina Baerbock and Ursuala von der Leyen are aggressively accelerating that trajectory.
The Goddess of the WEF James Howard Kunstler
Imperial Collapse Watch
The Wrong Stuff Aurelien (Chuck L)
US laser weapon program hits a glaring blind spot Asia Times
No Houthis needed https://t.co/wCXhHF1bfh
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 20, 2024
Steward Health Care’s financial issues could spell catastrophe for the state Boston Globe (Vikas S)
Trump
Maine secretary of state appeals court rule in Trump ballot case News Center Maine (furzy)
Fani Willis Accuses Wife of Alleged Lover of Being an Adulterer and Political Conspirator Jonathan Turley. Looking desperate.
Trump’s lawyers warn of nationwide ‘chaos’ RT. While true, not a good legal argument.
Biden
What was the funniest political story in recent years for you? Anti-Spiegel, via machine translation (Micael T)
2024
Big GOP Donors Dreading Trump-Biden Rematch Stay on Sidelines Bloomberg (furzy)
Donald Trump is winning. Business, beware Economist (furzy)
Trump nabs Scott endorsement: “We need a president who will unite our country” The Hill
What happened to thousands of voters? Registrations suddenly drop in Broward, Palm Beach counties South Florida Sun-Sentinel (furzy)
Kamala Enjoys Finally Being Smartest Person In The Room Babylon Bee
AI
‘There is no such thing as a real picture’: Samsung defends AI photo editing on Galaxy S24 TechRadar (Kevin W). Music to defense attorneys’ ears….
What is going on with ChatGPT? Guardian (furzy)
Class Warfare
Understanding Growing Inequality, Part 2: How the Rich Got that Way Douglad Lamont (Micael T)
What the hell happened in 1990 to cause that exponential growth in healthcare administration? pic.twitter.com/UK85LRdjsg
— Hernan Cortes (@CyberPunkCortes) January 18, 2024
How an oil boom in North Dakota led to a boom in evictions Grist
Australian Journalists Threaten Strike over Palestinian Censorship – UAW Launched Hyundai Union Drive – Telsa Bumps Pay Mike Elk. We reported earlier on the potential ABC Australia strike.
Micael T: This tweet shows that neither Milei nor Luongo understand what socialism is and what WEF is up to. WEF’s world order is oligarchic tyranny, quite the opposite of socialism, where means of productions are publicly owned and wealth resdistributed.
Well, that clarifies his position in the global hierarchy. Well done, Milei… going into their house and lighting a bag of poop on fire! 🔥
I’m sorry I doubted you https://t.co/1N0D5Ol7T2
— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) January 18, 2024
Antidote du jour (Tracie H):
No big deal, just a deer scoring a goal then celebrating..😲 pic.twitter.com/BC32kqdXw4
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) January 18, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
