Cheetos Food Dye Turns Mice Transparent New York Post
Turtle-saving tech: Thai students invent beach lamp Thaiger (furzy)
Fly Brain Breakthrough ‘Huge Leap’ To Unlock Human Mind BBC
2-billion-year-old rock home to living microbes ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
Ants can be used to make yogurt – and now we know how it works New Scientist (Dr. Kevin)
Study of 500,000 Medical Records Links Viruses With Alzheimer’s Again And Again ScienceAlert (Paul R)
#COVID-19
I can’t do this anymore. We are forced to forget everything we have learned about Covid over the last 5 years, & we have pretended to be puzzled FOR YEARS. Covid has been WRECKING our hearts since 2020. If you’re getting Covid, your heart is probably not okay.
The first… pic.twitter.com/I3vYNFo7qF
— Laura Miers (@LauraMiers) October 4, 2024
Please explain how this was the right moment to relax public health measures for COVID. https://t.co/NeSg4EmV2J pic.twitter.com/kUsMdi7Iz4
— Bob Morris, MD, PhD (@rdmorris) October 4, 2024
Climate/Environment
US nuclear power regulator urged to address ‘dirty bomb’ risks to society, economy Reuters
Ken Newcombe, ex-CEO of C-Quest Capital, faces criminal charges for multi-year carbon credit fraud REDD Monitor (Micael T)
Antarctica is ‘Greening’ at Dramatic Rate as Climate Heats Guardian
Hell froze over in Texas – the state will connect to the US grid for the first time via a fed grant Elektrek (Kevin W)
Researchers develop new banana strain that can withstand “bananocalypse” ZME Science (Dr. Kevin)
How climate risk will complicate central bankers’ jobs Financial Times
China?
More totally believable China stories from The Economist 😂 pic.twitter.com/qHjIriAOIu
— Thomas Fazi (@battleforeurope) October 4, 2024
China EV tariff vote leaves EU relieved yet wary over Beijing’s likely retaliation South China Morning Post
The Antipodes
Australian housing is a “Ponzi scheme” MacroBusiness. I thought so in 2002 when prices in Sydney (admittedly then a terrific city) were already at NYC levels, and the only continued to rise and rise.
Mynamar
‘Like we are trapped’: Minorities suffer amid conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine Aljazeera
Bangladesh Government Crashing Under Economic Chaos WION
Africa
A dangerous dispute in the Horn of Africa Economist
Chagossians criticise lack of say in UK deal to hand over islands BBC (Kevin W)
European Disunion
EU could die’: President Macron warns European leaders over performance compared to US and China LBC
EU arms industry boost plan may fall short of goals, watchdog warns Reuters
France to Uproot Chunk of Vineyards as Global Wine Demand Wanes Bloomberg (Dr. Kevin)
Gaza
How the U.S. Worked Overtime to Deliver Weapons to Israel ProPublica (Robin K)
West Bank crisis escalates amid global focus on Gaza Middle East Monitor
This disgusting claim needs to be debunked. The last election was 2006. Hamas won with a plurality, of 44%, and as we now know, with Israel government support. Turnout in Gaza was 75%, so only 33% of the adults then in Gaza voted for Hamas. The median age in Palestine is 19.7 years, so nearly half the population was not old enough to vote (18) in 2006. But yes, any lame excuse for collective punishment goes. And that’s before getting to the fact that Hamas moved away from its opposition to Israel as a Jewish state in 2017 and limited its objections to Zioinism.
Retired members of Israeli Military Intelligence Unit 8200: “One way to restore Israeli deterrence in the Middle East after October 7, 2023, is to continue the cycle of killing and destruction. Gaza residents, most of whom elected Hamas, deserve annihilation without mercy.” pic.twitter.com/GIAaNd05J6
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) October 3, 2024
Israel v. Lebanon
Death toll from Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon rises to 2,011, with 9,535 injured Anadolu Agency
Lebanon says Israel hit key border road after Beirut strikes DW
The genocidal israeli army just attacked the main highway connecting lebanon with syria at Al-Masna’ crossing, using US mk-84 bombs.
As you can see the crater is massive and the road is blocked.
They don’t want lebanese people to seek shelter or medical treatment outside lebanon. pic.twitter.com/ObWHKD54f0— Hadi Htt | هادي حطيط (@HadiHtt) October 4, 2024
What are the Biden administration’s motivations in the Middle East? Mondoweiss (Tom H)
Israel v. Iran
Attacks on Iran Oil Infrastructure to Send Oil Price Over $100 – Mideast Energy Researcher Sputnik (Kevin W)
Multiple IRGC-affiliated Iranian outlets & Telegram channels report, “Iran has warned the US: if you target our refineries, we will set fire to the refineries and oil fields across the entire region, including those in Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, Kuwait, the UAE, and Bahrain.”
— Sina Toossi (@SinaToossi) October 1, 2024
Goldman Sachs says crude could spike by $20 on Iran oil shock CNBC
Iran cannot set off a global oil crisis without hurting its biggest ally. Telegraph
New Not-So-Cold War
New NATO boss backs Ukraine’s plea for deep strikes into Russia Politico
Syraqistan
Pakistan locks down capital as jailed ex-PM Khan calls for protests Nikkei
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
License Plate Readers Are Creating a US-Wide Database of More Than Just Cars Wired (BC)
Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta’s Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers 404 Media (Dr. Kevin)
Collapse of National Security Elites’ Cyber Firm Leaves Bitter Wake Associated Press
Imperial Collapse Watch
Without a soft veto in institutions, states use military power as a hard veto:
– After the Cold War, Russia was excluded from the main institutions of Europe. Europe would be organised under NATO and the EU, and eventually all of Europe would be members except Russia as the… pic.twitter.com/HRJuyxDYsj— Glenn Diesen (@Glenn_Diesen) October 4, 2024
Things Don’t Always Get Better Aurelien. Progress is a recent idea, in historical terms.
Trump
This is a really great confession from someone at the highest level of power on the inside about everything I’ve been teaching you from the outside about how the CIA has effective control over the DOJ. https://t.co/lsSSlyfiCa
— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) October 4, 2024
Kamala
Kamala Harris Invites Visa CEO to VP Residence Even as Administration Sues His Company Ryan Grim (Micael T). Looks like Lina Khan’s days are numbered.
2024
Biden makes first-ever WH briefing room appearance to warn election may be violent New York Post (Kevin W)
Immigration
U.S. will not renew legal status for hundreds of thousands of migrants Reuters (furzy). This action so close to the election has a guilty look
From the People Who Brought You Project 2025: Manufactured Evidence of Voter Fraud Brennan Center for Justice (furzy)
Haitian gang slaughters at least 70 people as thousands flee Reuters (furzy). Funny that we see MSM stories about how bad things are in Haiti only as the Administration is (per story above) about to send some Haitians back by not renewing their Temporary Protection status.
Helene Aftermath
North Carolina Asks Zelensky For $100 Billion In U.S. Funding Babylon Bee
Tim Kennedy on FEMA: ‘They are directly interrupting our ability to conduct missions’
“I went to put a couple of people into a hotel last night, and they have a security guard at the hotel and they said, ‘Oh, we’re so sorry. The entire hotel has been booked for federal… pic.twitter.com/CMpfigYSuF
— Chief Nerd (@TheChiefNerd) October 4, 2024
Confirming reports from helicopter owners trying to make rescues:
Just received this text 20 mins ago.
The level of belligerent government incompetence is staggering!! pic.twitter.com/wWbBR7FfUo
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
Our No Longer Free Press
Censorship Allegations Resurface as New Ad Coalition Takes Shape Reclaim the Net (Micael T)
Walz’s War on Words: A Blatant Distortion of the First Amendment Reclaim the Net (Micael T)
The Council of Europe concluded that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner, right here in the United Kingdom. @guardian @Telegraph @thetimes @BBCNews have not reported anything about this ruling. Spare us the comments about NK, Russia or China on political prisoners. pic.twitter.com/qMmLKhCVTO
— Esheru (@EsheruKwaku) October 4, 2024
Mr. Market is Giddy
Markets vulnerable to a sell-off, Bank of England warns The Times
AI
OpenAI Is A Bad Business Ed Zitron (Micael T)
Three Mile Island owner seeks taxpayer backing for Microsoft AI deal Washington Post (Kevin W)
The Bezzle
Thermo Fisher’s plant making infant RSV drug breached FDA rules, documents show Reuters (Robin K)
Class Warfare
Port strike ends as workers agree to tentative deal on wages and contract extension CNBC (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: ” In case it’s hard to tell just what you are looking at, it’s the topside of a bumblebee with its nose buried in a flower.”
And a bonus:
I cannot stress enough how important it is you watch this gorilla bathe-dancing to maniac. pic.twitter.com/mIxKxb9JOJ
— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) October 4, 2024
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
