The true disaster isn’t local weather change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says Aljazeera
Bossons Glacier2022 | 2025
These 3 yrs present essentially the most spectacular collapse ever! 😱
The Mt Blanc massif and Chamonix icescape won’t ever be the identical… 🔥😭
Glaciers are actually fully out of context with the local weather zone by which they’re situated! 🌡️
📷 MeteoValledAosta pic.twitter.com/QPuzL57A4v
— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) September 4, 2025
The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen throughout file 2023 marine warmth wave PhysOrg
Carbon seize set to be much less helpful in tackling local weather change, scientists warn Monetary Instances
These clear home windows can secretly produce solar energy ScienceDaily (Chuck L). Very cool. However can they be made cheaply sufficient?
China?
All 76 weapons at China 2025 navy parade defined. 47 are model new Binkov’s Battleground, YouTube
Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it can defend China’s pursuits Aljazeera
Koreas
How a High Secret SEAL Workforce 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Aside New York Instances (Micael T)
India
India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU Indian Punchline (Chuck L). At present’s should learn. Counters the publish SCO=BRICS anti-globalist cheerleading, at the very least so far as India and China are involved. Conor had a raft of hyperlinks on the time of the SCO, many from Indian sources and non-US China consultants. Almost all highlighted an extended record of thorny points India and China would want to work by means of for there to be marked enchancment of their relationship.
Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest Impartial
Has India ‘weaponised water’ to intentionally flood Pakistan? Aljazeera
Fitch Says Extreme Unrest Might Weigh on Indonesia’s Credit score Profile Bloomberg
Africa
Lethal land dispute in northern Ghana displaces almost 50,000 folks France24
UN report warns of attainable battle crimes, crimes in opposition to humanity in DR Congo Anadolu Company
South of the Border
Rubio’s assertion is pure escalation signaling, framing the U.S. Navy’s strike on a Venezuelan vessel not as an remoted interdiction however as a doctrine shift.
He’s successfully telegraphing that this administration will deal with any suspected “narco-terrorist” boat, Tren de Aragua,… pic.twitter.com/wxQNZgxwfp
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025
European Disunion
France faces sovereign ranking check amid political chaos Reuters
Europe Faces $1 Trillion Rearmament Invoice as U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts. OilPrice
Norwegians to select new parliament in tightly fought election clouded by geopolitical angst Reuters
And in case you are not keen (to battle), I’ll use drive Nachdenkseiten by way of machine translation (Micael T)
Public broadcaster refuses to offer info on the growth of the fact-checking community Multipolar by way of machine translation (Micael T)
One other NATO state getting ready to conscript ladies RT (Kevin W)
It smells too little of beer, cigarettes and sweat Aftonbladet by way of machine translation. Micael T: “Class evaluation of the lately printed Swedish Canon. Right here is the canon.
Previous Blighty
Britain is within the eye of the monetary storm Traders are dropping confidence Unherd
The Israeli president’s invitation to the UK reveals Starmer is an confederate to genocide Council Property Media
Israel v. The Resistance
Whereas Gaza’s fighters maintain the road beneath siege, Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Workplace has been funding and arming probably the most infamous Israeli-backed militias within the Strip, the Yasser Abu Shabab gang, also called the “In style Forces.” pic.twitter.com/6rpTORPfA3
— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025
US sanctions Palestinian rights teams who requested prime court docket for Israel battle crimes investigation CNN
Will Most cancers Show to be One other Weapon in Israel’s Battle in Gaza? Joshua Frank, TomDispatch
Revealed: The ships carrying gas and arms to Israel Center East Eye
Israel can’t cease Alon Mizrahi. He’s a bit verbose, however there’s a transcript and his huge level is is sensible.
Israel threatens to unleash biblical plagues on Yemen’s Houthis Aljazeera
New Not-So-Chilly Battle
Chancellor seeks to hide Germany’s missile provides to Kiev — Russia intel company TASS (guurst)
Germany’s Merz calls for ‘financial exhaustion’ of Russia RT (Micael T). And I desire a pony.
Western troops in Ukraine could be ‘official targets’, Putin says Guardian (Kevin W). One other instance of Russia having to endlessly repeat the identical level for it to have an opportunity of the West accepting it.
“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.” The Floutist
Putin in Primorye & Vladivostok Karl Sanchez
Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea BBC
Imperial Collapse Watch
Seems like Eldridge Colby, the arch Realist who actually wrote the ebook on containing China, and whom I imagine wrote this, has made his evaluation of US capabilities and the geostrategic stability of energy, and determined that the US can’t realistically maintain the road within the Western… https://t.co/sNyKDWPwml
— Collingwood 🇬🇧 (@admcollingwood) September 5, 2025
Vital. Do click on by means of:
That is truly a degree I have been which means to make for some time.
Reform of the US Military: The Infantry Mind Drain
The US Military’s “line” infantry items are in follow fourth-rate formations which were systematically stripped of proficient personnel.⬇️
How is that this? Properly, it is… https://t.co/jOIgdvReXJ pic.twitter.com/VjevOvJQvo
— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) September 6, 2025
Xi-Modi-Putin financial axis hardens as Trump tariffs backfire Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Siberia? The LNG Revolution? Julian Macfarlane
The parable of central financial institution independence Thomas Fazi. The half that Fazi omits is that at the very least within the US, Congress has lengthy been completely satisfied to permit the Fed to have interaction in mission creeps so they may keep away from blame for unhealthy financial outcomes.
Trump 2.0
Extra Profitable: Trump Bombs Ship Smuggling 30,000 Kilos Of Pumpkin Spice Babylon Bee. If you’ve misplaced The Bee…
RFK Jr. can’t reply essentially the most fundamental questions on COVID deaths or Medicare prices, however he’s able to push junk science and rent frauds to do it. pic.twitter.com/0GFiu916t4
— BreakThrough Information (@BTnewsroom) September 4, 2025
GOP senators sign to Trump that Kennedy is on skinny ice The Hill. Wake me when this will get to be greater than a moist noodle lashing. However…..
RFK Jr Is All of the sudden in Actual Bother Futurism
Tariffs
We’re not even 5 months previous Liberation Day and already:
– Job market has fully collapsed.– We’re in a recession.– Inflation is surging. – Our exports are collapsing because the world is boycotting us.– We don’t have a single precise commerce deal in impact.
Why did we do that…
— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 5, 2025
John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers New York Instances (Chuck L)
Immigration
Decide blocks Trump administration’s ending of authorized protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians Related Press (Kevin W)
L’affaire Epstein
BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie simply dropped a bomb.
He named one of many billionaires in Epstein’s black ebook, John Paulson.
Paulson isn’t just a few wealthy man. He’s a significant GOP donor, pumping cash into the Republican Social gathering, the Speaker of the Home, and Trump’s marketing campaign. And… pic.twitter.com/9lHn39gVx9
— Mario (@PawlowskiMario) September 4, 2025
DOJ responds to official’s Epstein feedback in hidden-camera video The Hill
Mamdani
Trump’s deadline to skinny NYC mayoral race subject in bid to cease Zohran Mamdani New York Publish
Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Assembly in Florida New York Instances
Eric Adams eyed by Trump for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship Politico
Profitable is not the Democratic Social gathering’s objective, successful with out the left is. Till that adjustments, prepare for lots extra dropping https://t.co/rmRsWj3glZ
— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) September 4, 2025
Financial system
Provide Chain Dangers from Geopolitical Battle. Procurement Journal
Antitrust
EU Slaps Google with $3.5 Billion Antitrust High-quality: A Breakthrough Ruling DevDiscourse
The tech antitrust renaissance could already be over The Verge
AI
Salesforce simply introduced it reduce 4,000 buyer help jobs… and Marc Benioff is saying it’s due to AI. Joe Sirianni (Micael T)
The Bezzle
Writing Workshops Are Fucking Ineffective The Republic of Letters (Micael T)
Guillotine Watch
Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package deal that might make him the world’s first trillionaire CNN (Kevin W)
Musk invokes “rape of Europe” in anti-immigrant rant Musk Watch
Class Warfare
Age of Invention: The Century-Lengthy Melancholy Anton Howes. Vital regardless that a historic instance.
Beneath Trump, the Federal Commerce Fee is abandoning its ban on noncompetes NPR (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour (by way of):
And a bonus (Chuck L). Clearly a wise and delicate primate:
A uncommon close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of many solely identified primates that actively avoids people pic.twitter.com/cdnpqMntjR
— Nature is Superb ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 4, 2025
A second bonus (Chuck L):
Girl pretends to faint to see how her geese react. pic.twitter.com/21sN3sH2r9
— Nature is Superb ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 6, 2025
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
