Kenya relocates 50 elephants to a bigger park Related Press (furzy)
Scientists uncover “unfavorable time” in weird quantum experiment the place photons exit atoms earlier than coming into ZMEScience (Dr.Kevin)
When Did the Roman Empire Fall? Antigone
#COVID-19
COVID-19 detection from exhaled breath Nature (ma)
Local weather/Atmosphere
World fails first assessment of COP renewable vitality purpose Politico
Bushes threaten grasslands and wildlife they help as Minnesota pheasant opener nears Star Tribune (Robin Okay)
China?
China Strikes to Tax the Extremely-Wealthy for Abroad Funding Acquires Bloomberg
China deflation stress mounts as traders search extra stimulus for financial system Monetary Instances
Koreas
Canada-India Row
India and Canada expel high diplomats over homicide accusations BBC
What’s behind Canada’s recent cost towards India? India In the present day (Kevin W)
Violence continues regardless of curfew in France’s Martinique: ‘Final night time was a horror’ LeMonde
South of the Border
Venezuela: María Corina Machado Hastens Collapse of Far-Proper Justice First Celebration Orinoco Tribune. Robin Okay: “That’s a rattling disgrace!”
European Disunion
Europe Is Virtually Out of Time to Defend Its Place in a Brutal World. Bloomberg
Poland to droop proper to asylum as ‘hybrid battle’ escalates on Belarus border Politico
From Politico’s morning EU e-newsletter:
VDL EMBRACES EXTERNAL DEPORTATION CENTERS: Fee President Ursula von der Leyen stated the EU ought to contemplate legislating for “return hubs” in third international locations to hurry up ejections of undocumented immigrants, in a letter to capitals forward of an EU leaders’ migration gabfest later this week.
Aligning deportation insurance policies: The EU isn’t efficient at eradicating individuals who arrive illegally, von der Leyen stated within the letter, which was launched to the media on Monday night. Solely round one in 5 of the non-EU residents ordered to depart have carried out so. Coping with this requires “a brand new authorized framework to step up our capability to behave,” von der Leyen stated, including that revisiting the EU’s failed 2018 effort to align deportation insurance policies could be a direct precedence for the incoming migration commissioner.
Going mainstream: The proposal for third-country deportation facilities, alongside the traces of Italy’s contentious new initiative to ship migrants off to Albania, may mark a pointy new flip within the EU’s method to migrants. Simply final week, as Playbook reported, Dwelling Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson downplayed the prospect of deportation camps, including that nobody has formally proposed this. Now, in writing, von der Leyen is pointing to Italy’s Albania initiative as a possibility to “draw classes from this expertise in apply.”
Previous Blighty
The age of vitality rationing is looming for Britain Telegraph
Reeves hints at rise in employer nationwide insurance coverage, as critics declare it breaches manifesto Guardian (Kevin W)
Councils in London at monetary ‘breaking level’ BBC
UK farmers pressured to chop meals manufacturing to remain viable, warns NFU Monetary Instances
Israel v. The Resistance
Israel does what it does; it was at all times deliberate this manner Alastair Crooke (alerts from many readers). In depth quotes from a Michael Hudson interview with Nima; hyperlinks to transcripts at NC.
Right here’s An Audit Of The Ongoing Genocide In Gaza Madras Courier
Starmer and Lammy right now sanctioned Iran 🇮🇷 for the missile assault on Israel 🇮🇱 in response to their pager assault that killed over 40 Lebanese 🇱🇧 and injured 3,500.
Final night time Israel 🇮🇱 burned Palestinians 🇵🇸 alive of their tents.
Not a phrase from Starmer or Lammy. pic.twitter.com/rmSis5Y8pl
— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) October 14, 2024
Germany requested Israel to signal ‘genocide clause’ – media RT (Kevin W)
US Arms Sellers Witness ‘Report Income’ From Israel’s 12 months-Lengthy Genocide in Gaza, Warfare on Lebanon Orinoco Tribune (Robin Okay)
Merely No Purple Strains At All Craig Murray (Anthony L)
Smotrich: “We are going to proceed to repair, legalize (unlawful outposts) and make de-facto (Israeli) sovereignty (within the West Financial institution)”
Following a vote within the Israeli authorities’s Safety Cupboard in favor of putting cell shelters in unlawful West Financial institution outposts (that means unlawful even beneath… pic.twitter.com/1m4EMDHfVt
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) October 14, 2024
Israel is popping northern Gaza right into a killing cage Jeremy Scahill
🧵Beginning a third working thread on the case of the Israeli troopers arrested for raping a Palestinian on the Sde Teiman focus camp.
Ha’aretz newspaper, right now:
“The prosecutor described in graphic element the abuse the troopers allegedly engaged in, which resulted prompted… https://t.co/Xhf82cIKam pic.twitter.com/81NoPdl04e
— B.M. (@ireallyhateyou) August 22, 2024
* * * An entire information report on the Binyamina assault and *not* one point out that it was a navy base and the 67 injured are all IDF troopers.
Making it appear as if Hezbollah attacked civilians is transparently an try and proceed justifying the US-Israeli battle in Lebanon. https://t.co/BVwYvTf7qZ
— Sana Saeed (@SanaSaeed) October 13, 2024
Israel has simply gained the battle crime of the century prize: The IDF used chemical weapons on UN peacekeepers! https://t.co/R5FzMK6Qa6
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) October 13, 2024
* * * Israel races to produce anti-missile defend Monetary Instances. Lead story. The unbiased media was throughout “US to produce [ineffective because no way enough missiles] THAAD air protection story yesterday. This lead story is a bit broader. The THAAD system would require ~100 US troopers to function it. How lengthy will it take to get to Israel? The arrival and set up of the THAAD is a rate-determining step. Israel won’t assault Iran till it’s put in. Bear in mind the purpose is not only no matter restricted safety it provides, however US troops as a tripwire. If it has a radar, I assume it needs to be transported by sea, which = time. Any reader ideas? Will this take (or can it’s made to take) so lengthy that it places the retaliation previous the election? The flip aspect is that Choose Napolitano reported close to the highest of a recent interview with Jeffrey Sachs that Channel 14 in Israel reported that the assault will come earlier than the US elections.
Israel Assures U.S. It Will Not Strike Iran’s Oil and Nuclear Services, Officers Say Wall Avenue Journal
Iran slams new US oil sanctions, calls them ‘unlawful and unjustified WION
‘No pink traces’ in battle with Israel, Iran overseas minister says Poiltico
Pretend Stories Of Missile Transfers To Russia Are Used To Sanction Iran Moon of Alabama
Syraqistan
Tribal clashes in north-west Pakistan kill not less than 11 folks Guardian
New Not-So-Chilly Warfare
SITREP 10/14/24: Russia Tightens Ring on Key Area on Eve of Zelensky “Victory Plan” Unveiling Simplicius
BILD: Scholz disagrees with Zelenskyy’s calls to help Ukraine and appears to haven’t any intention of handing over heavy tools to the nation
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been touring Europe to suggest a “victory plan” and search pressing help within the battle… pic.twitter.com/iVdBINyCDt
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) October 13, 2024
Fats and silly; Why NATO is sweet (for us). Marat Khairullin
The Militarisation of Scandinavia & the Nice Northern Warfare 2.0 Glenn Diesen (Micael T)
Between Russia and Iran all is properly that ends properly Indian Punchline. Bhadrakumar could be very uneven. Only a week in the past, he was claiming that Israel wouldn’t assault Iran. I’m undecided I purchase a thesis right here, that Pezeshkian continues to be meaningfully driving the bus with respect to Center East coverage (that doesn’t, BTW, imply he can’t be an interlocutor). Pezeshkian was one of many loud voices for holding off on the Iran retaliation primarily based on noises the US was making about doable Iran normalization. Pezeshkian has since needed to eat a ton of crow and admit the US lied to him. Some commentators have prompt Pezeshkian is diminished to the diploma that he’s on the best way out. Navy choices are the purview of the Supreme Chief.
Trump
Trump information convention: Insults, wild claims and apocalyptic view of U.S. Los Angeles Instances (furzy)
Kamala
What the Polls Actually Say About Black Males’s Assist for Kamala Harris New Yorker (furzy)
CNN Tells Harris To not Discuss In regards to the Financial system Dean Baker. Robin Okay: “Defending the Biden financial system!!!”
2024
Large Early Voting Turnout Surge Shatters Data Throughout Wyoming Cowboy State Each day. Massive improve in voting stage already predicted by an in-state reader.
The 2024 Kansas voter suppression scandal: Authorities, social media group as much as block engagement Kansas Reflector (Robin Okay)
Helene/Milton Aftermath
Speaker Johnson says FEMA hasn’t spent most of $20 billion in catastrophe help Simply the Information
Federal flood maps underestimated threat in areas hit hardest by Hurricane Helene Washington Put up (furzy)
Extent of destruction from Hurricane Milton involves mild WSWS
Our No Longer Free Press
The FBI Knocked On My Door Ken Klipperstein (furzy)
Liberals are Shedding their Minds over Elon Musk Jonathan Turley
Flyover Watch
Tenth District Power Exercise Declined Additional Federal Reserve Financial institution of Kansas Metropolis (Robin Okay)
Rural Missouri teams threaten lawsuit over PFAS in meatpacking sludge Missouri Impartial. Robin Okay: “Missouri’s not the one state with meatpackers.”
Ag Secretary Vilsack deflects on future profession plans, regulatory ‘revolving door’ Examine Midwest. Robin Okay: “OK, that is final week. This man wants exposing as typically as doable.”
AI
Google strikes a take care of a nuclear startup to energy its AI knowledge facilities Endgadget (Kevin W)
The Bezzle
Man Who By chance Despatched $527M in Bitcoins to Dump Sues Native Council to Retrieve Them: Report CoinDesk (Kevin W)
You Can’t Make Buddies With The Rockstars Ed Zitron (Micael T)
Video: Elon unveils ‘Robovan’ and ‘Cybercab’ CNN (furzy)
Class Warfare
The International South’s Poor Ought to Not Be Subsidizing the IMF Middle for Financial and Coverage Analysis (Robin Okay)
Congress Is Underfunding Tribal Schools by $250 Million Per Year ProPublica (Robin Okay)
Antidote du jour (through):
And a bonus:
The peacemaker 🐈 pic.twitter.com/BvfGhQYhIT
— contents that ll heal your despair 🌻 (@Catshealdeprsn) October 14, 2024
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.