Tosca and the newborn seagulls One Backyard In opposition to the World
A World Constructed for Home Sparrows (excerpt) Flaming Hydra
Gizmo the canine went lacking in Las Vegas in 2015. He’s been discovered alive after 9 years AP
The shocking factor sharks can educate us about life WaPo
Non-public Fairness Corporations Ought to Put together for Elevated Scrutiny as DOJ Places False Claims Violations Beneath the Microscope Nationwide Regulation Overview
Aspect Letter: Alaska performs offence Non-public Fairness Worldwide
David Rubenstein’s daughter resigns Alaska fund publish after cronyism claims FT
Non-public Fairness Traders Plead for Extra Readability on NAV Loans Bloomberg. “Non-public fairness companies ought to alert buyers earlier than they borrow towards their funds’ property — particularly when utilizing so-called net-asset-value loans to juice returns, in keeping with new pointers from a commerce group for such buyers.”
Local weather
Scientists name for higher research of glacier geoengineering choices Guardian
Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation Nature. From the Summary: “We estimate a collapse of the AMOC to happen round mid-century underneath the present situation of future emissions.”
Wildfires ravage western Canada as Trudeau sends in navy to assist Anadolu Company
Park Fireplace rips throughout 125,000 acres in northern California Wildfire In the present day
Life at 115F: a sweltering summer season pushes Las Vegas to the brink Guardian
Capitalist catastrophism and eco-apartheid Geoforum From the Summary: “Capitalist catastrophism has three traits. First, a newfound potential for social actions and theorists to think about post-capitalist futures mixed with an lack of ability to understand them. Second, cascading and mutually amplifying social and ecological crises that outrun the capacities of states and capital to include them. Third, an erratically distributed cancellation of human and non-human futures.”
Water
Might people run on water? Physics World
Syndemics
US bankrolls a 3rd of worldwide Pandemic Fund. Can it get congressional help? Endpoints Information
The place is COVID-19 spreading? These states have the best COVID charges USA In the present day
Information: COVID shaved 2.6 years from life expectancy—far more in some teams—in India Heart for Infectious Illness Analysis and Coverage
China?
China units launch date for world’s first thorium molten salt nuclear energy station South China Morning Publish
Can China smash the Airbus-Boeing duopoly? The Economist
South China Sea: Is the Philippines turning into a gateway for the West’s Indo-Pacific pursuits? Channel Information Asia
India
George Harrison, Ravi Shankar & The Journey Of The Sitar Madras Courier
Bangladesh continues curfew amid mass arrests of protesters Anadolu Company
Africa
Evil Empires? New Left Overview
Syraqistan
Atlantis Is Misplaced: How the Israeli Military’s Plan to Flood Hamas’ Community of Tunnels Beneath Gaza Failed Haaretz. The deck: “Israel began by adopting an previous and unsuitable plan, continued by ignoring skilled recommendation and the doable hazard to the abductees – and ended quietly a couple of months later, anybody saying whether or not it achieved something in any respect. Haaretz surveys profiles the Atlantis mission – a predictable navy failure which nobody stopped till it was too late.”
* * * American Surgeon Who Volunteered in Gaza Says IDF Snipers Shoot Toddlers Antiwar.com. The deck: “‘No toddler will get shot twice by mistake,’ stated Dr. Mark Perlmutter.”
US humiliated itself ‘for the sake of a kid killer’: Turkey’s former president Turkish Minute
* * * Netanyahu irked by “essential” Harris feedback Axios. Commentary:
Some will approvingly declare that Kamala Harris is exhibiting extra “empathy” for Palestinians than Biden. However she’s not calling for a single shift within the guiding coverage of unfettered US help for Israeli mass homicide.
She’s additionally adopting the guiding dehumanization of Palestinians… https://t.co/u9azrh86up
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) July 25, 2024
In the meantime:
Learn my full assertion on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday. pic.twitter.com/zJpZvdQDt9
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) July 25, 2024
Unlawful sale of Palestinian land embraced by Biden, governors, mayors and metropolis councilmembers MR On-line
* * * ‘Stress for this to succeed’: Will Fatah-Hamas unity deal maintain? Al Jazeera
The Buffer Zone Phenomenal World
The Assad go to to Moscow two days in the past about which you might have heard nothing Gilbert Doctorow
Why President Pezeshkian’s Election is Good Information Pluralia. Iran.
European Disunion
Brussels abandons crackdown on overfishing FT
Arson assaults paralyze French high-speed rail community hours earlier than begin of Olympics AP
Expensive Outdated Blighty
New Not-So-Chilly Struggle
Ukraine’s hopes and challenges after lengthy anticipate F-16s BBC
NATO’s false guarantees are encouraging misplaced Ukrainian hopes Politico
EU transfers $2.2b from frozen Russian property to Ukraine Straits Occasions. “Proceeds from.”
South of the Border
Venezuela presidential candidates maintain last rallies forward of election Al Jazeera
Farming Is Hip in Brazil, The place a New Era Is Outpacing the US Bloomberg
2024
Barack and Michelle Obama endorse Kamala Harris, giving her anticipated however essential help AP
Seven Classes from Joe Biden’s Candidacy The Bulwark
The Supremes
Justice Kagan says there must be a technique to implement the US Supreme Courtroom’s new ethics code AP
How probably the most right-wing appeals courtroom was reined in by the Supreme Courtroom this time period USA In the present day
Digital Watch
OpenAI to launch ‘SearchGPT’ in problem to Google FT
Healthcare
We might lastly know the way the placebo impact relieves ache New Scientist
Boeing
NASA says astronauts caught at house station till troubled Boeing capsule could be mounted France24
To Safe Undersea Cables, Take Classes from the British Empire’s All-Purple Line U.S. Naval Institute
Imperial Collapse Watch
How 4 U.S. Presidents Unleashed Financial Warfare Throughout the Globe WaPo. Commentary:
I not often reward mainstream media however that is actually journalism at its best possible by WaPo, revealing the financial warfare that the US wages towards a lot of the world, and particularly towards poor nations, with 60% of them at this time underneath US sanctions!
Here’s what their evaluation… pic.twitter.com/3OSKTCRE58
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) July 25, 2024
What I Noticed on the Uncover-Capital One Merger Listening to Subsequent Metropolis
Class Warfare
Online game performers will go on strike over synthetic intelligence issues AP
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