What a lovely Little Lady! Kent animal sanctuary announces birth of sweet snow leopard cub<\/a> Daily Mail (Li) <\/p>\n Size Matters: Study Reveals Snow Leopards Hunt Like No Other Big Cat<\/a> Snow Leopard Trust. They are the only big cats that prefer prey two to three times their size.<\/p>\n Why Shop? In Maine, the Library of Things Has It All (Almost)<\/a> New York Tims (resilc). Brunswick! Nearest town to my ancestral home of Bailey Island! One of my brothers is vacationing there now. <\/p>\n How Europe\u2019s oldest language ended up on US trees<\/a> BBC (Kevin W)<\/p>\n The end of the cult of the wunderkind<\/a> Engelsberg Ideas (Micael T)<\/p>\n Gustave Dor\u00e9\u2019s Haunting Illustrations of Dante\u2019s Divine Comedy<\/a> Open Culture (Micael T)<\/p>\n Barry Eisler on Political Thrillers, AOC, and how \u201cThe System\u201d Justifies War<\/a> Current Affairs (Anthony L)<\/p>\n Scientists are building cyborg jellyfish to explore ocean depths<\/a> ars technica<\/p>\n American at the grocery store shows that every single thing she picks up now says \u201cContains bioengineered ingredients\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI’m here at Aldi, and almost everything they have contains bioengineered food ingredients.\u201d This is all fake food, Americans are treated as lab rats pic.twitter.com\/hk44M4jb18<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n The illusion of \u2018safe\u2019 marijuana<\/a> Unherd<\/p>\n COVID-19\/Pandemics<\/p>\n “Before the pandemic, mortality trends for 25-44 year-olds mirrored other adult age groups. Since COVID-19, the mortality is unique. 25-44 year-olds now have a 70% higher chance of dying than in 2010.” https:\/\/t.co\/MpPlhCtbeD<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nate Bear (@NateB_Panic) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Climate\/Environment<\/p>\n Continents are drying out worldwide<\/a> Tasseschau via machine translation (guurst). Underlying study is from July, and seems to have been underpublicized: Unprecedented continental drying, shrinking freshwater availability, and increasing land contributions to sea level rise<\/a> Science. Australia is less affected than I expected. <\/p>\n When water becomes war: The moral failure of global governance in the Middle East<\/a> Middle East Monitor<\/p>\n Drought wilts Israeli agriculture, farmers face significant water cuts<\/a> YNet<\/p>\n Brutal Monsoon Season Kills at Least 1,860 in India and Pakistan<\/a> Bloomberg<\/p>\n Niger floods drive thousands from their homes with at least 47 dead<\/a> TRT Global<\/p>\n A Debilitating Virus Surges Globally as Mosquitoes Move With Warming Climate<\/a> New York Times<\/p>\n Energy Return and Systemic Exchange Value<\/a> Warwick Powell<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n China?<\/p>\n China is a Rich Society. No Western Country Is.<\/a> Ian Welsh<\/p>\n China\u2019s lithium mining faces strict new regulatory era<\/a> Asia Times (Kevin W)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sri Lanka\u2019s former president Ranil Wickremesinghe arrested<\/a> BBC<\/p>\n South of the Border<\/p>\n \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfd\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 NORTHCOM openly preparing unilateral military strikes inside Mexico<\/p>\n The Trump administration has issued a Top Secret order directing the U.S. military to prepare lethal strikes on Mexican cartels, investigative journalist Ken Klippenstein reports. The planning order tasks\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/cq7zJjE6xg<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Time is running out for the coup plotters<\/a> Socialism and Democracy (Micael T). Brazil. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n European Disunion<\/p>\n US Treasury Secretary boasts: This is how brazenly the US will plunder its \u201callies\u201d <\/a>Nachdenkseiten (Micael T)<\/p>\n The new alliance strategy<\/a> German Foreign Policy. Micael T: \u201cUuuuuhh scary! Two resource-free vassals join forces. What mat they come up with?\u201d<\/p>\n Denmark To Abolish VAT On Books To Get More People Reading<\/a> Guardian<\/p>\n See the church move in Kiruna in 45 seconds<\/a> SVT via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n The cost of binge drinking in Finland? Maybe your job<\/a> NZZ (Micael T)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Old Blighty<\/p>\n An IPSOS poll this week showed that a third (33%) of 16 to 34 year olds would consider voting for the new left wing party.<\/p>\n Its not hard to see why. pic.twitter.com\/Btklswi2pO<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Britain\u2019s Mass Fatality Preparation: What Is the Government Preparing For?<\/a> Jim Ferguson (Chuck L). The author is an alarmist on governments curbing rights. However, that does not make this find untrue. However, the tender amount is bupkis. So is this grifting even when the Government budget is under strain? Or Russia paranoia? <\/p>\n Why are food prices still rising by so much?<\/a> BBC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Israel v. The Resistance<\/p>\n The UN-backed IPC is set to declare famine in Gaza City for the first time in its history. <\/p>\n Since 2004, it\u2019s only used that classification 4 times, all in besieged, war-torn regions.<\/p>\n Gaza is already at Phase 4 (\u201cemergency\u201d), meaning mass starvation, acute malnutrition, and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/GKegl2zwsP<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A sign of the times that this has to be spelled out:<\/p>\n A normal person would shudder at the thought of one hungry child who has nothing to eat for days.<\/p>\n If you are normal, this thought is unbearable to you. <\/p>\n Israel as a country, Zionism as a movement, Jews as a national group, and the West as a civilization, are intentionally\u2026<\/p>\n \u2014 Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Israeli Denials of Gaza\u2019s Starvation Echo Holocaust Denial Tactics<\/a> Zaid Jilani<\/p>\n Israel Expanding Tank and APC Production to Rebuild After Major Losses in Gaza and Against Hezbollah <\/a>Military Watch<\/p>\n The Loomering of Injured Gazan Children<\/a> American Conservative<\/p>\n \u201cGreater Israel,\u201d a farce redolent of Nazism and with Netanyahu as the prophet of hate<\/a> Rebelion via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n Tensions Rise In The Middle East<\/a> Mark Wauck<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n New Not-So-Cold War<\/p>\n Russia\u2019s SHOCKING Breakthrough North of Pokrovsk<\/a> History Legends, YouTube<\/p>\n Brief Frontline Report \u2013 August 22nd, 2025<\/a> Marat Khairullin<\/p>\n Trump \u2018very angry\u2019 at Ukraine hitting Russian pipeline feeding Orb\u00e1n<\/a> Politico (Kevin W)<\/p>\n US begins icebreaker race with Russia<\/a> Vzglyad via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n New images show a front-line NATO ally\u2019s plan to blunt a Russian invasion at the border<\/a> Business Insider. Lithuania. <\/p>\n European military stocks fall on Ukraine peace talks progress<\/a> RT <\/p>\n Ukrainian Arrested in Italy for Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions<\/a> OilPrice<\/p>\n Anchorage\/Washington, D.C.: Can Trump force Europeans to make peace?<\/a> Peter Haenseler. Generally good, but I beg to differ an why Witkoff was dispatched ot Moscow. Trump had been pressed hard by Lindsey Graham to implement those \u201cbone crushing\u201d secondary sanctions. He\u2019d tried it with India and say they backfired. But Graham and the nutters were not backing down. So talking to Putin at a minimum to buy Trump maneuvering space and maybe even get something useful done. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Caucasus<\/p>\n Pashinyan-Pezeshkian meeting: what does Iran expect from opening transport routes in the Caucasus?<\/a> JAM News<\/p>\n Whose oil is it that is burning in Odessa and Kremenchug?<\/a> Top War (Micael T). Some YouTubers have mentioned this disciplining of Azerbaijan but there\u2019s not been much in print. <\/p>\n Armenian Jeffrey Epstein: How Speaker of the Armenian Parliament Alen Simonyan built a pedo-empire for high-ranking officials<\/a> VT Foreign Policy (Dandre M) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Big Brother is Watching You Watch<\/p>\n DNS Becomes a Tool of Digital Rebellion: From Internet Infrastructure to Privacy Weapon<\/a> Reclaim the Net (Micael T)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Imperial Collapse Watch<\/p>\n Ministry of Violence<\/a> Buttondown (resilc). On evangelical child abuse.<\/p>\n Denmark ending letter deliveries is a sign of the digital times<\/a> BBC (Kevin W). Bullshit. It\u2019s a sign of neoliberalism, as in privatization of once public services that when they were implemented were seen as advances in civilization. Admittedly, in the US, the Internet did kill severely dent a key source of revenues for the Post Office, catalogue delivery. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Trump 2.0<\/p>\n FBI raids former National Security Adviser John Bolton\u2019s home: Reports<\/a> Axios. Note as many pointed out during the document raid on Trump that this is not how things historically were done. Former officials regularly wind up with confidential docs in their possession. If a communication asking for them back is not honored, a subpoena follows. Sadly, even though this action is clearly abusive, so was the Mar a Lago raid (when Trump\u2019s lawyers were in communication with DoJ and hence were cooperating). <\/p>\n US to take 10% stake in troubled chipmaker Intel<\/a> Financial Times<\/p>\n How Many Federal Health Workers Have RFK Jr. and the Trump Administration Cut? <\/a> ProPublica (Robin K)<\/p>\n \ud83d\udea8 NOW: The FBI is STILL conducting their raid at John Bolton\u2019s DC area home and office, over FIVE HOURS after the operation began<\/p>\n These agents are tearing through absolutely EVERYTHING \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n Bolton\u2019s days of freedom are numbered. pic.twitter.com\/hLYFY3LZOn<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n Tariffs<\/p>\n Treasury Secretary Bessent is \u201cgaslighting\u201d the American people on tariff revenue as government debt runs wild, analyst says<\/a> Investors Observer<\/p>\n Trump says furniture tariffs are coming later this year<\/a> CNBC (Kevin W). I wrote about this years ago, keying off a Wall Street Journal story on the loss of North Carolina\u2019s furniture industry. As I recall, the Journal stressed the skill loss, not just at the factory floor but also the managerial level<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Immigration<\/p>\n What the data says about immigrants in the U.S.<\/a> Pew. \u201cAfter more than 50 years of rapid growth, the nation\u2019s immigrant population is now in decline.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump administration is reviewing all 55 million foreigners with US visas for any violations<\/a> Associated Press (Kevin W)<\/p>\n Judge rules \u2018Alligator Alcatraz\u2019 can stay open for now, but no further detainees or construction are allowed<\/a> NBC<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n L\u2019affaire Epstein<\/p>\n Ghislaine Maxwell never saw Trump in \u2018any inappropriate setting\u2019, transcript shows <\/a> Guardian (Kevin W). Such a tortured formulation is suspect. So she saw him with sex trafficked women in bed? That would be an \u201cappropriate setting.\u201d A \u201cmassage setting\u201d is a massage table, FFS. Prosecutors please pipe up. How conceivable is it that someone very compliant with the DoJ did a dry run and told Maxwell\u2019s attorneys if and how her statements could be reformulated. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Democrats en d\u00e9shabill\u00e9 <\/i><\/p>\n The \u2018woke\u2019 words Democrats should cut from their vocabulary<\/a> Politico<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Fedwatch<\/p>\n The only place the Fed is “independent” is in the Economics classroom \u2026 the Fed has always been responsive to political pressure \u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/i4ABGJMD2Y<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Richard Field (@tyillc) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Economy<\/p>\n Class 8 Truck Orders Drop 35% from Year Ago, Medium Duty Down 40% <\/a>Michael Shedlock<\/p>\n AI<\/p>\n OpenAI chairman says AI is destroying his sense of who he is<\/a> Futurism<\/p>\n ChatGPT, you are so terribly stupid!<\/a> Overton via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is \u2018Dumbest thing I\u2019ve ever heard\u2019<\/a> The Register<\/p>\n Hunger Games: AI\u2019s Demand for Resources Poses Promise and Peril to Rural America<\/a> Real Clear Investigations<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Guillotine Watch<\/p>\n How SpaceX avoids paying taxes<\/a> Musk Watch<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Class Warfare<\/p>\n Why free movement of people is harmful <\/a>Markskop via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n Sentencing For Sale<\/a> Speak Up! Silent No more (Robin K)<\/p>\n Cashing in without performance<\/a> Multipolar via machine translation (Micael T)<\/p>\n \u201cHow can this happen?\u201d Fight over sewage sludge on farms intensifies<\/a> The New Lede<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Antidote du jour (via):<\/p>\n And a bonus (guurst):<\/p>\n \u041f\u0440\u0438\u0432\u0435\u0442 \u042d\u0442\u043d\u043e\u0447\u043a\u0430 pic.twitter.com\/U0nVAnieXI<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Sveta L (@SvetaRus3) August 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n A second bonus:<\/p>\n After losing his final saxophone in the car crash . We hunted all over eBay to find the exact same of his favorite toy\u2026. Today it arrived pic.twitter.com\/VqDSEQx5Di<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Unregistered HyperEm 2 (@warmaliens) August 22, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n See yesterday\u2019s Links and Antidote du Jour here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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