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French Scientist’s Photograph of ‘Distant Star’ Was Truly Chorizo Vice (J-LS)

Leopard crashes into home and rescued Each day Mirror (SBK)

France whale: Misplaced mammal caught in River Seine to get vitamin increase BBC

The consciousness of bees Washington Put up (furzy)

At Lengthy Final, Mathematical Proof That Black Holes Are Secure Qanta Journal

Earth Is Spinning Quicker Now Than It Was 50 Years In the past Uncover (Dr Kevin)

Solar energy opens the door to banking for rural Indians Thomson Reuters Basis (J-LS)

Streaming Is a Black Gap of Monetary Loss The Bulwark (furzy)

#COVID-19

Persistence of somatic signs after COVID-19 within the Netherlands: an observational cohort research The Lancet

Monkeypox

Implications Of Monkeypox Being Declared A Public Well being Emergency In U.S. Forbes

Safer Intercourse, Social Gatherings, and Monkeypox CDC. I hope IM Doc weighs in. No matter you consider the slim usefulnesses, “recommendation” like this (as within the headline!) reinforces the concept that monkeypox is a de facto STD. This appears to be like as if the CDC is organising gays for blame for its failures.

A Stranger Filmed Her on the Practice. TikTok Customers Determined She Had Monkeypox. New York Occasions

Local weather/Setting

Nothing left within the pipes’: Europe tackles unprecedented water shortages as heatwave rages Euronews (furzy)

Drought might pressure nuclear energy manufacturing minimize Related Press. Re France.

France creates job pressure to stem influence of ‘historic’ drought France24 (resilc)

No-till is probably not the agricultural panacea we thought it was (furzy)

China?

The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the expertise to China NPR (resilc)

How a lot does Taiwan rely on China? DW (resilc)

Pelosi Aftermath

Taiwan accuses China of simulating invasion as US relations nosedive Firstpost (J-LS)

We Shouldn’t Underestimate the Unbelievable Hazard Posed by the Taiwan Disaster Jacobin (Tom H)

Blinken chides China’s ‘irresponsible’ minimize in US communication Al Jazeera (resilc)

GT Voice: US economic system to pay for commencement journey by ‘god of shares of Capitol Hill’ World Occasions (DS)

Myanmar junta raps ‘provocative’ Pelosi go to to Taiwan Mizzima

Somalia helps China amid rising tensions on Taiwan Anadolu Company

Pelosi’s Taiwan go to and the boundaries of American technique Accountable Statecraft (resilc)

Amid India’s Strain, Sri Lanka Urges China to Defer Go to of its Ship to Hambantota: Report The Wire

Previous Blighty

Inside London’s Wrestle to Wean Itself From Russian Billions Vainness Truthful (resilc)

Vitality Payments Are Set To Soar In The UK OilPrice (resilc)

The folks about to decide on Britain’s subsequent prime minister The Economist

When whistleblowers go to jail, we’re on the highway to tyranny Salon

Australian Prime Minister Albanese refuses to fulfill with Assange’s household WSWS

New Not-So-Chilly Struggle

Unique: U.S. readies new $1 billion Ukraine weapons bundle Reuters (resilc)

Turkey, Russia conform to commerce in rubles — Erdogan TASS and Turkish Banks Are Adopting Russian Funds System, Erdogan Says Bloomberg

Alarm mounts in western capitals over Turkey’s deepening ties with Russia Monetary Occasions. The West has misplaced its thoughts:

Western capitals are more and more alarmed concerning the deepening financial co-operation between Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin, warning of the mounting threat that the Nato member state could possibly be hit by punitive retaliation if it helps Russia keep away from sanctions.

Notice Turkey has been snubbed by the EU and by Western arms makers. From DefenseNews final October:

Difficult Western sanctions, NATO ally Turkey has pledged to additional its protection trade cooperation with Russia, together with fighter jet and plane engine applied sciences, a second batch of S-400 air protection methods, and submarines….

In an interview with CBS present “Face the Nation,” Erdogan stated America’s refusal to each ship F-35 fighter jets — which Turkey agreed to buy — and promote Patriot air protection missiles gave Turkey no selection however to show to Russia for the S-400 anti-aircraft missile system. The acquisition was a degree of competition between Turkey and NATO throughout the Trump administration, and that sentiment has carried over to the brand new administration.

Now I see why Alexander Mercouris floated the concept that Turkey might depart NATO (not instantly, however the concept appeared not possible heretofore) and that the West can be making an attempt (more durable) to oust Ergogan

“After the confiscation of property of the Russian Federation”: the Federation Council stated that Ukraine has ceased to be secure for fuel transit RT. Unique: «После конфискации собственности РФ»: в Совфеде заявили, что Украина перестала быть безопасной для транзита газа. Recall the dialogue at NC of the pervasive political and press silence concerning the position of the Yamal-Europe pipeline as a part of Europe’s fuel woes (map right here). Yamal-Europe carried 33-34 billion cubic meters of fuel yearly v. 55 billion cubic meters for Nord Stream 1 at full capability. Ukraine minimize off the availability on its leg of Yamal-Europe, on the pretext that it ran by way of Russian managed territory, when that had been true for months. Poland refused to pay for fuel in roubles, so Russia minimize off their quantity. So the Russian announcement is tantamount to make the closure of the leg of Yamal-Europe by way of Ukraine everlasting (conceivably the West might have overwhelmed up on Ukraine to cease blocking provide so the EU might get extra fuel, however now not).

Educational analysis institute director Alexander Shiplyuk arrested on excessive treason costs TASS

Has the Ukraine Battle Pushed U.S. Authorities Officers Loopy? CovertAction Journal (resilc)

Syraqistan

After years of hostility, Turkey forges ties with japanese Libya Al-Monitor

Israel making ready for a week-long Gaza operation: Military Mint

Bladed ‘Ninja’ missile decapitated al-Qaeda’s head Asia Occasions (resilc)

Zawahiri’s killing unlikely to weaken al-Qaida considerably The Guardian (resilc)

World Financial institution blames Lebanon for ‘deliberate’ financial disaster Al-Monitor (furzy)

Myanmar

ASEAN particular envoy to Myanmar warns on additional executions AP

Imperial Collapse Watch

Philippines Will Not Rejoin Worldwide Legal Courtroom, Marcos Says The Diplomat

Huge Brother is Watching You Watch

The Officer of the Future: Facial Recognition and the Border-Industrial Advanced CounterPunch

Israel Police’s Pegasus Spyware and adware Prototype Revealed Haaretz

State Legislatures Are Torching Democracy New Yorker (furzy)

It’s Onerous To Win A Senate Race When You’ve By no means Gained An Election Earlier than FiveThirtyEight (resilc)

US library defunded after refusing to censor LGBTQ authors: ‘We is not going to ban the books’ Guardian

Abortion

Florida Governor DeSantis sacks elected state prosecutor for talking out towards anti-abortion, anti-LGBTQ laws WSWS

The Bezzle

One other courtroom case fails to unlock the thriller of bitcoin’s Satoshi Nakamoto The Guardian

Indie devs outraged by unlicensed sport gross sales on GameStop’s NFT market [Updated] Ars Technica

FTX-Backed PACs Develop the Crypto Foyer in Congress The Intercept

Personal fairness items at buyout corporations contract as monetary markets tumble Monetary Occasions

US Airways Are Cancelling Hundreds of Flights CNN

Guillotine Watch