Links 1/1/2025 | naked capitalism

Joyful 2025!!! Hope yours is off to a very good begin.

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Why Do We All Watch a Ball Drop to Rejoice the New 12 months? Vice

Folks Are Sharing Subtly Bizarre Components Of Life In America, And Even As Somebody From The US, I’m Considering Twice About Some Of These BuzzFeed (Kevin W)

Ants Carry out Higher As a Group Than People When Making an attempt to Remedy the ‘Piano Mover’s Puzzle’ Laughing Squid

A sensible, biomimetic, one-pot synthesis of firefly luciferin Nature (Micael T)

Lacking canine returns house, rings doorbell BoingBoing

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Practically 1M chickens check optimistic for fowl flu at Darke County egg producer Dayton Each day Information

Local weather/Surroundings

Science and realism’: Governments plan for doomsday local weather situations USA Right this moment

World endures ‘decade of lethal warmth’ as 2024 caps hottest years on report Guardian

After just a few days of La Niña induced reduction, we’re again above pre-2023 each day report international Sea Floor Temperatures… https://t.co/yck98QPmgJ pic.twitter.com/Hyw0wpurHY

— Leon Simons (is okay) (@LeonSimons8) December 30, 2024

‘Inexperienced’ ferry emits extra CO2 than outdated diesel ship BBC

China?

Will China’s Huge Dam Challenge Spark A Water Warfare With India? India Right this moment

Chuck L courteously despatched the hyperlink for the article mentioned under: A New Sort of Political Social gathering System That Has Grown Out of Chinese language Soil Qiushi:

Many individuals dismiss China as a one-party state however the actuality is definitely far more nuanced than this.

As I’ve usually argued you can not presumably perceive one thing – not to mention criticize it – should you do not additionally perceive it from the standpoint of those that defend it. Which means,…

— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) December 31, 2024

Rupiah Intervention Exhibits EM’s Sturdy-Greenback Headache Bloomberg

Koreas

South Korea poised to crash and burn in 2025 Asia Occasions (Kevin W)

Africa

From Sudan to the Sahel, Warfare Spreads in Africa in 2024 Overseas Coverage

European Disunion

Ukraine to finish transit of Russian fuel to EU BBC (Kevin W). In case you missed it.

Russia’s Gazprom stops fuel provides to Europe through Ukraine as transit deal expires TASS (guurst)

EU prepares to launch vitality warfare The Duran, YouTube

Fuel buying and selling days in Europe finish at 08:00 Moscow time. By the point you learn this put up, the fuel circulation could have already stopped.

Throughout buying and selling hours, fuel costs in Europe rose to $536 per 1,000 cubic meters forward of the anticipated halt in Russian fuel transit via Ukraine, 👇 pic.twitter.com/VqEYEtHcnq

— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) January 1, 2025

New French finance minister eyes 2025 deficit barely above 5% Reuters

Previous Blighty

Starmer asks UK regulators for concepts to spice up progress BBC. Kill me now.

Keir Starmer vows to rebuild Britain as Labour did after second world warfare Guardian (Kevin W)

Retailers face collapse as prices rocket and Excessive St misery ranges soar 25% after Funds That is Cash

Local weather change will devastate worth of properties, warns Financial institution of England Telegraph

Israel v. The Resistance

Winter rains worsen horrors confronted by displaced Palestinians in Gaza Aljazeera

Rain, starvation, displacement underneath the specter of annihilation. Their properties pulverised. Israel blocking all primary survival provides. https://t.co/tli7v9aqxq

— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) January 1, 2025

In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, girls wrestle with a life stripped of privateness Unbiased

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Hamas, Israel have reached an deadlock in hostage negotiations, Arab mediators inform WSJ Jerusalem Submit. Oddly not outstanding on the Journal’s web site.

Half of Iran’s industrial capability halted by vitality disaster Iran Worldwide

Iraq nonetheless negotiating with mediator to make sure Turkmen fuel supply Iraqi Information

Syraqistan

Syria official’s feedback on girls spark uproar New Arab

Iran objects to Afghanistan’s development of Pashdan Dam on Harirud Tehran Occasions

New Not-So-Chilly Warfare

America Wants a Most Stress Technique in Ukraine Overseas Affairs. And I would love a pony.

Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left by Tanker That Broke Cables Bloomberg

Sweden’s opposition needs NATO article invoked after cable break Euronews

The Greatness of the Russian Military: Actual outcomes of 2024 Marat Khairullin. Unabashedly partisan. I belief readers can low cost for that.

Do click on via for particulars:

🇺🇸💥🇺🇦💥🇷🇺‼️Elon Musk is the primary wrongdoer for the defeat of Ukrainian forces within the Kursk area, Ukrainians declare‼️

Former colonel of the Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU), Oleg Starikov, in an interview with political analyst Mihail Karasev, analyzed intimately the explanations 👇 pic.twitter.com/gdiLG5PvrB

— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) December 31, 2024

Huge Brother is Watching You Watch

Reward Card Fraud Bruce Schneier

Imperial Collapse Watch

Center Powers Revisited: “Good Residents” of the World Majority Russia in International Affairs (Micael T). From a few months in the past. Nonetheless germane.

Who’d need to survive a nuclear warfare? Spectator

GOP Clown Automotive

Chip Roy on Johnson: ‘I don’t consider he has the votes’ The Hill

No less than 10 killed, dozens injured as truck crashes into New Orleans crowd Aljazeera

Chief Justice Roberts condemns elected officers for intimidating judges The Hill (Kevin W)

Breaking: The lawsuit v Pfizer by TX Legal professional Basic, Ken Paxton is dismissed Sasha Latypova

Immigration

Li from Dec 31: “Bannon and Batya are reside ranting proper now”:

Bannon: This system, from high to backside, is a rip-off and a con. The employees right here underneath this program needs to be deported, similar to the 15 million we’ll begin deporting on the afternoon of January twentieth. Deport them now, and rent Americans with the identical ability set. pic.twitter.com/0Gw6iMYveJ

— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 30, 2024

Steve Bannon bashes Elon Musk and makes daring new demand as MAGA row over migrant visas escalates Each day Mail

Tech Giants Safe Work Visas For Tens Of 1000’s Of Foreigners Whereas Kicking Present Staff To The Curb Each day Caller

Our No Longer Free Press

Russia Slams EU for Blocking State Media on Telegram, Vows Retaliation Information Central

U.S. Pure Fuel Futures Soar Forward of Historic Chilly Entrance OilPrice (Kevin W)

The Depletion Paradox Pure Useful resource Market Insights. We reported a few years in the past, based mostly on professional views then, that shale fuel manufacturing would peak within the mid-later 2020s, and decline regularly for just a few years, then immediately. It seems to be like the height arrived early.

Workplace CMBS Delinquency Fee Spikes to a Report 11%, Blowing by the Monetary Disaster Peak Wolf Richter (Li)

Class Warfare

when did the Washington Submit rent Marie Antoinette as a columnist pic.twitter.com/FlyVZIDzJs

— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 31, 2024

US bank card defaults soar to highest stage since 2010 Monetary Occasions

Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “Feminine Mallard duck. She doesn’t need to get her eyes moist if she doesn’t must.”