‘A real miracle’: 7-year-old boy survives 5 days in lion-infested sport park in Zimbabwe USA At this time
The 12 months of the Wolves Montana Free Press
Crops and bushes are in a position to predict volcano eruptions Earth.com
How Would Fearmongers and Doomers Spend money on The Inventory Market? The Sentinel Intelligence
Why “Foaming” The Runway Is No Longer Generally Used In Aviation AV Geekery
Local weather/Surroundings
Colossal winter storm unleashing snow, ice from Plains to mid-Atlantic Accuweather
How an antacid for the ocean may cool the Earth WaPo
Pandemics
Ex-FDA chief says Biden ‘mishandling’ chook flu, urges swift motion from Trump The Hill
A number of Illinois hospitals requiring masks as respiratory infections climb NBC Chicago
Africa
The Politics of Road Names and Reminiscence in Mali Sawahil
The Koreas
Washington’s (not so) robust man in Seoul is defying arrest Drop Web site Information
Japan
Uh…McDonalds Japan simply posted an advert in Jindaimoji神代文字
For these of you taking part in at dwelling it is a script made up within the 18th century in an try to show historical Japanese had a writing kind earlier than they adopted Chinese language. https://t.co/1t66K4pXsX— eric ゑリｯ久 (@shinobu_books) January 3, 2025
China?
China’s central financial institution vows to make use of a number of financial coverage instruments, minimize RRR, rates of interest at acceptable time International Occasions
Chinese language Sixth Technology Fighters Poised to Lower Pentagon Demand For F-35s: Lockheed Martin Inventory Drops After New Jets’ Unveiling Army Watch
China’s Paper Boat Navy: A Colossus At Threat Of Capsizing – Evaluation Eurasia Evaluation
Spinning a tune: Chinese language scientist names new spider species after Jay Chou songs Channel Information Asia
Previous Blighty
Britain’s Collapse and Eire’s Future Eriugena Evaluation
The UK’s Strategic Shift: Coming into Exterior Affiliation with the USA Fashionable Diplomacy
Syraqistan
Biden administration stated prepping $8 billion arms bundle for Israel, together with heavy bombs The Occasions of Israel. Commentary:
Antony Blinken has a stronger emotional response to the wine listing than he does to genocide pic.twitter.com/8EtjwqZo54
— Tim Barker (@_TimBarker) January 4, 2025
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U.S. Reportedly Setting Up New Base In Northern Syria The Warzone
Pentagon vehemently denies studies of latest US base in Syria’s Kobani Al Arabiya
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Handshake-gate in Syria Politico. The deck: Syria’s de facto chief prolonged a hand to France’s overseas minister, however to not Germany’s Baerbock. Girls’s rights have been a spotlight of the journey. In the meantime:
CONFIRMED:
Syria’s Interim Justice Minister Shadi Al-Waisi, is seen sentencing/overseeing dying penalty of girls for adultery/prostitution, as part of Al Nusra Entrance’s software of Sharia legislation again in January 2015 in areas the entrance managed in Idlib.
– The primary video was… pic.twitter.com/00R36qXt8g
— Rami Jarrah (@RamiJarrah) January 4, 2025
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China serving to Houthis receive weapons for unmolested Crimson Sea passage i24
Crucial and opportune: Time to take the Houthis out of the equation Jewish Information Syndicate
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
US Prepares New Conflict, MSM: Biden Admin Debates Iran Strike; Russia Takes Ukraine Lithium Alexander Mercouris (video). Discusses the likelihood that the US will strike will Iran earlier than it indicators strategic partnership with Russia.
Russia intercepts eight US-supplied ATACMS missiles — MOD RT
Drones assault Russia’s largest industrial seaport in a single day – Russian media Ukrainska Pravda
The Interview: Antony Blinken Insists He and Biden Made the Proper Calls New York Occasions
‼️🇺🇸🇺🇦 Blinken admits to NYT the US armed Ukraine lengthy earlier than the SMO
“We made positive that … beginning in September (2021 – ed.) after which once more in December, to stealthily ship numerous weapons to Ukraine to make it possible for they’ve every part they should defend
–>👇 pic.twitter.com/IlD5fU3a8g— David Roth-Lindberg (@RothLindberg) January 4, 2025
Ukraine Can Anticipate Additional US Help Provides Earlier than Biden Leaves Workplace, White Home Says RFE/RL
German opposition helps deployment of German peacekeepers in Ukraine Ukrainska Pravda. The CDU, which is anticipated to guide subsequent authorities following Feb. election.
Which Means Ukrainian Hooligan? Bandera Foyer Weblog
European Disunion
Ursula von der Leyen has ‘extreme’ pneumonia Politico
The Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer resigns after talks on forming a authorities collapsed Euronews
Germany ‘coming into longest financial stoop since WW2’ Brussels Sign
German police state to be expanded following the auto assault in Magdeburg WSWS
Ten years after the Paris assaults, France lives in a ‘everlasting state of emergency’ Center East Eye
The Caucasus
Georgian companies and workers to hold out nationwide strike demanding new elections The Kyiv Unbiased
South of the Border
Two Folks Declare to Be President of Venezuela – Will US Militarily Intervene? Venezuelanalysis
Argentina’s far-right libertarian President Javier Milei is attempting to push by anti-worker labor reform that may improve the work day to 12 hours, with no time beyond regulation.
It is going to additionally enable firms to pay employees partially with tickets (not actual cash) that may solely be used at… pic.twitter.com/q3Ou56MGMO
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 5, 2025
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China Donates 70 Tons of Tools to Cuba To Restore Its Electrical System Orinoco Tribune
Honduras can be declared a rustic freed from illiteracy in 2025, due to Cuba’s “Yo, sí puedo” program. @XiomaraCastroZ pic.twitter.com/SBfHcvlBlt
— Kawsachun Information (@KawsachunNews) January 2, 2025
Spook Nation
The FBI Account of the Las Vegas Bomber Story Does Not Make Sense Larry Johnson, Sonar21
Is your automobile spying on you? What it signifies that Tesla shared information within the Las Vegas explosion AP
Musk is unquestionably doing surveillance capitalism and dealing hand in glove with intel companies. https://t.co/oBHYW4V263
— ecosocialist musician (@EcosocialistM) January 4, 2025
Gaslit Nation Matt Taibbi, Racket Information
AI
Emotional infiltration Inner exile
Imperial Collapse Watch
The risks of ‘victory’ Pearls & Irritations
Biden Administration
Hillary Clinton, George Soros and 17 others honored with Presidential Medal of Freedom at White Home ceremony NBC Information. Commentary:
Biden gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jose Andres, who has appeared in images with Trump’s would-be murderer Ryan Routh.
He additionally gave one to a Soros.
They’re simply doing it out within the open now, and no person is being a lot bothered by it. https://t.co/oXwXgnCKkn pic.twitter.com/sFo0w8szAP
— Olga Bazova (@OlgaBazova) January 5, 2025
Trump Transition
US capital in ‘heightened menace atmosphere’ after New 12 months’s Day assaults VOA
The cheerleading for increasing non-public prisons and biometrics among the many so-called “dissident” proper on this website is unnerving.
If you happen to suppose this growth of the police state is simply going to be for “unlawful immigrants”, you’ve ignored the final 40+ years of American historical past. https://t.co/npuzstmWSM
— Whitney Webb (@_whitneywebb) January 3, 2025
Kamala & Walz
Harris to supervise electoral depend, restoring norm that Trump shattered WaPo
Gov. Walz proposes stiffer penalties, utilizing AI to struggle fraud in Minnesota applications Minnesota Reformer
Healthcare?
Issues Proceed Over Personal Fairness’s Attain Into Healthcare MedPage At this time
Drugmakers plan value hikes for 250+ medicines in 2025: Reuters Becker’s Hospital Evaluation
Psychological Sickness Prophesies Society’s Religious Illness Mad in America
Police State Watch
Ohio Places Police Bodycam Footage Behind a Paywall The Intercept
Antitrust
The Rise of the French Fry Cartel Jacobin
What’s Approaching the Anti-Monopoly Entrance in 2025? BIG by Matt Stoller
Class Warfare
Amazon employee – struck and shot in New Orleans terror assault – initially denied time without work The Register
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