The ancestor of all fashionable birds most likely had iridescent feathers ScienceDaily (Kevin W)
The sports activities the place girls outperform males BBC (Dr. Kevin)
Has pop music acquired much less melodic? I’ve immersed myself in 70 years of hits – that is what I’ve discovered Guardian (Kevin W)
This 112-12 months-Previous NYC Icon’s Secret to Residing Without end Is Fairly Straightforward Vice
#COVID-19
Disappearing Seats, Defiant Eateries and the Finish of an Period: Out of doors Eating Deadline Arrives THE CITY. As in Covid “eating sheds” which frequently had been partly or absolutely enclosed and so did nada to scale back Covid threat.
Local weather/Setting
US to speculate $2.2 billion to overtake nationwide energy grid Reuters (Kevin W). First, the quantity feels like sofa lint. Second, how a lot will wind up paying for what utilities would have carried out anyhow?
Tropical Storm Debby dwell: Catastrophic flash flooding threatens Georgia, South Carolina as historic rain ranges pelt southeast Unbiased
Cheaper, Quicker, Cleaner: Scientists Have Developed the World’s First Anode-Free Sodium Battery SciTech Every day (Chuck L)
Rising charges of most cancers in younger folks immediate hunt for environmental wrongdoer Monetary Instances
EPA Takes Emergency Motion To Cease Use of Harmful Pesticide Washington Put up
China?
South China Sea: Chinese language army holds joint patrol round Scarborough Shoal South China Morning Put up
Giorgia Meloni and Europe’s incoherence over China Asia Instances (Kevin W)
US, China compete to review water on the moon: Why that issues for future missions Des Moines Register. Robin Okay: “China’s moon water breakthrough got here as NASA shuttered VIPER program.”
The Koreas
Learn North Korea’s Official Announcement because it Ahead Deploys 1000 Manoeuvrable Stable Fuelled Precision Guided Missiles Army Watch
Thai Constitutional Court docket dissolves progressive Transfer Ahead Celebration Aljazeera
Africa
How PMC Wagner Bought SMOKED in Africa Historical past Legends, YouTube
Bangladesh
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus to move Bangladesh’s interim authorities Guardian. Hoo boy. See this takedown of microcredit.
Previous Blighty
UK Journey Alerts Issued Worldwide Asia Right this moment
High prosecutor considers terrorism costs over riots, as extra suspects face courtroom BBC. The BBC made it extraordinarily troublesome to entry this story.The location initially goes for me to my bookmark, bbc.co.uk, so I very briefly see the UK headlines. Then it shortly flips to bbc.com with a special touchdown web page. On bbc.com, after I searched on “prosecutor terrorism riots,” this text didn’t come up. I needed to load bbc.co.uk 6 instances and click on on the headline. Even then it normally flipped to the bbc.com touchdown web page first, however I lastly acquired to the article.
Anglo-Italian arms agency Leonardo embroiled in Indonesia corruption scandal Declassified
Gaza
Hamas chooses Yahya Sinwar as new chief following Haniyeh killing Center East Eye. Recall Haniyeh was reasonable…so the Hamas hardliners winding up in a stronger place seems to be to have been an meant consequence.
Israel’s Bomb Shelters Are Final Line of Protection as Iran Strike Looms Wall Road Journal
Hezbollah drones strike Israel; 12 killed in Israeli raids on West Financial institution Aljazeera
‘The martyrs had been reduce up and burned’: Survivors of the newest tent bloodbath in Gaza recount the horror Mondoweiss
Hiroshima commemoration and the genocide in Gaza: dialogue on Iran’s Press TV Gilbert Doctorow
Gaza As A New(?) Western Methodology To Wage Conflict Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
Syraqistan
The Yemen deal: Riyadh capitulates, Washington loses leverage The Cradle (Chuck L)
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
What the Ukraine struggle has in widespread with Vietnam Accountable Statecraft
800,000 Ukrainians Have Gone ‘Underground’ To Dodge Draft – MP RT. We reported some months in the past (largely hoisting one of many few in-depth dialogue of present financial circumstances in Ukraine) that the Ukraine authorities had put a decent cordon on its borders. Therefore hiding versus fleeing.
Zelenskyy extends mobilization, martial legislation by one other 90 days in Ukraine Anadolu Company
US warns Turkey of ‘penalties’ over military-linked exports to Russia Monetary Instances
🚨🇺🇦Uprisings towards Zelensky within the ethnically Polish metropolis of Kovel in Western Ukraine. Is that this Poland’s likelihood to annexe it is former territory?
The rebellion in Kovel and the sabotage, partisan actions similar to etting army recruitment vehicles on fireplace will seem to be… pic.twitter.com/L96woKEPfi
— Aussie Cossack (@aussiecossack) August 4, 2024
Massive Brother is Watching You Watch
Israeli Examine Reveals Smartwatches Can Warn You Have COVID or a Migraine Is About to Occur Haaretz (ma). IMHO the true utility is the Mossad getting your information.
Imperial Collapse Watch
The U.S. Faces A number of Crises: Who’s Working the Authorities? Glenn Greenwald
Now Labour is the incumbent Single Transferable Celebration of presidency what likelihood is there for the Left? Richard Murphy. Colonel Smithers highlights massive shout out to Aurelien.
Kamala
Kamala Harris introduces operating mate Tim Walz at raucous Philadelphia rally Guardian
‘Republicans for Harris’ rallies members of GOP to marketing campaign for Democratic ticket Iowa Capital Dispatch (Robin Okay)
IMHO essential as a result of it speaks to poor workers work:
Do not forget that time Kamala Harris found that electrical energy doesn’t have a odor after which held onto the plug as if she was pumping fuel into the automobile?
Right this moment looks like a great day to re-share one of many nice moments in political historical past.pic.twitter.com/7DHykmdFfo
— Mark Harris (@itismarkharris) July 3, 2024
The Republican speaking factors v. Walz:
Welcome to the race, Tim Walz!
Let’s be sure America is aware of who you’re.
You helped ignite the George Floyd riots, the worst the nation had seen in a long time. Whereas Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the Nationwide Guard for a whole day, blaming the town for not…
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2024
Tim Walz was arrested for driving 96 mph in a 55-mph zone, then blew a .128. That is actually unhealthy, however simply as unhealthy is that he is lied about it ever since. He is repeatedly claimed he wasn’t even drunk, and has as an alternative blamed all of it on him being deaf. However the courtroom transcripts inform a… pic.twitter.com/D1CL13mWMA
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) August 6, 2024
Tim Walz ‘betrayed his nation’ when he left unit earlier than Iraq deployment: Why Kamala’s VP decide all of a sudden retired from the army that gave him listening to issues Every day Mail
Li asks, “Did they vet this man?”
𝐄𝐗𝐂 – 𝐕𝐏 𝐩𝐢𝐜𝐤 𝐓𝐢𝐦 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐳 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐢𝐧𝐟𝐥𝐮𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩’𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟏𝟗 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧.
He spoke alongside the president of the Chinese language Individuals’s Affiliation for Friendship with… pic.twitter.com/IRqlV1Qb7o
— Natalie Winters (@nataliegwinters) August 6, 2024
Democrats en déshabillé
“Squad” Rep. Cori Bush loses her Democratic major Politico
Governor Newsom is successfully placing Oakland’s legislation enforcement underneath state trusteeship, sending in CHP to do the job of a neighborhood pressure unable to do primary police work, and Nationwide Guard legal professionals to make the prosecutions the county DA refuses to make. https://t.co/KWQBhmNV6e
— Leighton 明 Woodhouse (@lwoodhouse) August 6, 2024
Trump Assassination Put up Mortem
BREAKING: @HawleyMO says @SecretService whistleblowers inform him that the lead agent on the Trump Butler job was NOT imposing the traditional safety protocols that day and she or he wasn’t having ID’s checked that day. He describes it as a free-for-all and says as we converse, this lead… pic.twitter.com/g0bR55KPas
— Jesse Watters (@JesseBWatters) August 6, 2024
Our No Longer Free Press
The GARMs Race: The Home Strikes Ahead With its Investigation of Blacklisting Firm Jonathan Turley. NewGuard picked on a few of the flawed folks.
NEW: Axios is shedding 50 folks throughout the corporate. CEO @JimVandeHei simply despatched out this notice — which says the layoffs are due to “modifications within the media enterprise” pic.twitter.com/lLVemNFh0N
— Katie Robertson (@katie_robertson) August 6, 2024
Elon Musk’s X sues coalition of advertisers over boycott The Hill (Kevin W). After all, freedom of speech exists solely in a authorities context, as in officers or companies not suppressing speech. However the antitrust angle right here is intelligent. Whether it is effectively sufficient argued, he may get previous abstract judgement and get to root round within the advertisers’ communications. No solely may he encounter loads of salaciously ugly stuff, however there is perhaps some proof of collusion with governments.
Mr. Market Has a Unhappy
Tokyo shares brace for additional volatility after largest single-day leap Nikkei
A story of two bubbles Asia Instances
Antitrust
The Greatest Loser in Google Search Ruling Might Be Mozilla and Firefox Fortune
Apple Thinks Bing is Fairly Dangerous The Verge. From the ruling within the Google anti-trust case.
Falling Down Boeing Airplanes….and Extra!
It Turns Out Boeing’s Derelict Starliner Is Unable to Fly With out a Crew on Board Futurism (BC)
NASA more likely to considerably delay the launch of Crew 9 on account of Starliner points ars technica (BC)
The Bezzle
Intel: Our stability sheet is a smoking damage, however we expect our new chips work The Register
Class Warfare
U.S. households are piling on report bank card debt, says Fed report Yahoo! Finance (Kevin W)
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “Whereas visiting the San Diego Botanic Backyard; peering from a pond strewn with many little yellow flower petals, was this little prince-to-be, ready for his kiss.”
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
