An Extremely Rare Green Comet Is Visiting Earth And You Can See it With Naked Eye Physics-Astronomy
Who Is Planting Weird Antennas All Over the Foothills of Salt Lake City? Gizmodo
How Your Brain Distinguishes Memories From Perceptions Wired
Want to avoid death? Maybe cryonics isn’t crazy Bloomberg
Climate/Environment
Brazil keeps protecting Indigenous land in the Amazon. It’s not stopping deforestation Grist
Texas ag agency says climate change threatens state’s food supply Texas Tribune
‘Holy grail’ wheat gene discovery could feed our overheated world Guardian
Loss of Hinman Glacier, North Cascade Range 1958-2022 American Geophysical Union
Water
Warning about aquifer’s decline sets up big fight in Kansas AP
#COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2 wastewater concentration and linked longitudinal seroprevalence: a spatial analysis of strain mutation, post-COVID-19 vaccination effect, and hospitalization burden forecasting medRXiv
The coronavirus is speaking. It’s saying it’s not done with us WaPo. Eric Topol
What concerns me more than the height of peaks at this new point in SARS-CoV-2 variant evolution is the non-low of the troughs. In fact, every Omicron *low* has been higher than the Delta *peak*. This means a sustained pressure on an already exhausted healthcare system. pic.twitter.com/YDjttWicJ3
— T. Ryan Gregory (@TRyanGregory) January 8, 2023
China is overwhelmed, yet an even bigger covid wave may be coming The Economist (Paul R)
NYC private healthcare CEOs have pocketed millions in salaries and bonuses during the pandemic, as frontline caregivers are overworked + burned out from understaffing.
I support @nynurses as they get ready to strike tomorrow for safe staffing and respect! #NYCNurseStrike
— Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@ZohranKMamdani) January 8, 2023
Brazil
Bolsonaro Supporters Invade & Vandalize Brazilian Congress & Presidential Palace Payday Report
The Koreas
South Korea considers purchasing Israeli ‘Sky Spotter’ Al Mayadeen
Syraqistan
Under Ben-Gvir’s Orders, Israel Police to Enforce Ban on Palestinian Flags in Public Haaretz
Israel imposes travel restrictions on four Palestinian Authority officials amid UN row The National
US on alert as UAE seeks to join Turkish-Syrian reconciliation talks The Cradle
Old Blighty
Let them eat Status https://t.co/uybUWbwVWT
— Chris Cook (@cjenscook) January 8, 2023
The UK’s brain drain – and the countries trying to tempt away the talent The National
A quarter of Britain’s soldiers are classed as ‘dangerously’ overweight in the past five years, with more than 5,000 discharged for being overweight or obese since 2010 Daily Mail
China?
China Wraps Up Two-Year Tech Crackdown, Top Official Says Caixin Global
Berlin’s China measures reflect Cold War mentality: Chinese Ambassador Al Mayadeen
New Not-So-Cold War
Ukraine denies Russian claim it killed hundreds of soldiers Al Jazeera
Russia offering ‘Korea-style‘ peace deal – Kiev RT
Germany won’t rule out deliveries of Leopard tanks to Ukraine, economy minister says Reuters
Now Fighting for Ukraine: Volunteers Seeking Revenge Against Russia New York Times
CIA front NED – which has funded US neocolonialism around the world – is using “anti-colonial” and “pro-indigenous” rhetoric to wage information war on Russia and help make Ukraine a US/NATO colony.
There is nothing that US imperialism will not try to co-opt and empty of meaning https://t.co/CkpK396OtJ
— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) December 27, 2022
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The view from Dubai Gilbert Doctorow
🇩🇪🇫🇷🇵🇱🇺🇦🇷🇺”The split in NATO is reflected in Germany and Poland”: Die Welt
▫️”Some NATO members, including Germany, seem to want to end hostilities in Ukraine as soon as possible, even if the country has to make territorial concessions.
— AZ 🛰🌏🌍🌎 (@AZgeopolitics) January 8, 2023
Sweden says Turkey asking too much over NATO application Reuters
The first US onslaught to ‘weaken’ post-Cold War Russia Asia Times
Biden’s existential angst in Ukraine Indian Punchline
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BELGIAN TRADE UNIONS MARCH AGAINST ENERGY COSTS AND INFLATION The Real News
Wave of Long-Term European LNG Contracts Seen Likely This Year Natural Gas Intel
Solicitous dictatorship. The political economy of authoritarianism – Aly v. Tooze revisited Chartbook
European Disunion
Why are the political stakes so high in Poland’s EU funding row? Notes From Poland
NATO turns down Serbia’s request to deploy troops in Kosovo Al Jazeera
Bosnian Serb leader awards Putin highest medal of honor DW
Imperial Collapse Watch
John Bolton confirms he will run for president in 2024 Just the News. A true inspiration for all aspiring war criminals.
“You Have No Rights” Sabri al-Qurashi Has Lived Without Legal Status in Kazakhstan Since His 2014 Guantánamo Release The Intercept
Realignment and Legitimacy
HAIL CAESAR? Left and Right get behind an American Empire Antiwar
America’s Theater of the Absurd The Chris Hedges Report
Police State Watch
‘It never stops’: killings by US police reach record high in 2022 Guardian
Book Bans in US Prisons Undermine Rehabilitation New Lines Mag
Groves of Academe
US “elite” universities are unparalled in their subservience to power. @Columbia president Lee Bollinger just announced that global war criminal @HillaryClinton will be rewarded with a comfy sinecure with this fawning, foot-kissing email pic.twitter.com/sWdyinG82I
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 8, 2023
Supply Chain/Inflation
8 Grocery Shortages You Can Expect to See in 2023 Eat This, Not That
The Missing Minerals Foreign Affairs
Electric Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us The Atlantic
Our No Longer Free Press
POLARIZING AND ISOLATING AMERICANS IS GOOD BUSINESS FOR MEDIA MONOPOLIES The Real News
Class Warfare
On this flooded island of homeless people, climate change has never been more real LA Times
Southwest Airlines pilots to disastrous bosses: It’s your education, stupid ZDNet
Tech
Social Quitting Locus
Seattle Public Schools sues TikTok, YouTube, Instagram and others, seeking compensation for youth mental health crisis GeekWire
New York City schools blocked ChatGPT. Here’s what other large districts are doing Chalkbeat
Microsoft have announced their AI “VALL-E”
Using a 3-second sample of human speech, it can generate super-high-quality text-to-text speech from the same voice. Even emotional range and acoustic environment of thesample data can be reproduced. Here are some examples. pic.twitter.com/ExoS2VWO6d
— Tuvok @ NaughtyDog (@TheCartelDel) January 7, 2023
Web3, the Metaverse, and the Lack of Useful Innovation American Affairs Journal
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