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The Urgent Need For Revolutionizing Economic Statistics Noema

‘It’s a Mess’: A Brain-Bending Trip to Quantum Theory’s 100th Birthday Party Quanta Magazine

New clues emerge on how foods spark anaphylaxis Science News

Two Wild New Theories Could Finally Explain Dark Matter SciTech Daily

COVID-19/Pandemics

Huge cuts to mRNA research spark fears about future pandemics KRON4

Scientists pick up massive surge in gut-brain disorders Daily Mail

Climate/Environment

The World Is Running Out of Freshwater Faster Than Anyone Expected Arizona State U.

Seven Ticks Hitched Very Long Rides to Connecticut NY Times

Can we force a climate breakthrough? Scientists outline strategy to tip the system EuroNews

China?


China Is Winning the Race for Central Asia’s Critical Minerals OilPrice.com

New discovery: China’s lunar samples deepen understanding of the moon CGTN

Trump’s China gamble Axios

China faces economic blow from population crisis Newsweek

South of the Border

Mexico rules out Trump’s reported military plan against drug cartels BBC

Argentina’s Milei vetoes pension and disability spending increases, citing fiscal deficit pledge AP

Analysis-Brazil’s economy ready to ride out Trump’s 50% tariff Reuters

Africa

IAEA Launches New Outlook on Nuclear Power for Development in Africa at G20 IAEA

South Africa braces for heavy job losses as stiff US tariffs take hold RFI

European Disunion

To Free Itself From Trump’s Grip, Europe Needs New Allies Worldcrunch

Europe Loses $1 Trillion From Ditching Russian Oil Cryptorank

Europe’s Capitulation in the EU–US Trade Deal and Europe’s Strategic Blindness Hungarian Conservative

Old Blighty

Muhammad is the most popular name in England and Wales – our map reveals how that compares to the rest of Europe Daily Mail

Brexit sends Brits to Europe for Louboutins in a blow to UK luxury EuroNews

Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran

Israel’s delusional, inhuman Gaza takeover plan could be recipe for perpetual war The Guardian

Egypt’s gas deal critiqued online as ‘economic complicity’ in Israel’s war on Gaza Middle East Eye

Israel faces growing condemnation over military expansion in Gaza AP

New Not-So-Cold War

Russia-Ukraine War Battles Hit All-Time High Newsweek

Ukraine will not cede land, Zelenskiy says, as Trump, Putin plan meeting Reuters

Ukraine’s Infantry Crisis Radio Free Europe

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

Research reveals possible privacy gaps in Apple Intelligence’s data handling Cyberscoop

AT&T’s Massive Privacy Settlement Could Pay Customers Up to $7,500 CNET

Collecting U.S. Nationals’ Electronic Data Without a Warrant TheRegulatory Review

Imperial Collapse Watch

How Much Space Does the Median Income Get You? NY Times

What Burlington is doing about the continually rising number of unhoused individuals Burlington Free Press

Trump 2.0

MAGA Is Being Conned: Trump’s Tariffs Are Just Taxes by Another Name Zeteo

How Trump’s War on Higher Education Is Hitting Community Colleges NY Times

Meet the Native American tribe that beat the Trump administration in court — for now ABC News

Trump takes on DC: What’s next in the battle? The Hill

Musk Matters

Elon Musk’s America Party: Lessons from History Washington Monthly

Elon Musk Predicts Tesla Will ‘Have Autonomous Ride-Hailing in Probably Half the Population of the US by the End of the Year’ Barchart

Tesla Stumbles, but Elon Musk Gets a Massive Payday The Motley Fool

Democrat Death Watch

The Democrats Have No Immigration Plan The Free Press

‘They roll right over’: Many Democrats call their party weak and ineffective, AP-NORC poll finds AP

Immigration

IRS commissioner’s removal reportedly over clash on undocumented immigrant data The Guardian

Wall Street is divided over whether immigration is behind US hiring slowdown Fortune

Our No Longer Free Press

Trump’s Attacks on Press Freedom Escalate: NPR, PBS Funding Cuts Explained ACLU

Press Freedom Groups Tell FCC: Media Consolidation Poses Grave Threat to Independent News and Information in the United States Free Press

Mr. Market Is Moody

‘Stagflation is coming to the U.S.,’ says this economist. Here’s what it means for the dollar, bonds and stocks. Market Watch

‘This bull market in equities has a serious problem’: Strategist warns a crucial AI-stock index is sending a potential bubble signal Business Insider

Why investors should be worried if Powell blinks early on rates Financial Review

AI


An AI System Found a New Kind of Physics that Scientists Had Never Seen Before Popular Mechanics

Traders Are Fleeing Stocks Feared to Be Under Threat From AI Bloomberg

It shocked the market but has China’s DeepSeek changed AI? BBC

Anthropic’s Quiet Edge in the AI Talent War WSJ

The Bezzle

WhatsApp Bans 6.8M Scam Accounts in Southeast Asia with AI Tools WebProNews

Here’s what to know about the Amazon scam texts that are trying to steal personal information Houston Chronicle

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25 comments

  1. The Rev Kev

    ‘Club Regista Entertainment
    @RegistaEnt
    Aug 4
    Siparişi verip 6 ay istakoz şeklinde çanta beklemiş.
    👜 Louis Vuitton Lobster Wearable Wallet
    💸 18.000$ ‘

    Ummm. It’s a handbag for men – I guess. As a handbag/toy for a little girl it would be fine and they might love it but it is hardly pragmatic. A wallet you slip in your pocket and have both hands still free. This one. Not so much.

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  2. Ben Panga

    An addition to Democrat Death Watch:

    ‘We are at war – bring it on’: Democrats ready to fight dirty to stop Trump     (Guardian)

    [BP: they are not ready. Not remotely.]

    Ken Martin, chair of the Democratic National Committee, speaking in Chicago this week. “This is not the Democratic party of your grandfather, which would bring a pencil to the knife fight,” he insisted. “This is a new Democratic party. We’re bringing a knife to a knife fight, and we are going to fight fire with fire.”

    [BP: that the idiom is actually “bring a knife to a gun fight” is almost too delicious]

    “It is about rebuilding that rapport and trust with our base and letting them know that we will be the fighters that they need” says some congresswoman called Jasmine Crockett

    [BP: raises coffee cup to Lambert]

    There’s more unconvincing verbiage and redistricting plannage for those that enjoy that sort of thing. Absent as ever: policies that would improve the material situation of normal people.

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    2. pjay

      In fairness, I think “pencil” is more appropriate in reference to the Democrats – as in “bring a pencil to a gun fight.” A pencil is useful in tallying up campaign donations, which is the primary purpose of the Party these days.

      On this subject, thanks to Haig for posting (or reposting?) Krystal Ball’s excellent rant on Booker. I’ve seen it all over the place; it should be spread far and wide. I’m way too cynical to think that this would actually end Booker’s career, but we need as much of this kind of call-out as possible.

      I don’t know if Booker is the “absolute f**king worst” in Congress; he has a lot of competition for that title (Lindsay Graham would have to be a contender, as would some of the Democrats with important links to the IC like Warner or Schiff). But for sheer pompous bombast of the most hypocritical sort, he is hard to beat. Thanks Krystal.

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      1. Henry Moon Pie

        Krystal took a lot of heat for her interview of RFKJ back when Bobby was still a Dem. I watched that interview and thought that Krystal was giving a friendly interview until she responded to RFK’s attack on Big Pharma by asking if Kennedy would nationalize them. When it was clear that Kennedy was aghast at the thought, it was clear to me that he was just another Propertarian, and I was grateful to Krystal for exposing that. More recently, she did a nice job of exposing Miss CIA of 2010, Senator Slotkin (D-Israel), as a genocide supporter. I’m back to watching Breaking Points for conventional political news.

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      1. The Rev Kev

        There is only one real way to fight the Republicans – the Chicago way-

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPZ6eaL3S2E (2:02 mins)

        Thing is, a lot of the things that the Republicans are doing are things that the Democrats want to do too. It’s one of the reasons why they are still hanging back. JFK once wrote a book called “Profiles in Courage” but when you think about it, how many modern Democrats could ever appear in such a book. Pelosi? Clinton? Schumer? AOC? Biden? Jeffries?

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    4. JohnnyGL

      I don’t know why…but I clicked on your linked article and it’s worse than I feared. Not only are they just trash-talking and proposing doing nothing new. They’re going to gerrymander harder in blue states and get rid of more contested districts in the house.

      They’d literally rather just end democracy than do anything different.

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      1. Neutrino

        We had to destroy the village constituency in order to save it.

        An old idea recycled to meet the needs of today’s politicians.

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    5. LawnDart

      Just wait until they turn to AI in order to craft a “personalized” message for each and every individual voter based on consumer information and profiles scoured from the internet… think that sex bot won’t rat you out?

      “Would your neighbors approve of what you did to Lola last weekend? If you value your privacy, and freedom, vote Harris this November!”

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  3. Colonel Smithers

    Thank you, Haig.

    Further to European Disunion, Eusians may be interested to read that Israel has a diplomatic mission, including a military attaché, in the Berlaymont building, EU HQ.

    I learnt that yesterday from a friend employed by the Commission. No other country has a mission in an EU building.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      Thank you, Colonel. I guess that if you want to bug the EU HQ building and spy on the people there, it is much, much easier when you have an office in that building.

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  4. The Rev Kev

    “To Free Itself From Trump’s Grip, Europe Needs New Allies”

    Who would they be precisely? Their real natural ally should be the Russian Federations as they can supply the EU with all sorts of resources at a good price. But they have so totally destroyed relations and salted the ground so bad that even the Russians have said that they will wait another thirty years until a new generation takes over with whom they might be able to deal with. They are also burning down their relations with the one other potential partner that could save them – China. Their nominal reason for doing so is to force China to break relations with the Russians after which they might be permitted the privilege to trade with the EU. Yeah, nah.

    Even the countries they need they fight with and it was only recently that the European Parliament formally endorsed the removal of the United Arab Emirates from its list of high-risk third countries for money laundering and terrorist – the country that they get energy from. As for the countries of the Global Majority, well, they have had a gut full of EU lecturing and finger wagging and are pushing back now. So where will they get these allies from exactly?

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        1. Ben Panga

          I can just picture the EU visiting and you guys taking Katja and co to to a footy game.

          “And the thing is, he isn’t even a real Texan!!?”….oh that, just a bit of feedback ……They are very short shorts, yes…..No, I believe they just like their hair that way…”

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          1. The Rev Kev

            You really want to put the boot in, don’t you? God, that would mean that we would have Ursula showing up on our doorstep. The woman reeks of corruption. She’d probably want us to form an anti-China club with the EU because, you know, militarily they are such a super power. Careful if Ursula turns up in the UK though. The guys at the Duran reckon that Starmer is trying to get the UK back into the EU and my own guess would be that it would be on condition that the UK ditch the Pound and adopt the Euro.

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  5. ChrisFromGA

    NY Times story on how “learn to code” has backfired:

    https://archive.ph/Lc6DA

    Since the early 2010s, a parade of billionaires, tech executives and even U.S. presidents has urged young people to learn coding, arguing that the tech skills would help bolster students’ job prospects as well as the economy. Tech companies promised computer science graduates high salaries and all manner of perks.
    “Typically their starting salary is more than $100,000,” plus $15,000 hiring bonuses and stock grants worth $50,000, Brad Smith, a top Microsoft executive, said in 2012 as he kicked off a company campaign to get more high schools to teach computing.

    Now they cannot find jobs.

    Back during my tech days, before I saw the writing on the wall and left the industry behind, my peak earnings years were around this level of compensation. At that time, I was managing multiple offshore teams, serving as a scrum master, conducting my own research and development, and overseeing people simultaneously. In addition to the daily grind of meetings and occasional travel.

    Handing that kind of money to a new college grad strikes me as not just stupid, but reckless. These kids need to be mentored and work their way up to that level of compensation by handling more responsibility, not just cranking out code.

    I have to admit to some schadenfreude watching this all unfold.

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    1. Socrates Pythagoras

      I was recently “downsized” from the IT industry and I can confirm that it’s ugly out there. My version of doomscrolling is going on LinkedIn and reading posts from developers who have 5x the chops and have been unemployed for 1+ years.

      Winter is here….

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      1. The Rev Kev

        Sorry to hear about that and it must be tough. No doubt the IT industry will need people like you when AI makes a total shambles of things if you can wait long enough. You know it is going to happen.

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  6. LawnDart

    Re; New Not-So-Cold War

    Newsweek editors clutch their pearl in aghastitude as “Russia’s attacks are targeting civilians!” or something like that. Obviously, if this were so, Russia could draw at least 100,000 (much likely many more) lessons from Israel. Much like the Hollywood brand, it seems that even narrative management is bankrupt these days, but as one gets older one may realize that paying attention to poop can be important, as it can give us clues as to how a particular system is functioning.

    I found a from a war correspondant this morning that could be of interest to some readers here, recollections from the 1990s when he was a young journalist: THE RUSSIA I DREAM OF FORGETTING; WHAT PEOPLE ARE DYING FOR IN UKRAINE

    I recommend the article, not so much as to inform knowledge of the past as to get a glimpse into what the future holds for much of the west, a future that growing numbers of us have lived for years now.

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  7. AG

    re: Gaza / Rashid Khalidi

    DROPSITE NEWS speaking to Rashid Khalidi who declines to teach his fall courses at Columbia.

    Rashid Khalidi on Genocide Complicity, From Columbia to the White House
    Prominent Palestinian historian Rashid Khalidi discusses the anti-colonial struggle against Israel, U.S. and European complicity in the genocide and why he won’t teach at Columbia in the fall.
    Aug. 5th, 2025
    https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/rashid-khalidi-gaza-genocide-complicity-columbia-israel-colonialism

    Khalidi wrote a piece in THE GAURDIAN

    I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump
    The university’s draconian policies and new definition of antisemitism make much teaching impossible
    Aug. 1st 2025
    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/01/columbia-historian-rashid-khalidi-open-letter

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  8. The Rev Kev

    ‘PanthèreWomanJisoo 🌹♥️
    @jisoomymuse
    8 Jul 2023
    Jisoo is owning the most rarest and expensive Dior bag. Only three in the world exist costing 31.000€. It’s so rare the bag has its own passport! Expected nothing less from Dior’s double global ambassador Kim Jisoo!’

    Got curious about the woman showing off that bag (yeah, I’m a guy – shoot me) and found that she has a very extensive career and is very popular in Asia-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jisoo

    Her Wikipedia page is very long on her achievements and she is only 30 years old.

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