Links 8/4/2025

At 101 years old, last original client of Frank Lloyd Wright attributes good health to his Usonian home’s design Archinect

400-mile chain of ‘fossilized volcanoes’ found buried deep under South China Interesting Engineering

This Millipede’s Secretions Could Help Target Brain Disorders, Scientists Say StudyFinds

Climate/Environment

Sea Level Mis-information from DOE Open Mind

How the DOE and EPA used and misused my researchThe Climate Brink

Historical model biases in monthly high temperature anomalies indicate under-estimation of future temperature extremes Nature

Heatwaves test Europe’s electricity system as air conditioning use soars FT

Bear trouble in Sierra Madre: After the Eaton fire, home invasions rise sharply Los Angeles Times

Pakistan monsoon rains death toll rises to 299, including 140 children Anadolu Agency

Kerr County emergency coordinator says he was sick and asleep when floods hit Texas NBC News

Pandemics

Study Shows a Need for Vigilance When Observing Long COVID Symptoms in Younger Children Rutgers Today. Commentary:

City doctors blame ‘long Covid’ for severe viral infections that have laid Kolkata low Times of India

Neuropsychiatric Risks Linked to COVID-19 Revealed Bioengineering.org

China?

China Is Choking Supply of Critical Minerals to Western Defense Companies WSJ

America’s Monopoly Crisis Hits the Military The American Conservative. From 2019, still germane.

How Russia Made China’s J-20 Stealth Fighter A ‘Powerhouse’ National Security Journal

Stop Crying Over the China “Trap” Pekingnology

China after Communism: Preparing for a Post-CCP China Hudson Institute. From a few weeks ago, but a useful glimpse at US delusions.

How Robust Is China’s Energy Security? Cener for Strategic and International Studies

China’s first compact nuclear reactor now powers 500,000+ homes Glass Almanac

China state media asks Nvidia to prove H20 chips are secure Business Times

India

India To Maintain Russian Oil Imports Despite Trump Threats Reuters

Top Trump aide accuses India of financing Russia’s war in Ukraine Straits Times

To further tech manufacturing, India rethinks China blockade The Indian Express

Africa

US Launches Airstrikes Against al-Shabaab During Major Battle in Somalia Antiwar

Cholera kills 80, infects over 2,100 in Sudan’s Darfur: UNICEF Anadolu Agency

Old Blighty

Asylum hotel protests are spreading. Who’s really behind them? The Big Issue

Revealed: How foreign billionaires pump millions into British politics Democracy for Sale

Syraqistan

Netanyahu to Pursue Hostage Release ‘By Force,’ Israeli Official Says, as IDF Chief to Expand Gaza Offensive Haaretz

Sixteen More Palestinians Starve to Death in Gaza in Three Days Due to Israeli Siege Antiwar

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Mike Johnson at the Kosel: ‘May America Always Stand with Israel’ Matzav

American Nurse Who Tried to Save “No Other Land” Activist Was Detained and Deported by Israel The Intercept

Israel Activates Its Cells Consortium News

What Can Be Done to Stop the Genocide of the Palestinians? Larry Johnson

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Examining the Mistrust Between Iran & Pakistan The Asia Cable

Iran, Pakistan ink 12 cooperation deals to boost trade and regional connectivity The Cradle

European Disunion

It is not enough to leave the EU: it must be destroyed GeoPolitiQ

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine urges Trump admin to ‘strangle’ Russian economy amid nuclear tensions ABC News

Ukraine says multiple officials detained in drone corruption probe Anadolu Agency

Germany Announces Urgent New Patriot Missile Deliveries to Ukraine ‘Within Days’ Military Watch

SITREP 8/3/25: Trump’s Sub Scare Can’t Eclipse Ukraine’s Pokrovsk Collapse Simplicius

L’affaire Epstein

Ghislaine Maxwell Seems to Have New Friends in High Places Common Dreams

Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s Forgotten AI Summit Wired

Spook Country

Kash Patel’s girlfriend slaps down conspiracies that she’s a secret Israeli ‘honeypot’ agent Daily Mail

What happens when a cutout is cut out All-Source Intelligence

Trump 2.0

‘Unfit and Unqualified’: Senate GOP Confirm Pro-Trump ‘Attack Dog’ Jeanine Pirro as US Attorney Common Dreams

Trump to announce new Fed governor, labor statistics chief this week Axios

Democrats en déshabillé

Two-Party Duplicity ZZ’s Blog

Texas House Democrats flee the state in bid to block GOP’s proposed congressional map Texas Tribune

The Supremes

Umpires No More New York Review of Books

Police State Watch

Bush Lawyers’ Legal Arguments for Guantánamo Bay Paved the Way for CECOT Truthout

Guess Who’s Eligible for Student Loan Forgiveness: New ICE Agents The Intercept

Accelerationists

Imperial Collapse Watch

Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China ProPublica

U.S. Navy Battleships Won’t Ever Make A Comeback National Security Journal

A Christian Nation Phantom Heresy

War Is a Global Health Catastrophe MedPage Today

Our Famously Free Press

Corporation for Public Broadcasting says it will shut down after Congress cut money NBC News

Big Brother Is Watching You Watch

Millions in Public Funds, Zero Public Input: Flock’s Surveillance System Might Already Be Overseeing Your Community Drop Site

Guillotine Watch

How Flying on a Private Jet Became the No. 1 Marker of Real Wealth WSJ

The Bezzle

The AI bubble is so big it’s propping up the US economy (for now) Blood in the Machine

AI Agents have, so far, mostly been a dud Gary Marcus

Class Warfare

Boeing defense union poised for its first strike since 1996 Seattle Times

WE CAN’T ARREST OUR WAY OUT OF HOMELESSNESS Other Words

Some Problems Won’t Be Solved HOGELAND’S BAD HISTORY

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13 comments

  1. The Rev Kev

    ‘Ali Abunimah
    @AliAbunimah
    All these genocidal monsters are putting out the same tweet painting the holocaust regime as the victim and demonizing a people fighting for their lives. It’s all a coordinated campaign to justify the Zionist regime’s Final Solution”

    This is all crazy. Israel the US, France, Germany, etc. are going nuts at the sight of emaciated Israeli hostages and are outraged at the ‘inhumanity’ of Hamas and calling it ‘vile’, ‘sickening’ and ‘inhumanity without bounds’. Hamas is pointing out that those hostages are eating what everybody else is in Gaza meaning that they won’t starve to death a coupla dozen people to ensure that those hostages stay fat. But Netanyahu won’t do anything and is saying that the solution will be total victory in Gaza whatever that means but we know he will get the needed cover-

    Caitlin Johnstone
    @caitoz
    Western officials: Israel is defending itself
    Israeli officials: We’re doing genocide
    Western officials: They’re following the laws of war
    Israeli officials: We’re gonna do way more genocide
    Western officials: It’s a measured response to 10/7
    Israeli officials: Yep, kill ’em all.

    https://x.com/caitoz/status/1718404679644905877

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  2. none

    Vulnerable Dems fret after getting a shock: AOC’s campaign cash Politico. Good to know AOC is sending money onto CIA Democrats like Slotkin, Lamb, and Golden.

    This is from 2021 and these days, Slotkin is more accurately a Likud Democrat.

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  3. griffen

    Ghislaine Maxwell has friends in high places. Will her new friends, that she eventually or hypothetically make share in their steak and lobster evening meals ala the Henry Hill scenes out of Goodfellas? \sarc

    American justice system 101. So it goes, the Tallahassee facility just sounds ” so inviting ” for a prison sentence.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      I wouldn’t want to be the insurance company that has the policy on Ghislaine Maxwell’s life. If “something” happens to her they will claim that she topped herself and as proof they will say how she was influenced by so many people in her life self-deleting. Her father, her “business” partner and even a chief witness against her here in Oz. It all proved too much for her and one night in despair she threw herself to her death from her ground floor apartment. And after, her body will be taken straight to the crematorium because of “family wishes.” Such a tragic victim.

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  4. DJG, Reality Czar

    Admittedly, Chancellor Merz is a signal as to why Germans should never be issued guns, yet this quote from the TwiXt above is worth highlighting:

    I am appalled by the images of Evyatar David and Rom Braslavski. Hamas is torturing hostages, terrorising Israel and using Gaza’s population as a human shield. The images show that Hamas should have no role in Gaza’s future.

    How many times have Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris gone on about Hamas as a terrorist organization?

    Merz may have come up with the famous quote about Israel doing the West’s dirty work. The glitch is that Merz and Clinton and Harris and others in the liberaloid class and their dirty little minds have now produced the first filmed genocide, with daily, hourly reports, all the while protesting their own innocence.

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    1. The Rev Kev

      Ooh, ooh! I know. Let’s just say that his team was very LAckaDAisical in finding up just the right car for that image.

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  5. eccola

    It is not enough to leave the EU: it must be destroyed GeoPolitiQ

    It is not enough to destroy the EU: The Boss Union from the other side of the pond need to be dismantled too

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  6. The Rev Kev

    “U.S. Navy Battleships Won’t Ever Make a Comeback”

    The author is quite correct. Without a role, what would be the purpose of spending billions if not tens of billions of dollars overhauling and revamping them. Also, those things need a crew compliment of about 1800 people. The US Navy is getting hard pressed manning the present fleet so how would they be able to shake out 1800 people to man just one of them? I don’t say to scrap them as they now make great museum ships. And you just never know when you will need one to fight off an alien invasion-

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCqDdsZY7RA (10:19 mins)

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    1. Munchausen

      I thought this was The Onion material at first. The author should do a follow-up piece about triremes not having a comeback too. Also, bayonet charges.

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  7. Munchausen

    Germany Announces Urgent New Patriot Missile Deliveries to Ukraine ‘Within Days’ Military Watch

    I love the accompanying images. :-)

    Image 1. Launcher From German Air Force Patriot System
    Image 2. Cluster Warhead Explosions From Iskander-M Strike on Patriot Batteries
    Image 3. Ukrainian Patriot System Milliseconds Before Iskander Strike

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