Links 9/1/2025

Stomach-brain communication predicts emotional symptoms and well-being, study finds Medical Xpress

‘Cortisol Cocktails’ Are The Latest Stress-Busting Trend. Here’s The Science. Science Alert

Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake Eric Topol

The real reason so many people in the US have unhealthy diets 48 Hills

Powerful earthquake in Afghanistan kills 800, injures 2,800 Straits Times

Climate/Environment

Earth’s oceans keep getting warmer – and (duh) that’s not good Balanced Weather

In the Land of the Eyeless Dragons Nautilus

Old Electric Vehicles Contribute to New Pollution Problem in Southern Africa Earth Island Journal

Pandemics

Disability data reveals hidden global burden of long COVID News-Medical

The crisis is “expasperating”: Long COVID compounds economic hardship in Argentina The Sick Times

Top FDA official demands removal of YouTube videos in which he criticized Covid vaccines The Guardian

I am a Private Citizen Seeking to Hold My Government Accountable. Dr. Vinay Prasad, a Government Doctor, Killed My YouTube Channel. Science-Based Medicine

Japan

US to deploy Typhon missile system to Japan for first time for September drills Stars and Stripes

Shanghai Cooperation Organization

‘Strategic Autonomy, Partners Not Rivals’: Modi, Xi Meet Amid Tariff Tensions The Wire

The Dawning of a New World Order Larry Johnson

Full text: Toast by President Xi Jinping at welcoming banquet of SCO Tianjin Summit Global Times

Views on/from India-China Indialog

Liu Zongyi: India’s Disruptive Role Threatens the SCO’s Future Sinification

Vladimir Putin’s Written Interview to China’s Xinhua News Agency Karl Sanchez

China?

China still waiting for factory activity lift-off as US wields new tech curbs South China Morning Post

China’s Political System Makes Consumption-led Growth Impossible The Diplomat

Old Blighty

Norway Selects British Frigates In $13.5B Defense Deal Reuters

Syraqistan

Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population WaPo

Israel’s President Herzog May Pardon Jewish Terrorist to Ease Right-wing Opposition to Hostage Deal Haaretz

Global Sumud Flotilla sets sail from Barcelona in bid to break Gaza blockade Anadolu Agency

Israel hatches plan to throw Greta Thunberg in terror cell The Telegraph

Germany blocks EU push to sanction ‘Israel’ over war on Gaza Al Mayadeen

Israel weighs West Bank annexations in response to Palestine recognition push Axios

U.S. Suspends Visas for Palestinian Passport Holders, Officials Say New York Times

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Egypt to invest $400m in Israel gas pipeline Globes

Houthi Leader Vows Attacks on Israel Will Continue After Israeli Killing of Yemeni Prime Minister Antiwar

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Ditch NPT or embrace diplomacy? Snapback sanctions widen Iran’s postwar rift Al Monitor

European Disunion

Finland removes swastikas from air force flags to avoid ‘awkwardness’ The Telegraph

Sahra Wagenknecht: Europe Subjugated & Propagandised for War Glenn Diesen

New Not-So-Cold War

Europe has ‘pretty precise’ plan to send troops to Ukraine, von der Leyen says FT

Germany backs out of sending troops to Ukraine – Bild Euromaidan Press

Germany’s Merz preparing for long war in Ukraine Politico

Killing Ukraine softly? Julian MacFarlane

‘A Shot to the Heart of Ukraine’ Bandera Lobby Blog

New Ukrainian Missile Threat: Another Empty Hype-Train? Simplicius

Plane carrying EU’s top leader targeted by alleged Russian GPS jamming CNN

Russia’s size is its Achilles’ heel as Ukraine targets its oil infrastructure Intellinews

Lithuania has installed so-called ‘dragon’s teeth’ on the border with Russia Euronews

A Breakdown That Could Lead to an Ecological Disaster High North News

South of the Border

A Summer of Discontent in Mexico City Art Review

“Liberation Day”

US trading partners ‘dazed and confused’ after tariff court loss Business Times

Trump 2.0

Trump’s New Plan for Medicare: Let AI Decide Whether You Should Be Covered or Not Gizmodo

Imperial Collapse Watch

‘We Need to Terminate Treatment’: VA Mental Health Providers Say They Are Under Pressure to Limit Care The War Horse

Peace and Economic Democracy as Preeminent National Interests Un-Diplomatic

The Uniparty

California’s Democratic Governor leads the charge in expanding state repression WSWS

Immigration

NYC immigration arrests and deportations surge after slow start, data shows Gothamist

AI

Humans are being hired to make AI slop look less sloppy NBC News

Is the “A.I.” “bubble” “bursting”? Read Max

Accelerationists

Broken $100-billion dream city becomes refuge for tech utopians Los Angeles Times

Groves of Academe

This Is the Group That’s Been Swatting US Universities Wired

Guillotine Watch

Bitcoin boom sees newly wealthy splurging on luxury travel FT

Zeitgeist Watch

Screaming, Crying, Throwing up: The Medieval Art of Fandom Mixed Feelings

In a first, X-rays capture the invisible swirls that shape the flow of sand and snow Interesting Engineering

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10 comments

  1. The Rev Kev

    “Norway Selects British Frigates In $13.5B Defense Deal”

    Now if Norway intends to use those British-built ships in the local waters of the North Atlantic, they should be fine. But if they sign up to some idiotic idea to send them to the Indio-Pacific to confront China with as part of a NATO squadron, then maybe they should test them in warm waters first-

    https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/07/destroyers-will-break-down-if-sent-to-middle-east-admits-royal-navy

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    1. JohnA

      And don’t forget, in the revolving door so lucratively employed by weatern politicians, the Finance Minister of Norway is a certain Jens Stoltenberg.
      Having said that the Norwegians could well need to use these new naval toys to prevent aggression from the US rather than Russia, with whom they used to have very friendly relations. Norway namely recently announced they would withdraw investment from US companies heavily involved in the Israeli genocide. Quick as a flash, Lindsay Graham started spouted off about how dare they and threatening sanctions and worse against little Norway. What larks.

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        1. JMH

          I saw a Lindsay Graham ad the other day. He must have a serious primary opponent. The operative words above: really does act. He is in his glory. The scold, the shill, is finally getting the recognition he thinks he has deserved all along. The man is pathetic. He leads a parade of the well compensated equally pathetic. But while professing undying loyalty to Donnie, Lindsay knows he is easily rolled.

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  2. Ben Panga

    Re: Gaza postwar plan envisions ‘voluntary’ relocation of entire population (wapo)

    This is some sociopath stuff, reported as if it is normal. It’s a f******* war crime added to the other war crimes. It’s not an attractive real estate plan. It’s sick.

    A catchy song provides the soundtrack. “Donald’s coming to set you free/ Bringing delight to all you see. No more tunnels, no more fear/ Trump Gaza is finally here.”…

    ….The plan talks of Gaza’s location “at the crossroads” of what will become a “pro-American” region, giving the United States access to energy resources and critical minerals, and serving as a logistics hub for the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor that was first announced during the Biden administration but derailed by the Israel-Gaza war….

    …Those who own land would be offered a digital token by the trust in exchange for rights to redevelop their property, to be used to finance a new life elsewhere or eventually redeemed for an apartment in one of six to eight new “AI-powered, smart cities” to be built in Gaza. Each Palestinian who chooses to leave would be given a $5,000 cash payment and subsidies to cover four years of rent elsewhere, as well as a year of food….

    Voluntary my a**

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    1. JohnA

      Forced displacement is governed by international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law, which prohibit forced population movements during armed conflict and in peacetime, respectively. Key instruments include the Geneva Conventions, which ban forced transfers and deportations in occupied territories, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC), which classifies forced displacement as a war crime or crime against humanity. International human rights law permits forced displacement only in exceptional circumstances, requiring it to be lawful, necessary, proportionate, non-discriminatory, and consistent with other legal obligations

      Yet such laws do not apply to Israel. In fact no laws or international conventions apply to Israel. Mindboggling.

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  3. The Rev Kev

    ‘DD Geopolitics
    @DD_Geopolitics
    🇪🇺🇵🇱🧱🇧🇾 In a surreal performance, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen gave a speech through the fence to Belarusian border guards.’

    I think that those Belarusian border guards missed a once in a lifetime opportunity here. You could have had a coupla of them turn around, drop their daks and started to moon Ursula while she was talking and being filmed. Would they have been punished for doing that? Probably, though Lukashenko would likely order that they be firmly slapped on the wrist by their officers instead. But how many Belorussians would like to buy the guys who mooned Ursula a coupla beers? Worth it!

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  4. rasta

    ‘Cortisol Cocktails’ Are The Latest Stress-Busting Trend. Here’s The Science. Science Alert

    The health claims are linked to the vitamin C from the orange juice, the potassium from the coconut water, the added magnesium, and the sodium from the salt.

    It has electrolytes!

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  5. Carolinian

    Re Maxread on twilight of the AI

    There is a pervasive suspicion among A.I. skeptics (many of whom were and are also crypto skeptics) that the A.I. boom is a redux of the crypto boom–which is to say, effectively, a grift forced on consumers and abetted by unwitting journalists and other eager marks. And this suspicion can be converted by the more cavalier A.I. haters on Bluesky into a kind of fantasy of righteous vindication: When the A.I. bubble pops, “A.I.” will be revealed as a scam and a waste of time, and “all come crashing down.” Financial ruin for bad actors, eternal shame for duped boosters, and a rollback of all stupid L.L.M. implementations online and at the workplace.

    Amen?

    One imagines a Disneycorp updated remake of The Graduate where the party guest buttonholes the hero by the pool. “One word Benjamin–tulips.”

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  6. The Rev Kev

    ‘Armchair Warlord
    @ArmchairW
    A dark theory for the evening. Let’s talk about Russian strategy in Ukraine.⬇️’

    With the rate of Ukrainian casualties and the demands of the US, EU and the Ukrainian nationalists to continue the war, what exactly is Ukraine’s fate after the war? Demographically I mean. At least 1.7 million men are gone and millions of men and women – and their children – have fled the country and most of them will never return to the Ukraine ever again. How will they generate the numbers for a workforce? Maybe as they really no longer have an economy, that that is a moot point. They will be hard pressed to try to raise another huge army too but likely they will not be allowed to do that. Once the war is over the west will walk away as if they were a one-night stand and they will take their money with them as well. They won’t be in NATO so will not be able to trigger a NATO/Russia war and they won’t be in the EU so will not be able to flood them with cheap, farming produce and Ukrainian workers. Add in the fact that the Oblasts they they are losing generated about 80/90% of that countries GDP does not leave much left. The really sad thing? It was all their own fault – they believed western promises.

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