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Melodic Parrot Hated His Human Until They Started Making Music Together Laughing Squid
Bearded Vulture nests found to have hoards of cultural artifacts—some up to 650 years old Phy.org
Far side of the moon may be colder than the near side EurekAlert
Climate/Environment
Four major Earth system components are losing stability Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Science
What’s a house in LA really worth? Moving Day
Iran must move its capital from Tehran, says president as water crisis worsens The Guardian
As millions face climate relocation, the nation’s first attempt sparks warnings and regret Floodlight
How Factory Farm Air Pollution Can Spread Dangerous Bacteria Sentient
Pandemics
INTERVIEW | ‘Covid increases heart attack risk, especially among youth’: Dr T K Jayakumar New Indian Express
Rising Cognitive Disability as a Public Health Concern Among US Adults Neurology
If You Care About COVID, You Should Care About Tylenol Long Covid, MD
Old Blighty
Starmer’s latest DWP plan is to target people with mental health issues The Canary
Two killed and three seriously injured in car and knife attack at Manchester synagogue on Yom Kippur Euronews
China?
Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies ProPublica
U.S. frets over Chinese money in SpaceX; China frets over SpaceX itself. Pekingnology
Huawei to boost AI chip output despite additional US curbs Asia Times
LONG READ: The GEMIs – the Global Emerging Markets’ interlocking institutions Intellinews
South of the Border
Venezuela Denounces U.S. Provocation with F-35 Lightning II Fighter Jets Telesur
Africa
Zimbabwe’s lithium boom uproots locals The Continent
Climate Negotiations in the Age of Warmongering, Militarism and Failed Multilateralism Review of African Political Economy
Death toll rises to 3 in Morocco with more protests expected Al Jazeera
Syraqistan
Israel declares 600,000 in Gaza City ‘military targets,’ cuts off lifeline from south The Cradle
How Hamas Is Navigating Trump’s Gaza Ultimatum Drop Site
Nazi-linked company among suppliers of 500 tonne+ munitions shipment to Israel The Ditch
SECRET CARGO: INSIDE AUSTRALIA’S COVERT F-35 PARTS PIPELINE TO ISRAEL Declassified Australia
Exposing JFK Airport’s hidden arms pipeline to Israel Mondoweiss
USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel USC Annenberg Media
Tucker Carlson blasts U.S. leaders for letting Israeli military officers “barge into Pentagon meetings” during the June 12-Day War with Iran:
During that short conflict, IDF officers in the Pentagon… enraged American Pentagon staff by just barging into meetings, giving orders,… pic.twitter.com/dwpKVLDDIk
— Clash Report (@clashreport) October 2, 2025
European Disunion
Mathew D. Rose – Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the German Economy Brave New Europe
Munich drone sightings force airport to cancel flights in latest Europe disruption The Guardian
Europe’s air safety at risk amid cost-cutting and staff pressures, study warns The Guardian
France braces for renewed strikes amid mounting pressure on premier Anadolu Agency
Babiš leads before Czech vote but smaller parties hold keys to government Euractiv
New Not-So-Cold War
Euro-Cabal’s Thirst for Conflict Grows into Insatiable Lust Simplicius
The US is sending Ukraine to hell to distract from what it’s doing in the Middle East at Israel’s behest, as a way to punish Russia for helping the Axis of Resistance and as a way to curb its ability to assist Iran in the coming war. And they get to wrack Europe as a bonus; they… https://t.co/3G2gxh6kW9
— Alon Mizrahi (@alon_mizrahi) October 2, 2025
Re-Evaluating The Special Operation In Light Of The Valdai Club’s Startling Insight Andrew Korybko
President Putin Signals Peace to Donald Trump at Valdai Larry Johnson
US TOMAHAWK MISSILE SHIPMENTS TO UKRAINE UNLIKELY, SOURCES SAY Reuters
“Liberation Day”
Inside Pfizer’s Drug-Pricing Deal With the Trump Administration WSJ
China and Brazil are bankrupting American cotton farmers. Bailouts coming. Kevin Walmsley
Trump 2.0
Trump making plans to send billions in cash bailouts to farmers with taxpayer money Politico
Trump causes bipartisan alarm by turning shutdown into DOGE 2.0 Semafor
Trump administration cuts nearly $8B in clean energy projects in states that backed Harris AP
TRUMP DECLARES HE CAN WAGE SECRET WARS AGAINST ANYONE HE CALLS AN ENEMY Nick Turse, The Intercept
Democrats en déshabillé
Newsom Vows to Cut State Funding for Universities That Sign Trump’s ‘Compact’ NOTUS
Weimar Republic
The Battle Over Civil Society Dissent
Our Famously Free Press
‘Unconstitutional, Un-American, and Wrong’: Journalist Mario Guevara to Be Deported to El Salvador Friday Common Dreams
Larry Ellison Vetted Marco Rubio for Fealty to Israel, Hacked Emails Reveal Drop Site. “The billionaire Oracle founder is on track to take control of the American media.”
Faster Than Truth: Quantum-Enhanced AI and the Next Frontier of Information Warfare Propaganda in Focus
Imperial Collapse Watch
The number of countries issuing travel warnings about the U.S. is growing Boing Boing
The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public Boston Review
Pentagon plans widespread random polygraphs, NDAs to stanch leaks WaPo
Accelerationists
From the Cesspool to the Mainstream New York Review
We Are Not Peasants Notes from the Circus
AI
Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys Futurism
The 100 GW Mirage Warwick Powell
Antitrust
What’s Wrong With Las Vegas? New York Times. Commentary:
Another day, another story in the mainstream business press about prices in a market magically rising for reasons completely unrelated to unfair practices by the sellers–in the case, hotels using a **common** pricing algorithm to set rates in Vegas. Here the purported reason is… pic.twitter.com/ajQOpGBgCM
— Hal Singer (@HalSinger) October 1, 2025
Sports Desk
Immigration
Texas halts commercial drivers licenses for many immigrants Texas Tribune
Supply Chain
The longer the shutdown lasts, the greater the risk of cargo backups at Texas ports Houston Public Media
Antidote du jour (via):
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
“President Putin Signals Peace to Donald Trump at Valdai”
Putin keeps on offering off-ramps to Trump so that he can get out of the Ukraine and Trump still sticks with the Ukraine so that he can achieve an American victory out of this war. Yeah, I don’t think that that’s going to happen but Trump has chained himself with the fate of the Ukraine. He chose poorly.
Just got my ‘puter back from the repair shop to go online, only to find everybody wanting to go to war with everybody else. This timeline is going nutso.
Tomahawks for Zelenski!
Even the plucky Kievans need something to shoot them from!
The ground launched version of US Army tomahawks is Typhon. There are two small batteries, Last year one deployed to the Philippines. Another battery may be “on order”.
The only designed ground launched is Typhon, a modified 40 foot container with a US Navy launch tube same as in Aegis (sea and Aegis ashore) systems.
Plucky techies in Kiev may cobble together a ramp launcher, with all the help they could find in UK and US. Those would be fixed and targets!
US guidance support is not more than US has been giving since Feb 2022!
“Sora 2 Is Creating Ads for “Epstein Island” Children’s Toys”
Anybody know if this toy set will include the Randy Andy & Slick Willy action figures?
Oops!
https://seekingalpha.com/news/4501654-mortgage-rates-rises-to-634-in-last-week
“Mortgage rates increased again this week but remains below its 52-week average of 6.71%, according to the latest Freddie Mac Primary Mortgage Survey.”
The Fed has scored an “own goal.”