The ‘Farmer’s Almanac’ says goodbye after 208 years Popular Science (resilc) :-(
Facing a spike in deadly bear attacks, Japan turns to the military and drones that bark CNN
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers STAT
The Remarkable Large-Scale Structure of Anti-Tail and Tail Jets from 3I/ATLAS Avi Loeb (Chuck L)
The Mysterious Math Behind the Brazilian Butt Lift Wired (Dr. Kevin)
FDA removes ‘black box’ warning label on hormone replacement therapy for menopause ABC. This has been a long-standing pet peeve. The studies with negative findings on HRT were on women well into their 60s or older, as in way past menopause, which is not even remotely the typical use case. And I was in Australia in the early 2000s when this finding was published, the reaction was very different than in the US. Doctors there were not impressed by the increase in cancer, that even though it sounded scary in relative terms, in absolute terms it was not all that consequential (that does not mean, BTW that practice in Australia didn’t eventually fall in line with US views, I don’t know either way). There are many small scale studies that show that long-term use of HRT (as in for a decade +) is correlated with lower all-factor mortality, due to the reduction in heart disease IF HRT is started w/in 2 years of menopause and/or before the age of 60.
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Canada loses its measles-free status, with US on track to follow BBC
I am receiving reports of a widespread respiratory outbreak in China. A confluence of pathogens Influenza H3N2, H1N1, RSV, and Rhinovirus is leading to a notable rise in hospitalizations. pic.twitter.com/aS0ZY9SZM9
— SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) (@COVID19_disease) November 10, 2025
Climate/Environment
Triple-whammy of hottest ever years risks ‘irreversible damage’, says UN Guardian
The Cops have failed: it’s time for a big dose of climate realism The Times
Chocolate, coffee and wine won’t survive climate change, study predicts Independent
Dangerous nighttime heat rising globally: New Study People’s Gazette
Cracks in Antarctic ‘Doomsday Glacier’ ice shelf trigger accelerated destabilization PhysOrg
Camels Replace Cows As Kenya Battles Drought Channels TV
Iraq postpones surplus wheat export amid water crisis New Region
” rel=”nofollow”>Amazon lakes hit ‘unbearable’ hot-tub temperatures amid mass die-offs of pink river dolphins – study Guardian
China?
China’s new green order Unherd
Reasons to be bearish about China’s rise Financial Times. Not yet archived.
‘Not in this economy’: Guangdong’s huge subsidy scheme falls flat with consumers South China Morning Post
Taiwan coastguard faces China’s might near frontline islands Agence France-Presse
Philippines’ corruption crisis sends peso to all-time low Nikkei
India
Rupee, bonds to rely on central bank to protect record low, key yield level Reuters
Pakistan
Another crisis brewing? Pakistan on brink of food supply collapse as flour shortage deepens; prices hit the roof Times of India
Afghanistan And Pakistan Talks Collapse As Border Tensions Rise Grand Pinnacle Tribune
Bangladesh
Bangladesh Police stages drill amid fears of unrest Daily Pioneer
An Exclusive RT Interview Shed More Light On The US’ Role In The Bangladeshi Coup Andrew Korybko
Africa
Inside Ghana’s Battle With Illegal Gold Mining Time (resilc)
Tanzania police arrest opposition party official after deadly election protests Guardian
African Union calls for international response as Mali security crisis deepens Turkiye Today
South of the Border
Invading Panama and deposing Noriega in 1989 was easy, right? Responsible Statecraft (resilc)
The President’s Murder Spree Continues Daniel Larison
European Disunion
We are reporting Amazon to the police for child pornography crimes Aftonbladet via machine translation (Micael T)
Greek Farmers Mobilize Nationwide for Major Demonstration Greek City Times
Old Blighty
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year Guardian
British fascists ‘trained by American white supremacists’ Telegraph (resilc). A rare successful US export..
Israel v. The Resistance
Live: Israeli air raids hit Gaza City, southern Lebanon Aljazeera
Israeli Knesset approves 1st reading of bill on death penalty for Palestinian prisoners Anadolu Agency
Digging for annexation: How Israel uses archaeology to erase Palestine TRT World (Kevin W)
Israeli army short of 12,000 troops as threat of new Lebanon war looms: Report The Cradle (Kevin W)
New Not-So-Cold War
Pentagon chief likens current world situation with 1939, when World War II began Defend Democracy
Lavrov ‘ready’ to meet Rubio after reported breakdown in communication and rift with Putin Sky
Serbia’s Continued Arming Of Ukraine Risks Rupturing Relations With Russia Andrew Korybko
Ukraine – Zelenski Friend Accused In Energy Sector Corruption Case Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
One Reason the Russian Military Advanced Slowly in 2023 and 2024 Larry Johnson
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
VPNs Keep the Lights On in a Darkening Web Reclaim the Net (Micael T)
Imperial Collapse Watch
America First? For DC swamp, it’s always ‘War First’ Responsible Statecraft (resilc)
Al-Qaeda in the Oval Office: A New Phase of the Global Disorder Simplicius
Trump 2.0
Trump booed at Commanders NFL game before calling plays from Fox broadcast booth Guardian (resilc)
Trump’s $2,000 Tariff Dividend Payments Would Explode the Deficit by Nearly $4 Trillion Over a Decade Dean Baker. The money quote:
That [after excluding top 10%] leaves over 300 million people getting Trump’s $2,000 checks. That comes to more than $600 billion. Trump’s tariffs are raising around $270 billion
. That means we will be paying out $330 billion more in Trump tariff dividend checks than he is raising in tariff revenue.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others who backed efforts to overturn 2020 election, official says PBS
Shutdown
Senate passes package to end record government shutdown Axios
Dems PATHETIC Surrender On Shutdown Breaking Points. John Kirakou and Ted Rall point out that Schumer didn’t whip this vote, which is highly unusual, and instead told Senators to “vote their conscience”. Gah.
Tariffs
These Pastas Could Vanish from U.S. Shelves If Trump Rolls Out 107% Tariffs Newsweek
Supremes
US Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn marriage equality 9News (Kevin W)
A Texas church’s online class trains Christians to run for office. Now it may go national Fort Worth Report (resilc)
Mamdani
Mamdani and the Class War: Part 2 Les Leopold
L/affaire Jeffrey Epstein
Whistleblower docs show Maxwell seeking commutation, receiving ‘concierge-style treatment’ in prison The Hill
Court Filing Exposes 9/11 Coverup Kit KLarenberg
Mr. Market is Moody
The Big Crash: Are we really heading for another 1929? Telegraph
Gold Edges Higher With Weakening US Economy Aiding Haven Demand Bloomberg
AI
Brussels knifes privacy to feed the AI boom Politico
Yes It’s an AI Bubble. Here’s Why Bloomberg. Albert Edwards was particularly good in the runup to the 2008 crisis.
How this tech bro could trigger world financial armageddon Daily Mail
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market Financial Times. Not archived yet.
Class Warfare
The Death of Rural Healthcare—And the States Leading the Decline YouTube (resilc)
UnitedHealth Is Cashing In On The Open Enrollment Crisis The Lever
Antidote du jour (via):
And a bonus:
Mom cat is helped trying to save her kitten from flood. pic.twitter.com/lCq4ZftjWa
— Gabriele Corno (@Gabriele_Corno) November 9, 2025
A different sort of bonus:
Cars drive slowly, shielding a biker from being blown over by typhoon-force windspic.twitter.com/y1v0muQRWP
— Wolf of X (@tradingMaxiSL) November 10, 2025
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
Is Old Moore’s Almanac still going? I used to enjoy that as a wean, which rather annoyed my materialist atheist parents.
“Chocolate, coffee and wine won’t survive climate change, study predicts”
A world without chocolate, coffee and wine is a world not worth living in.
My conviction precisely.
Financial Times: Reasons to be bearish about China’s rise
https://archive.ph/3t4FH
if the UK or US had China’s “problems”, it would be a miracle. The good news is that the UK, EU will hit the wall well before the US, lmao
The first bonus video is AI-generated. Look at the hind legs of the large dog when it stands up.
Living off of viral video engagement is a cottage industry…..if a video *feels* off, good chance that it is.
enjoy the “uncanny valley” while it lasts, soon all fake video will be impossible to distinguish from the real thing
The rottie has 5 legs.
Not mentioned above but twitter/X feed is full of talk about a coup at the BBC over a cornucopia of “left wing bias” (somewhat amusing given how subsequent Tory governments have filled the board with right wingers, not to mention Owen Jones and dropsite being taken to court by the BBC over reporting on pro Israel bias) such as editing a Trump speech, being too “pro trans”, and pro Hamas. Here a short article covering it https://bylinetimes.com/2025/11/10/the-bbcs-attempts-to-appease-the-right-wing-coup-against-it-are-now-seeding-its-own-destruction/
Also the two animal antidote videos reek of AI
I don’t have time to check every animal video, so if you want me never to post a bonus antidote, this is the way to do it.
The first one with two dogs does have criticism in comments as AI, so I have removed it. The second one has almost none of that sort and one reports that Grok said it is not AI, FWIW.
‘Gabriele Corno
@Gabriele_Corno
Mom cat is helped trying to save her kitten from flood.’
Sad that the mother cat could only save one kitten but at least both mother and kitten are safe now. And that mother cat did one helluva job and still keeping close watch on it as it is bottle fed.
Momma cat, bless her. Despite her heroic performance, that video has put me in a melancholy state.
The dems are not going to fix health insurance let alone the health system.
Just like they haven’t and won’t fix drug prices which by comparison is easy.
Biden/dems were in power during a 100 yr pandemic and nothing changed.
They can’t be changed. I’ve read a few articles about the dems waited until after the election to show their true intentions.
Speaking of healthcare, I came across a tweet showing two maps demonstrating the importance of healthcare in the US. I cannot verify the truth of those maps unfortunately but if they ring true, would explain why the healthcare lobby is so powerful-
https://xcancel.com/rossiadam/status/1980590538886881641#m
Nice catch on bonus antidote: the Rottweiler had three rear legs when he first stood up.
It is frightening to see how AI can be manipulated to create convincing but entirelly fictional “realities.” I guess the antidote could be seen as a gentle reminder of this.