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New South Wales Creates Massive Sanctuary To Save 12,000 Koalas Animal Rescue

Annual US household spending on pork correlates with Lululemon’s stock price (LULU) Tyler Vigen (Micael T)

Badass Rock Covers Played On Traditional Chinese Folk Instruments Laughing Squid

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Climate/Environment

World oil and gas demand could grow until 2050, IEA says Reuters

Refugee camps set to be uninhabitable by 2050 as extreme weather worsens UN

UAE turns to cloud seeding as water scarcity challenges grow Borna News

The Middle East is running dry as water scarcity threatens millions The Star

Tehran’s water could be cut off at night amid ongoing drought Independent

World’s first green fuel levy to add almost US$32 to air fares Bloomberg

China?

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds Guardian

EU Eyes Banning Huawei, ZTE Corp From Mobile Networks of Member Countries Bloomberg

Nobel laureate urges China to deepen space collaboration Asia Times (Kevin W)

India

LIVE: India, Pakistan launch probes after blasts in New Delhi, Islamabad Aljazeera

Trump tariffs: Why India should push for rollback of Russian oil penalty before trade deal with US; 3-point strategy explained Times of India

Southeast Asia

Fighting Cambodia, we must be the main boxer: Underline Thailand Thai Rath Noon, YouTube. >20 million followers. Thailand population is about 72 million.

Africa

Troubled waters: Why is a Nile dam causing such tension? Euronews

Amnesty accuses Somalia of neglecting drought victims Somali Guardian

South of the Border

U.S. aircraft carrier nears Latin America as Venezuela tensions simmer Washington Post

European Disunion

Paris, France. Andrei Martyanov

Germany inches close to agreement on contentious military service but questions remain Euronews

Europe’s chief justice slams Orbán Euractiv

Old Blighty

Starmer allies issue warning to PM’s rivals as fears grow over leadership challenge Guardian (Kevin W). BWAHAHA.

Israel v. The Resistance

Hamas Statement on Israel’s Ceasefire Violations in Gaza Resistance News Network

Partition of war-torn Gaza a looming risk Middle East Online

New Not-So-Cold War

Scott Bessent’s Damaging Remarks Puts More Distance between Washington and Moscow Larry Johnson. We have said from the outset that Bessent was an idiot. His hedge fund was microscopically small despite his Soros connection, which should have been an enormous marketing aid had he been any good. So he’s neither managed anything of size nor been a competent investor. His claims re his role in Soros short of the pound have always seemed exaggerated. Soros is hands-on, particularly with large bets. I suspect at most that Bessent executed trades or did some research. Admittedly John Helmer has depicted Kirill Dmitriev as a blowhard and a relentless self-promoter, but that does not make him wrong on the specific remarks that Bessent derided.

Killzone🔴Mass Surrender: It Has Begun!🏳️The Defense of Novouspenovka Has Collapsed💥MS For 2025.11.11 Military Summary, YouTube

Brief Frontline Report – November 11th, 2025 Marat Khairullin

How To Start War With Russia – A British Think Tank Has Ideas Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

Sergey Lavrov: “We know what the Americans have, and the Americans know what they have. Let’s take a year to, so to speak, cool down, analyse the situation, stop measuring everything by the Ukraine yardstick, and focus on the great powers’ responsibility to maintain global security and stability, above all, in terms of avoiding nuclear war. We are ready for that” International Affairs (Micael T)

Lavrov’s More Extensive Very Detailed Q&A With Media Karl Sanchez

A US Think Tank Considers Armenia & Kazakhstan To Be Key Players For Containing Russia Andrew Korybko

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

The Biometric Payment Revolution You Never Agreed To Reclaim the Net. Consumers need to say no. I refuse face scans at airline gates. Stuns me that no one else does.

Critics Call Proposed Changes To Landmark EU Privacy Law ‘Death By a Thousand Cuts’ Reuters

Redmond turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests Seattle Times (Paul R)

Imperial Collapse Watch

I saw the Davos world order up close. Now it’s age of the predator The Times

TRUMP PLAYS THE OLD CIA CARDS FOR REGIME CHANGE John Helmer

Doomsday Scoreboard (Micael T)

Trump 2.0

Trump dismisses economic anxiety with ‘fake’ polls and reveals reason 600,000 Chinese students are in US Daily Mail. This from a right wing contact: “We can observe for ourselves how out of it/ill informed Trump may be. Had problems in a friendly interview.”

Trump responds to criticism from Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘She’s lost her way’ NBC. Exceedingly mild for Trump.

Exploiting MAGA Sentiments to Back Nigerian Intervention American Conservative (resilc)

Shutdown

SNAP: Trump admin gets longer Supreme Court pause on order it pay full food stamp benefits CNBC

Hemp-THC ban included in federal spending bill Supermarket News

The Democratic Shutdown Capitulation: A Perfect and Unnecessary Failure  Washington Monthly (resilc)

Chuck Schumer Should Be Humanely Euthanized* Ken Klippenstein

Jeffries, Democrats will offer 3-year extension of ObamaCare subsidies The Hill. Pathetic.

Once Again, Senate Democrats Show They Don’t Get Who They Represent New Republic (resilc). Huh? They represent donors.

Tariffs

Trump tariff dividends face legal, political roadblocks The Hill

Immigration

US has sent $7.5m to Equatorial Guinea to accept noncitizens deportees Guardian (resilc)

Trump’s H-1B Visa Crackdown to Accelerate Wall Street’s Expansion in India Bloomberg

Mamdani

A Graveyard of Bad NYC Mayoral Election Narratives Musa Al-Gharabi (Robin K)

L’affaire Epstein

Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time at Jeffrey Epstein’s Mansion Drop Site

Epstein is not going away Edward Luce, Financial Times. No archived version :-(

Our No Longer Free Press

Kash Patel’s GF files $5 million lawsuit against podcaster for ‘insinuation’ she’s Mossad honeypot Grayzone (Chuck L). WTF? Did no one clue them in that the defendant can do discovery?

Antitrust

The War on Algorithmic Price Fixing Is Here Pat Garofalo (Robin K)

AI

US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies The Register

5 recent, ominous signs for Generative AI Gary Marcus

Michael Burry’s latest argument against hyperscalers like Meta and Oracle echoes one made by an investor who shorted Enron Business Insider

AI adoption in US adds ~900,000 tons of CO₂ annually, study finds Techxplore (Kevin W)

Data centers meet resistance over environmental concerns as AI boom spreads in Latin America Guardian

ChatGPT violated copyright law by ‘learning’ from song lyrics, German court rules Guardian (Kevin W)

A tech entrepreneur/former professor and inventor sent this, noting: “Chat GPT is screwed. Who is going to trust it?”

Calls for chatbot age assurance increase as allegations of self-harm, psychosis grow Biometric Update

The Bezzle

Saudi Arabia’s Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning Gizmodo

Class Warfare

Inside London’s Smallest Apartments YouTube (resilc). ZOMG. The pricey one near Hyde Park looks to be in Belgravia.

Reverse mortgages edge up as US economy squeezes older Americans Financial Times

Is This The WORST TAKE On The Affordability Crisis? Young Turks, YouTube. It’s gratifying to watch Ben Shapiro self-destruct.

Even ICE Is More Popular Than Congress Now, Says Brutal Poll New Republic (resilc)

How HR Took Over the World Economist. The Economist catches up with what a colleague has been complaining about for years, rule by HR ladies.

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  1. Wukchumni

    I’m calling the border collie herding a baby sheep video good, as in it really happened.

    In my visits to NZ in the early 80’s, there was 75 million sheep and 3 million people (down to 23 million sheep thrills and up to almost 5 million Kiwis @ present) and I ended up in a number of ‘Sheepedes’ that lasted 20 to 30 minutes as they just kept coming across the road-with border collies as canine cowboys, round ’em up, bring ’em out, keep ’em in line, rawhide!

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  2. Steve H.

    I would ‘rather claw out [my] own eyes’ than accept a three-month rolling average on a chart that exclusively uses the first eleven days of January across multiple years, which maybe I could get talked into, except it is literally connecting unconnected dots when it links the lines up as tho it is longitudinally contiguous.

    Rhetorical misrepresentation.

    (That last sentence scans, that’s when you know I’m miffed.)
    (Just noticed ‘longitudinally contiguous’ scans too. Whoa Momma! tern should know better.)

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  3. The Rev Kev

    “Saudi Arabia’s Dystopian Futuristic City Project Is Crashing and Burning”

    This project never made sense from the get-go. It seemed to be a cross between a vanity project and a white elephant and was sopping up enormous amounts of resources. In any case, who is even supposed to live in this city assuming it was finished? Saudi Arabia would have been better in spending the money on infrastructure, particularly drought-proofing the country. Considering how many countries are experiencing severe water shortages, that might be a wiser investment.

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  4. Wukchumni

    Doomsday Scoreboard (Micael T)

    In their 1997 book The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy, historians William Strauss and Neil Howe predicted that between 2005 and 2026 the United States would experience a “Fourth Turning” crisis—a period of social upheaval on the scale of the Revolution, Civil War, or Great Depression.

    Multiple commentators link recent U.S. crises (2008 recession, 2020 pandemic, political polarization) to this forecast, though no conclusive “cataclysm” has occurred. The cycle is set to resolve by ~2026.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    I’m quite taken by the Fourth Turning, or 80 years later if you’d like.

    Everything lines up so perfectly…

    1781 Yorktown
    1861 Fort Sumter
    1941 Pearl Harbor
    2022 Ukraine

    1837 Financial Panic-1917 US enters WW1
    1849 Gold Rush-1929 Great Depression
    1893 Financial Panic-1971 US goes off gold standard
    1907 Financial Panic-1987 Financial Panic
    1929 Financial Panic-2008 Financial Panic

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  5. .Tom

    Very glad to see the bonus antidotes today. The sheepdog scene is perhaps to some UK TV viewers not so unusual. Since the 1970s sheepdog trials have been a televised sport in the UK. Close ups of the dog standing still close to the sheep aren’t unusual. Impressive all the same.

    The BBC produced a show called One Man and His Dog which my mum liked to watch. What the dogs and shepherds accomplish is very impressive but as a TV sport it’s inherently funny, like golf or snooker, owing to the voice commentary having to find novel things to say about it. I expect there are some old clips of the show on YouTube.

    The cat is wise. My Lucy runs from the room when the printer operates.

    Following up on yesterday’s Farmer’s Almanac link, it turns out that there are two Old Moores. The Irish Old Moore, Theophilus, was a teacher of languages, a mathematician, and an astrologer. His Old Moore’s Almanac has been going since 1764. The English Old Moore, Francis, was a court astrologer and physician and his Old Moore’s Almanack (note the K) has been going since 1697.

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  6. AG

    re: Gaza fascism Germany

    Kinda funny in a desperate way – Jason Stanley was invited to Germany (Jewish community Frankfurt) to speak about – fascism – what else – on November 9th (saint date) and eventually couldn´t finish his speech becoz “Gaza” – so what about “fascism” now, Stanley?

    I applaud his honesty. But if the very society claiming absolute wisdom on issues of Holocaust and “fascism” yet over and over and over again denies the genocide “in our time”, what sense does it make to constantly use the term until it has turned hollow because no one listens who does not happen to be a leftist intellectual.

    It is a very strang situation – I listen to Walter Kirn and then to John Bellamy Foster – go figure.

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  8. .Tom

    Yves, the Military Summary link might be wrong. The link text says 2025.11.11 but it links to a video two days older with the title Killzone🔴Defense on the Zaporizhzhia Front is Crumbling in Real Time⚡️💥Military Summary 2025.11.09

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    1. Yves Smith Post author

      The state of search on YT is such that I can’t even find that 11.09 video so I have no idea how that happened (I did not watch it). Putting in an 11.11 Killzone link.

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  9. AG

    re: German farmland vs. Big Agro

    interview by BERLINER ZEITUNG

    use google-translate

    Foreign countries are buying up German farmland: “We are experiencing the second structural break in East Germany”

    Reinhard Jung from the Brandenburg Farmers’ Association on the sell-off of German agricultural land, the failure of politics – and why Germany is losing control.
    https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/wirtschaft-verantwortung/ausland-kauft-deutsche-aecker-bauernbund-warnt-vor-zweitem-strukturbruch-in-ostdeutschland-li.10004589

    “Following the takeover of Deutsche Agrar Holding (DAH) – including around 20,000 hectares of farmland in eastern Germany – by the Australian fund Igneo, an old concern has been rekindled: the “sell-off” of German soil. Thuringian farmer Reiko Wöllert warned in an interview with the Berliner Zeitung of the loss of farmers’ control – his words sparked a broad debate.”

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  10. Ignacio

    Scott Bessent’s Damaging Remarks Puts More Distance between Washington and Moscow Larry Johnson.

    He is signalling to his PMC comrades that he is in the “correct” side of history. What the populaces think about his words doesn’t matter. So, yes, the same kind of idiot as Starmer, Merz, Macron et al.

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