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Korat zoo warms animals with straw and hot baths for pythons Bangkok Post. It’s been cold for here!

Scientists find hidden switch that lets tumors shapeshift and evade treatment ScienceDaily (Kevin W)

What Happens To Kids’ Brains After Thousands Of Hours Staring At Screens? StudyFinds (resilc)

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Climate/Environment

Should You Have Kids? Planet: Critical (Micael T)

The EPA Approved a New PFAS Pesticide — Will It Show Up in Your Produce? Food & Wine (Paul R)

‘Invisible’ microplastics spread in skies as global pollutant Asahi (Paul R)

Weather disasters are surging in the Amazon. Reporting isn’t Mongabay

Lakes are experiencing more severe heatwaves than the atmosphere Nature

China?

President Xi Jinping Speaks with U.S. President Donald J. Trump on the Phone Ministry of Foreign Affairs
People’s Republic of China

Xi-Trump call; PRC-Japan; Getting harder to evade PRC taxes; Sketchy LGFV bond deals Sinocism (Chuck L)

Why China Can’t Sort Out Its Property Market Mess Bloomberg

The German government wants to decouple from China. But German companies can’t afford to leave. Kevin Walmsley

Nvidia’s H200 chips could be ‘sugar-coated bullets’ for China Asia Times (Kevin W)

Japan-China Row

Africa

Sudan army chief Burhan rejects latest US-backed truce plan as ‘worst yet’ France24

‘Enough repression’: Thousands of Tunisians protest against Kais Saied Aljazeera

Escalating war of words between Ethiopia and Eritrea triggers fears of conflict BBC

European Disunion

Financial fragmentation as a vulnerability in euro area bond markets VoxEU

Debate on Israeli attacks on Gaza blocked in European Parliament Anadolu Agency (Kevin W)

Belgium braced for three-day national strike over budget cuts France24

Greek Farmers Set to Launch Nationwide Roadblocks Greek City Times

Old Blighty

With a million young people locked out of work, the UK’s hidden jobs crisis is only growing Guardian

Melanie Phillips at the Rage Against the Hate Conference YouTube. Colonel Smithers: ” If you thought Sarah Hurwitz was bad….Philips is a regular in print and on air. It’s not the first time.” One of the few sane comments:

I do not understand why so many applaud this speech. This is truly a terrifying speech. All Jews should be particularly terrified. She’s calling for all Jews around the world to be deported to Israel, against our will, to serve as soldiers. We’ve seen this script before, we know where it leads. I hope others have awakened to this.

Should the Bank of England be independent? Andy Haldane and Daniela Gabor London Review of Books, YouTube (Colonel Smithers). From early in the month, still germane

Israel v. The Resistance

UN: Gaza plunged into ‘human-made abyss’ as economy collapses 87%, wiping out decades of growth Arab News

Iraq approaches a major economic shock as experts warn of long-term structural collapse Iraqi News

Over half of Iraq now at risk of desertification, ministry warns Shafaq

Iran intelligence warns of attempts to target Supreme Leader Khamenei Middle East Monitor

New Not-So-Cold War

Ukraine makes significant changes to US ‘peace plan’, sources say Guardian (Kevin W)

The Dangerous, Unhinged Reaction to Trump’s Ukraine Peace Plan American Conservative (resilc)

Trump Administration is Letting Europe Kill Its Proposed Russia/Ukrainian Peace Plan Larry Johnson

How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground New York Times. resilc: “NYT goes with Rubio in 2028 I would guess now………pro warzzzzzz.”

Return of the Skripals and Other Pretexts for War Oliver Boyd Barrett (Chuck L)

In pictures: Berlin metro turns into urban warfare training ground ABC Australia

Big Brother is Watching You Watch

Self-destructing thumb drive can brick itself and wipe your secret files away The Register (Chuck L). So what am I missing? Why can’t this sort of device be improved so as to self-brick when plugged into any not-specifically authorized computer? That should be in version 2.0.

Imperial Collapse Watch

The Era of Re-Civilization? David Lloyd Dusenbury and Philip Pilkington, American Affairs (Chuck L)

No Saviors In The Multipolar Mirage: We’re Living In An Inhuman World Fioralle Isabel, YouTube. With a transcript.

Is the U.S. at war with Europe? Arnaud Bertrand (Chuck L)

Cyril Ramaphosa closes G20 summit after US boycott and handover row Guardian (resilc)

Trump 2.0

Trump Cancels Release of Crucial Economic Report to Hide His Failures New Republic (resilc)

Judge dismisses cases against ex-FBI director Comey and NY attorney general James BBC

Inside the DOGE Succession Drama Elon Musk Left Behind Politco (resilc)

Mamdani

Mamdani Response to Protest Inflames Tensions with Jewish Leaders New York Times (resilc). Good for him.

Democrat Death Wish

Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats New York Times (Paul R)

Scoop: Dems eye ranked-choice voting for primaries Axios (Paul R)

GOP Clown Car

X Unleashes CHAOS On MAGA Accounts With New Feature Young Turks, YouTube

Our No Longer Free Press

‘We’re basically pushers’: Court filing alleges staff at social media giants compared their platforms to drugs Politico

Mr. Market is Moody

Jamie Dimon is right. Alarm bells are ringing about the next GFC Australian Financial Review

Could markets be facing an ‘everything bubble’? Investors are divided CNBC

Economy

The US economy’s 7 deadly signs Business Insider

AI

Chuck L: “No mention of blocking state regulation but it’s almost certainly somewhere in the fine print.”

AI-Spending War and AI-Debt Pile-Up Could Squeeze Share Buybacks Wolf Richter

The Bezzle

Trump Family Fortune Plummets in Stinging Crypto Crash Daily Beast (resilc). BWAHAHA.

PE Firms Flood Junk Debt Market to Pay Themselves Bloomberg

Game Theory Explains How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices Wired (Dr. Kevin)

Natural Peanut Butter BushcraftUSA. Paul R: “Peanut butter crapification.”

Guillotine Watch

Tesla defects led to fiery crash, killing Tacoma woman, lawsuit says Seattle Times (Kevin W)

Class Warfare

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie Michael Green. A must read. resilc: “No idea about the overall conclusions but some of the analysis is enlightening.”

It Works, If You Work It. America’s Undoing (resilc). Yes a second must read, trust me.

Americans are feeling the pain of the affordability crisis: ‘There’s not any wiggle room’ Guardian

New ‘cash law’ could force Walmart and Costco to take your money the old-fashioned way Fox (Kevin W)

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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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  1. The Rev Kev

    ‘Mario Nawfal
    @MarioNawfal
    🇯🇵🇨🇳 JAPAN JUST THREW MISSILES ON CHINA’S FRONT LAWN’

    I saw an article about this island over at Asia Times but missed it’s significance. The Asia Times article goes into much more detail and reveals that it is the US Marine Corps that is offloading all the equipment there and helping set up this island as a forward base against China-

    https://asiatimes.com/2025/11/japans-yonaguni-arming-up-for-a-taiwan-war-with-china/

    If I were Japan, I would not be counting on any deliveries of refined rare earths any time soon as this move is part of an effort to pin the Chinese Navy against their own coastline. If the balloon goes up you can depend on this island being flattened by a wave of Chinese missiles.

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    1. ocypode

      Bold move on the Japanese’s part daring China to right some historical wrongs. Not like the Japanese are very fond of admitting Nanjing, or Unit 731, or the rest of their genocidal practices. Maybe they’ll remember why for most of history the Chinese saw themselves as the center of the world and the Japanese as a not particularly important set of islands full of warlords.

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