When researchers found this kind of mysterious underwater ‘crop circles’, they did not know the cause.
Then, they proved to be amazing artwork made by pufferfish to attract and win a mate. pic.twitter.com/38K3ba6iIj
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) November 15, 2025
New Study Uncovers Hidden Dangers of the Keto Diet SciTech Daily
The Progress Paradox Noema
Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media? Harper’s Magazine
Why the chemtrail conspiracy theory lingers and grows – and why Tucker Carlson is talking about it The Conversation
COVID-19/Pandemics
Experts: Conflicting advice on COVID shots likely to ding already low vaccine rates Tuscon Sentinel
AMP 25: Measles and Other Vaccine-Preventable Diseases Rebound in the Post-Pandemic Era Inside Precision Medicine
Climate/Environment
Climate leaders are talking about ‘overshoot’ into warming danger zone. Here’s what it means Euronews
Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says The Guardian
South of the Border
Trump likely to face long military commitment and chaos if he ousts Maduro in Venezuela, experts say CNN
Mexico: Gen Z protests planned; government questions who’s behind them UPI
BREAKING: MEXICO🔴 THE NATIONAL PALACE HAS FALLEN
The National Palace in Mexico City has been overrun — crowds flooding the gates, barriers collapsing, and the government losing control in real time.
This is not a protest.
This is a national eruption — the kind that signals… pic.twitter.com/V4GEZydhLg
— Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK) November 15, 2025
But:
Clashes in Mexico City amid Gen-Z styled protests over crime and corruption Aljazeera:Monica Cruz, an AJ+ reporter in Mexico City, said it was likely that the opposition was behind the protests in the Mexican capital.
“We are having a hard time believing that this is an organic protest. Especially from young people. We don’t want to say that Gen Z is a monolith. There are young people in every side of the political spectrum,” she said.
“But there’s not a lot of young people out there on the streets and we are thinking that may be a reflection or a sign that this is not really coming from the young people. Because we’ve seen protests here in Mexico City against the genocide in Palestine, for example, and we’ve seen young people by the thousands marching in the streets.”
Colombia’s Petro inks $4.3bn deal for 17 fighter jets amid regional tension Al Jazeera
China?
🇯🇵 Japan’s new PM Sanae Takaichi has managed something remarkable: she single-handedly destroyed decades of China’s restraint toward Japan.
For years Beijing avoided escalating historical issues.
For years Chinese public opinion chose patience over anger.
But Takaichi’s nuclear… pic.twitter.com/JoUAZYy8BP— 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 (@OopsGuess) November 15, 2025
The End of China’s Old Guard Foreign AffairsChina slams Philippines over its joint drills with US, Japan Anadolu Agency
China finds bigger role as US sidesteps Brazil climate summit Reuters
China’s New Photonic Quantum Chip Promises 1,000-Fold Gains for Complex Computing Tasks Quantum Insider
China Built the World’s Quickest EVs — Now It Wants to Slow Them Down Auto Blog
India
India-Pakistan conflict risks surge amid terror attacks, Afghan proxy war claims SCMP
No major impact of Trump tariffs? Moody’s says India to be fastest growing major economy The Times of India
Africa
S&P upgrades South Africa for first time in nearly 20 years as reforms gain traction Reuters
Don’t Let Sudan Become Africa’s Afghanistan The National Interest
The moment the postcolonial domination of Africa finally ended The Globe and Mail
European Disunion
The EU’s new censorship machine UnHerd
How does the EU become a geopolitical force? Robin Brooks substack
Old Blighty
Reeves faces ‘credibility crisis’ as markets batter UK after Labour MPs force U-turn on income tax hike The Daily Mail
Final decision on fate of crumbling UK parliament delayed to 2030s Politico
Israel v. Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon, Syria, Iran
This is the situation in the displacement tents in Gaza as winter begins and the rain starts to fall. pic.twitter.com/IP7QE2fCjZ
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) November 14, 2025
Hezbollah’s Quiet Rebuild The Cipher BriefRecord settler attacks in West Bank opening up rifts within Israel BBC
Israel breaching international law by limiting Gaza aid, says Unrwa official The Guardian
New Not-So-Cold War
Russia to produce 120,000 glide bombs and 70,000 drones this year – Ukraine’s Defence Intelligence Ukrainska Pravda
Ukraine’s drone war is also being waged on the ground France 24
How to fight in ‘hell’: Ukraine veterans say Nato not ready for war with Russia The Independent
Russia pummels Kyiv in barrage of drones and missiles as it makes gains in Ukraine PBS
Big Brother Is Watching You Watch
YouTube and Google $30 million child privacy settlement: Who qualifies and how to claim The Economic Times
Privacy Watchdog EFF Lambastes Lawmakers Over Terrible Plan To Ban VPNs Hot Hardware
Imperial Collapse Watch
The mayor lifted a homeless emergency declaration. South L.A. merchants and residents aren’t so sure Los Angeles Times
Nearly 400K fentanyl pills in car seized at Nogales Port of Entry News 4 Tucson
Killer Train Miami Herald
Trump 2.0
Trump Tries to Cover Up His Epstein Scandal With Wildly Corrupt Bullying Zeteo
5 issues at the center of the Trump-Greene spat The Hill
Trump, like Biden before him, finds there’s no quick fix on inflation AP
Economist Warns That Trump’s Investments in the Tech Industry Could Crash the Whole Economy Futurism
Americans with six-figure incomes are in ‘survival mode,’ poll finds USA Today
Musk Matters
Elon Musk has a plan to reach Mars in 90 days. It normally takes 8 months India Today
Democrat Death Watch
Sen. John Kennedy ridicules Democratic Party divide between Schumer and ‘socialist’ wing’ led by AOC Fox News
Letter: By capitulating on the shutdown, Democrats showed their true colors The Salt Lake Tribune
Immigration
Trump’s latest Border Patrol deployment will fail for all the same reasons MS. Now
As ICE escalates its tactics, are federal agents truly ‘untouchable’ in the eyes of the law? CNN
Many businesses close in east Charlotte as masked federal agents make arrests The Charlotte Observer
Our No Longer Free Press
Stars and Stripes at a crossroads: Inside its mission, press freedom challenges and digital future Editor & Publisher
FCC Chair Carr’s Defiant Stand: Inside the News Distortion Crackdown WebPro News
Mr. Market Is Moody
What Lies Ahead for the US Dollar Index? STL News
The Stock Market May Do Something Last Seen During the Great Recession. A Sharp Decline Could Follow. The Motley Fool
Should you worry about an AI bubble? Investment pros weigh in. CBS News
AI
AI-Powered Stuffed Animal Pulled From Market After Disturbing Interactions With Children Futurism
Databricks co-founder argues US must go open source to beat China in AI TechCrunch
AI pressures new graduates and exposes gaps in colleges’ job-ready promises Cryptopolitan
Cities and states are turning to AI to improve road safety AP
The Future of AI Nature
The Bezzle
Thailand police arrest 15 foreigners during raid on crypto scam site Cryptopolitan
Shocking! Southeast Asia Scam Parks Forcing Women Into Horror Surrogacy Scheme Vision Times
Guillotine Watch
World’s most expensive diamond earrings! They set new record price of 57.4 mln USD in #Switzerland https://t.co/uuLSXazhTt pic.twitter.com/qEkNWgDZ6g
— China Xinhua News (@XHNews) May 19, 2017
Marie Antoinette’s pearl and diamond pendant smashed its £1million estimate to sell for an eyewatering £28million at Sothebys in 2018. If you wanted to pick up the matching pearls and earrings, they would’ve cost you another £2.4million! #ritzyrocks #gloriousGeorgians pic.twitter.com/zkRNdnYKo4
— Catherine Curzon (@MadameGilflurt) January 27, 2021
Antidote du jour (via)
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here
“Why Doesn’t Anyone Trust the Media?”
Not hard to work out. These experts go on about how maybe it was 2016 or maybe the Iraq war reporting or Covid or Biden’s health or whatever that undermined them. Those were merely symptoms. A long time ago the main stream media stopped reporting news and started to shape the news. They ‘owned the news’ so for example they would silence smaller political candidates and boost candidates from the uniparty. ‘We were the gatekeepers, and we very much owned the facts as well.’ Reporters were then being recruited from elites and ordinary future reporters were shut out of the system – until they reappeared on the net as bloggers or on substack. People were learning how much reporting was actually just biased opinions on the part of reporters and the internet was showing what was really going on that undercut them. Here is a brief video taken last year in Davos that talks about this whole thing-
https://xcancel.com/ModernityNews/status/1748366347036176592#m
Elon Musk Predicts Humans Could Live Forever In Tesla Optimus Robots Using ‘Snapshots’ of Their Minds.
Musk has gone beyond being a parody of himself, and is now a cartoon character so scientifically implausible that he couldn’t make it as a fourth-tier science fiction writer. If this is who many Americans consider today’s Great Engineer — its Edison, Tesla, or even merely Ford — what’s that say about the U.S. today?
“How does the EU become a geopolitical force?”
In short, it doesn’t. The EU economy is being deliberately wrecked on the alter of Project Ukraine, there is no powerful military to give the words of the EU an actual edge but what is worse how bad EU diplomacy is. Not only are Global majority countries sick of the finger pointing, the lectures and the hypocrisy of their actions, but the EU has tried the same with powerhouse China as well whom it desperately needs to help its ailing economy. The result is that EU officials are not greeted on the runway when they arrive in China, they cannot get meetings with high officials and even Ursula was forced to go through ordinary customs on her way back to the EU like a pleb. And yet the author of this article – Robin J Brooks – can only suggest doing more of what the EU is doing as a solution.