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The real crisis isn’t climate change, ecologist Sandra Diaz says Aljazeera

Bossons Glacier2022 | 2025

These 3 yrs show the most impressive collapse ever! 😱

The Mt Blanc massif and Chamonix icescape will never be the same… 🔥😭

Glaciers are now completely out of context with the climate zone in which they are located! 🌡️

📷 MeteoValledAosta pic.twitter.com/QPuzL57A4v

— Melaine Le Roy (@subfossilguy) September 4, 2025

The ocean carbon sink is ailing: 10% drop in CO₂ absorption seen during record 2023 marine heat wave PhysOrg

Carbon capture set to be less useful in tackling climate change, scientists warn Financial Times

These clear windows can secretly produce solar power ScienceDaily (Chuck L). Very cool. But can they be made cheaply enough?

China?

All 76 weapons at China 2025 military parade explained. 47 are brand new Binkov’s Battleground, YouTube

Kim, Xi hail bond as North Korea says it will protect China’s interests Aljazeera

Koreas

How a Top Secret SEAL Team 6 Mission Into North Korea Fell Apart New York Times (Micael T)

India

India disavows ‘Tianjin spirit’, turns to EU Indian Punchline (Chuck L). Today’s must read. Counters the post SCO=BRICS anti-globalist cheerleading, at least as far as India and China are concerned. Conor had a raft of links at the time of the SCO, many from Indian sources and non-US China experts. Nearly all highlighted a long list of thorny issues India and China would need to work through for there to be marked improvement in their relationship.

Punjab floods threaten to devastate India’s rice harvest Independent

Has India ‘weaponised water’ to deliberately flood Pakistan? Aljazeera

Fitch Says Severe Unrest May Weigh on Indonesia’s Credit Profile Bloomberg

Africa

Deadly land dispute in northern Ghana displaces nearly 50,000 people France24

UN report warns of possible war crimes, crimes against humanity in DR Congo Anadolu Agency

South of the Border

Rubio’s statement is pure escalation signaling, framing the U.S. Navy’s strike on a Venezuelan vessel not as an isolated interdiction but as a doctrine shift.

He’s effectively telegraphing that this administration will treat any suspected “narco-terrorist” boat, Tren de Aragua,… pic.twitter.com/wxQNZgxwfp

— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025

European Disunion

France faces sovereign rating test amid political chaos Reuters

Europe Faces $1 Trillion Rearmament Bill as U.S. Weighs Troop Cuts. OilPrice

Norwegians to pick new parliament in tightly fought election clouded by geopolitical angst Reuters

And if you are not willing (to war), I will use force Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T)

Public broadcaster refuses to provide information on the expansion of the fact-checking network Multipolar via machine translation (Micael T)

Another NATO state preparing to conscript women RT (Kevin W)

It smells too little of beer, cigarettes and sweat Aftonbladet via machine translation. Micael T: “Class analysis of the recently published Swedish Canon. Here is the canon.

Old Blighty

Britain is in the eye of the financial storm Investors are losing confidence Unherd

The Israeli president’s invitation to the UK shows Starmer is an accomplice to genocide Council Estate Media

Israel v. The Resistance

While Gaza’s fighters hold the line under siege, Mahmoud Abbas’s Presidential Office has been funding and arming one of the most notorious Israeli-backed militias in the Strip, the Yasser Abu Shabab gang, also known as the “Popular Forces.” pic.twitter.com/6rpTORPfA3

— Thomas Keith (@iwasnevrhere_) September 4, 2025

US sanctions Palestinian rights groups who asked top court for Israel war crimes investigation CNN

Will Cancer Prove to be Another Weapon in Israel’s War in Gaza? Joshua Frank, TomDispatch

Revealed: The ships carrying fuel and arms to Israel Middle East Eye

Israel can’t stop Alon Mizrahi. He is a bit verbose, but there is a transcript and his big point is makes sense.

Israel threatens to unleash biblical plagues on Yemen’s Houthis Aljazeera

New Not-So-Cold War

Chancellor seeks to conceal Germany’s missile supplies to Kiev — Russia intel agency TASS (guurst)

Germany’s Merz demands ‘economic exhaustion’ of Russia RT (Micael T). And I want a pony.

Western troops in Ukraine would be ‘legitimate targets’, Putin says Guardian (Kevin W). Another example of Russia having to endlessly repeat the same point for it to have a chance of the West accepting it.

“‘Staged actions’ in Ukraine.” The Floutist

Putin in Primorye & Vladivostok Karl Sanchez

Sweden accuses Russia of GPS jamming over Baltic Sea BBC

Imperial Collapse Watch

Looks like Eldridge Colby, the arch Realist who literally wrote the book on containing China, and whom I believe wrote this, has made his assessment of US capabilities and the geostrategic balance of power, and decided that the US cannot realistically hold the line in the Western… https://t.co/sNyKDWPwml

— Collingwood 🇬🇧 (@admcollingwood) September 5, 2025

Important. Do click through:

This is actually a point I’ve been meaning to make for a while.

Reform of the US Army: The Infantry Brain Drain

The US Army’s “line” infantry units are in practice fourth-rate formations that have been systematically stripped of talented personnel.⬇️

How is this? Well, it’s… https://t.co/jOIgdvReXJ pic.twitter.com/VjevOvJQvo

— Armchair Warlord (@ArmchairW) September 6, 2025

Xi-Modi-Putin economic axis hardens as Trump tariffs backfire Asia Times (Kevin W)

Siberia? The LNG Revolution? Julian Macfarlane

The myth of central bank independence Thomas Fazi. The part that Fazi omits is that at least in the US, Congress has long been happy to allow the Fed to engage in mission creeps so they could avoid blame for bad economic outcomes.

Trump 2.0

More Winning: Trump Bombs Ship Smuggling 30,000 Kilos Of Pumpkin Spice Babylon Bee. When you’ve lost The Bee…

RFK Jr. can’t answer the most basic questions on COVID deaths or Medicare costs, but he’s ready to push junk science and hire frauds to do it. pic.twitter.com/0GFiu916t4

— BreakThrough News (@BTnewsroom) September 4, 2025

GOP senators signal to Trump that Kennedy is on thin ice The Hill. Wake me when this gets to be more than a wet noodle lashing. But…..

RFK Jr Is Suddenly in Real Trouble Futurism

Tariffs

We’re not even 5 months past Liberation Day and already:

– Job market has completely collapsed.– We are in a recession.– Inflation is surging. – Our exports are collapsing as the world is boycotting us.– We don’t have a single actual trade deal in effect.

Why did we do this…

— Spencer Hakimian (@SpencerHakimian) September 5, 2025

John Deere, a U.S. Icon, Is Undermined by Tariffs and Struggling Farmers New York Times (Chuck L)

Immigration

Judge blocks Trump administration’s ending of legal protections for 1.1M Venezuelans and Haitians Associated Press (Kevin W)

L’affaire Epstein

BREAKING: Rep. Thomas Massie just dropped a bomb.

He named one of the billionaires in Epstein’s black book, John Paulson.

Paulson isn’t just some rich guy. He’s a major GOP donor, pumping money into the Republican Party, the Speaker of the House, and Trump’s campaign. And… pic.twitter.com/9lHn39gVx9

— Mario (@PawlowskiMario) September 4, 2025

DOJ responds to official’s Epstein comments in hidden-camera video The Hill

Mamdani

Trump’s deadline to thin NYC mayoral race field in bid to stop Zohran Mamdani New York Post

Adams Considers Dropping Out of Race After Secret Meeting in Florida New York Times

Eric Adams eyed by Trump for Saudi Arabia ambassadorship Politico

Winning isn’t the Democratic Party’s goal, winning without the left is. Until that changes, get ready for a lot more losing https://t.co/rmRsWj3glZ

— Stephen Semler (@stephensemler) September 4, 2025

Economy

Supply Chain Risks from Geopolitical Conflict. Procurement Magazine

Antitrust

EU Slaps Google with $3.5 Billion Antitrust Fine: A Breakthrough Ruling DevDiscourse

The tech antitrust renaissance may already be over The Verge

Salesforce just announced it cut 4,000 customer support jobs… and Marc Benioff is saying it’s because of AI. Joe Sirianni (Micael T)

The Bezzle

Writing Workshops Are Fucking Useless The Republic of Letters (Micael T)

Guillotine Watch

Tesla proposes Elon Musk pay package that could make him the world’s first trillionaire CNN (Kevin W)

Musk invokes “rape of Europe” in anti-immigrant rant Musk Watch

Class Warfare

Age of Invention: The Century-Long Depression Anton Howes. Important even though a historical example.

Under Trump, the Federal Trade Commission is abandoning its ban on noncompetes NPR (Kevin W)

Antidote du jour (via):

And a bonus (Chuck L). Clearly a smart and sensitive primate:

A rare close-up of the elusive Golden Langur, one of the only known primates that actively avoids humans pic.twitter.com/cdnpqMntjR

— Nature is Amazing ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) September 4, 2025

A second bonus (Chuck L):