Haunting Audio Reveals The Spooky Sound of Earth’s Magnetic Field ScienceAlert
Light-analyzing ‘lab on a chip’ opens door to widespread use of portable spectrometers Phys.org
Requiem for a Telescope New York Times
Climate/Environment
Finding safe haven in the climate change future: The Northeast Yahoo
Why climate change matters for pandemic preparedness Nature
Water
Battle of the Alps? Water Woes Loom Amid Climate Change VOA
Majority of Hawaii elementary schools test positive for lead in drinking water Honolulu Star Advertiser
Mississippi governor extends Jackson water emergency order Clarion Ledger
#COVID-19
A single-nucleus and spatial transcriptomic atlas of the COVID-19 liver reveals topological, functional, and regenerative organ disruption in patients BioRXiv https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.27.514070v1
China Braces For Covid Wave As Foxconn Staff Flee Zhengzhou Asia Financial
Doctors know… we know when we are being given BS instructions… like don’t swab people in the waiting room, because if the result is positive we have to isolate them.
So why don’t we do something about it? https://t.co/DHHPy10sNY
— Noor Bari (@NjbBari3) October 31, 2022
Covid’s Tell-Tale Heart Easy Chair
Myanmar
The Long Strange Story of the (Disappearing) Railway from Myanmar to Southern China The Irrawaddy
Brasil Election
Lula’s victory in Brazil means leftists now lead Latin America’s seven largest nations by population and six largest by GDP. #PatriaGrande
🌎✊🏾✊🏽✊🏻✊🏿 pic.twitter.com/k1gGC8pW93
— Ald. Carlos Ramirez-Rosa ✶ (@CDRosa) October 30, 2022
a cool feeling is when a rare good thing happens in the world and it rules but also there’s a nontrivial possibility that thing will promptly be met with catastrophic backlash and extralegal repression and your ability to celebrate vies with justifiable dread
— inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended (@PatBlanchfield) October 30, 2022
India
India bridge collapse: More than 100 killed in Gujarat BBC (Furzy)
India’s ban on Chinese video games proves to be a double-edged sword FT
Syraqistan
IMF loan unlikely to save Tunisia’s economy Al-Monitor
Biden administration considers hindering military aid to Saudi Arabia in a ‘punishing’ response to it cutting oil production, report says Business Insider
Is US-Saudi row giving China a chance to expand its role in Middle East? SCMP
Old Blighty
No 10 alarm as Boris Johnson plans to attend Cop27 climate summit The Guardian (Kevin W)
Homelessness: Rough sleepers in London up by nearly a quarter BBC
Ukrainian refugees in UK face homelessness crisis as councils struggle to find hosts The Guardian
Consumers using new money tools to cope with cost of living, survey shows Evening Standard
China?
US chip ban de facto declaration of war on China? Asia Times (Kevin W)
US Air Force to deploy nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to Australia as tensions with China grow Abc
Home rents drop by 20 per cent in Shanghai as expats and wealthy mainlanders leave the city due to psychological scar left by a citywide lockdown SCMP
Chinese banks to pivot to high-tech borrowers in search for next growth engine S&P Global
The message from China’s party congress Indian Punchline (Kevin W)
Pentagon Warns U.S. That They Had Scary Dream About China The Onion
New Not-So-Cold War
I’ve spent the past couple weeks reading US press coverage of the Cuban missile crisis at the time and it’s hard to really articulate how extreme and unhinged today’s media discourse is by comparison, even as we similarly inch toward nuclear catastrophe.
— Branko Marcetic (@BMarchetich) October 25, 2022
The Official Narrative On Ukraine Caitlin Johnstone (Kevin W)
Ukraine says Iran’s help for Russia should push Israel out of neutral stance The Hill
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LNG ships play waiting game off Spain’s coast as higher prices eyed Reuters
Qatari Energy Minister: European Moves to Cap Gas Prices Are ‘Hypocritical’ to Bloc’s Past Rules Sputnik (Kevin W)
Oil and gas giants making record profits during Ukraine war ‘given unprecedented access to EU leaders’ The Independent
EU admits new cold war is not ‘democracy vs. autocracy’: ‘On our side, there are a lot of authoritarian regimes’ Multipolarista
2024
Election deniers should be disqualified from holding public office Nevada Independent
Imperial Collapse Watch
Guantanamo’s oldest inmate Saifullah Paracha freed after 19 years Al Jazeera (Mark: “Another proud day of empire…”) https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/29/oldest-guantanamo-bay-prisoner-released-to-pakistan-ministry
Here is our client Saifullah Paracha, formerly the oldest prisoner in Guantanamo Bay at 74yo, having a cup of tea in McDonalds in Karachi this morning. A belatedly happy day (he should never have been kidnapped & locked up 18 yrs ago)… @3DC_org @mahermark123 @dontspyonmeNYPD pic.twitter.com/tbe16vfcQb
— Clive Stafford Smith (@CliveSSmith) October 29, 2022
Realignment and Legitimacy
“I don’t know how to sugar coat this so I’ll just say it: It seems clear that the Democratic Party is over…You could drive a Bronco through the gap between [Obama’s] campaign promises & reality…”https://t.co/MO6rkPwL4V pic.twitter.com/yg1rsDmIC3
— Briahna Joy Gray (@briebriejoy) October 28, 2022
Democrats en déshabillé
CNN Exclusive: Suspect in Paul Pelosi attack had bag with zip ties, source says
And the post that drew so much attention due to some interesting questions and an Elon Musk deleted retweet: The Awful Truth: Paul Pelosi Was Drunk Again, And In a Dispute With a Male Prostitute Early Friday Morning Santa Monica Observer
Was Nixon’s Reelection Ted Kennedy’s Fault? Politico. Readers?
Obama Legacy
Looks like a small crowd:
“Stop nuclear war with Russia!”
Former US President Barack Obama’s speech is interrupted by anti-war protestors. pic.twitter.com/35ToiDlb3z
— MintPress News (@MintPressNews) October 30, 2022
Supply Chain/Inflation
Inflation And Recession: Where Are We Now? TalkMarkets
Blame Big Oil Heisenberg Report (Resilc) https://heisenbergreport.com/2022/10/28/blame-big-oil/
Our No Longer Free Press
Meet the New Boss…Same as the Old Boss Scott Ritter (Micael)
The blue ticks will be forced to choose between losing the badge and daily self-ownage.
How is this not genius? https://t.co/q0GCudSnvp
— Alice (@AliceFromQueens) October 31, 2022
Guillotine Watch
‘Criminalizing kindness’: US woman arrested for feeding homeless people sues The Guardian
Class Warfare
Job Markets Are Defying Central Bankers’ Efforts to Cool Demand Bloomberg
YOU LOVE TO SEE IT: Amazon’s Anti-Union Campaign Backfires The Lever
Zeitgeist Watch
Historic Drought Exposes Sunken Mississippi Riverboat Casino The Drive
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