Joyful 2025!!! Hope yours is off to a very good begin.
Why Do We All Watch a Ball Drop to Have a good time the New 12 months? Vice
Individuals Are Sharing Subtly Bizarre Components Of Life In America, And Even As Somebody From The US, I’m Pondering Twice About Some Of These BuzzFeed (Kevin W)
Ants Carry out Higher As a Group Than People When Attempting to Resolve the ‘Piano Mover’s Puzzle’ Laughing Squid
A sensible, biomimetic, one-pot synthesis of firefly luciferin Nature (Micael T)
Lacking canine returns residence, rings doorbell BoingBoing
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Practically 1M chickens check constructive for chicken flu at Darke County egg producer Dayton Every day Information
Local weather/Surroundings
Science and realism’: Governments plan for doomsday local weather eventualities USA At present
World endures ‘decade of lethal warmth’ as 2024 caps hottest years on file Guardian
After a couple of days of La Niña induced aid, we’re again above pre-2023 every day file world Sea Floor Temperatures… https://t.co/yck98QPmgJ pic.twitter.com/Hyw0wpurHY
— Leon Simons (is okay) (@LeonSimons8) December 30, 2024
‘Inexperienced’ ferry emits extra CO2 than outdated diesel ship BBC
China?
Will China’s Huge Dam Mission Spark A Water Conflict With India? India At present
Chuck L courteously despatched the hyperlink for the article mentioned under: A New Sort of Political Celebration System That Has Grown Out of Chinese language Soil Qiushi:
Many individuals dismiss China as a one-party state however the actuality is definitely rather more nuanced than this.
As I’ve usually argued you can’t presumably perceive one thing – not to mention criticize it – when you do not additionally perceive it from the standpoint of those that defend it. Which means,…
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) December 31, 2024
Rupiah Intervention Reveals EM’s Sturdy-Greenback Headache Bloomberg
Koreas
South Korea poised to crash and burn in 2025 Asia Instances (Kevin W)
Africa
From Sudan to the Sahel, Conflict Spreads in Africa in 2024 Overseas Coverage
European Disunion
Ukraine to finish transit of Russian gasoline to EU BBC (Kevin W). In case you missed it.
Russia’s Gazprom stops gasoline provides to Europe through Ukraine as transit deal expires TASS (guurst)
EU prepares to launch vitality conflict The Duran, YouTube
Fuel buying and selling days in Europe finish at 08:00 Moscow time. By the point you learn this publish, the gasoline circulation could have already stopped.
Throughout buying and selling hours, gasoline costs in Europe rose to $536 per 1,000 cubic meters forward of the anticipated halt in Russian gasoline transit by Ukraine, 👇 pic.twitter.com/VqEYEtHcnq
— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) January 1, 2025
New French finance minister eyes 2025 deficit barely above 5% Reuters
Outdated Blighty
Starmer asks UK regulators for concepts to spice up progress BBC. Kill me now.
Keir Starmer vows to rebuild Britain as Labour did after second world conflict Guardian (Kevin W)
Retailers face collapse as prices rocket and Excessive St misery ranges soar 25% after Finances That is Cash
Local weather change will devastate worth of properties, warns Financial institution of England Telegraph
Israel v. The Resistance
Winter rains worsen horrors confronted by displaced Palestinians in Gaza Aljazeera
Rain, starvation, displacement below the specter of annihilation. Their properties pulverised. Israel blocking all fundamental survival provides. https://t.co/tli7v9aqxq
— Nicola Perugini (@PeruginiNic) January 1, 2025
In Gaza’s crowded tent camps, girls wrestle with a life stripped of privateness Impartial
* * * Hamas, Israel have reached an deadlock in hostage negotiations, Arab mediators inform WSJ Jerusalem Publish. Oddly not outstanding on the Journal’s web site.
Half of Iran’s industrial capability halted by vitality disaster Iran Worldwide
Iraq nonetheless negotiating with mediator to make sure Turkmen gasoline supply Iraqi Information
Syraqistan
Syria official’s feedback on girls spark uproar New Arab
Iran objects to Afghanistan’s development of Pashdan Dam on Harirud Tehran Instances
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
America Wants a Most Strain Technique in Ukraine Overseas Affairs. And I would love a pony.
Finland Finds Anchor Drag Marks Left by Tanker That Broke Cables Bloomberg
Sweden’s opposition desires NATO article invoked after cable break Euronews
The Greatness of the Russian Military: Actual outcomes of 2024 Marat Khairullin. Unabashedly partisan. I belief readers can low cost for that.
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🇺🇸💥🇺🇦💥🇷🇺‼️Elon Musk is the principle perpetrator for the defeat of Ukrainian forces within the Kursk area, Ukrainians declare‼️
Former colonel of the Safety Service of Ukraine (SBU), Oleg Starikov, in an interview with political analyst Mihail Karasev, analyzed intimately the explanations 👇 pic.twitter.com/gdiLG5PvrB
— Djole 🇷🇸 (@onlydjole) December 31, 2024
Massive Brother is Watching You Watch
Present Card Fraud Bruce Schneier
Imperial Collapse Watch
Center Powers Revisited: “Good Residents” of the World Majority Russia in International Affairs (Micael T). From a few months in the past. Nonetheless germane.
Who’d need to survive a nuclear conflict? Spectator
GOP Clown Automotive
Chip Roy on Johnson: ‘I don’t imagine he has the votes’ The Hill
At the least 10 killed, dozens injured as truck crashes into New Orleans crowd Aljazeera
Chief Justice Roberts condemns elected officers for intimidating judges The Hill (Kevin W)
Breaking: The lawsuit v Pfizer by TX Legal professional Normal, Ken Paxton is dismissed Sasha Latypova
Immigration
Li from Dec 31: “Bannon and Batya are dwell ranting proper now”:
Bannon: This system, from prime to backside, is a rip-off and a con. The employees right here below this program needs to be deported, identical to the 15 million we’ll begin deporting on the afternoon of January twentieth. Deport them now, and rent Americans with the identical ability set. pic.twitter.com/0Gw6iMYveJ
— Bannon’s WarRoom (@Bannons_WarRoom) December 30, 2024
Steve Bannon bashes Elon Musk and makes daring new demand as MAGA row over migrant visas escalates Every day Mail
Tech Giants Safe Work Visas For Tens Of Hundreds Of Foreigners Whereas Kicking Current Workers To The Curb Every day Caller
Our No Longer Free Press
Russia Slams EU for Blocking State Media on Telegram, Vows Retaliation Information Central
U.S. Pure Fuel Futures Soar Forward of Historic Chilly Entrance OilPrice (Kevin W)
The Depletion Paradox Pure Useful resource Market Insights. We reported a few years in the past, based mostly on skilled views then, that shale gasoline manufacturing would peak within the mid-later 2020s, and decline steadily for a couple of years, then instantly. It appears to be like like the height arrived early.
Workplace CMBS Delinquency Charge Spikes to a Document 11%, Blowing by the Monetary Disaster Peak Wolf Richter (Li)
Class Warfare
when did the Washington Publish rent Marie Antoinette as a columnist pic.twitter.com/FlyVZIDzJs
— Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein) December 31, 2024
US bank card defaults bounce to highest stage since 2010 Monetary Instances
Antidote du jour. Tracie H: “Feminine Mallard duck. She doesn’t need to get her eyes moist if she doesn’t should.”
And a bonus (Chuck L):
Somebody introduced an RC automotive to the canine park.. 😊 pic.twitter.com/SDprEFPFty
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) December 31, 2024
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
