Italian police use tear gasoline and water cannons on protesters close to Olympic Village LBC
Damaged medals the speak of Winter Olympics reasonably than damaged data DPA
Scientists had been flawed for many years about DNA knots Science Day by day (Kevin W). From Ignacio through e-mail:
I wouldn’t fear a lot about this. That is wonkish structural stuff with unknown organic significance if any. I don’t know if DNA passing by nanopores has any actual significance to DNA physiology as they attempt to spin within the article. I used to be curious if it’d embody any dialogue about pure “nanopores” corresponding to plasmodesmata however it hasn’t. I don’t suppose that is any elementary discovery although it might need some significance in nanopore sequencing procedures. Who is aware of.
#COVID-19/Pandemics
Why covid-19 is “a vascular illness masquerading as a respiratory one” BMJ
Covid is airborne.
Vax and calm down failed.
Repeat covid infections trigger cumulative hurt.
That is why Olympic coaches and athletes are sporting masks. pic.twitter.com/907rEy4Uf6
— tern (@1goodtern) February 9, 2026
Extra on the measles and encephalitis.
BECAUSE THAT’S A NORMAL THING TO HAVE TO DISCUSS URGENTLY IN 2026. 🙃 pic.twitter.com/lUKXnGLpPN
— Dr. Annie Andrews (@AnnieAndrewsMD) February 7, 2026
Local weather/Setting
US transformers are ageing. Renewable vitality may make issues worse, China research finds South China Morning Put up (guurst)
Breaking Information!
Y-axis alert!For the primary time on file, the 3-year working common for the imply fee of atmospheric CO2 progress broke 8.00 ppm per 3 years, reaching a brand new file excessive progress fee of 8.06 ppm per 3 years.
And that dip within the early 1990’s was Mt. Pinatubo. pic.twitter.com/WcXp02p1yL
— Prof. Eliot Jacobson (@EliotJacobson) February 5, 2026
From orcas to water shortages: nature in a altering local weather DW
The water wars are coming This finite useful resource will outline the century Unherd
Saving the ozone layer has ‘polluted Earth with ceaselessly chemical compounds’ The Occasions
China?
China’s future progress fee may drop to 2.5% with out market reforms: economist South China Morning Put up
China Urges Banks to Curb Publicity to US Treasuries Bloomberg. Being distorted in plenty of different media studies. The abstract:
Chinese language regulators have suggested monetary establishments to rein of their holdings of US Treasuries, citing considerations over focus dangers and market volatility. Officers urged banks to restrict purchases of US authorities bonds and instructed these with excessive publicity to pare down their positions, however the directive doesn’t apply to China’s state holdings of US Treasuries. The transfer was framed round diversifying market danger reasonably than something to do with geopolitical maneuvering or a elementary lack of confidence in US creditworthiness. China’s Belt and Highway meets its safety check in Pakistan Asia Occasions (Kevin W)
Beijing Blatantly Violates Worldwide Regulation in South China Sea Irrawaddy
Why and the way is the Western media mendacity about Jimmy Lai? Reviews on China, YouTube. Awfully screechy in its denigration of the Hong Kong protests. Nonetheless helpful to listen to the arguments from the Chinese language aspect. However PlutoniumKun notes by e-mail:
I haven’t been following the story intimately. I’m sceptical that he did obtain cash from exterior HK – he’s independently very rich and the newspaper appears to have been a real private ardour. I doubt he was unaware that it made him a goal, however probably thought his British citizenship protected him. Even when he was conceited sufficient to suppose he was protected, I doubt that he would have been silly sufficient to depart himself open to this sort of cost.
He additionally appears to have made plenty of enemies in enterprise – even by native requirements he was notably aggressive and doesn’t appear to have been too involved with native gentlemans agreements over market carve-ups.
It could be in step with regular follow for Beijing to particularly goal those that thought they had been too huge to carry down – ‘killing the hen to scare the monkeys’. Most Chinese language consider HKers as being conceited and filled with themselves, so taking down outstanding HK figures isn’t unpopular. In some ways, he’s the right goal for a excessive profile decapitation.
Japan
Japan’s harmful sport with China LE MONDE diplomatique
Japan election: from stagnation to stagflation CADTM (Michael T)
O Canada
Trump blocks US-Canada bridge, calls for half possession
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US President Donald Trump stated he’ll block the opening of a bridge linking Michigan and Ontario until Canada agrees to grant the US not less than half possession of the construction, arguing that Washington has not been “totally… pic.twitter.com/PitszJR0FM— The Cradle (@TheCradleMedia) February 10, 2026
South of the Border
EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Intentionally Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks Drop Website (Chuck L, Kevin W)
Performing President of Venezuela Meets With Representatives of Repsol and Maurel & Promenade to Focus on Investments in Oil Sector Orinoco Tribune (Robin Okay)
European Disunion
Europe’s Triumvirate of Lame Stooges Faces Second of Reality Simplicius
The sham debate about European nuclear weapons Overton through machine translation (Micael T)
‘EU international locations ought to chorus from joint debt,’ MEP Terras says Euronews
Far proper tightens grip on EU migration coverage Euractiv
The crafty “rule of legislation” Overton through machine translation (Micael T)
Greenland, sine ira et studio egyppius (Micael T). Confirms one thing I’ve been interested in, that no Greenland deal has been consummated.
Increasingly more individuals are being evicted – listed below are the most important issues: “Have many empty residences” Hem&Hyra through machine translation (resilc)
Outdated Blighty
The reality about Morgan McSweeney is worse than you suppose Council Property Media
Cupboard ministers again Starmer as Scottish Labour chief requires PM to give up BBC. What’s flawed with these folks? Or will it take the backbenchers to carry him down?
Streeting accused of No 10 coup Telegraph
£99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning scholar loans Guardian
Israel v. the Resistance
Breaking: A harmful escalation and one other blow to Palestinian presence.
Israel’s Cupboard accepted modifications to land registration within the West Financial institution, permitting demolition of Palestinian-owned properties and enabling expanded settlement building throughout the occupied territory. pic.twitter.com/Dy1W82pFHp
— Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) February 8, 2026
Netanyahu BLACKMAILING Trump Over Iran Utilizing Epstein Recordsdata- Ex-Israeli Intel Officer Ari Ben-Menashe Afshin Rattansi Going Underground, YouTube (fk). Essential. If Trump is so self-destructive as to assault Iran regardless of his robust choice for brief and decisive-looking interventions, IMHO it will likely be as a result of mixture of the unwarranted Israeli overconfidence we mentioned yesterday and Israel holding and threatening to show some severe kompromat.
Larry Johnson: Choice Has Been Made to Assault Iran Glenn Diesen, YouTube
Political Islam… The place To? Valdai Membership (Micael T)
New Not-So-Chilly Conflict
Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TV BRICS worldwide media community, Moscow, February 9, 2026 Worldwide Affairs (Micael T)
Russia’s Belief in Trump and the US is Fading Quick Larry Johnson. Dialogue of the very pointed Lavrov interviews.
UK troops working on the bottom in Ukraine -Moscow International GeoPolitics
Ukrainian nationalism Overton through machine translation (Micael T)
Ukraine and Poland are behind the assassination try on Basic Alekseev Vzglyad through machine translation. Michael T: “Perhaps it’s time to divide Poland once more so that they study to not FA until they actually need to FO.”
Imperial Collapse Watch
To Keep in mind in America London Overview of Books (guurst). Essential.
UK and US sink to new lows in world index of corruption Guardian
What’s Inflicting America’s Imperial Decline? Un-Diplomatic
America’s Self-Defeating Nationwide Protection Technique Close to Japanese Outlook. Micael T: “He assumes that the misleadership and MIC cares concerning the nation and nation USA. They don’t. They care solely concerning the oligarchy and the earnings. For this objective the technique is probably a very good one.”
Adjustments and Continuities within the U.S. Nationwide Safety Technique by NI Feng China Affairs
Let’s all get a bomb! Julian Macfarlane
In 1874, in Trist v. Little one, the Supreme Court docket refused to implement a contract for lobbying companies, as in opposition to public coverage. Here’s what the Court docket stated, warning of a darkish future if cost for lobbying had been routine:
If any of the nice companies of the nation had been to rent…
— Tim Wu (@superwuster) February 8, 2026
Trump 2.0
‘Trump Administration Asserts Ambition To Dominate Vitality Sector’ Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)
How Trump is rigging immigration courts in opposition to Somali migrants Fashionable Data
ICE Rampage
The Youngsters of Dilley ProPublica
FBI discovered no proof of Epstein sex-trafficking community – AP RT (Kevin W)
WATCH: Ro Khanna Reacts After Seeing the ‘Unredacted’ Epstein Recordsdata Zeteo
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Kash Patel’s employees threatened Thomas Massie’s employees with legal investigations in the event that they continued talking up about Israel and the Epstein recordsdata. pic.twitter.com/9gr0WmRfbt
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) February 8, 2026
Why Do the Epstein Recordsdata Matter? An Knowledgeable on the Elites Explains Why Medhi Hasan
Maxwell pleads the Fifth in Home deposition on Epstein recordsdata The Hill
FILES: Epstein Dying Discover DRAFTED 1 Day Early Breaking Factors, YouTube
Democrats Suck
The ‘Defensive Crouch’ By no means Dies Daniel Larison
Our No Longer Free Press
‘Devastated and exhausted’: Washington Put up appears to be like to life after Will Lewis Monetary Occasions
Jeff Bezos fired greater than 300 folks and didn’t even prepare for them to get safely residence.
Staffers had been deserted in overseas international locations and conflict zones and are having to crowd supply to get residence.
One of many richest males on the planet left them behind. https://t.co/SqD7GckQTG
— Kelly (@broadwaybabyto) February 8, 2026
It Was Only a Halftime Present. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Develop into. Mediaite (resilc)
New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of failing to guard kids from sexual exploitation on-line Related Press
Economic system
Why Inflation Could Be About to Are available Sizzling Wall Avenue Journal
The Deliberate Deception in Ricardo’s Defence of Comparative Benefit Steve Eager (Micael T)
AI
Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for most people: a randomized preregistered research Nature (Kevin W)
🚨 BREAKING: Taiwan enacted its fundamental legislation on AI, which incorporates, amongst different modern provisions, detailed AI governance rules and LABOR RIGHTS for people who lose their jobs resulting from AI. Different international locations ought to take word:
In line with the legislation’s third article, the analysis… pic.twitter.com/oIIPhsX37g
— Luiza Jarovsky, PhD (@LuizaJarovsky) February 8, 2026
The Bezzle
Alphabet strains up 100-year sterling bond sale Monetary Occasions. Lead story. Anybody who buys this maturity is a moron until they plan to promote fairly quickly. GE and AIG had been each AAA credit as late as 2005.
Diesel – Tesla’s new manner of charging stations Aftonbladet through machine translation (guurst)
Class Warfare
When the Oligarchs Don’t Want You Anymore Kathleen Wallace (resilc)
Antidote du jour. Mark T: “African Fish Eagle. Taken close to Satara Camp in Kruger Nationwide Park.”
And a bonus:
Goat visitors jam.. 😅 pic.twitter.com/kA5bbiqsiX
— Buitengebieden (@buitengebieden) February 9, 2026
A second bonus:
She began smiling when she noticed these strawberries pic.twitter.com/HX68VeRjIT
— Nature is Superb ☘️ (@AMAZlNGNATURE) February 9, 2026
See yesterday’s Hyperlinks and Antidote du Jour right here.
