NBC News brings a newborn calf struggling in the frigid temperatures indoors and curls up on the couch. photograph.
Urban expansion in the liberal era in progress
Climate/Environment
Historic snowstorm in eastern North Carolina, with localized snowfall of nearly 20 inches along the coast Balanced weather
Overshoot: The world is reaching the point of no return with climate change Yale University Environment 360
The biomass industry promised prosperity for these southern towns. So why are they still dying? grist
pandemic
Hotel experiment suggests air mixing is effective in suppressing influenza infections CIDRAP
Japan
Japanese traffic mirror Beyond The Frame
China?
President Xi calls for yuan to achieve world reserve currency status FT
23 Ways You’re Already Living the Chinese Century Wired (Resilc)
CK Hutchison faces limited legal options after Panama revokes port rights: expert South China Morning Post
syrakistan
How Prime Minister Netanyahu is sabotaging the second phase of Gaza ceasefire +972 Magazine
Israel wants US to attack Iran, but Trump supports tough diplomacy: Report TRT World
Two explosions kill 4 in southern Iran, denying rumors of Revolutionary Guards assassination Intellinews
Amid rising tensions in the US, joint naval exercises with Iran, China and Russia to be held TRT World
Africa
Kenya’s first chipmaker gets caught in superpower crossfire The Continent
discord in europe
Analysis: Europe’s $955 billion recovery fund struggles with economic transformation Reuters
I just heard Peter Thiel whine about how difficult it is to have big companies in Europe and how everyone wants to sell and go on vacation. I’m glad that Europe exists as an antidote to the rat race that is the United States. I really love that life here is slow and doesn’t cost a lot…
— Elnathan John (@elnathan_john) January 29, 2026
Irish Defense Minister confirms plans to end Ireland’s neutrality The Canary
As Europe rearms, ‘Made in India’ is entering the EU’s defense equation Euractiv
I have spent most of my life in the free trade paradise of China Article
Italian church restoration investigates DW of Meloni’s angel look-alike
A new war that’s not so cold war
Let me be clear: Dmitriev is a representative of the oligarchic faction.
Secondly, such negotiations should be conducted by the FM and not by representatives of dubious oligarchies.
Thirdly, if you see it as a good sign, I see it as the exact opposite.
— Dagny Taggart (@DagnyTaggart963) February 1, 2026
Ukraine suffers unprecedented nationwide power outage due to unstable Edge Simplicius grid
Ukraine faces increasing pressure on IMF repayments as February deadline approaches Intellinews
Ukrainian Cowbell by Delusional British Colonel Larry Johnson
Silicon Murder Valley Events in Ukraine
Is it time to replace NATO with EATO?Ian Proud
great game
Kazakhstan: Anti-China demonstrators face possible long prison terms after violent protests Eurasianet
south of the border
Venezuela: Delcy Rodriguez government capitulates to Trump dictator, but Chavismo masses oppose destruction of sovereignty and resist corporate capture of Venezuelan resources – Part 1 Backflow
Camilo Torres reappears on TeleSUR and Colombia faces its past
Lafaire Epstein
Epstein’s lawyers discussed the possibility of cooperating with prosecutors in the days before his death, Guardian documents reveal.
Epstein’s files provide further evidence that Jeffrey Epstein was a Mossad agent. dissident
‘The leaders want your help’: Indian billionaire wiretapped Jeffrey Epstein ahead of PM Modi’s visit to US and Israel
🚨🚨🚨🚨The attached email is the most shocking email I’ve ever seen in Epstein’s release and I’ve never seen anyone talking about it.
“Another serious incident has occurred since an American shot and killed a judge in a child prostitution case here.”
Sorry, what do you mean? … pic.twitter.com/Xrxr8q5W1G
—ColonelTowner-Watkins (@ColonelTowner) February 1, 2026
The Mexican-born model ran away from Epstein’s party in 2009 screaming, “They were eating people!”
It doesn’t seem that crazy anymore. But no one has seen 21-year-old Gabriela Rico Jimenez since then. pic.twitter.com/7b0OzHb0xf
— Chay Bowes (@BowesChay) February 1, 2026
Learning that many of the victims of the Epstein regime’s sexual terrorism were orphaned and impoverished Eastern European girls is evidence, unfortunately, of the pedophile dens that were unleashed and facilitated during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Dissolution of the Soviet Union…
— Tameqqrant (@tizemtmarxism) January 31, 2026
President Trump’s assistant prosecutor declares review of Epstein documents “completed”, infuriates Democrats NOTUS
MAGA collapse
Democrat Taylor Lehmet secures Texas Senate seat red in surprising special election upset Texas Tribune
Deshabille Democratic Party
House Democrats’ opinions on DHS funding revealed on private Axios call
police state surveillance
Two CBP agents identified in ProPublica’s Alex Preti shooting
How hackers are fighting back against ICE Electronic Frontier Foundation (Resilc)
Private prisons are profiting from President Trump’s crackdown on ICE. A salon that has just started
How the Pentagon is secretly building Trump’s concentration camps Immigration Insider
Sources said the St. Peter police chief intervened and had federal agents release the residents. Another crazy video.
Wars Come Home
How the West’s wars turned liberal democracies into police states Middle East Eye
our famous free news agency
The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort were test cases. Egbert Off the Record
imperial collapse watch
International law was aimed at limiting the impact of wars that reached breaking point, study finds The Guardian
Goodbye dollar domination, hello global financial anarchy Noah Smith, Asia Times
health care?
This system is unsustainable M(is) coexisting with long COVID-19 infections
Mr. Market
‘Metal meltdown’ shakes up markets, causing gold, silver, Bitcoin and crude oil to fall – Business Live The Guardian
Why the catastrophe bond market is so hot right now CNBC
Kevin Warsh – Michael Roberts, Wall Street Man
“Liberation Day”
US container growth disappears as global trade flows ‘forward’ Bloomberg
economy
Wealth inequality also spills over into inflation.
New data from the Federal Reserve shows that low-income U.S. households now face higher inflation rates than higher-income households.
The bottom 40% of U.S. households experience an annual inflation rate of up to 3.1%.
Meanwhile, the middle 40% and top 20% think: pic.twitter.com/KIrl0BuMwd
— Kobeissi Letter (@KobeissiLetter) February 1, 2026
The human cost of the Warsh-Palantir economic framework makes world news
Boom Session: Why Americans Hate the Appearance of a Boom BIG By Matt Stoller
Farmers consider letting crops rot, conditions in Delta region New York Times
A.I.
Farmland in the crosshairs: Balancing energy expansion and agricultural progress
Due to a lack of resources, professional educators are using AI but have little knowledge about its effectiveness.
OpenClaw (aka Moltbot) is everywhere at once, waiting for disaster Gary Marcus
basil
Bitcoin falls below $80,000, signaling new confidence crisis Bloomberg
Emails reveal Epstein thought cryptocurrency pumps were unethical Gizmodo
fruit of anger ion
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