Where Do Aspiring Actors Go to Cure Burnout? Clown School. Wall Street Journal (Micael T) A Dream and a Passion: Mendelssohn’s Revival of a Bach Masterpiece Chamber Music Society (Micael T) Call for ‘national treasure’ protections to cover natural history specimens Museum Association (Micael T) How Did the Alps Develop Their Own Architecture? Architecture and Tradition (Micael T) Your dislike of eating bugs may be 9,000 years old Science Daily (Kevin W) When Your Partner Ignores the Collapse Collapse 2050 Climate/Environment The ‘Asian water tower’ is starting to wobble, computer simulations show South China Morning Post (guurst) The Velocity Hazard – Why the Rate of Warming Trumps Absolute Temperature Thresholds Climate Uncovered Scientists find a huge hidden ice reservoir beneath Utah’s mountains Science Daily (Kevin W) The Vibrations from Hell Ogredragon Nepal Nepal warns of new flood risk as hard-hit border region turns to ‘swampland’ BBC Nepal-Tibet floods: number of missing climbs to nearly 3,000 as search for survivors enters fourth day – latest updates Guardian
China? China has caught up in space. And that changes everything, everywhere. Kevin Walmsley China’s super-rich fled Singapore. Now they want to come back CNBC Hilarity, unease and relief: games show China is not over the finish line in humanoid robot race Guardian Africa How did a British, Rothschilds banker end up running South Africa? Part 1 Political Economist O Canada Florida tourism dips as Canadian visitors drop 14% NewsNation South of the Border Financial subjugation of Venezuela Venezuelanalysis US secures majority control of 65B barrels of Venezuelan oil: Trump Anadolu Agency
Venezuela anuncia un histórico acuerdo con el Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, que tendrá un impacto significativo en el renacimiento de nuestra nación. pic.twitter.com/aIogqZOVA4 — Delcy Rodríguez (@delcyrodriguezv) August 29, 2026 European Disunion Expensive gas is dragging Europe into stagflation.Vzglayd via machine translation Be sure to click thorough to read the full tweet:
The Ghosts of Boshirov and Petrov Haunt Europe The Telegraph is raising the alarm: Moscow has opened a branch in the EU to deal with "hot spots." According to Western intelligence, the GRU (Russian military intelligence) no longer bothers its officers with English architecture.… pic.twitter.com/qQeEFXAZvB — 🇷🇺 STANISLAV KRAPIVNIK 🇷🇺 (@STANISKRAPIVNIK) August 23, 2026 Iceland deeply divided as islanders vote on EU Euronews Old Blighty The race to stop England running out of water BBC
‼️‼️🇺🇸🇬🇧🇫🇰🇦🇷 BIG | Washington is reportedly turning even the Falkland Islands into leverage in its campaign to force European allies to rearm faster, warning London that continued U.S. diplomatic backing may no longer be taken for granted if Britain fails to spend more on… pic.twitter.com/MVLJatUZrr — Visioner (@visionergeo) August 28, 2026 Israel v. The Resistance Democratic senators demand Israeli government halt West Bank settlement expansion plans The Hill Amb. Chas Freeman: Crumbling on All Sides: The Staggering Reality of Israel’s Multi-Front War Dialogue Works. One can hope.
Stark accusations of “engineering scarcity” and silencing humanitarian work Athena Rayburn, Executive Director of the Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA), told the UN Security Council that Israel was deliberately engineering scarcity in the Gaza Strip and… pic.twitter.com/R8Xp5lVw3f — Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده (@RamAbdu) August 28, 2026 Iran War Trump’s ‘economic D-Day’ against Iran is doomed to failure Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph (Robin K) Iran transfers $7.5B in oil revenues to central bank despite US naval blockade: Report Anadolu Agency Bessent targets banks in UAE over Iran ties Politico
Vali Nasr told The Telegraph that Iran’s real demand is much narrower than some of its public rhetoric: Tehran wants Washington to implement the June MOU, including the Iran-Oman mechanism for managing Hormuz and the release of frozen Iranian assets. Qatar could be central to… pic.twitter.com/FatPh6uuxb — Drop Site (@DropSiteNews) August 29, 2026
Russia says it can now attack UK bases anywhere. If Russia strikes both Akrotiri and Diego Garcia Airbases it would end armaments to Israel and resupply to USN fleets on the Gulf Embargo. Russia could end two genocides, open Hormuz, and save the global economy from economic… https://t.co/zuaji6xy6w — Kathleen Tyson (@Kathleen_Tyson_) August 28, 2026
US Hormuz demining operation resulted in only 11 mines being swept More than 200 mine-like objects were swept from the main lane, according to Axios, citing US officials. However, only 11 were actual mines. President Trump announced this week that the US had cleared the Strait… pic.twitter.com/0oLkYfBfzF — Sputnik (@SputnikInt) August 29, 2026 Iran Just Hit America’s “Safe” Haven | Photo Evidence Daily Mail, YouTube. Damage to Jordan bases Turkiye Mecca Agreement gives Turkey new leverage and risk in equal measure Middle East Eye New Not-So-Cold War CIA chief’s Moscow trip is a frightening signal Aftonbladet via machine translation. Micael T: EU tragicomedy. This one is hilarious thanks to its complete absence of cause-consequence analysis. It is also deeply tragedic because it doesn’t lay out the cause-consequence of the war and therefore blames Putler for everything. Billions and weapons from Sweden to Ukraine to kill Russians have nothing to do with it. Eight Hours in Moscow: What History Tells Us About CIA Director Ratcliffe’s Secret Mission Kautilya Why Russia Is Winning Sonar21 UKRAINE FEARS RUSSIA IS ABOUT TO DO ANOTHER INCURSION FROM NORTH – w/ Andrei Martianov YouTube Russia’s New Iskander-1000 Extended Range Ballistic Missile Sees First Ever Combat Test Military Watch Germany plans rapid-response task force to counter hybrid threats in Baltic Sea Anadolu Agency Four EU foreign ministers reopen the fight over Russia’s €210bn BNE Sweden will radically change its espionage methods in Russia Vzglayd via machine translation (Micael T) Big Brother is Watching You Watch Ring Says New Encryption Limits What It Can Give Police The Verge T.S.A. Abruptly Scraps Its New Private-Security Model New York Times (Kevin W) Imperial Collapse Watch Iran War Expert: “They Want America to Destroy Itself!” Young Men Will Be Trapped | Robert Pape YouTube. resilc: “Start 1:46:20 violent populism.” I started at about 1:30:00 and found the runup informative. The Fall Of The Religion Of Progress John Michael Greer (Chuck L) John Mearsheimer: Russia & Iran – The West’s Escalation Trap Glenn Diesen Another Needless Casualty of War… RIP Nigel Larry Johnson Trump 2.0 Donald Trump Puts Himself as Greatest President Ever Newsweek (resilc) Corporate America Cut Big Checks to Trump. Now CEOs Fear Subpoenas Are Coming. Wall Street Journal Hegseth Blocks Promotions of Four Army Officers as Purge Widens New York Times. Not paywalled. Trump Postal Service board nominees held up by Republican senator over mail delay concerns The Hill Judge rejects Trump’s newest bid to fight hush money conviction in federal court CNN Trump Truth Social post on Lake America Truth Social (Kevin W) Tariffs Trump is writing a most favored nation clause that nobody signed The Hill (Kevin W) US Considers Fresh Round of Tariffs On Semiconductors CNBC Immigration Milo Yiannopoulos, a Right-Wing Provocateur, Is Arrested by ICE New York Times (Robin K) GOP Clown Car NBC NEWS EXCLUSIVE: PETE HEGSETH IS TALKING ABOUT A POSSIBLE RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2028, SOURCES SAY NBC (resilc) Grand Jury Says DeSantis “Misused” $10 Million in Medicaid Funds New Republic (resilc) Our No Longer Free Press One question, Ms. Fahimi: Does the union still stand by press freedom? Multipolar via machine translation (Micael T) US ‘Terror’ Label on Palestine Action Threatens Speech Consortium News Economy How the Strategic Petroleum Reserve Works Brian Potter (Micael T) US diesel inventory normally builds into the 2nd week of September then plunges during harvest season. Not this year. Reddit Financialization of Farmland: How Farmers Are Staying Afloat as Crop Prices Plunge New York Times (resilc) Mr. Market is Moody Hawkish Kevin Warsh hints Fed will raise rates if inflation does not fall soon Financial Times Expect a Fed Rate Hike. Odds Jump to 60 Percent on Warsh’s Speech Michael Shedlock Warsh Speaks, Treasury Yields Jump, 6-Month to 3-Year Treasury Yields Spike Wolf Richter AI Bill Gates Declares An AI Pandemic Jordan Schachtel How to spot AI writing Economist. I rarely use dashes but they have always been em-dashes. A dash is not a hyphen. How Much of the Internet Is Written With AI? Pew Research How Meta’s Plan To Replace Workers With AI Agents Fell Apart Reuters 5 lessons from the OpenAI / Hugging Face incident Gary Marcus and Zack Korman Class Warfare The Thesis of Political Capitalism The Ideas Letter (Chuck L) Man sets himself on fire in lobby of Google office building in Lower Manhattan New York Post (resilc) Buying a used car? For many employees, that’s only possible with a loan.Nachdenkseiten via machine translation (Micael T) Citadel Imposes Two-Year Non-Competes Even on Some Analysts Bloomberg (Micael T) The Culture of Repair Already Exists. It Just Wasn’t Funded Non-Profit Quarterly Why Americans are not working Flowing Data Antidote du jour (via): And a bonus:
😃😍😂A male gorilla tries his best to reconcile with his angry wife. pic.twitter.com/amoaOeBKYm — Amazing Nature (@AmazingNature00) August 27, 2026 A second bonus:
A dog wants to play with the small rodent, who is determined not to be distracted from its work. pic.twitter.com/U8vgR3pBDW — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 26, 2026 And a third:
Corvids are among the most playful animals. This is a raven playing in the snow with a human. pic.twitter.com/v6McEKpali — Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) August 26, 2026 See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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