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Italian police use tear gas and water cannons on protesters near Olympic Village LBC

Broken medals the talk of Winter Olympics rather than broken records DPA

Scientists were wrong for decades about DNA knots Science Daily (Kevin W). From Ignacio via e-mail:

I wouldn’t worry much about this. This is wonkish structural stuff with unknown biological significance if any. I don’t know if DNA passing through nanopores has any real significance to DNA physiology as they try to spin in the article. I was curious if it might include any discussion about natural “nanopores” such as plasmodesmata but it hasn’t. I don’t think this is any fundamental discovery though it might have some significance in nanopore sequencing procedures. Who knows.

#COVID-19/Pandemics

Why covid-19 is “a vascular disease masquerading as a respiratory one” BMJ

Climate/Environment

US transformers are ageing. Renewable energy could make things worse, China study finds South China Morning Post (guurst)

From orcas to water shortages: nature in a changing climate DW

The water wars are coming This finite resource will define the century Unherd

Saving the ozone layer has ‘polluted Earth with forever chemicals’ The Times

China?

China’s future growth rate could drop to 2.5% without market reforms: economist South China Morning Post

China Urges Banks to Curb Exposure to US Treasuries Bloomberg. Being distorted in a lot of alternative media reports. The summary:

  • Chinese regulators have advised financial institutions to rein in their holdings of US Treasuries, citing concerns over concentration risks and market volatility.
  • Officials urged banks to limit purchases of US government bonds and instructed those with high exposure to pare down their positions, but the directive doesn’t apply to China’s state holdings of US Treasuries.
  • The move was framed around diversifying market risk rather than anything to do with geopolitical maneuvering or a fundamental loss of confidence in US creditworthiness.

    • China’s Belt and Road meets its security test in Pakistan Asia Times (Kevin W)

    Beijing Blatantly Violates International Law in South China Sea Irrawaddy

    Why and how is the Western media lying about Jimmy Lai? Reports on China, YouTube. Awfully screechy in its denigration of the Hong Kong protests. Still useful to hear the arguments from the Chinese side. But PlutoniumKun notes by e-mail:

    I haven’t been following the story in detail. I’m sceptical that he did receive money from outside HK – he is independently very wealthy and the newspaper seems to have been a genuine personal passion. I doubt he was unaware that it made him a target, but possibly thought his British citizenship protected him. Even if he was arrogant enough to think he was protected, I doubt that he would have been foolish enough to leave himself open to this kind of charge.

    He also seems to have made a lot of enemies in business – even by local standards he was particularly aggressive and doesn’t seem to have been too concerned with local gentlemans agreements over market carve-ups.

    It would be in line with normal practice for Beijing to specifically target those who thought they were too big to bring down – ‘killing the chicken to scare the monkeys’. Most Chinese think of HKers as being arrogant and full of themselves, so taking down prominent HK figures is not unpopular. In many ways, he is the perfect target for a high profile decapitation.

    Japan

    Japan’s dangerous game with China LE MONDE diplomatique

    Japan election: from stagnation to stagflation CADTM (Michael T)

    O Canada

    South of the Border

    EXCLUSIVE: Marco Rubio Is Deliberately Blocking Trump From Cuba Talks Drop Site (Chuck L, Kevin W)

    Acting President of Venezuela Meets With Representatives of Repsol and Maurel & Prom to Discuss Investments in Oil Sector Orinoco Tribune (Robin K)

    European Disunion

    Europe’s Triumvirate of Lame Stooges Faces Moment of Truth Simplicius

    The sham debate about European nuclear weapons Overton via machine translation (Micael T)

    ‘EU countries should refrain from joint debt,’ MEP Terras says Euronews

    Far right tightens grip on EU migration policy Euractiv

    The cunning “rule of law” Overton via machine translation (Micael T)

    Greenland, sine ira et studio egyppius (Micael T). Confirms something I have been curious about, that no Greenland deal has been consummated.

    More and more people are being evicted – here are the biggest problems: “Have many empty apartments” Hem&Hyra via machine translation (resilc)

    Old Blighty

    The truth about Morgan McSweeney is worse than you think Council Estate Media

    Cabinet ministers back Starmer as Scottish Labour leader calls for PM to quit BBC. What is wrong with these people? Or will it take the backbenchers to bring him down?

    Streeting accused of No 10 coup Telegraph

    £99,987 and counting: graduates trapped by ballooning student loans Guardian

    Israel v. the Resistance

    Netanyahu BLACKMAILING Trump Over Iran Using Epstein Files- Ex-Israeli Intel Officer Ari Ben-Menashe Afshin Rattansi Going Underground, YouTube (fk). Important. If Trump is so self-destructive as to attack Iran despite his strong preference for short and decisive-looking interventions, IMHO it will be due to the combination of the unwarranted Israeli overconfidence we discussed yesterday and Israel holding and threatening to expose some serious kompromat.

    Larry Johnson: Decision Has Been Made to Attack Iran Glenn Diesen, YouTube

    Political Islam… Where To? Valdai Club (Micael T)

    New Not-So-Cold War

    Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with TV BRICS international media network, Moscow, February 9, 2026 International Affairs (Micael T)

    Russia’s Trust in Trump and the US is Fading Fast Larry Johnson. Discussion of the very pointed Lavrov interviews.

    UK troops operating on the ground in Ukraine -Moscow Global GeoPolitics

    Ukrainian nationalism Overton via machine translation (Micael T)

    Ukraine and Poland are behind the assassination attempt on General Alekseev Vzglyad via machine translation. Michael T: “Maybe it is time to divide Poland again so they learn to not FA unless they really want to FO.”

    Imperial Collapse Watch

    To Remember in America London Review of Books (guurst). Important.

    UK and US sink to new lows in global index of corruption Guardian

    What’s Causing America’s Imperial Decline? Un-Diplomatic

    America’s Self-Defeating National Defense Strategy Near Eastern Outlook. Micael T: “He assumes that the misleadership and MIC cares about the country and nation USA. They don’t. They care only about the oligarchy and the profits. For this purpose the strategy is possibly a good one.”

    Changes and Continuities in the U.S. National Security Strategy by NI Feng China Affairs

    Let’s all get a bomb! Julian Macfarlane

    Trump 2.0

    ‘Trump Administration Asserts Ambition To Dominate Energy Sector’ Moon of Alabama (Kevin W)

    ‘Impossible’: Taiwan pushes back against Washington’s 40% chip supply relocation goal CNBC

    How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants Popular Information

    ICE Rampage

    The Children of Dilley ProPublica

    Epstein

    FBI found no evidence of Epstein sex-trafficking network – AP RT (Kevin W)

    WATCH: Ro Khanna Reacts After Seeing the ‘Unredacted’ Epstein Files Zeteo

    Why Do the Epstein Files Matter? An Expert on the Elites Explains Why Medhi Hasan

    Maxwell pleads the Fifth in House deposition on Epstein files The Hill

    FILES: Epstein Death Notice DRAFTED 1 Day Early Breaking Points, YouTube

    Democrats Suck

    The ‘Defensive Crouch’ Never Dies Daniel Larison

    Our No Longer Free Press

    ‘Devastated and exhausted’: Washington Post looks to life after Will Lewis Financial Times

    It Was Just a Halftime Show. The Meltdown Reveals How Dumb We’ve Become. Mediaite (resilc)

    New Mexico lawsuit accuses Meta of failing to protect children from sexual exploitation online Associated Press

    Economy

    Why Inflation May Be About to Come in Hot Wall Street Journal

    The Deliberate Deception in Ricardo’s Defence of Comparative Advantage Steve Keen (Micael T)

    AI

    Reliability of LLMs as medical assistants for the general public: a randomized preregistered study Nature (Kevin W)

    The Bezzle

    Alphabet lines up 100-year sterling bond sale Financial Times. Lead story. Anyone who buys this maturity is a moron unless they plan to sell pretty soon. GE and AIG were both AAA credits as late as 2005.

    Diesel – Tesla’s new way of charging stations Aftonbladet via machine translation (guurst)

    Class Warfare

    When the Oligarchs Don’t Need You Anymore Kathleen Wallace (resilc)

    Antidote du jour. Mark T: “African Fish Eagle. Taken near Satara Camp in Kruger National Park.”

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    See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.

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