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The day's news roundup + tonight's musical feature: Leroy Carr

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This evening's music features blues piano player and singer Leroy Carr. Enjoy!

^{Leroy Carr - (In The Evening) When The Sun Goes Down}

"There are two types of people: ardent anti-Zionists, and everyone who ignored the video footage coming out of Gaza from 2023 to 2025."

-- Caitlin Johnstone

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News and Opinion

Dissecting An “Antisemitism” Psyop

I recently watched a Sky News segment on the need to ban pro-Palestine marches which nicely illustrates the way the mass media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these demonstrations are causing antisemitic attacks.

Reporting on British prime minister Keir Starmer’s recent assertion that the “repeat nature” and “cumulative effect” of pro-Palestine marches may necessitate a ban on some protests following the Golders Green stabbing, reporter Mollie Malone repeatedly told the audience of Sky News that the marches are happening in the “context” of antisemitic incidents and “against the backdrop” of attacks on Jewish people.

There is no evidence whatsoever for the claim that pro-Palestine marches have anything at all to do with antisemitic attacks. But watch how this Sky News propagandist marries the two in the minds of her viewers by repeatedly mentioning them in the same breath and connecting them with words like “context” and “backdrop”.

“The prime minister has gone somewhat further than he has previously in discussing and commenting on how to approach and manage these protests which we’ve seen for a long time now, but clearly they now come against the backdrop of increased attacks on our Jewish communities, most recently of course on Wednesday where two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green,” Malone said.

Sir Keir Starmer has suggested some pro-Palestine marches could be stopped because of their impact on the UK's Jewish community.

Sky's @Mollie_Malone1 reports from north London

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Malone made the obligatory appeal to emotion by talking about the feelings of British Jews by saying that antisemitic attacks are “adding to fears among Jewish people,” and then said “it’s in that context that these pro-Palestine marches are being discussed.”

I could make the exact same type of argument to suggest that the faint humming sound from my refrigerator is causing the pain in my ankle. I could say I’m experiencing ankle soreness and the soreness is making my feelings feel very upset, and it is in this context and against this backdrop that the buzzing from the refrigerator is happening. At no point am I actually presenting evidence that the soreness in my ankle has anything to do with the faint buzzing sound; I’m just using fallacious associations and appeals to emotion to get you to think of them as having a causal relationship.

Malone uncritically quoted the UK’s Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation Jonathan Hall asserting on no basis whatsoever that pro-Palestine marches “incubate antisemitism,” then repeated the bogus hasbara talking point that the phrase “globalise the intifada” is “seen to incite violence towards Jewish people.”

“The context here is everything,” Malone concluded after a few moments of pro-Palestine activist rebuttals to provide the illusion of impartiality.

As the British political/media class have been doing for days when discussing the Golders Green stabbings, Malone neglects to mention that a third man who was not Jewish was also attacked in the same incident, and that the assailant had recently emerged from the care of a psychiatric hospital. You might think the perpetrator’s extensive history of mental health struggles combined with the fact that he did not solely target Jewish people would dissuade serious news reporters from framing this as an act motivated by hateful ideology, but British news media employees are not serious news reporters. They are propagandists.

This frenzied propaganda push to stomp out pro-Palestine protests across the western world has nothing to do with protecting Jewish people from antisemitic attacks. It’s about protecting the interests of Israel and the murderous western governments with whom it is aligned, and nothing else.

Prof. John Mearsheimer : More War Will Strengthen Iran

Trump threatens to blow Iran ‘off the face of the earth’ if it attacks US vessels

Donald Trump has threatened that Iran will be “blown off the face of the earth” if it attacks US vessels trying to reopen a route through the strait of Hormuz. The US launched an operation on Monday to help hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, dragging the region back to the brink of full-scale war.

Tehran sought to reassert its blockade on the strait, which is a vital waterway in global trade. While the US military claimed to have destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted both Iranian cruise missiles and drones, this was denied by Iran. Over 800 ships and roughly 20,000 crew members remain stranded in the region.

In an interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump described the ongoing US naval effort as “one of the greatest military maneuvers ever done”, and claimed that Iranian officials had been “far more malleable” in recent talks than before.

Addressing concerns about American weapons stockpiles, he told Fox News: “We have more weapons and ammunition at a much higher grade than we had before. We have the best equipment. We have stuff all over the world. We have these bases all over the world. They’re all stocked up with equipment. We can use all of that stuff, and we will, if we need it,” he added.

Trump’s threats against Iran echo remarks he made in April, when he warned that a “whole civilization will die” if Tehran failed to comply with his demands over the strait of Hormuz – comments that drew widespread domestic and international backlash.

Professor Pape REACTS: Hegseth Says 'Red, White Blue' DOME Over Hormuz Strait

Donald Trump sends warships to break Iran’s strait of Hormuz blockade

The US has launched Donald Trump’s operation to open a route through the strait of Hormuz for hundreds of ships trapped with their crews in the Gulf, in a move that brought the region back to the brink of full-scale war as Iran sought to reassert its blockade. The US operation, which got under way on Monday after being announced as “Project Freedom” by Trump on Sunday night on his social media site, dramatically raised the stakes in a conflict that had been in a month-long period of uneasy limbo.

Speaking hours after the operation began, the head of US Central Command, (Centcom), Adm Brad Cooper, said that US forces had destroyed six Iranian small boats and intercepted both Iranian cruise missiles and drones. He “strongly advised” Iranian forces to remain clear of US military assets in the region, which include guided-missile destroyers, more than 100 land- and sea-based aircraft, drones and 15,000 troops.

Iran swiftly denied the claim. On a day of successive claims and counter-claims, it also denied Centcom’s assertion that two US-flagged merchant vessels had “successfully transited” the strait, while US navy guided-missile destroyers had crossed in the opposite direction, travelling westwards, and had begun patrolling the Gulf. Late on Monday, the container shipping company Maersk said the Alliance Fairfax – a US-flagged vehicle carrier – exited the Gulf via the strait accompanied by US military assets.

Speaking at a press conference as the standoff became more volatile and dangerous, Trump downplayed tensions, saying Iran had “taken some shots” but had caused no harm apart from damage to a South Korean cargo vessel, which reported an unexplained explosion and fire. “Other than the South Korean Ship, there has been, at this moment, no damage going through the Strait,” Trump said on his Truth Social platform as oil prices jumped over the renewed hostilities.

Iran, where military central command had warned that any US naval vessel approaching the strait would be fired on, earlier claimed to have hit a US frigate in the area with two missiles. Late on Sunday, after Trump’s announcement, a tanker reported having been hit by “unknown projectiles”. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) later said an oil tanker operated by the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, the MV Barakah had come under Iranian drone attack off the coast of Oman. No one was injured, it said.

Aaron Maté : WaPo Columnist Advocates Assassinating Iran Negotiators

Escalating Attacks in Strait of Hormuz Risk Return to ‘Full-Blown War’

Iran on Monday launched missiles and drones at US military forces and merchant ships after President Donald Trump announced plans to help vessels navigate the Strait of Hormuz.

According to The Washington Post, the Iranian strikes “were carried out just after Central Command announced that two U.S.-flagged commercial vessels passed through the strait, the first known to have done so since the ceasefire, closely following the passage of two US destroyers.”

Maj. Gen. Ali Abdollahi, a senior Iranian commander, warned in a statement given to the Iranian Mehr News Agency that his country’s military “will attack any foreign force, particularly the US military, if it attempts to approach or enter the Strait of Hormuz.”

Trump responded to the Iranian attacks by once again threatening to carry out war crimes, telling Fox News’ Trey Yingst that Iran will “be blown off the face of the Earth” if it attacks US military ships.

Trump’s latest threat comes just over a month after the president delivered an openly genocidal threat against Iran, warning that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again,” if Iran’s leaders didn’t give into his demands.

Amid the resumption of hostilities, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) warned that the US and Iran could be stumbling into a dangerous new phase of the war, which Trump launched in late February without any authorization from the US Congress.

“In seemingly daring Iran to fire on US vessels by testing their restriction of naval traffic through the Strait of Hormuz,” NIAC wrote in a social media post, “the US risks instigating a Gulf of Tonkin-like incident that would serve as a spark for deeper military hostilities. The consistent rejection of diplomatic off-ramps and use of brinksmanship to seek to enhance leverage at the negotiating table is a losing game that risks tilting the US and Iran back into full-blown war.”

Trita Parsi, executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, relayed comments from an unidentified Iranian analyst who said Iran’s decision to fire “warning shots” at US military vessels represented a move to a more aggressive strategic posture.

“If Trump plans to restart the war, Iran will not wait for Trump to do so before it retaliates,” Parsi wrote. “It will strike preemptively in a measured way to deter Trump.”

Sina Toossi, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, called attention to Trump’s claims that his escort mission to get two commercial vessels out of the Strait of Hormuz was a “success,” even as it led to reported Iranian strikes on ports in the allied United Arab Emirates.

“Reads like another desperate attempt to steady markets as events suggest otherwise,” Toossi remarked.

Jennifer Kavanagh, senior fellow and director of military analysis at Defense Priorities, said the latest round of hostilities showed the Trump administration was still in denial about what needs to happen to reopen the strait.

“The closure of the Strait of Hormuz is a problem CAUSED by US military power, not one US military power can fix,” Kavanagh explained. “The sooner Washington accepts this, the sooner we can start working toward a diplomatic resolution.”

Larry Johnson : Troops on the move! Is the US Empire about to strike?

US Central Command Says It Destroyed Six Iranian Boats; Iran Denies Naval Losses

US Central Command said on Monday that US military helicopters sank six Iranian boats, an allegation Iranian officials have denied, according to Iranian media, as the ceasefire between the US and Iran appears to have collapsed.

The comments from CENTCOM Commander Adm. Brad Cooper came after Iranian media reported that Iran struck a US warship in the region, which the US then denied. The Iranian Navy later said that it fired missiles and drones as a warning to the US warships that were approaching the Strait of Hormuz.

The apparent trading of fire between the US and Iran comes after President Trump announced US forces would “guide” commercial ships out of the Strait of Hormuz, an escalation of US military operations that he dubbed “Project Freedom.”

Seyed M. Marandi: One Strike Wiped Out Trump’s Entire Plan – It’s Over

Israel Prepares for Resumption of Full-Scale Bombing Campaign in Gaza

The Israeli military is preparing for the resumption of its full-scale bombing campaign in Gaza, Middle East Eye reported on Monday, citing Israel’s Army Radio.

The Israeli military has constantly violated the US-backed ceasefire deal that was signed in early October 2025, with daily attacks across Gaza, killing at least 832 Palestinians, according to the latest numbers from Gaza’s Health Ministry.

The reporting from Israeli media suggests Israel is preparing a major escalation, back to the levels of the height of the genocidal war, when dozens or hundreds of Palestinians were being killed every day.

British Gaza flotilla activists say they needed hospital care after Israeli forces’ abuse

Two British activists have said they were admitted to hospital after being beaten by Israeli forces who intercepted their Gaza aid flotilla last week. Alice Chapman and Zak Khan were among 180 members of the Global Sumud flotilla detained by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in international waters near Crete late on Wednesday.

Khan, a Green party council election candidate, said he had been shot in the leg with a rubber bullet fired by an Israeli solder. “I was beaten by four people, repeatedly punched, kicked, spat on and accused of being a terrorist,” he said. Chapman told the Guardian an Israeli solder had punched her.

Khan said doctors had told him he had come close to suffering a broken jaw during his assault. He also contracted a chest infection from the conditions in which the detainees were kept onboard an Israeli prison ship.

According to Chapman, this involved about half of the detainees having to sleep inside shipping containers, while half had to stay outside. They endured severe cold at night and severe heat during the day, she said, adding that Israeli soldiers had denied them water during the day and used stun grenades to disrupt their sleep.

The pair, who are now in Crete, said they were among 34 people who had been taken to hospital upon their release, three of whom had needed ambulances.

Zelensky Threatens Moscow Parade; Putin Allows Strike Central Kiev; Oreshnik; Visits HQs; US Hormuz

Europe will not submit to an ‘insular and brutal world’, says Carney

Europe will not submit to a more “brutal world”, and can instead be the base from which a new international order can be rebuilt, Mark Carney, the Canadian prime minister, has said. Carney was speaking as the first non-European leader to attend a meeting of the European Political Community, which opened on Monday amid high tensions in the strait of Hormuz and renewed doubts about the US commitment to Nato. “We don’t think that we’re destined to submit to a more transactional, insular and brutal world, and gatherings such as these point to a better way forward,” he said.

In a pointed suggestion that the era of American leadership was coming to an end, and explaining the symbolism of Canada’s attendance at a European political gathering, he said: “It is my strong personal view that the international order will be rebuilt, but it will be rebuilt out of Europe. “We are demonstrating not just the strength of our values in defending a rules-based international order, but also the value of our strength,” he added. “The world is undergoing a rupture across several dimensions – integration is being used as a weapon by some and the rules are not constraining the hegemons.”

The EPC meeting, the eighth since the organisation’s inception, is taking place in Yerevan, Armenia, a venue chosen as a way of showing Europe’s determination to prevent the small Caucasus country from being dragged back into Russia’s orbit.

It is being held against a backdrop of fresh concern over the US’s commitment to Nato after Donald Trump’s surprise decision to announce the withdrawal of more than 5,000 troops from Germany, a move that has confirmed Europeans’ worst fears about the reliability of the transatlantic alliance.

Trump Admin Shutters DHS Watchdog Amid Rampant and Growing Detainee Abuse

The US Department of Homeland Security is officially closing its watchdog for immigrant detention abuse, even as reports of excessive force, deadly neglect, and other maltreatment by agency personnel soar under the Trump administration.

Citing an internal email, Huffpost’s Dave Jamieson reported Monday that DHS is shutting down its Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO), which was established by an act of Congress and signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2020 as part the massive federal spending package known as the Consolidated Appropriations Act.

Jamieson added that the communication said that OIDO “is in the process of removing all its public signage and ending its inspection,” and that the agency’s website was down.

The email attributed OIDO’s closure to a lack of federal funding in the Homeland Security appropriations package that ended the recent 76-day shutdown affecting the agency.

Largely pushed through by congressional Democrats, OIDO was designed to be independent from both US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and US Customs and Border Protection. The office was given the power to receive detainee complaints, investigate alleged abuse or misconduct, inspect detention facilities, and report systemic problems to DHS leaders and Congress.

OIDO emerged amid widespread abuse of detained migrants during the first Trump administration, including deaths in custody, family separation, overcrowding, and other mistreatment.

Since returning to office for a second term, Trump has overseen the dismantling of the agency, arguing that it hinders immigration enforcement. The administration’s effort to dilute OIDO’s power have triggered legal action arguing that, since it was created by Congress, the agency cannot be abolished without congressional consent.

DHS detainees—especially those ICE lockups—report abuses including inadequate or delayed medical care; physical attacks and excessive force; sexual abuse and harassment; solitary confinement misuse; overcrowded and unsanitary conditions; intimidation and retaliation following complaints; abuse of pregnant women and children; denial of access to lawyers; denial of family contact; and denial of food, water, hygiene, or medication.

Last year was the deadliest in ICE detention in about two decades, with more than 30 deaths reported in custody. So far this year, at least 18 more detainees had reportedly died in ICE custody.

OIDO isn’t the only DHS watchdog under attack by the Trump administration. The Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) and Office of Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman have also been targeted.

One former CRCL employee who was placed on administrative leave due to funding cuts said in a recent court filing that the agency is unable to conduct “meaningful investigations” into alleged civil rights and civil liberties violations committed by its personnel. As an example, they noted the accusations of excessive force by the ICE agent who fatally shot Minneapolis resident Renee Good last year.

“In my experience, investigations into systemic issues like these required significant staff resources, which CRCL no longer has to devote to these important issues of civil rights and civil liberties,” the official told Federal News Network earlier this year. “Nor does CRCL have the resources to conduct multidisciplinary onsite investigations at detention facilities, the need for which is greater than it has ever been as both the number of detention facilities and number of people detained has skyrocketed.”

Trump administration claims food aid fraud but critics say ‘there’s no evidence’

The Trump administration’s attack on the 87-year-old food aid program that supports tens of millions of low-income Americans escalated last week as the agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, claimed that 14,000 Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (Snap) recipients included owners of luxury vehicles such as Ferraris, Bentleys and Teslas.

Critics charge that the broadside is part of a disinformation campaign aimed at undermining a benefit relied on by some of the most vulnerable people in the US.

Rollins did not cite the unnamed state or where this data and its claims came from, but it went viral among conservatives on social media with Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Rand Paul, Congressman Tim Burchett, and actor James Woods quoting the post. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the $57bn program, would not comment on the record and would not verify Rollins’s claims, which stem from an analysis by the Foundation for Government Accountability, an organization that has long advocated for cutting and reducing Snap and other federal government benefits.

The report says its conclusions stem from 2023 data obtained by an unnamed contractor from an anonymous state. It does not provide any information on the alleged Snap recipients or how their identities were matched to car registrations. The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) would not provide its data or methodology and did not respond to multiple requests for comment.

Congresswoman Jahana Hayes, ranking member of the nutrition and foreign agriculture subcommittee, said she was highly skeptical of the data. “First of all, if it were true, it would have been cited with the state and what happened,” said Hayes. “I just don’t buy the secretary saying that they have all this information as a gotcha moment, while not also simultaneously saying we plan to hold these people accountable for defrauding the system and taking food away from the people who really need it.”

Judge ‘disturbed’ over ‘legally deficient’ treatment of Trump gala shooting suspect

A US judge on Monday apologized to the man accused of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump for the “legally deficient” treatment he has faced in a Washington DC, jail, including being placed on suicide watch, separated from other inmates and denied a Bible.

The US magistrate judge Zia Faruqui said he was disturbed by the conditions for Cole Allen, who allegedly fired a shotgun during a foiled attack on Trump and senior officials in his administration at a 25 April press gala. The judge said the conditions were inappropriate for a person with no criminal history. “Whatever you’ve been through, I apologize,” Faruqui said during a court hearing.

Faruqui said he had an obligation to make sure the 31-year-old Los Angeles-area man is “treated with the basic decency of a human being”. Allen last week agreed to remain detained in the local jail in Washington after his lawyers said they would not contest arguments from prosecutors that he posed a danger. He has been charged with attempted assassination and firearms offenses. He has not yet entered a plea.

Prosecutor Jocelyn Ballantine said Allen told FBI agents after his arrest at the site of the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner that he did not expect to survive the alleged attack. Allen’s lawyers raised concerns that he was placed on suicide watch despite showing no suicidal tendencies during a health evaluation, housed in a padded cell for 23 hours a day and denied access to a Bible. Allen has since been removed from suicide watch, but remains in restrictive housing, a condition his lawyers said they did not oppose.

“Right now, it’s not working. It’s insufficient. I think it’s legally deficient,” Faruqui said of Allen’s treatment in the jail. The judge noted that while the allegations against Allen were “extremely serious”, pre-trial detention is not supposed to be punitive.

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'MAGA IS DEAD': MTG SHOCKING Trump Text Revealed

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New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level

The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a “point of no return” that will see it surrounded by the ocean within decades due to the climate crisis, a stark new study has concluded. Ongoing sea-level rise and the rampant erosion of wetlands in southern Louisiana will swallow up the New Orleans area within a few generations, with the new paper estimating the city “may well be surrounded by the Gulf of Mexico before the end of this century”.

Low-lying southern Louisiana faces multiple threats, with rising sea levels driven by global heating, compounded by strengthening hurricanes, also a feature of the climate crisis, and the gradual subsidence of a coastline that has been carved apart by the oil and gas industry.

Southern Louisiana is facing 3-7 metres of sea-level rise and the loss of three-quarters of its remaining coastal wetlands, which will cause the shoreline “to migrate as much as 100km (62 miles) inland”, thereby stranding New Orleans and Baton Rouge, according to the study, which compared today’s rising global temperatures with a period of similar heat 125,000 years ago that caused a rise in sea level. This scenario makes the region the “most physically vulnerable coastal zone in the world”, the researchers state, and requires immediate action to prepare a smooth transition for people away from New Orleans, which has a population of about 360,000 people, to safer ground.

“While climate mitigation should remain the first step to prevent the worst outcomes, coastal Louisiana has evidently already crossed the point of no return,” added the perspectives paper, published in the Nature Sustainability journal. A perspectives paper is a scholarly article that provides an assessment, rather than new data.

Billions of dollars have been spent to fortify New Orleans with a vast network of levees, floodgates and pumps erected after 2005’s catastrophic Hurricane Katrina. But the growing threats to the city mean the levees, which already require hefty upgrades to remain sufficient, will not be able to save the city in the long run, the new paper warns.

California, Arizona and Nevada propose water-saving plan for Colorado River

The states of California, Arizona and Nevada have proposed voluntary water-saving measures for the next three years aimed at buying time while negotiations remain deadlocked over the future of shrinking reservoirs filled by the Colorado River. The Colorado River provides water to some 40 million people in the American west. But the two vast reservoirs filled by the river, Lake Mead and Lake Powell, both stand at historically low levels, after consistent overdrawing coupled with reduced snowpack and warming from climate change.

The seven states with legal rights to water from the Colorado River have so far failed to agree on how to spread the pain of lost access to the dwindling resource. The lower basin states’ plan would save 3.2m acre-feet of water with the help of voluntary cutbacks through 2028. The plan also envisions saving an additional 700,000 acre-feet of water through conservation measures and infrastructure improvement, along with the creation of a conservation pool to ensure that the federal government meets its trust obligations to tribes in Arizona.

“With this proposal, the Lower Basin is putting forth real action to stabilize water supply along the Colorado River,” JB Hamby, the chair of California’s Colorado River Board, wrote in a statement. “We’re putting forward additional measurable water contributions for the system. Without that, the system will continue to decline.”

The proposed plan still requires approval from the states’ water agencies and the Arizona legislature, as well as cooperation from the federal government. The states said the plan was “structured as a unified package” that should be implemented or rejected in full, rather than piecemeal.

Norwegian fish farms polluting fjords with waste likened to ‘raw sewage of millions of people’

Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found. Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutrients in fish feed are excreted directly into coastal waters. Analysis from the Sunstone Institute found that Norwegian aquaculture released 75,000 tonnes of nitrogen, 13,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 360,000 tonnes of organic carbon in 2025.

The nutrients are equivalent to those contained in the untreated sewage of 17.2 million people for nitrogen, 20 million people for phosphorus, and 30 million people for organic carbon, the report found, raising fears of destructive algal blooms.

“Norway is a small country of just 5.5 million people, and the output of aquaculture pollution in terms of these three nutrients is three to five times larger than the population,” said Alexandra Pires Duro, a data scientist at Sunstone and author of the report. “The faeces, the uneaten feed, the urine – everything goes into the water.” Fish in farms are fed pellets of nutrient-rich feed in open-net cages as they are grown for human consumption. The analysts calculated the mass of nutrient inputs that remained in the water using data from the national fisheries directorate and veterinary institute.

Researchers found feed consumption had increased by 14.6% over a six-year period, in line with industry expansion, producing nutrient pollution in 2025 that equated to levels expected in the raw sewage of a country about the size of Australia. In a separate analysis, the report authors found that seasonal variation aggravated the problem, with nutrient load highest in summer months when ecosystems are least able to absorb it.

Fish sludge from nutrients can fertilise phytoplankton and lead to destructive algal blooms that deplete oxygen levels. Fjords are particularly vulnerable to such effects because they are semi-enclosed bodies of water, allowing for greater accumulation of nutrients. Their oxygen levels are already declining because of global heating.

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Also of Interest

Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.

The West’s Bubble of Illusion About Israel – and About Itself – Is Finally Being Burst

Iran War: Peak Chaos as Trump Announces “Humanitarian” Convoy to Enter Strait to Free Trapped Ships, Soon Walked Back by Officialdom; Negotiations Reported as Collapsing as Iran Toughens Position; UAE Enters War

War On Iran: – How Trump’s “Project Freedom” Has Failed

Iranian Media: Attack on UAE Oil Facility Result of US ‘Adventurism’ in the Strait of Hormuz

DAYS 53-65: World on the Brink in the Hands of a Madman

Oh No, The People Who Defend Genocide Think I’m Bad

Is A Famine Baked In For 2027?

Want a green card? Better make sure you haven’t criticized Israel on social media

Democrats are counting on Trump’s unpopularity to save them. It won’t

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A Little Night Music

Leroy Carr – It's Too Short

Leroy Carr - Mean Mistreater Mama

Leroy Carr & Scrapper Blackwell - How Long Has That Evening Train Been Gone

Leroy Carr – Midnight Hour Blues

Leroy Carr – Papa Wants A Cookie

Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell - What More Can I Do

Leroy Carr – Blue Night Blues

Leroy Carr – Six Cold Feet of Ground

Leroy Carr – Bobo Stomp

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