What's hot in real world news? - Thread 10.0

[Kevin Pacey]

cbc.ca/news/politics/Federal government failing to protect commercially valuable fish: report:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rep...oner-1.6605243

torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/LILLEY: CBC is the major threat that other Canadian media outlets don't want to talk about:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...-to-talk-about

[Kevin Pacey]

thehill.com/opinion/Feehery: Biden has no trade agenda:

https://thehill.com/opinion/3672976-...-trade-agenda/

[Kevin Pacey]

reuters.com/world/Nobel physics prize goes to sleuths of 'spooky' quantum science - 2022-10-04:

https://www.reuters.com/world/aspect...cs-2022-10-04/

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/Australia to set aside at least 30% of its land mass to protect endangered species - 2022-10-04:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...es-2022-10-04/

[Kevin Pacey]

bbc.com/news/world-middle-east/Iran schoolgirls remove hijabs in protests against government:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63128184

[Kevin Pacey]

globalnews.ca/news/Loretta Lynn dead: Country music icon and coal miner’s daughter dies at 90:

https://globalnews.ca/news/9175122/loretta-lynn-dead/

[Kevin Pacey]

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/North Korea conducts longest-range missile test yet over Japan [is someone looking for attention again?] - 2022-10-03:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ry-2022-10-03/

[Kevin Pacey]

reuters.com/world/middle-east/Turkey inflation hits new 24-year high of 83% after rate cuts - 2022-10-03:

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle...ts-2022-10-03/

[Kevin Pacey]

bbc.com/news/world-europe/Ukraine makes breakthrough in south against Russia [and makes advances in east]:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63126156

cnbc.com/2022/10/04/russia-ukraine-war-updates/Biden approves $625 million aid package for Kyiv; Ukraine pushes further into territory ‘annexed’ by Moscow; Moscow praises Elon Musk after he angers Kyiv with twitter suggestion on how to resolve conflict:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/04/russ...r-updates.html

hindustantimes.com/world-news/Convoy transporting equipment for Russia's nuclear forces on the move: Report [World News; Published on Oct 04, 2022 01:58 PM IST; I wonder if Putin would quickly blow up some of his own undispersed troops for the advantage of surprising western analysts - sort of analogously, Napoleon ordered firing through some of his own troops to cover his retreat, at Waterloo]:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world...870533310.html

Google blurb re: did Napoleon fire on his own troops to cover his retreat at Waterloo:
The Prussians who by now had reached the battlefield, attacked Napoleon from the right, while Wellington was counter-attacking front on. To cover his retreat, Napoleon ordered an artillery barrage, even though many of his soldiers were in the firing line.

“History doesn't repeat itself but it often rhymes,” as Mark Twain is often reputed to have said.

[Kevin Pacey]

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/U.S. defense secretary sees no imminent invasion of Taiwan by China - 2022-10-02:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...na-2022-10-02/

[Kevin Pacey]

cbc.ca/news/health/What protection to expect from updated COVID vaccines this fall [New bivalent boosters could slow virus spread, but won't be a silver bullet]:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/updat...izer-1.6571177

cbc.ca/news/health/New Omicron strains on the horizon could drive future COVID waves [Emerging subvariants have mutated to evade immunity better than previous strains]:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/omicr...ines-1.6601218

forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2022/10/04/Slow U.S. Response May Mean Monkeypox Virus Here To Stay [Biden and the Dems shouldn't try to blame this one on Trump]:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucele...h=3090982e7a69