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Global financial system at risk from flawed climate models
A team of Australian scientists, financiers and economists have issued a stark warning over the use of "flawed" climate models to predict financial risk. Writing in the journal Environmental Research they say building future strategies on information that is not understood and potentially misleading is likely to expose the global financial system to systemic risks of its own making. Politicians and policy-makers are increasingly seeking to assess the potential risks to the financial system associated with climate change. They typically use a combination of databases for the global mean temperature in conjunction with so-called coupled climate models to determine regional and more local changes such as the effect on cities. According to this new study however this approach is flawed and ineffective. "We show that global mean temperature provides little insight on how acute risks likely material to the financial sector will change at a city-scale, say the researchers. They...
https://www.sott.net/article/471564-Global-financial-system-at-risk-from-flawed-climate-models

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NYC struggling to house busloads of migrants as hotel, intake center plan falls apart
Overwhelmed city officials are struggling to provide a promised intake center and hotel rooms to migrants being shipped by the busload from Texas to the Big Apple, The Post has learned. The Department of Homeless Services acknowledged to The Post that it has abandoned its initial plan to operate an intake and processing center dedicated to the recent arrivals alongside a 600-room shelter at the ROW NYC hotel on Eighth Avenue in Midtown. Officials would only say Sunday that they have finally selected a finalist to operate the yet-to-open Manhattan facility but would not reveal the contractor's name or its location. Contracting documents obtained by The Post show that officials had hoped to have the Midtown shelter and intake up and running as soon as Aug. 15 — now 13 days ago. DHS also admitted that it has yet to select and rent any of the 5,000 hotel rooms the agency said it is seeking to house migrants across the city. Instead, officials are continuing to commingle migrants with...
https://www.sott.net/article/471565-NYC-struggling-to-house-busloads-of-migrants-as-hotel-intake-center-plan-falls-apart

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Former Ukrainian lawmaker who became Russia-appointed official in Kherson Region found dead
Former Ukrainian lawmaker Oleksiy Kovalyov, who joined the Russia-imposed Kherson regional government after Russian armed forces took over parts of Ukraine's southeast, has been found dead. An adviser to the Kyiv-controlled regional administration, Serhiy Khlan, said on August 29 that Kovalyov was found dead a day earlier in his house in the town of Hola Prystan. Ukrainian media reports said Kovalyov was found with a gunshot wound to his head and a Mossberg pump firearm that was officially registered to the former member of Ukraine's ruling Servant of the People party. The reports also said Kovalyov's girlfriend sustained a stabbing wound and was hospitalized. Russia-imposed authorities did not comment on the reports, but pro-Russian Telegram channels confirmed them.
https://www.sott.net/article/471566-Former-Ukrainian-lawmaker-who-became-Russia-appointed-official-in-Kherson-Region-found-dead

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Six months into the war, is Britain suffering Ukraine fatigue?
A Ukrainian flag flies over the town hall in Tunbridge Wells, as on so many churches and in city centres around the country. This affluent area has been among the most generous in offering aid to Ukrainian refugees, with more than 300 settling in the Kent town, part of an outpouring of kindness almost unprecedented in recent British history. Yet as the energy crisis begins to bite, driven in large part by the effects of the war, which reached its six-month anniversary last Wednesday, there is an indication that sentiment is starting to waver. More questions are being asked: when does this conflict end? Is anyone working towards an endgame? Who is providing the political leadership to steel us for wartime levels of sacrifice?
https://www.sott.net/article/471567-Six-months-into-the-war-is-Britain-suffering-Ukraine-fatigue

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Vegan mom sentenced to life in prison after son starves to death due to 'severe malnutrition'
A vegan mother in Florida was sentenced to life in prison following a first-degree murder conviction for the death of her 18-month-old son. Sheila O'Leary, 38, was convicted in June after her son Ezra died from what prosecutors said were "complications from severe malnutrition and dehydration." "This child did not eat. He was starved to death over 18 months," Francine Donnorummo, the special victims unit chief at the Lee County State Attorney's Office, said at the trial.
https://www.sott.net/article/471568-Vegan-mom-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-after-son-starves-to-death-due-to-severe-malnutrition

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Trump documents: What we still don't know
A federal judge in Florida has released a heavily redacted copy of the affidavit used to justify the Aug. 8 FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's winter home in Florida. In the fragmentary affidavit — the judge let the Justice Department black out whatever it liked — we learn a little more about how many documents the FBI found and some of the classified markings on them. We learned that the National Archives and Records Administration found boxes filled with "newspapers, magazines, printed news articles, photos, miscellaneous print-outs, notes, presidential correspondence, person and post-presidential records, and 'a lot of classified records,'" which sounds about right, given our knowledge of the level or organization in Trumpworld. But we still don't know the answer to the most important question of the whole Mar-a-Lago affair: What are the documents about? There's no need to repeat yesterday's newsletter, titled, "The gaping hole in our knowledge of the Trump documents."...
https://www.sott.net/article/471569-Trump-documents-What-we-still-dont-know

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GOP Senators press Zuckerberg about FBI telling Facebook to downplay Hunter Biden's laptop
Two Senate Republicans want Facebook to explain whether the FBI discussed Hunter Biden's laptop computer, his business dealings and "Russian disinformation" with the social media platform during the 2020 campaign, citing a revealing podcast appearance by CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Sens. Charles E. Grassley of Iowa and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin told Mr. Zuckerberg, who leads Facebook parent company Meta, that his comments on Joe Rogan's podcast made them wonder if the social media platform was pressured to suppress information about President Biden's son. The senators wrote to Mr. Zuckerberg: "You appeared to indicate that as a result of the FBI's warning, Facebook eventually took steps to censor news articles about Hunter Biden's laptop. Specifically, you said that 'distribution' of those articles on Facebook was decreased and explained that 'the ranking and newsfeed was a little bit less. So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise. Your revelation that Facebook took steps to censor...
https://www.sott.net/article/471570-GOP-Senators-press-Zuckerberg-about-FBI-telling-Facebook-to-downplay-Hunter-Bidens-laptop

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Elon Musk cites Twitter whistleblower in new bid to cancel $44 billion deal
Elon Musk fired another salvo in his bid to cancel the $44 billion buyout of Twitter, citing claims made by Twitter whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko as further proof that the social media company hasn't been forthcoming about its "far-reaching misconduct." Mike Ringler, Musk's lawyer, from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, wrote a letter to Twitter's top legal counsel on Monday — a follow-up to Musk's initial July 8 notice to the Securities and Exchange Commission seeking to terminate his acquisition of Twitter. Ringler wrote: "Allegations regarding certain facts, known to Twitter prior to and as of July 8, 2022, but undisclosed to the Musk Parties prior to and at that time, have since come to light that provide additional and distinct bases to terminate the Merger Agreement." Ringler, from the law firm Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP wrote that the second notice is "not legally necessary" to terminate the merger, but was filed in case the...
https://www.sott.net/article/471571-Elon-Musk-cites-Twitter-whistleblower-in-new-bid-to-cancel-44-billion-deal

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The conflict in Ukraine is precipitating the end of Western domination
The Ukrainian conflict, presented as a Russian aggression, is only the implementation of the Security Council resolution 2202 of February 17, 2015. If France and Germany did not keep their commitments during the Minsk II Agreement, Russia prepared itself for seven years for the current confrontation. It had foreseen the Western sanctions well in advance and needed only two months to circumvent them. These sanctions disrupt US globalization, disrupt Western economies by breaking supply chains, causing dollars to flow back to Washington and causing general inflation, and creating energetics in the West. The United States and its allies are in the position of being the hosers hosed: they are digging their own grave. Meanwhile, the Russian Treasury's revenues have increased by 32% in six months. For the past seven years, it has been the responsibility of the guarantor powers of the Minsk II Agreement (Germany, France, Ukraine and Russia) to enforce it. They had been endorsed and...
https://www.sott.net/article/471572-The-conflict-in-Ukraine-is-precipitating-the-end-of-Western-domination

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Ukraine: Somewhere between Afghanization and Syrianization
Ukraine is finished as a nation - neither side will rest in this war. The only question is whether it will be an Afghan or Syrian style finale. One year after the astounding US humiliation in Kabul - and on the verge of another serious comeuppance in Donbass - there is reason to believe Moscow is wary of Washington seeking vengeance: in the form of the 'Afghanization' of Ukraine. With no end in sight to western weapons and finance flowing into Kiev, it must be recognized that the Ukrainian battle is likely to disintegrate into yet another endless war. Like the Afghan jihad in the 1980s which employed US-armed and funded guerrillas to drag Russia into its depths, Ukraine's backers will employ those war-tested methods to run a protracted battle that can spill into bordering Russian lands. Yet this US attempt at crypto-Afghanization will at best accelerate the completion of what Russia's Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu describes as the "tasks" of its Special Military Operation (SMO) in...
https://www.sott.net/article/471573-Ukraine-Somewhere-between-Afghanization-and-Syrianization

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France's taxman deploys AI spy to spot hidden swimming pools
France's tax authority said Monday that a new artificial intelligence system had found thousands of undeclared swimming pools, allowing it to collect millions of euros from homeowners who failed to report the facilities. Comment: It's a sign of just how desperate and oppressive the French government has become that it's wasting its resources on schemes that reaps, what amounts to, not very much revenue at all. Developed by Google and Capgemini, the AI software learned how to spot pools on aerial images of nine French departments during a trial run last year, which were then cross-checked with land registry databases. Since pools boost property values, they usually lead to higher property and residency taxes -- unless the owner neglects to notify tax authorities.
https://www.sott.net/article/471574-Frances-taxman-deploys-AI-spy-to-spot-hidden-swimming-pools

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Cryptic 4,000-year-old writing system may finally be deciphered
More than 95% of Linear Elamite may be deciphered. A mysterious ancient writing system called Linear Elamite, used between about 2300 B.C. and 1800 B.C. in what is now southern Iran, might have finally been deciphered, although some experts are skeptical about the findings. What's more, it's unclear whether all the artifacts used to decipher the writings were legally acquired. Only about 40 known examples of Linear Elamite survive today, making the script challenging to decode, but researchers say they've largely accomplished just that, they wrote in a paper published in July in the journal Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie (German for the Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archaeology). Key to their decipherment was the analysis of eight inscriptions on silver beakers. Other research teams had previously decoded different Linear Elamite inscriptions, and the new study's authors built on this previous work by comparing the writing system in the...
https://www.sott.net/article/471575-Cryptic-4000-year-old-writing-system-may-finally-be-deciphered

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Finland confiscates cash from Russians passing through border, claiming 'exports' are banned
Finnish customs officials have begun seizing cash from Russians returning home across the border, media outlet Fontanka reported on Monday, citing a man who claimed his money was confiscated. A resident of St. Petersburg identified only as Yuri was returning from a business trip to Serbia via Finland. He was driving back to Russia on Saturday evening when he was stopped at the border. When asked if he had any money with him, Yuri showed the customs officials €1,390 ($1,390) in cash. The man said he brought all of it from Russia and did not acquire any additional money abroad. He also had rubles and Serbian dinars, but the customs officials were apparently only interested in the euros.
https://www.sott.net/article/471576-Finland-confiscates-cash-from-Russians-passing-through-border-claiming-exports-are-banned

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Study: Dogs cry for joy as well as pain
A recent study looked at dogs reuniting with their human friends: When a person is overcome with emotion, their feelings stream down their cheeks. Even positive emotions can turn on the waterworks, as people bawl when they win awards, express love for their partners, or are reunited with a long-lost friend. But these feelings-driven tears may not be a wholly human experience. Dogs can also cry happy tears, according to a study published today (August 22) in Current Biology. Although the animals' eyes don't overflow, they well up when they're reunited with their owners after spending even just hours apart, the researchers found. And they have hunch as to why: a sudden increase in oxytocin, the so-called love hormone, named for its predominant roles in social bonding. Christine wilcox, "dogs cry tears of joy: study" at the scientist (august 22, 2022) the paper is open access .
https://www.sott.net/article/471577-Study-Dogs-cry-for-joy-as-well-as-pain

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SOTT FOCUS: Objective:Health - In The News: Moderna Sues Pfizer | Deaths and Miscarriages from Covid Vax
It's time for another In The News show on Objective:Health where we bring you the latest health headlines and give you the O:H take. This week we look at the legal dispute between Moderna and Pfizer. Moderna says Pfizer ripped them off for the mRNA technology in the vaccines. Pfizer says they didn't. Robert Malone says they both ripped him off and didn't give him his rightful credit. We also look at the shocking statistic that 1 in 482 peoople died within 1 month of the Covid vaccine. Plus we talk about the massive miscarriage rates among vaccinated pregnant women that were found buried in the Pfizer documents. We talk about all of this and more on this edition of Objective:Health. And check us out on Brighteon! For other health-related news and more, you can find us on: ♥Twitter: https://twitter.com/objecthealth ♥Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/objecthealth/ ♥Brighteon: https://www.brighteon.com/channel/objectivehealth ♥LBRY: https://lbry.tv/@objectivehealth:f ♥Odysee:...
https://www.sott.net/article/471578-Objective-Health-In-The-News-Moderna-Sues-Pfizer-Deaths-and-Miscarriages-from-Covid-Vax

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Russia rakes in more oil revenue than ever - WSJ
Mounting oil demand from some of the world's biggest economies has helped Russia to export almost as much crude as it did before the conflict in Ukraine and subsequent Western sanctions, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. On top of this, rising global crude prices, which have currently settled at around $100 a barrel, have sent Russia's oil revenues skyrocketing. "Russia is swimming in cash," Elina Ribakova, the deputy chief economist at the Institute of International Finance, told the journal, adding that the country earned $97 billion from oil and gas sales through July this year, with nearly $74 billion of that coming through sales of crude. According to data from the International Energy Agency, Russia pumped 7.4 million barrels of crude and products such as diesel and gasoline into the global market each day in July alone. The figure is down only about 600,000 barrels per day since the start of the year. Russian energy exports have been booming, as the nation managed...
https://www.sott.net/article/471558-Russia-rakes-in-more-oil-revenue-than-ever-WSJ

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Joe Rogan on lessons learned from pandemic: 'Vote Republican'
Media personality Joe Rogan said that many people who are angry over COVID-19 protocols during the pandemic that forced their businesses to close should "vote Republican" in the upcoming midterms. In an episode of "The Joe Rogan Experience," Rogan added that now that the pandemic is over, "people are going to recognize that some serious errors were made and not repeat those." "That's the best you can get out of it. But as far as compensation for all those people that were forced to close their businesses and keep their doors shuttered and lost everything they'd worked for decades to build. Now they're ... they're just going to be angry," he shared.
https://www.sott.net/article/471579-Joe-Rogan-on-lessons-learned-from-pandemic-Vote-Republican

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Autopsy data confirm deadly heart inflammation from Covid vaccines but not from Covid infection
Both COVID-19 illness, caused by infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and COVID-19 vaccination, ostensibly to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection and serious COVID-19 morbidity, have been associated with the development of myopericarditis, i.e., inflammation of the heart muscle itself (myocarditis) or its suspending sack (pericarditis). This brief review demonstrates, first, the dubious association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and myopericarditis, and second, the robust association between COVID-19 vaccination, especially with mRNA vaccines, and myopericarditis, including, in particular, the study of fatal cases upon autopsy. The direct relationship between SARS-CoV-2 infection and myocarditis remains tenuous at best. Recent ecological, controlled retrospective cohort and autopsy data do not support an association. The overall absence of support for a specific 'SARS-CoV-2 myocarditis syndrome' from focused autopsy studies of presumed myocarditis deaths is consistent with findings from...
https://www.sott.net/article/471580-Autopsy-data-confirm-deadly-heart-inflammation-from-Covid-vaccines-but-not-from-Covid-infection

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Lightning bolt kills 2, injures 13 in Nepal
Two persons died whereas 13 others were injured in a lightning strike in Dang of Lumbini on Tuesday night. All the victims and injured were watching a local musical show organised on the occasion of the annual Teej festival when the lightning struck them at around 11 pm yesterday. The victims have been identified as Deepa Gharti (16) and Monisa Sah (19), residents of Gurau, Ghorahi sub-metropolitan city-12 of the district. DSP Rajan Kumar Gautam of the District Police Office says 11 others have sustained minor injuries. Details of the case are awaited. Just on Monday, three persons died of a lightning strike in Rautahat.
https://www.sott.net/article/471581-Lightning-bolt-kills-2-injures-13-in-Nepal

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Toddler dies after being struck by 4 inch hailstone during freak storm in Spain
A toddler has died after being hit by a huge hailstone during a storm in northern Spain which left 30 people injured. Stones the size of tennis balls were crashing down and smashing people's windshields around the Catalan town of La Bisbal de l'Emporda yesterday. A 20-month-old girl was rushed to Josep Trueta Hospital in the city of Girona but died hours later. A woman remained in the same hospital today due to injuries she suffered in the devastating hailstorm. Most of the other 28 people who needed medical treatment are said to have suffered head injuries, or cuts from the ice that needed stitches, as well as broken bones.
https://www.sott.net/article/471582-Toddler-dies-after-being-struck-by-4-inch-hailstone-during-freak-storm-in-Spain

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Neil Oliver: 'Don't be fooled into thinking this disaster movie is coming to an end'
Neil Oliver reacts to Rishi Sunak saying experts had too much power over Covid lockdowns.
https://www.sott.net/article/471583-Neil-Oliver-Dont-be-fooled-into-thinking-this-disaster-movie-is-coming-to-an-end