May 05, 2025: Daily Feature Links

1. Where in the World Is Trump Taking Us? | TED Explains the World with Ian Bremmer
2. Sheinbaum says she rejected Trump's plan to send U.S. troops across the border to Mexico
3. Interestingly, part of the problem with economic assessment is the lack of stable staple availability, from food to healthcare, to the majority of the constituency, and the state of ecological health. Talking ONLY about whether investors are happily seeing first derivative values that are attractively positive associates more with a kind of spectator sport of financial feudalism than does it with the well being of the world.
4. Canada Faces Economic Crisis | Weaponizing Treasury Holdings | Iberian Blackout
5. Israeli Patriot Missile System Heads to Ukraine, Pending US Approval
6. What the Israeli government is planning is "not an aid plan," said one legal scholar, but rather "an aid denial plan."
7. Closing speech by President von der Leyen at the ‘Choose Europe for Science' event at La Sorbonne
8. Hurricane forecasts are more accurate than ever – NOAA funding cuts could change that, with a busy storm season coming