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November 9, 2025

US-Israel Rift, Iraq Vote, Climate Loss Talks

NY lawmaker Mamdani's upset spotlights shifting US-Israel politics, Iraq heads to a pivotal vote, and climate-hit nations demand loss-and-damage funds. Courts, pharma and storms also reshape leverage points.

🌐 International Affairs

In Israel, Mamdani’s win in New York stirs alarm over shifting US attitudes - AP News

Israeli alarm as Mamdani’s New York victory hints at shifting U.S. attitudes

Associated Press

11. Mindset or Paradigm

The victory of a mayoral candidate with an explicit pro-Palestinian stance reflects and accelerates a deeper shift in underlying beliefs within U.S. politics, potentially redefining accepted narratives and policy approaches.

Key issues at stake in Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary election

ABC News

10. Goals of the System

The parliamentary election sets or resets the country’s overarching objectives—such as reform, power-sharing, and regional alignment—thereby guiding all subsequent policymaking and institutional behavior.

🌍 Environment and Climate

Climate summit hears pleas from nations suffering loss and damage due to warming

Associated Press

10. Goals of the system

By elevating the experiences of the most vulnerable nations, the summit pressures negotiating blocs to redefine the primary objective from least-cost carbon reduction to climate-justice and loss-and-damage compensation, realigning every subordinate policy, funding stream, and technology pathway.

Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam while Philippines braces for next storm

Associated Press

5. Strength of negative feedback loops

Enhancing early-warning systems, evacuation protocols, and resilient infrastructure strengthens corrective mechanisms that limit loss of life and property during increasingly frequent extreme weather events.

🏛️ Politics and Governance

Judge blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard to Portland

CBS News OPB News

8. Rules of the system

A landmark federal court decision recalibrates the formal rules governing domestic troop deployment, sharply circumscribing presidential authority over state National Guard units. By tightening legal constraints on executive discretion and setting a precedent that will guide future inter-agency protocols and civil-rights safeguards, it fundamentally shifts the balance between federal power and local autonomy.

Grand jury subpoenas Brennan and other ex-officials in Trump-Russia investigation

CNN CBS News

7. Information flows

Subpoenas and grand jury demands surface internal decision-making data from agencies and high-level officials, exposing information that was previously inaccessible to courts, oversight bodies, and the public. This expanded transparency tightens accountability feedback loops, realigns institutional incentives, and accelerates the detection and correction of misconduct.

Judge orders Education Department to stop partisan employee email messages

Politico

8. Rules of the system

A court order that forbids partisan messaging by managers resets the formal constraints that govern how information may be pushed through the bureaucracy, directly shaping day-to-day behavior and protecting free-speech rights across the agency.

Supreme Court temporarily blocks order requiring release of additional SNAP benefits

The Washington Post

8. Rules of the system

Supreme Court intervention redefines legal boundaries for releasing benefits, directly influencing how and when aid reaches millions of households and setting precedent for future executive-judicial interactions.

🏢 Business and Industry

Pfizer to acquire weight-loss startup Metsera in $10 billion deal

Financial Times

8. Rules of the system

Antitrust regulations and merger rules determine which firms can acquire breakthrough start-ups, thereby shaping incentives for R&D investment, drug pricing, and market structure in the weight-loss drug sector.

💻 Technology and Innovation

NTSB: Cockpit bell sounded before UPS cargo plane crash after takeoff

Associated Press CBS News

5. Strength of negative feedback loops

Enhancing cockpit alarms, engine-failure sequences, and pilot response procedures amplifies the aircraft’s negative feedback loops, enabling faster detection and correction of deviations. Greater loop strength boosts overall system resilience, preventing small anomalies from snowballing into catastrophic crashes.

Article Links

  1. In Israel, Mamdani’s win in New York stirs alarm over shifting US attitudes - AP News
  2. What's at stake in Iraq's parliamentary election - abcnews.go.com
  3. Climate summit hears from countries suffering from harms, destruction linked to global warming - AP News
  4. Typhoon Kalmaegi rampages across Vietnam as the Philippines prepares for a new storm - AP News
  5. Judge permanently blocks Trump administration from deploying National Guard troops to Portland - CBS News
  6. Federal judge permanently blocks Trump from deploying National Guard to Portland - Oregon Public Broadcasting - OPB
  7. Feds move to subpoena former CIA director and others who investigated Russian interference in Trump’s 2016 campaign - CNN
  8. Grand jury subpoenas former CIA chief Brennan and 2 ex-FBI officials linked to Trump-Russia probe, source says - CBS News
  9. Judge orders Education Department to halt ‘partisan’ employee email messages - Politico
  10. Supreme Court temporarily blocks order on releasing SNAP benefits - The Washington Post
  11. Pfizer wins $10bn bidding war for weight-loss start-up Metsera - Financial Times
  12. Investigators look into ‘repeating bell’ heard during takeoff of UPS cargo plane that crashed - AP News
  13. Bell sounded in cockpit as UPS cargo plane crashed after takeoff, NTSB says - CBS News
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