Global Macro/Investing/Climate Change:
- The Middle Class Risks Consuming Itself: Health care and education employ a lot of people and sell services they increasingly can’t afford. – Bloomberg
- Thousands of Australians forced from their homes by rampaging bushfires now find themselves stuck in makeshift camps, fearful for the future & turned refugees in their own country – Phys.org
- Fresh Cambridge Analytica leak ‘shows global manipulation is out of control’ – Company’s work in 68 countries laid bare with release of more than 100,000 documents – The Guardian
- Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest person behind Jeff Bezos, wants rich people to pay higher taxes: – Business Insider
- Climate signals detected in global weather | Climate researchers can now detect the fingerprint of global warming in daily weather observations at the global scale. They are thus amending a long-established paradigm: weather is not climate – but climate change can now be detected in everyday weather – ScienceDaily
- Stocks began 2020 at record highs. Here”s what could go wrong – CNBC
America’s
- Random Mar-a-Lago Guests Were Told More About Plan to Kill Soleimani Than Congress: Report – LawandCrime
- Bernie Sanders introduces law to stop Trump from starting war with Iran – Independent
- Will Mitch McConnell Get Re-Elected to the Senate? Kentucky Republican Poll Numbers Are Dismal Ahead of 2020 -IBTimes
- US arms companies see stock prices soar after Trump orders assassination of Iran commander – BI
Europe/Middle East
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- Iran unfurls red flag to show they are ready for war after US airstrike — It is the first time in history that the red flag has been hoisted on top of the Jamkaran mosque in the Iranian city and comes after warnings of harsh retaliation against the US – Metro
- Trump: If Iran attacks, we will attack 52 Iranian targets – Israel News
- Trump brags about the size of his military in midnight tweet | “The United States just spent two trillion dollars on military equipment. If Iran attacks any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way… and without hesitation!” – NYPost…OMFG…..
- Royal Navy deployed to protect British ships in Gulf in wake of Qassim Soleimani’s assassination – Telegraph
- Iraq: Rocket attacks hit central Baghdad and air base housing US troops – DW
- Iran threatens 35 targets including US warships and Tel Aviv after Soleimani’s death while Hezbollah issue ultimatum for Iraqi’s to leave US bases by Sunday and the White House says it expects an attack – Dailymail
- Germany seeks talks with Iran to ease tensions: European leaders have called for calm after the US airstrike that killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani– DW
- Greece, Israel and Cyprus call Turkey’s planned Libya deployment ‘dangerous escalation’ – Reuters
- Most Swiss ‘reject far-right plan to end free movement with EU’ – Reuters
Asia
- Hong Kong activates ‘serious response’ level amid fears of unknown disease from China – Globalnews
- China yet to identify cause of pneumonia outbreak infecting 44 – ABC
- Hong Kong teacher suspended for classroom tirade against ‘cockroach’ protesters – SCMP
- Kim Jong Un Suggested Road to Denuclearization Has Come to an End -VOANews
- Louis Vuitton plans to close Hong Kong luxury store hit by protests; shopping mall apparently refused a rent cut – SCMP
Oceania/Straya/Unzud
- The Australian bushfires are on the front page of newspapers all around the world – but not in Australia. – The Guardian (thanks Rupert!)
- Elderly woman dies after stepping off a plane in Australia’s capital due to smoke from wildfires – Newsweek
- Australian comedian’s bushfire fundraiser passes $20 million goal – SBS
- Bushfire smoke has reached Auckland NZ – Stuff
- Police have arrested an elderly South Australian man and charged him over four bushfires in the state’s South East in the past week. – Adelaide Now
- Australian Prime Minister Morrison defends bushfire crisis response – Reuters
- Australia bushfires: Greta Thunberg blasts Australian leaders for lack of ‘political action’ – NewshubNZ
…and other stuff:
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- Google records everything in voice search on iPhone, Android, desktop – USAToday
- The Amazon Rainforest Is About To Cross An Irreversible Threshold That Will Turn It Into A Savanna, Top Scientists Say – IFL
- and isn’t it funny how science has a way of predicting things?
