Macro Markets & Investing
- The US and Russia are dominating the global weapons trade – Business Insider
- Oil IPOs about to bloom across the USA – Bloomberg
- What history has to say about the US economy and investing post-Presidential elections – Bloomberg
Asia
- Duterte Publicly Admits He Threw A Man Out Of A Helicopter – DailyCaller
- China is upset at Japan changing the name of its embassy to Taiwan to include the word “Taiwan.” – Reuters (oh grow up…)
- Chinese Year of the Rooster marked with huge Trump sculpture – BBC (oh, cock)
- Indonesian blasphemy saga: Islamic hardliner accused of insulting Christianity – SMH (oh grow up…)
Europe/Middle East
- US Sec State Kerry: “two-state solution is the only way to achieve a just and lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.” – i24TV (obvious as nose on your face, but logic doesn’t apply in this region of the world)
- Kerry: U.S. abstained on U.N. vote to save two-state solution in Mideast – USNews
- Israel suggests US should consider cutting funds to UN after Security Council vote | Fox News – or how about the US cut the near $4billion a year it gives Israel for military spending?
- Sweden breaks wind power record by half a million kWh after intense weather and storms – Independent (silly Swedes, there’s no future in renewables…cough)
- Norway Divorces Protestant Church in separation of church and state – IBtimes
- Russian Allies Discuss Splitting Syria Into 3 De-Facto States To End Civil War – Dailycaller
- Germany migrants: Record number opt to leave – most to Balkans – BBC
Americas
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- A NYT investigation found that Homeland Security workers accepted nearly $15 million in bribes. – NYT (they spelt Fatherland wrong…)
- Restaurant in Hawaii Bans Trump Voters, Faces Immediate Backlash – Eater (not a good way to try to change minds – why not offer altmenu items instead?)
- Obama administration prepares sanctions, retaliation for Russian election meddling – CNN
- Venezuela military trafficking food as country goes hungry – APNews
- Election hacking: US senators call for sanctions on Russia – BBC News
Terra Nullus
- Double standards: One for politicians, another for aged – Pascometer goes off
- Scrap Centrelink’s ‘crude’ debt recovery system: Labor – The Age
- Abolish state governments and think big to fix the nation: Hawke (oh yes! Merge States and Councils into Cantons ala Swiss)
- Former One Nation candidate stood down from police service – ABC
- Sydney homebuyers locked out – Michael Janda
Other:
- We need to limit population growth or the natural world will do it for us – David Attenborough (the issue of the century)
- Solar power at 1¢/kWh by 2025 – “The promise of quasi-infinite and free energy is here” – Electrek (yeah, nah let’s build more coal power plants IN THE COUNTRY WITH THE HIGHEST SOLAR POTENTIAL IN THE WORLD – nucking futs…)
- UN To Launch Space Mission For Nations That Can’t Afford Programs – HuffPost (Australia can afford one, just doesn’t give a shit about yet another huge opportunity at its fingertips…sigh)
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