Macro Markets, Economics & Investing
- Investors Bolt Mexico as Peso Enters Free Fall – Morningstar
- China crackdown sends Bitcoin sliding – BBC
Asia
- Japan rescues 26 North Koreans from sinking ship – CNN (wait, is this fake?)
- Japan eyes new era with prince’s ascension on Jan. 1, 2019 – Asahi
- China detains 720, imposes $21.8 million of fines in pollution crackdown: media – Reuters
- 70 per cent of Japan’s biggest coral reef is dead due to global warming – Indepedent
Europe/Middle East
- Hackers cause outage in second year in row in Ukraine – Artstechnica
- Bill Decriminalizing Domestic Violence Passes First Reading in Russian Parliament – Moscow Times
- ‘Childless boom’ among S European women – BBC
- US tanks and armoured vehicles along with more than 3,000 US soldiers start arriving in Poland on Thursday – BBC
- UAE invests £134bn in renewables in push to reach 50% clean energy target | Oil-rich Gulf state has pledged that half of its energy will be generated from renewable sources by 2050 – Independent (if only Australia had the resources or technology to do the same…)
Americas
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- Army Leaker Chelsea Manning on Obama’s ‘Short List’ for Commutation – NBCNews
- Boeing Jumbo-Jet Era Ending in U.S. as United Retires 747 Fleet – Bloomberg
- MormonLeaks dumps 4 new documents about LDS Church – KSL (good, another cult that needs more investigation)
- Fox News host Shep Smith defends CNN in monologue: No journalist ‘should be subjected to belittling’ by president-elect – BusinessInsider
- Donald Trump to America: I Won, Accountability Is Over – NYMag
- The piles of folders and documents at Trump’s press conference were all blank and fake. – Twitter
- Mexican president: ‘Of course’ we won’t pay for Trump’s wall – CNN (fake)
- Trump melts down on Twitter: ‘Are we living in Nazi Germany?’ – CNBC (no, this is just a reality show)
Terra Nullus
- Spectacular cloud photographed over Australia – BBC
- Hanson confident One Nation can win on its own in QLD – The Age (probably, big support up here in 19th century QLD)
- Peter Dutton eats a $4000 dinner, charges taxpayers for it – The Age (I wonder how many refugees that could feed?)
- Affordable housing needs action now – AFR (developers though? hmmm)
Other:
- Baboons Can Make Humanlike Speech Sounds – New research suggests our last common ancestor with these monkeys possessed the vocal machinery needed to speak. – ScientificAmerican
- A cardboard centrifuge separates blood cells from plasma in 2 minutes. Based on an ancient toy, it costs 20 cents and weighs just 2 grammes – The Economist
- Star Wars-loving scientists want to name new gibbon species ‘Skywalker’ – CNN
- Could Dark Streaks in Venus’ Clouds Be Signs of Alien Life? – Space.com
- A New Theory Says The Moon Might Have Been Formed From 20 Mini Moons – Smithsonian
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Love this Australia Day ad, even though I’m not a nationalist, it does make me proud to see the diversity of humans that call Australia a safe home – haveagoodweekend!