Macro Markets & Investing
- Bitcoin breaks $1,000 level, highest in more than 3 years – CNBC
- Pope Francis: Youth Slipping Away Due to Poverty, Unemployment – Newsweek (Basic Income anyone?)
Asia
- Heavy smog continues to choke China’s heartland – CNBC
- Drone footage of smog in Beijing shocks viewers – SCMP
- Phillipines President welcomes Russian Navy ships as Manila forges Russian ties – ABC
- South Korea’s President refuses to testify in impeachment trial – SCMP
Europe/Middle East
- Investigators question Israel’s Netanyahu over alleged receipt of gifts – Reuters
- Italy’s anti-mafia squad in overdrive as asylum seekers flood into Europe – ABC
- Israelâ’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms – UN (but, they’re a democracy, they can do what they want! So says the logic…)
- Iraqi VP Nouri al-Maliki: Saudi Arabia Is the Breeding Ground for Terrorism in the Middle East – AH Tribune (you don’t say…its a hive of scum and villainy, yet another “State” supported by the West)
- Uk House of Lords revolt over Government reforms to ‘turn university world upside down’ – Lords warn the new Higher Education and Research Bill could allow private companies to run institutions as businesses, driving a ‘marketisation’ of the sector -Independent
Americas
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- Puerto Rico’s new gov promises immediate push for statehood – Yahoo (I thought Straya was the 51st state?)
- After declaring porn a ‘public health crisis,’ Utah lawmaker wants to pave way for lawsuits against pornography companies. – KSL (haven’t you God botherers got something better to do than regulate porn?)
- Obama to deliver farewell address in Chicago on January 10 – Reuters
- With No Warning, House Republicans Vote to Hobble Independent Ethics Office – NYT (refill the swamp!)
- Yes, Donald Trump ‘lies.’ A lot. And news organizations should say so. – Wapo (yep – its your duty as a journalist to do the fact checking and report when someone is lieing. Repeatedly)
- Poll: Most Americans Don’t Think Donald Trump Can Handle Being President – Time (I reckon two years tops…anyone want to start a Deadpool?)
- It’s Not About the Economy: In an increasingly polarized country, even economic progress can’t get voters to abandon their partisan allegiance. – The Atlantic
Terra Nullus
- Welfare systems ‘crude’ new data-matching system falsely claims people owe large amounts of money – Business Insider
- The Australian Government Wants To Use Your Phone And Email Records In Court – gizmodo
- Why bad housing design pumps up power prices for everyone – The Conversation (I see this everywhere when I travel on working holidays – why build Victorian houses which need massive A/C units in tropical Queensland?)
- Stocks surge as the party continues in 2017 – The Age
- WA mining stocks reboom as iron ore price surges – ABC News
- History suggests Australia could be left behind in next industrial revolution – The Conversation (nah, yeah its all good. We’ve got a vibrant manufacturing industry, record STEM jobs available, huge public investment in the…what? oh sorry, just joking….)
Other:
- Arnold Schwarzenegger: ‘Go part-time vegetarian to protect the planet’ – “Emissions from farming, forestry and fisheries have nearly doubled over the past 50 years and may increase by another 30% by 2050” – BBC
- Indian firm makes carbon capture breakthrough: Carbonclean is turning planet-heating emissions into profit by converting CO2 into baking powder – The Guardian
- Chinese scientists solve quantum communication’s ‘nocturnal curse’, paving way for sending of secure messages 24/7 | Using photons with a longer wavelength makes long-distance transmission possible during daylight hours – SCMP (fascinating!)
- Scotland set to pilot universal basic income scheme in Fife and Glasgow – “we must free ourselves of the notion that everyone has to work for a living, as technological advances will make many jobs redundant.” – Independent
- Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it has found cause of rocket explosion and plans to fly again Sunday – WaPo (OH YEAH!)
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