Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Germany may fine Facebook up to 500,000 Euros for every fake news article it publishes – Independent (can we do that for The Oz/Fairfax/et al? Could fix the budget black hole…)
- Hedge fund winners and losers emerge as year ends on better note – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Uber lost more than $800 million in third quarter 2016 – Reuters
- The Latest: Trump wins Electoral College vote, presidency – APNews (sigh….the Idiocracy is confirmed)
- Obama to Block Oil Leases in Parts of Arctic, Atlantic – Bloomberg
- House Republicans shut down investigation into Flint water crisis, blame EPA instead – Salon (classy….)
- Ted Nugent and Kid Rock basically the only musicians willing to play Trump’s inauguration – AVClub (no comment…actually, I will comment – they’re considered musicians? WTF?)
- Time to End the Electoral College – NY Times
Europe:
- The Entire Internet History of UK Citizens Now Viewable by Government Organizations Such as Police, Military, Taxes, Jobs and Pensions – Vigilant Citizen
- Russia calls ambassador assassination ‘a terrorist act’ – Independent
- EU formally extends Russia sanctions – Reuters
- Brexit: Theresa May hints Britain will still pay into the EU budget, despite being told it would be ‘betraying’ voters – Independent
- ‘All of Sweden’ to get fast broadband by 2025. At least 98% 1Gbit/s, 1.9% 100Mbit/s, 0.1% 30Mbit/s. – The Local (oh. my.. Dog.)
- Germany’s Angela Merkel: We Have to Assume Berlin Incident Was Terrorist Attack – Bloomberg
Asia/Middle East:
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- For the first time in nearly 150 years, India’s economy surpasses that of United Kingdom – Times of India – Times of India
- China returns seized US sea drone – BBC
- Saudi Arabia Finally Admits to Using Cluster Bombs in Yemen–Compared to Lengthy Pattern of Denials – Just Security
- Beijing’s ‘smog refugees’ flee the capital for cleaner air down south | South China Morning Post
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Other:
- Pets should be considered a main, not marginal role in supporting people with long term mental health problems – BMC Psychiatry (yet another reason to put your faith in Dog!)
- Religion in the US is declining and mirroring patterns in the Western World – UCL (Thank Dog Below for that!)
- Jediism is not a religion, UK ruling says. – BBC (Bollocks…its as real as any other!)
- NASA successfully grows lettuce in space – IGN (now, let’s grow Potatoes on Mars)
- ALPHA experiment at CERN observes the light spectrum of antimatter for the first time – Interactions.org
- Astronomers just released the largest digital survey of the visible Universe – Sciencealert