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Macro Markets, Economics & Investing
Asia
- US may shoot down North Korean ballistic missile test, Carter says – CNBC
- China’s air pollution crisis shows no sign of ending as nation fails to lower coal use – ABC
- How Japan has almost eradicated gun crime – BBC News
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Europe/Middle East
- Sky News cuts short interview after Rupert Murdoch criticised live on air – Independent (Damn SJW ruining the fun!)
- Greece ends year with surplus – GNN
- Britain facing ‘catastophic’ Brexit because Government is dismissing trade experts – Canadian diplomat says UK government is ‘plodding along without a strategy’ and accuses ministers of ignoring experts – Independent
- U.S. military vowed to increase the scope and complexity of its European training exercises to deter Russian aggression, as more U.S. tanks, trucks and other equipment arrived in Germany for a big buildup on NATO’s eastern flank – Reuters
- Saudi Arabia projects $53 bn deficit in 2017 – Ahram (eep! better plan more hangings then I suppose?)
Americas
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- Tampa activists arrested for feeding the homeless again – CLTampa (what’s next? Not helping thy neighbour?)
- Meryl Streep Calls Out Donald Trump for Mocking Disabled Reporter in Riveting Golden Globes Speech – TheDailyBeast (The Douche-in-Chief responded lamely, of course)
- Did Putin help elect Trump to restore $500 billion Exxon oil deal killed by sanctions – ThinkProgress (what and make the boss of Exxon the SecState? what a wild conspiracy!)
- Anti-Trump Laws: Elizabeth Warren Introduces Presidential Conflicts Of Interest Act Of 2017 – IBTimes
- Conservatives who oppose U.S. debt vote to raise it as a step toward repeal of Affordable Care Act -Sacbee
Terra Nullus
- Australia and East Timor have agreed to begin negotiations on a permanent maritime boundary between the two countries – SCMP (come on Australia, be good neighbours and help the Timorese!)
- Queensland’s medicinal cannabis advocates plea for access to drug – ABC (how many die due to marijuana overdoses vs alcohol related deaths? Yep, its stupid for cannabis to be illegal, but there it is)
- Centerlink’s ‘diabolical’ debt-recovery scheme under investigation – ABC (why don’t these poor people just go buy an investment property?)
- Coal price slide to hit budget revenue hopes – Fairfax…could make a nice bookend with iron ore…
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Other:
- Pope tells women to feel free to breastfeed in church – SGNews (I like this Pope – an actual person first, Christian second)
- Cancer death rate has dropped 25 percent since peaking in 1991. However, significant disparities in cancer burden by gender, race remain. – Cancer.org
- Study suggests Great Barrier Reef nearly destroyed in last interglacial period about 125,000 years ago, and indicates what faces us in the future if climate change continues to take hold. Findings show it almost “drowned” and ceased to be due to higher temperatures that raised sea levels. – Morningticker
- SpaceX’s return to spaceflight pushed back to January 14th -The Verge (eagerly waiting this…..)