Global Macro / Markets / Investing:
- Scientists Warn of an ‘Imminent’ Stratospheric Warming Event Around The North Pole – ScienceAlert
- Norway to increase carbon tax from $95/tonne to $240/tonne – Upstream
- The next big risk: Three Wall Street leaders reveal what worries them – Bloomberg
- Chinese start-up leaks 400GB of scraped data exposing over 200 million Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn users – Caltech
- AI, quantum computers and autonomous vehicles are among the fastest-growing areas of technology, – Bloomberg
Americas:
- Twitter suspends 70,000 accounts sharing QAnon content – The Guardian
- COVID-19 job losses will worsen L.A. homelessness by 2023, new report says – LATimes
- Deutsche Bank severs ties with Donald Trump – The Guardian
- Manatee found in Florida river with “Trump” scrawled on its back – WaPo
- Economist Stephen Roach says the US economy’s V-shaped recovery is ‘in tatters’ and the dollar could crash 20% this year – BusinessInsider
Europe/Middle East:
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- Leading human rights group calls Israel an ‘apartheid’ state – APNews
- Families ‘struggling to pay for funerals’ – BBC
- Every time Boris Johnson takes a step forward in his handling of the coronavirus, he seemingly counters with an own goal – Bloomberg
- Italian Government On Verge Of Collapse Amid Battle Over EU COVID Relief – ZH
- Europeans don’t like tech’s Trump ban – Bloomberg
Asia:
- China plans further Hong Kong crackdown after mass arrest by delaying and changing rules for elections – Reuters
- National security law: Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam accuses the West of hypocrisy, defends mass opposition arrests – SCMP
- Japan is scrambling to avoid a nationwide blackout amid a severe cold snap and tight supplies of gas. – NikkeiAsia
Trans-Tasman:
- Australia not among 50 countries vowing to protect 30 per cent of land and sea by 2030 – ABC
- Malcolm Turnbull: ‘Freedom of speech must never mean freedom from responsibility’ – Crikey
- Michael McCormack tells jobless to ‘turn off Netflix’, go bush for work – News.com.au
- Charity Rorts: how private schools and big business rob from the poor to give to the rich – Michael West
- Man charged following alleged abuse of McDonald’s worker over QR code check-in requirement – SMH
- Victoria’s COVID-19 travel permit system goes live as more stories of forced hotel quarantine emerge – ABC
- WA Government to review BHP’s environmental licences in dusty Pilbara town of Newman – ABC
Interesting, etc.
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