Category Archives: Daily Digest

• Iran To Import North Korean missiles In 25-Year Military Deal With China (ms)
• The Military Industrial Complex Has Won
• Exhaled CO2 as COVID-19 infection risk proxy for different indoor environments and activities
• Why Central Bankers Got Serious About Digital Cash
  
• Parents overdose with 2-year-old daughter in the back seat
• U.S. Renewable Energy Consumption Hits Record
• Offshore Oil & Gas Poised For A Major Rebound
• ConocoPhillips Doubles Down On The Permian Basin And Fracking With Concho Acquisition
• As Oil Bankruptcies Surge, Vulture Investors Start Their Long Feast

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• Global Debt Implosion Coming – Egon Von Greyerz
• Stronger Than Steel, Able to Stop a Speeding Bullet—It’s Super Wood!
• The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Forever Alter the World Order
• ‘I’m Still Unemployed’: Millions In Dire Situation As Savings Start To Run Out
• Top US Cities Americans Are Leaving
• Facebook and Twitter’s Intervention Highlights Dangerous New Double Standard
• The “Titanic” Analogy You Haven’t Heard: Passively Accepting Oblivion
• Letter from Indigenous Women

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• Community garden provides refugees with support and comfort through pandemic
• Thousands Arrive in Hawaii on First Day Pre-Travel Testing
• Shoppers Came Back To Department Stores In September, Lifting Retail Sales
• The first room-temperature superconductor has finally been found
• How Transparent Solar Panels and ‘Quantum Dots’ Could Make Skyscrapers Power Themselves
• America’s Largest Solar-Panel Maker Leads the World in Panel Recycling–Recovering 95% of Materials
• Canada is Banning Single-Use Plastic Bags, Straws, and Cutlery Next Year
• Tasmanian devils reintroduced to mainland Australia after 3,000 years

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• Top World Bank Economist Says Financial Crisis Could Emerge From Pandemic (JW)
• Unemployment rate hits highest level in three years
• Fed Official Wonders Whether Treasury Market Can Handle Massive Issuance Alone
• ‘The 25-cent solution’ would have prevented the COVID recession, says the most accurate forecaster
• Top World Bank economist says coronavirus pandemic morphing into ‘major economic crisis’
• OPEC Chief Assures Markets That Oil Prices Won’t Crash Again
• The number of global methane hot spots has soared this year despite the economic slowdown

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• It’s Getting Better and Worse at the Same Time
• The Dangerous Approach of Living Without Purpose
• In a pandemic-driven world, trust in science is rising
• 2 Scientists Awarded Nobel Prize In Chemistry For Genome Editing Research
• Physics Nobel Awarded for Black Hole Breakthroughs
• A Choir Finds a Way to Sing. Just Ignore the Steering Wheel.
• LeBron James joins ‘Breakfast of Champions’ along with Akron I Promise kids on next Wheaties box
• From garden streets to bike highways: four ideas for post-Covid cities – visualised
• The Winners of the 2020 Drone Photo Awards

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• Pence, Harris spar over COVID-19 in vice presidential debate
• How Uber and Lyft Are Buying Labor Laws
• Inside the Estonian CBDC Experiment That Could Shape the Digital Euro
• Christopher Roach: The 3rd Worlding of America
• We Spent A Year Investigating Police Dogs. Here Are Six Takeaways.
• Palantir Stock: Peter Thiel’s Shiny Object Needs Money
• Billionaire Trumpkin Peter Thiel “really enjoyed” meeting with prominent white nationalist
• Work Zone Crashes Climb During Pandemic, Even as Traffic Ebbs
• I Was Prescribed Trump’s Steroid. It Made Me Feel Invincible
• No jab, no movement? UK MP pushes mandatory Covid-19 vaccination for travel, suggests army should oversee rollout
• Illinois Has Had COVID-19 Outbreaks in 44 Schools but Won’t Say Where They’ve Occurred

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• Stocks fall after Trump tweets he’ll delay stimulus talks; move follows Fed’s Powell urging Congress to approve a robust plan
• Trump’s erratic tweets on economic relief — over several hours — leave strategy unclear
• Washington’s worst-kept secret
• D.C. Reports Highest Coronavirus Caseload In Four Months
• The F.D.A. releases stricter guidelines for vaccine developers after a holdup at the White House
• Women, minorities rush to get concealed carry permits, up 34%
• Reaching Immunity: A Private Summit of Epidemiologists Against Lockdowns (Video)
• Hospitals Failing To Meet New COVID-19 Data Reporting Mandate To Get Warning Letters
• ‘We Need to Take Away Children,’ No Matter How Young, Justice Dept. Officials Said
• “Sociopathy”: Psychiatrist says Trump’s behavior “meets criteria for a locked psychiatric facility”
• Making People Superfluous: Hannah Arendt On Ideology And Totalitarianism
• Hurricane Delta Makes Landfall In Yucatan Peninsula, Then a Threat to U.S. Gulf Coast Late This Week

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• Goldman’s chief economist breaks down why a Biden-led blue wave would prompt an upgrade in growth forecasts
• Some gold with your gas and groceries? Costco enters the gold bullion market
• Mothers’ Careers Are at Extraordinary Risk Right Now
• SEC Raises Bar For Shareholder Resolutions
• Gadfly Importance Key to Democratic CorpGov
• John McAfee, Software Pioneer Who Fled the Law, Is Arrested in Spain
• This Is How John McAfee Made USD 23m For Shilling ICOs (According to SEC)
• I never thought I would leave America. But 2020 has me keeping my options open.
• Lockdown: The New Totalitarianism
• White House Is Not Tracing Contacts for ‘Super-Spreader’ Rose Garden Event
• James Howard Kunstler: How Dare He Recover?!
• Nine Days in Wuhan, the Ground Zero of the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Our World In Data: Excess mortality during COVID-19: The raw number of deaths from all causes compared to previous years, United States
• California fire season shatters record with more than 4 million acres burned

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• There’s No Place to Hide Anymore When the Stock Market Plunges
• The Daily 202: A dozen questions to gauge the political ramifications of Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis
• Voters, voting rights groups sue Gov. Greg Abbott over order to close ballot drop-off locations
• The Truth About Today’s Anarchists
• Economic Prism: “In America Money Does Grow on Trees”
• Campus Reform: Oregon State prof blames ‘White Christians’ for West Coast wildfires
• Estimated Surface Decay of SARS-CoV-2 (virus that causes COVID-19)
• The FDA-approved drug ivermectin inhibits the replication of SARS-CoV-2 in vitro
• Physicists build circuit that generates clean, limitless power from graphene
• Mystery of Chinese seeds near solved
• Study found plastic in every seafood sample it analyzed
• University Of Cumbria: Adaptation Radicale and Collapsology discussed in France

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• Trump Tests Positive for Covid-19, and the World Shudders
• US futures and global markets rattled after Trump tests positive for coronavirus
• Britain is risking a car-crash Brexit of food shortages, another recession and isolation
• The covid-19 recession is the most unequal in modern U.S. history
• “No, Not Trump, Not Ever”: Second Debate Moderator Worked For Biden, Tweeted Resistance Screed
• How One Piece of Hardware Took Down a $6 Trillion Stock Market
• Texas governor restricts mail-in ballot drop-off locations
• The Attack On Voting In The 2020 Elections
• A 911 caller said a Latino man was kidnapping a white child. The toddler was his grandson
• Covid-19’s stunningly unequal death toll in America, in one chart
• N.Y.C.’s School Testing Plan May Miss Large Outbreaks, Study Finds
• The data scientist exposing US white supremacists: ‘This is how you fight Nazis’
• Millions of Americans risk losing power and water as massive, unpaid utility bills pile up
• World’s richest 1% cause double CO2 emissions of poorest 50%, says Oxfam
• How the oil industry made us doubt climate change

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