Category Archives: Daily Digest

• ‘We can’t take it anymore’: As Lebanon economy skids, jobs in firing line
• 70% of Americans say they are struggling financially
• Trump ignores Pentagon advice and intervenes in military war crimes cases
• Hong Kong protesters confront police to try to free campus allies
• ‘Absolutely No Mercy’: Leaked Files Expose How China Organized Mass Detentions of Muslims
• Amazon rolls out ‘Amazon Pharmacy’ branding to PillPack
• Egon von Greyerz: Unprecedented Risk – Are You 50% Gold
• Food shortages cripple Bolivia, new elections still uncertain
• San Francisco And NYC Begin To See The Ugly Side Of Socialism
• YouTube says it will crack down on recommending conspiracy videos
• Exclusive: Haiti’s president warns of humanitarian crisis, calls for support
• Cybercrime Booms As Scammers Hack Human Nature To Steal Billions
• Oh that it should come to this, part 15 – The Earth War
• China Reports 3 Cases Of The Most Dangerous Type Of Plague
• The world’s most valuable company: Saudi Arabia puts $1.7 trillion price tag on its oil monopoly
• Venice hit by record third exceptional tide in one week
• Greens Senate bid to overturn GMO regulation fails

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• Report: Global debt reaches record high, led by U.S., China
• Americans Are Cutting Back On Other Monthly Expenses To Afford Healthcare Premiums
• AP Photos: Hong Kong protesters resort to medieval weapons
• Chinese troops join Hong Kong cleanup as protesters retreat
• Goldman Sachs settles bond-rigging lawsuit
• U.S. charges another ex-JPMorgan executive with alleged market manipulation
• Protests grip major Iran cities over gas prices; 1 killed
• Port Report: LA port sees biggest October box drop in 24 years
• Trump admin preparing to take over private land in Texas for border wall
• AP sources: Jail guards at time of Epstein death reject deal
• Coalition Finds 3K Pounds of Trash, Toxins at Illegal Pot Farm in California
• New COMEX Pledged Gold: Shrinking The Pool Of Registered Inventory
• Understanding The Deep State’s Propaganda
• Sears To Close A Third Of Its Remaining Stores As Iconic Retailer Fades Away
• U.S. restaurants remove dining rooms to speed off-site food frenzy
• Fed: Farm finances deteriorate more amid weather, trade woes
• Why Growing Food is The Single Most Impactful Thing You Can Do in a Corrupt Political System

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• State Court Bars Using North Carolina House Map in 2020 Elections
• Artist designs phoenix sculpture from donated keys of homes destroyed in the Paradise Camp Fire
• Tiny deer-like animal thought lost to science photographed for first time in 30 years
• The Volkspod VW Beetle Minibikes Are Part Creepy, Part Adorable
• Simple blood test for early detection of breast cancer
• How Meditation Can Help You Make Fewer Mistakes, According to Largest Study of Its Kind
• China Achieves Notable Success of Reaching Ultra-Low Emissions in Advance of the 2020 Goal
• Snoqualmie Tribe buys Salish Lodge and adjacent land for $125 million, halting nearby development
• Plastic substitute from fish waste hauls in Dyson award for UK designer
• Renewables meet 50% of electricity demand on Australia’s power grid for first time
• Heineken Joins the Ranks of Major Beer Companies Ditching Plastic 6-Pack Rings for Compostable Alternatives
• Philippines: The boy diving for plastic

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• Chile’s finance minister calls for return to ‘normality’ as peso slides
• Highways on Fire. Semesters Cut Short. A Recession. Can Hong Kong Heal?
• Something Nasty is Coming in the Financial Markets – Rob Kirby
• Man killed as protests sweep Lebanon after Aoun interview
• Top Middle-Class Concerns
• Revisiting the Dow to Gold Ratio
• FBI Reports Dip In Hate Crimes, But Rise In Violence
• The FBI Says Violent Hate Crimes Have Surged To A 16-Year High. Activists Aren’t Surprised.
• Police Don’t Do a Good Job Tracking Hate Crimes. A New Report Calls on Congress to Take Action.
• US held record number of migrant children in custody in 2019
• Two people diagnosed with pneumonic plague in China
• Major fish nurseries are awash in microplastics
• Worst floods for 50 years bring Venice to ‘its knees’

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• Despite Obamacare, a ‘shockingly high’ number of people know someone who died after being unable to afford health care
• Argentina Is Running Dangerously Low on Dollars to Pay Back Debt
• Moody’s cuts global sovereign rating outlook to “negative” for 2020
• Supreme Court lets Sandy Hook families sue gun maker Remington Arms
• UK General Election Forecast
• Trump calls U.S.-China deal ‘close’ in speech where he blasts Fed and touts economic successes
• Clinton says she is being urged by ‘many, many, many people’ to run in 2020
• Blackstone Group Warns of the Mother of All Bubbles
• Give me some of that: Trump renews call for negative U.S. interest rates
• Trump Impeachment And The Civil War Scenario
• America’s largest milk producer files for bankruptcy
• 5 Global Trends Shaping Our Climate Future
• ‘Unnoticed Apocalypse’: Dying Insects Put Humankind’s Existence at Risk
• Bacteria may contribute more to climate change as planet heats up
• Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
• In a first, microplastics found in human poop
• Growing pile of human and animal waste harbors threats, opportunities

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• Hong Kong violence prompts reminder that China troops close at hand
• Man set on fire in Hong Kong hours after protester was shot
• Lebanon central bank says bank deposits are safe, banks to review curbs
• Google signs healthcare data and cloud computing deal with Ascension
• Conestoga Huts for the homeless a solution for the Northwest?
• The Case Against Boeing
• Death By Oligarchy
• How The Deep State “Justifies” Itself In America
• The Burning Platform: Stranger In A Strange Land
• “I Survived Communism – Are You Ready For Your Turn?”
• ‘Your vehicle burns a lot of fuel:’ Victoria drivers wake up to angry notes
• Hundreds of schools to be shut down across Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle as New South Wales faces catastrophic bushfire risk
• Regional mayors criticise politicians for failing to link climate change and deadly bushfires
• It’s only October, so what’s with all these bushfires? New research explains it
• Extinction Rebellion isn’t about the Climate
• The Earth could be entering a planetary fire age
• Lest We Ignore
• There’s a hidden consequence of climate change: A deadly virus that’s killing key marine species

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• Two of the world’s biggest economies are at risk of recession
• A $45,000 Loan for a $27,000 Ride: More Borrowers Are Going Underwater on Car Loans
• Bolivia’s Morales resigns after protests, lashes out at ‘coup’
• Why Everyone Missed the Most Mind-Blowing Feature of Cryptocurrency
• The Deutsche Bank Death Watch Has Taken A Very Interesting Turn
• CEO departures hit a new high in October, on pace for a record year
• The collapse of America’s cities into Third World conditions
• Veterans Day: The Forgotten History of America’s Veterans Day and What It Commemorates
• The Right-Wing Smear Artist Behind the Web’s Biggest Blacklist
• Rural police struggle to recruit amid poor pay and public perception
• Daimler to cut 1,100 management positions worldwide, reports say
• The Countries With the Biggest Military Budgets
• US nuclear reactor shut down after officials discover leak
• The Stage Is Set For Oil Price Volatility On November 18th
• Lebanon dollar shortage shuts down gasoline pumps
• Australian state declares emergency, faces ‘catastrophic’ fire danger
• Thousands face life-threatening floods from aging dams
• Rising Sea Levels Will Threaten 200 Million People by 2100

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• China Says Tariffs Will Go, But U.S. Doubts Remain
• Carney’s Green Crypto Currency: Precursor to a Financial Meltdown
• America is facing a pension crisis. Retirees will pay the price if we don’t act now
• Doug Casey: ‘We’re looking at an actual collapse of Western civilization’
• Georgia in top 20 in the US for most overweight residents, report says
• Rural Americans are more likely to die from preventable causes, CDC reports
• Plans for a global Dystopia
• Man lost his house over $8.41 in unpaid property taxes
• As electric vehicles age, here’s how the batteries are finding a second life
• River Of Trash
• Why frackers are using sewage to collect oil and gas
• How Scientists Got Climate Change So Wrong

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• Oklahoma parole board OKs largest-ever US mass commutation
• Americans saving more money for a rainy day
• NFL player Carl Nassib makes millions but sticks to a $3,500 budget for rent, food and bills
• Chicago teachers, students return to class Friday as 15-day strike ends
• GM Strike Ends After Almost 6 Weeks and $2 Billion in Costs
• What the mass resignations at Deadspin tell us about work in America
• ‘On The Backs Of Tortoises’ Challenges Us To Consider How Much Of Life Is Intertwined
• How Deep Sleep May Help The Brain Clear Alzheimer’s Toxins
• A teenager won a $25,000 award for inventing a solution to eliminate blind spots for cars
• NASA astronaut Christina Koch thanks Raleigh city leaders from outer space
• Voyager 2 latest: Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space and makes incredible discovery
• The Renewable Solution To One Of The World’s Dirtiest Industries

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• Chileans debate in the streets in ‘first act of revolution’ to determine their future
• Three Facts You Haven’t Heard Much About Are Keys to Better Policy Toward Central America
• Opinion: Why the prospective $70 billion buyout of Walgreens may signal the stock-market rally is about to end
• Leaked documents show Facebook leveraged user data to fight rivals and help friends
• Gold prices at the bottom of their range, down but not out – Analysts
• Gold is the Alpha Currency
• CDC Estimates Millions of Cases of Heart Disease, Other Illness Are Linked to Abuse, Childhood Trauma
• Insomnia in adults linked to heart attack and stroke
• Scientists discover first new HIV strain in nearly two decades
• Oregon senator wants to give small businesses a tax break for hiring the first employee
• Your DNA Profile is Private? A Florida Judge Just Said Otherwise
• Protesters disrupt Las Vegas Council meeting over law banning homeless sleeping on sidewalks
• China Considers Spending Billions On The Aramco IPO
• NASA Flew Gas Detectors Above California, Found ‘Super Emitters’
• Italy’s Students Will Get a Lesson in Climate Change. Many Lessons, in Fact.

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