Category Archives: Daily Digest

• FCC’s robocall blocking plan may finally give you some relief
• House passes family leave with support of Lamont
• Colorado becomes first state in nation to cap price of insulin
• Boulder County commissioners see permanent supportive housing as potential homelessness solution
• One of the largest environmental protests ever is underway. It’s led by children.
• Lawyers are optimistic that the youths’ climate change lawsuit will go to trial
• Brazilian couple spends 20 years planting millions of trees on a barren cattle ranch to create a 1,750-acre paradise for animals pushed out by deforestation
• Seven acres of vacant Atlanta land to become nation’s largest public food forest

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• U.S. Manufacturing Index Dips to Lowest Level in Almost a Decade
• World marks 30 years since Tiananmen massacre as China censors all mention
• Venezuela Defaults on Gold Swap With Deutsche Bank
• The real cost of Trump’s tariffs on Mexico, explained
• U.S. Companies Add Fewest Jobs Since 2010, ADP Data Show
• New York school district pauses on facial recognition system
• A bill to halt facial recognition tech in schools
• The Peasants’ Revolt
• Facebook wants to send ’emotional’ robots to explore the world on tank-style tracks and scan the faces of people to ‘help users make friends’
• Crypto Commons
• Truth, Lies and Inflation
• A Look at the Future of Lithium Ion Batteries
• Oilfield Services Feel The Pain As Crude Prices Drop
• Elon Musk’s mega-constellations of Starlink artificial satellites will taint our view of the night sky, warn astronomers
• Climate change could pose ‘existential threat’ by 2050: report
• Ocean Acidification Innovation Act of 2019

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• Japan’s pension system inadequate in aging society, council warns
• Australia’s central bank cuts rates to record lows as growth sags
• Global Manufacturing Shrinks Amid Wall Street Recession Warning
• The Huge Asset Bubble You Aren’t Paying Attention To
• Inflation’s decline puts pressure back on ECB
• Civil War II Weather Report: Spicy Time Coming
• KLM Airlines wants to help build a more efficient jet with in-wing seating
• Number of Homeless People Jumps 12% Across L.A. County to Nearly 59,000
• Rare Earth Metals Caught in Trade War
• North American Imports Of OPEC Crude Oil Drop In 2018
• Heat, not drought, will drive lower crop yields, researchers say

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• Druckenmiller Piled Into Treasuries on Trump’s China Tweet
• Quest Diagnostics says 11.9 million patients affected by data breach
• Uncomfortable Questions on a Suffering, Paralyzed Nation
• Moscow ‘withdraws hundreds of key defense advisers from Venezuela with just a few dozen now left in the country’ in a fresh blow to President Maduro
• Mysterious light is spotted ‘moving at a high speed’ above multiple Chinese cities, sparking media speculation Beijing is secretly testing ‘a hypersonic nuclear missile that can reach the US’
• JAMA study: The cost of brand-name prescription drugs doubles every 7 to 8 years
• Millennials’ habits are threatening countless industries — but a new report says it’s only because they’re poorer than their parents
• Is Trump Reversing Course On Iran?
• FDA confirms PFAS chemicals are in the US food supply
• India weather: Temperature passes 50C Celsius in northern India

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• Chinese warships cause surprise in Sydney Harbour
• Trump’s New Tariff Actions: A Wakeup Call to Global Markets
• U.S. prepared to talk to Iran with ‘no preconditions’, Iran sees ‘word-play’
• China, Mexico Signal Willingness to Step Up Trade Talks With U.S.
• U.S. Officials Meet in Secret Over Junk-Loan Frenzy as Recession Alarms Flash
• Majority of Americans Don’t Know They’ve Been Affected by a Data Breach
• Google resolves cloud outage that took down YouTube, Snapchat, and Discord
• NASA taps 3 companies for commercial moon missions
• ‘The pain is just beginning’: After 38,000 layoffs, Wall Street wakes up to ‘peak car’
• Suncoast residents urged to get vaccinated against measles
• Nearly 8 Months After Hurricane Michael, Florida Panhandle Feels Left Behind

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• North Korea executes envoy to failed U.S. summit -media; White House monitoring
• Let’s Discuss Brexit (and How the EU Bragged, on Film, About Screwing the UK)
• Financial Advisers, Future Predictions, and Three-Breasted Mars Women
• Artificial intelligence learns teamwork in a deadly game of capture the flag
• Is This the Universal Basic Income That Americans Will Buy?
• Oh that it should come to this
• How Clean Is “Freedom Gas”?
• Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia

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• Complex life may only exist because of millions of years of groundwork by ancient fungi
• National Spelling Bee, at a Loss for Words, Crowns 8 Co-Champions
• The Hyperloop Concept Is Finally Growing Up
• Zero emissions: Amsterdam is boldly getting rid of diesel and gas vehicles.
• First ever solar eclipse film brought back to life
• Hope in a Changing Climate – by John D. Liu
• How to green the world’s deserts and reverse climate change | Allan Savory
• From ridicule to hero: The history of the eco-warrior

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• China Gears Up to Weaponize Rare Earths in Trade War
• A Million People Could Lose Their Pensions If Congress Doesn’t Act
• Dressbarn, CVS, Pier 1 and Topshop shuttering stores, pushing planned closures to 7,150
• After Destroying Brick and Mortars, Amazon Reportedly Planning to Cut Ties With Thousands of Small Vendors
• From Colombia, Venezuelan defectors arm themselves to ‘liberate’ their homeland
• In Venezuela, criminals feel the pinch of an economic crisis
• Silver – Eight Years Later
• Serbian troops on full alert after Kosovo police arrests
• Miliband: Ebola situation is getting worse
• Globalists Only Need One More Major Event To Finish Sabotaging The Economy
• In Rural West Texas, Illegal Border Crossings Are Routine For U.S. Citizens
• South Sudan struggles to increase oil production after war
• IEA rings alarm bell on phasing out nuclear energy
• Crop Catastrophe In The Midwest – Latest USDA Crop Progress Report Indicates That A Nightmare Scenario Is Upon Us

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• Illinois to ask residents to vote on how income tax is levied on 2020 ballot
• China’s First Bank Seizure Since 1998 Shows Hidden Loan Risk
• China showing signs similar to Japanese housing bubble that led to its ‘lost decades’, expert warns
• EU likely to start disciplinary steps vs Italy in June over debt
• Lost Decade Specter Haunts Latin America as Big Economies Falter
• Americans are old and having fewer kids. That’s a huge risk to the economy
• A high level financial discussion on where the economy is heading with Jeff Gundlach & Danielle DiMartino Booth
• Eliminating Free Speech The Smart Way
• ‘American Soil’ Is Increasingly Foreign Owned
• GM plans own large EV charging network in the US, can’t be bothered to invest in it itself
• By Crashing Walmart Meeting, Sanders Provides Preview Of Socialism Under His Watch
• Electric truck maker and prospective GM plant buyer Workhorse ‘barely hanging on,’ report says
• Last male Sumatran rhino in Malaysia dies, eliminating chance of saving the species in the country

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• Amazon Is Poised to Unleash a Long-Feared Purge of Small Supplier
• Morgan Stanley: If The Trade War Doesn’t End Soon, It Will Cause Enough Economic Erosion To Crash Markets
• Americans are doing a poor job at saving for retirement, according to the Federal Reserve
• Why America Can’t Solve Homelessness
• ‘Dear NIMBYs’ — An Open Letter From A Homeless Woman In LA
• Cruel and Unusual: A Guide to California’s Broken Prisons and the Fight to Fix Them
• Sydney facing first water restrictions in a decade as drought grips New South Wales
• As recycling struggles it’s still vital – and it’s still not nearly enough
• Treated like trash: south-east Asia vows to return mountains of rubbish from west

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