From Jenna Orkin

In first, Russian test strikes satellite using Earth-based missile

Pfizer deal would allow experimental covid-19 pill to be manufactured around the world

Deadly scorpions leave 500 Egyptians in hospital following flooding

Latvia bans unvaccinated MPs from voting and suspends pay

Emirates will soon fly the world's largest twin-engine cargo plane in a landmark deal with an Israeli company

Americans spent more than ever in October as the Delta wave faded away, shrugging off the highest inflation in 30 years

Authorities in India are planning a new lockdown not to combat COVID-19, but air pollution

Tesla has fallen 13% after Elon Musk sold almost $8 billion in stock over the past week. Here's what 5 experts - including Michael Burry of 'The Big Short' - have said about the electric car maker's future share price

Defense secretary pretended to be a 'madman' to prevent Trump from bombing Iran: book

More retirees are returning to the workforce as vaccination rates increase and the labor shortage boosts salaries

• Over 2.5% of retired workers "unretired" last month, per the researcher and US Census Bureau data

 

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In a disastrous drought, a grim milestone: California could see its first big reservoir run dry

China slaughtering pets of COVID patients under draconian new law

Under scrutiny, U.S. admits airstrikes killed numerous civilians in Syria years ago

Hackers compromise FBI email system, send thousands of messages

Russia: Belarus Didn’t Coordinate With Moscow Threat To Halt Gas To Europe

1. Taiwan is overhauling how it trains reserve troops. It may still not be enough to hold off a Chinese invasion.

   Sen. Patrick Leahy, who presided over Trump's 2nd impeachment trial and is currently the longest serving senator, announces his retirement

   A man paralyzed in an Amazon van crash is suing the company, arguing its surveillance tech makes drivers rush on the road, a report says

   The scientist who helped Moderna become a vaccine powerhouse tells us why he thinks gene editing is the future for the $91 billion biotech

   Watch: Steve Bannon surrenders to the FBI after being indicted on 2 counts of contempt of Congress

   Gaddafi's son emerges for first time in decade to run for president

 

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Belarus leader floats idea of cutting gas to Europe in migrant standoff

Former FDA head warns of post-Thanksgiving spike in COVID-19 cases

Philippine politics is so unpredictable that Duterte looks set to run against his own daughter for VP

FBI email system compromised by hackers who sent fake cyberattack alert

Reminiscence About Max Cleland by Co-Author

Humans Have Broken One of The Natural Power Laws Governing Earth's Oceans

Road Deaths Are Soaring Even As Americans Are Driving Less

Trump's former communications director says she thinks Mike Pence will run against him in 2024, and Ron DeSantis and Mike Pompeo might too

Let's make a deal: Trump called Chris Christie when they were both hospitalized with COVID-19 to make sure he wouldn't be blamed for the infection, book says

Employers who claim they're experiencing a worker shortage are ignoring a giant, untapped pool of talent

Facing a low employment rate and a challenge to find workers, companies must tap the large, available pool of women who are over 50 years old. 

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Some Immunocompromised People Can Get Fourth Dose

Austria likely to approve lockdown for unvaccinated people

3 snow leopards killed by COVID at Lincoln Children’s Zoo in Nebraska

Sudanese protesters return to streets as military consolidates post-coup grip

Russia Dispatches Paratroopers to Belarus as Tensions Soar (VOA) 

With a population of only 300,000 people, why should you care how these people heat their homes? As it turns out, propane in Michigan is at the center of a titanic struggle between environmentalists and the fossil fuel industry, and the result of that struggle could substantially alter the course of our energy policy for decades to come. It is not an exaggeration to say the battle over Line 5 is the most important confrontation since the proposed Keystone Pipeline project – and most of you have probably never even heard of it.

Rockefeller heirs are taking aim at JPMorgan and other banks for pouring trillions into fossil fuels by bringing other rich families into the battle

Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting their jobs at more than twice the record national average

A shocking chart shows how Democrats want to give a tax cut to the top 1% that's 6 times bigger than any other wealth bracket

Meet the West Virginia family that lost half their income because the parents couldn't get 2 weeks of paid leave: 'There were times I had to wait until payday to get my kids their prescriptions'

Two weeks of paid leave would've allowed Edmund Vance to keep his mining job. It took four years for him and his wife, JoAnna, to financially recover.

 

From Jenna Orkin

1. Justice Department charges Steve Bannon with criminal contempt of Congress

   Austria likely to approve lockdown for unvaccinated people

   Andrew Cuomo barred his health dept. from working with NYC officials during pandemic, ex-honcho says

   American journalist Danny Fenster sentenced to 11 years in Myanmar prison
   

   COVID-19 Patients who are Unvaccinated by Choice to be Responsible for their Medical Bills

   Overseas travelers arriving in a major Chinese city are required to quarantine for 56 days — that's 28 days in a hotel and 28 days at home

   From the "It's China's fault" file: The International Space Station swerved to narrowly avoid Chinese space junk. A major impact would be a disaster.

   Colombia's president says the latest kingpin to be captured is as big as Escobar. That may not be a good sign.

   "What is worrisome after the arrest of Otoniel is not if he was bigger than Pablo Escobar," one expert said. "[It] is who is next."

   Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been granted permission to get married in London's high security Belmarsh Prison

2. Record 4.4 million Americans quit their jobs in September

 

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Contract lawyers face a growing invasion of surveillance programs that monitor their work

Belarus’s Lukashenko threatens to cut gas supply, warning Europe: If you sanction us again, we’ll freeze you

Macron says France will build new nuclear energy reactors

Germany recommends only Biontech/Pfizer vaccine for under-30s

Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken praised Romania as a stalwart NATO Ally and both agreed to collaborate on Black Sea security issues and Russian aggression against Ukraine and others on NATO’s Eastern Flank...

Neighbors of Belarus say migrant crisis risks military clash

Europe at global epicentre as COVID deaths and cases continue to rise 

The use of crypto is not Shariah compliant and should be banned for Muslims, Indonesia's religious authority says

But cryptoassets as commodities can be traded if they can exhibit clear benefits and can abide by the principles of Shariah, Bloomberg first reported.

Beyond Meat plummets 20% on sharp 3rd-quarter earnings miss and weak sales outlook

Take a look at the cab-less driverless 'Pods' that could one day turn truck driving into a desk job

Wealthy Americans may get a tax cut 10 times bigger than a middle-class family in the Biden social spending bill

 

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Chinese authorities fear packages could be spreading COVID-19

Boston shuts down school for 10 days due to COVID-19 outbreak

Earth’s peatlands store twice as much carbon as its forests. So will they be a ‘carbon bomb’ or a climate solution?

A Mesmerizing Dance Performance for the Paralympics Hand Off Ceremony 

Wind and solar could meet 85 percent of current US electricity needs

Capitol riot suspect seeks political asylum in Belarus

Missouri schools are hiring their own students to plug staff shortages, a report says

Some employers with just under 100 staff are wary of hiring more workers and being sucked into Biden's vaccine mandate, according to a report

United will stop flying to 11 US cities indefinitely: list

The world could face a shortage of 1 to 2 billion vaccine syringes by 2022, says the WHO

• A massive syringe shortage could delay children's vaccines against common illnesses.

 

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Bus set on fire in Northern Ireland amid post Brexit tension

China Builds Missile Targets Shaped Like U.S. Aircraft Carrier, Destroyers in Remote Desert

Coronavirus boosters likely for years to come: Pharmacy Guild

Brothel offers free sex ‘session’ to patrons who get COVID vaxx on-site

Moscow explains why American ships loaded with precision weaponry are in Black Sea

Entire Bay Area is back in CDC's orange and red tiers for COVID spread

Texas filling border barrier gaps with shipping containers

killing two birds with one stone - way to go!

Vaccine mandate could cost border patrol more than half of its agents, internal report says

Video shows how former attorney general Geoffrey Cox makes £400k a year cashing in on his government experience

Sir Geoffrey Cox, a former attorney general, earns £813 an hour working as a consultant for law firm Withers, and worked remotely from the Caribbean.

Massachusetts towns offer snowplow drivers up to $310 an hour, fearing that the labor shortage may force winter school delays

Keynesian Economics: A Depression-era idea that's seen a resurgence in the 21st century

Keynesian economics is a theory that advocates increased government expenditures and lower taxes to stimulate demand.

NYC is getting its own city coin in line with the incoming mayor's crypto hub vision

3 reasons why Kentucky is the center of the labor shortage

Kentucky had the highest quit rate in August thanks to low wages and lack of access to childcare. 

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U.S. lifts travel ban on 33 countries as cases in Europe surge

Coup Dashes Hopes for Democratic Transition in Sudan

China Fights Its Largest Delta Outbreak Yet

Turkey Sells 200 Tons Gold to Iran (archive)

U.S. Military Jury Condemns Terrorist’s Torture and Urges Clemency

Conflict In North Africa Threatens Gas Supply To Europe

Regeneron Protects Eight Months

1. Why Russia's only aircraft carrier may be cursed

   It's not just Jack Ma. More and more Chinese tech founders and CEOs are retreating from the spotlight.

   Carlyle says it will stick with institutional investors even as peers chase wealthy individuals. Here's what's really going on.

   Ether hits fresh record high and bitcoin surges, sending total crypto market cap to $3 trillion for the first time

   A mountain of unsold clothing from fast fashion retailers is piling up in the Chilean desert

   Houston's police chief met with Travis Scott ahead of his Astroworld show to express concerns about crowd control

 

From Jenna Orkin

He predicted the dark side of the Internet 30 years ago. Why did no one listen?

In 1994 — before most Americans had an email address or Internet access or even a personal computer — Philip Agre foresaw that computers would one day facilitate the mass collection of data on everything in society. Then he disappeared, leaving behind a legacy of work that was eerily prescient in predicting how technology would impact society.

‘Over the past 25 years, the richest 10% of the global population has been responsible for more than half of all carbon emissions... Rank injustice and inequality on this scale is a cancer. If we don’t act now, this century may be our last.’

Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General1

SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection and deaths among US veterans during 2021

California Tries to Close the Gap in Math, but Sets Off a Backlash

Bill Gates warns world leaders to practice 'germ games' to prepare for bioterrorist attacks

The January 6 House committee poised to subpoena Trump team who met at a DC hotel 'war room' in the days before the Capitol attack, say reports

The Buttigieg documentarian who got the best media access in 2020 has his own story to tell

The Death of Cash

9 out of 10 children breathe air that can harm them, warns WHO. Meet the bereaved mother who went to COP 26 to demand change.

1. COP26 fossil fuel industry delegation bigger than any country