From Jenna Orkin

U.S. spy agencies say origins of COVID-19 may never be known

Inside Russia's ‘fourth wave’: Record deaths, deep frustration and plenty of blame

Canadian mining firm Iamgold <IMG.TO> convoy attacked in Burkina Faso

Big Teacher Is Watching: How AI Spyware Took Over Schools

A former Wells Fargo & Co. investment adviser stole nearly $3 million from clients and used the money for personal expenses and to buy gold coins, federal prosecutors said.

Revealed: how UK spies incited mass murder of Indonesia’s communists

China to Build Outpost for Tajikistan Special Forces Near Afghan Border

The big tax break for New Yorkers and Californians that Trump wiped out in 2017? Democrats are determined to bring it back.

Trump's 2017 tax law limited the SALT deduction tax break. Some Democrats want to bring it back but AOC argues it's "a giveaway to the rich."

A Memphis Meats cofounder has left the lab-grown meat company, now called Upside Foods, as skepticism about the entire industry grows

A gun church that glorifies the AR-15 and is led by the son of the 'Moonies' church founder has been making alliances with far-right figures

The 'Delta Plus' variant —AY.4.2— has been detected in New York and California, but experts say not to panic

 

From Jenna Orkin

Canadian defence company bankrupted due to arms embargo against Turkey

Mexico’s Highest Court Rejects Appeal of GM Corn Ban

ICO to step in after schools use facial recognition to speed up lunch queue

Heirs step up as COVID deaths rock Bangkok’s famous street-food stalls

Bill Bonner:  Shiba Inu is a breed of dog. It became popular with crypto enthusiasts in 2013, after it became the face, or let us say the image, on the Dogecoin (DOGE), which was meant as an inside joke by its creators, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer.

Then, the Shiba Inu coin (SHIB) was created as a “dogecoin killer” by someone, who – like the creator of bitcoin – wisely decided to remain anonymous, but who goes by the name Ryoshi, which means “hunter” in Japanese...

Knowing these facts, however, would in no way give you an advantage as an investor.

You might conclude, for example, that the whole thing was like a game you weren’t invited to play. You buy a coin. Others buy one, too. Noticing that it is moving up, you buy more.

And then you ask: Why did anyone buy it in the first place?

With a quadrillion coins in circulation, the “Shib” would not seem a very likely improvement on the U.S. dollar, neither as a store of value nor as a means of exchange.

Nevertheless, the Shiba Inu has gained value, not steadily… but more like the rocket the Chinese recently tested. It went hypersonic, say the papers.

In the case of the Shiba Inu, it gained 33% on Wednesday… bringing it up more than 158 million percent since its debut in August 2020.

The coin… or whatever it is… is now worth more than Deutsche Bank.

Oklahoma Carries Out Third Consecutive Botched Execution After Yearslong Hiatus

After reevaluating humanity's fossil record, a group of experts designated a new species of human ancestor

Effect of Fluvoxamine (OCD treatment) on Covid

Here's the real reason Facebook is changing its name to Meta and going after the metaverse

Facebook is rebranding as Meta, investing $10 billion in its VR and AR products, and promoting key executives, changes that are years in the making.

Facebook changes its name to Meta, and shares soar — but for a Canadian meme stock, not Zuckerberg's rebrand

Fully vaccinated people can pass on the Delta variant at home, including to other vaccinated people, a study finds — but unvaccinated people are still at most risk

 

From Jenna Orkin

Decades after polio, Martha is among the last to still rely on an iron lung to breathe

Native opposition to Nevada lithium mine grows

Antidepressant drug shows promise in treating covid-19, study finds

Man arrested for allegedly threatening to kill Matt Gaetz - cameraman for CNN, ABC, NBC

Petrol, Diesel Prices Today Surge to Record High. Check Rates in Mumbai, Delhi, Other Places

BOOTS ON THE GROUND 

US ‘secretly training Taiwan troops and conducted 2,000 spy missions in China’ sparking WW3 fears

Politician Proposes Bombing La Palma Volcano As Eruptions Enter 38th Day

Leaked documents detail Amazon's aggressive plan to make its cashierless Fresh grocery stores profitable

The delusion that defined the Trump era has now seized the world of investing

People are getting psychosis after COVID-19, prompting scientists to investigate if the body is mistakenly attacking the brain after infection

 

From Jenna Orkin

How Frances Haugen took thousands of Facebook documents

As closed-door arbitration soared last year, workers won cases against employers just 1.6 percent of the time

Energy crisis will set off social unrest, private-equity billionaire warns

Iran says sweeping cyberattack took down gas stations across country

In landmark visit, UAE air chief in Israel to observe ‘Blue Flag’ exercise

On the table for Thanksgiving this year? Higher food prices

The U.S. is set to appeal the U.K.'s refusal to extradite WikiLeaks' Assange

Vaccine Passports Could Fuel Spread of Covid

lAmazon is putting Alexa next to hospital beds throughout the US. It says it will boost productivity because staff can go into patients' rooms less.

1. A toilet tube on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spaceship broke and sprayed pee under the floor during its first tourist flight

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   Amazon is projecting a massive drop in technology costs for its chain of cashierless Fresh grocery stores, partly by eliminating workers who watch for questionable transactions

   China isn't letting a US submarine incident in the South China Sea go
3. Immunocompromised now eligible for 4th COVID-19 shot

 

From Jenna Orkin

U.S. LNG Shipments Are Falling at Just the Wrong Time

Assistant director who handed Alec Baldwin prop firearm was fired over gun discharge on 2019 movie set

Natural gas leaks in Boston are vastly underreported — and could be coming from inside homes, study says

Five points for anger, one for a ‘like’: How Facebook’s formula fostered rage

Britain’s migratory birds ‘may stop flying south for winter’

Blue Origin reveals plans for future commercial space station called Orbital Reef

The company who cried retail theft? Walgreens store closures cause uproar in San Francisco

White House delays release of JFK assassination files "to protect against identifiable harm"The Curious Case Of James Ray Epps AFO#16 AKA #FedBoomer... Everything Is Not Always As It Seems

Astronomers using a NASA space telescope spotted the first signs of a planet beyond the Milky Way

Facebook's new smart glasses may be impressive, but they also raise serious privacy and security concerns

The Evergrande crisis is spreading. Here are other Chinese property developers that are in default or wobbling.

S&P 500, Dow extend record highs as Big Tech earnings take center stage

 

From Jenna Orkin

Mathematics in Africa has been written out of history books – it’s time we reminded the world of its rich past

UN: Greenhouse gas concentrations hit a new record in 2020

Saudi crown prince once boasted it would be easy to kill a sitting monarch, ex-intel official says

Silicon Valley entrepreneur Sam Altman wants to scan your eyes in exchange for free cryptocurrency

Global car industry to grind to a halt within weeks amid ‘catastrophic’ Chinese magnesium shortage

Record Rainfall Flooding California

Russian hackers launched a massive, ongoing wave of cyber attacks against the US, report says

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen is reportedly being funded by the billionaire founder of eBay

A day in the life of the media lawyer who helped Sacha Baron Cohen dodge a $95 million lawsuit from Republican politician Roy Moore

Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen says it's cheaper to run 'hateful' ads on the platform than other kind of adverts. 'We are literally subsidizing hate.'

 

From Jenna Orkin

Pollinators Could Win When the Infrastructure Bill Passes

1. Louis Armstrong and the spy: how the CIA used 

   him as a ‘trojan horse’ in Congo

   Longer, more frequent outages afflict the U.S. power grid as states fail to prepare for climate change

   We are in a crisis in the evolution of human society. It’s unique to both human and geologic history. It has never happened before and it can’t possibly happen again. Albert Bates, author of The Financial Collapse Survival Guide and Cookbook, brings you along on his personal journey.

   Three-child policy: how many children can you have in China?

   JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass | Trailer | Altitude Films

   The US has a record number of sexually transmitted diseases and COVID-19 is making things worse, experts say

   Ultrawealthy foreigners are hiding their millions in the US, and they're going to keep getting away with it until Congress does something about it

   Why you had to be married to fly the A-12, the CIA's fastest spy plane
2. Sudan's military arrests PM, dissolves gov't in apparent coup

 

From Jenna Orkin

I tried to prove that small family farms are the future. I couldn’t do it.

Palm oil futures hit all-time high as China rushes to fill soy oil shortage

Sweden extends pause of Moderna vaccine for younger age group

Don't expect all of your pilots, flight attendants, or airport workers to be vaccinated this holiday travel season despite Biden's vaccine mandates

Austrian chancellor says the unvaccinated could be forced to lockdown in their homes if COVID-19 cases worsen

The Evergrande crisis is spreading. Here are other Chinese property developers that are in default or wobbling.

Filmmakers call for an end to using firearm blanks after 'Rust' cinematographer Halyna Hutchins' death by prop gun

Duh 

If China's economy keeps stumbling, it won't just take down Beijing — the whole world will collapse with it

1. Pregnant women pass fewer coronavirus antibodies to unborn boys than girls: study

2. Florida's new surgeon general refused to mask up during a meeting with a state senator who has cancer

From Jenna Orkin

Energy cannibalism is happening so fast that the collapse of the oil industry will derail renewables

Pfizer COVID Vaccine Antibodies May Disappear in 7 Months, Study Says

CDC director approves boosters for Moderna and J&J and mix-and-match

Blacklisted Chinese tech giant Huawei paid Tony Podesta $500,000 to lobby the White House

WaPo Op-Ed Urges Intervention in Haiti

Over $22B worth of cargo is stuck on container ships off California

Los Angeles’ average anchorage-to-berth wait time hits record-high 13 days

A half-mile plastic-trapping device in the Pacific caught 64,000 pounds of trash — including a fridge, mannequin, and toilet seats

A Harvard freshman made a social networking app called 'The FaceTag.' It's sparked a debate about the ethics of facial recognition.

1. Pregnant women pass fewer coronavirus antibodies to unborn boys than girls: study

From Jenna Orkin

Putin rages against vaccine refusal as COVID-19 deaths hit record highs in Russia

COVID-19: New, infectious strain of Delta variant detected in the US

Cambridge college to be first in UK to return looted Benin bronze

Putin orders Russians to stop work for a week amid record Covid daily deaths

China drafts law to punish parents for children's bad behavior

White House details plans to vaccinate 28M children age 5-11

NIH BAT CORONAVIRUS GRANT REPORT WAS SUBMITTED MORE THAN TWO YEARS LATE

The unusual timing of a bat coronavirus grant report suggests that an earlier version may have been revised.

43 members of Congress have violated a law designed to stop insider trading and prevent conflicts-of-interest

Hackers broke into Donald Trump's upcoming social media site, creating fake accounts for Trump and Steve Bannon and posting a photo of a defecating pig 

Halyna Hutchins supported a Hollywood union protesting dangerous working conditions days before she was shot on 'Rust' set

• Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was killed after Alec Baldwin fired a prop gun on a film set.

From Jenna Orkin

1. The Great Pause Week 83: Permaculturing the Great American Desert

   "Zhao harnessed the river not by damming it, but by dividing the water. He spread it, slowed it, sank it and stored it."

   Mt Aso Eruption

   
   The CIA Has Stultified American Consciences
   

   Top Stories this AM: Facebook reportedly planning to change Facebook's name; 

   Check out the 11-slide pitch deck Biomilq, a startup that claims it has created the first lab-grown human breast milk, used to raise $21 million

   Steve Bannon tried to get close to Jeffrey Epstein, thinking he was a spy, report says

   Biden's pick for OCC head supports the sweeping change of a Fed takeover of bank accounts

   For the first time, China's military is training its nurses to take care of troops during an island invasion

2. Syria secretly stole $100 million from UN donations by manipulating currency exchange rates, report says

3. Pfizer: Booster shot 95.6% effective against Delta variant

 

From Jenna Orkin

Inside the Massive MSNBC Deal Paying Maddow to Work Less

Annals of a Warming Planet A Syrian Seed Bank’s Fight to Survive

Sex work has been legal in Spain since 1995. But the nation's prime minister is now vowing to ban prostitution, saying it 'enslaves women.'

As Afghanistan Sinks Into Destitution, Some Sell Children to Survive

U.N. warns that 95% of Afghans aren’t getting enough to eat as winter approaches

Now DC Comics ditches patriotic mention of 'The American Way' from Superman's motto days after revealing his son is bisexual

Miami private school requires students to stay home for 30 days after getting COVID vax

DC Metro train derailed 3 times on the same day before passengers were forced to evacuate through a dark tunnel, investigators say

New York shuts down 2 crypto firms for unlawful activities and investigates 3 others

China is pressing US companies like McDonalds and Visa to accept its e-yuan at the Winter Olympics: report