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Analysis: China seeks to milk the milk market but doesn’t have enough cows

Perhaps the Party can order 3 calves per cow...

Analysis: China seeks to milk the milk market but doesn’t have enough cows China has come to crave milk. Demand that had been steadily growing has spiked further after doctors touted its health benefits amid the coronavirus pandemic and dairy firms across the country have embarked on a farm-building frenzy.

Philippines offers nurses in exchange for vaccines from Britain, Germany

How does one reconcile selfless acts of voluntary servitude with the sovereign state bartering for vaccines?

Philippines offers nurses in exchange for vaccines from Britain, Germany The Philippines will let thousands of its healthcare workers, mostly nurses, take up jobs in Britain and Germany if the two countries agree to donate much-needed coronavirus vaccines, a senior official said on Tuesday.

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2021/02/coronavirus-pandemic-brazil-variant/617891/?utm_campaign=the-atlantic&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3VkgN__0I_v0Ir1qlsAe5yy7q6xWuAC7vO9NnisdLdpDCQc8cC2YL4DiU

The Brazil Variant Is Exposing the World’s Vulnerability Somehow the coronavirus is rampaging through a city that was supposedly immune.

Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion run: research

Jokers Wild

Darknet crypto kingpin JokerStash retires after illicit $1 billion run: research The kingpin or kingpins of the world's biggest illicit credit card marketplace have retired after making an estimated fortune of over $1 billion in cryptocurrency, according to research by blockchain analysis firm Elliptic shared with Reuters.

China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says

“Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” - André Malraux

China refused to provide WHO team with raw data on early COVID cases, team member says China refused to give raw data on early COVID-19 cases to a World Health Organization-led team probing the origins of the pandemic, one of the team's investigators said, potentially complicating efforts to understand how the outbreak began.

Climate Change Hits Rock and Roll as Prized Guitar Wood Shortage Looms

Swamp Ash? Don’t Ask.

Climate Change Hits Rock and Roll as Prized Guitar Wood Shortage Looms Flooding and a wood-boring beetle threaten supplies of storied “swamp ash”

Exclusive: China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military

Exclusive: China gene firm providing worldwide COVID tests worked with Chinese military BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens to brain science, a Reuters review of research, patent filings and other documents has found.

Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-24/renewable-power-beat-fossil-fuels-in-eu-for-first-time-last-year?utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&cmpid=socialflow-facebook-business&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=business&fbclid=IwAR0FyxmZbeuiIOf9gd1ru28VY14XG5wmtqCm0Tkl382eCZhsspcl_fiux-c

Renewables Beat Fossil Fuels in EU for First Time Last Year Europe needs to double the share of electricity produced from renewable sources by the end of the decade

Crown Holdings Looks at Selling Food Cans Division

Kicking the can down the road - interesting timing

Crown Holdings Looks at Selling Food Cans Division Crown Holdings Inc., one of the world’s largest designers and manufacturers of packaging products, is considering a sale of its food can business, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

BP's oil exploration team swept aside in climate revolution

BP's oil exploration team swept aside in climate revolution

BP's oil exploration team swept aside in climate revolution Nothing escapes the winds of change now sweeping through BP, not even the exploration team that for more than a century powered its profits by discovering billions of barrels of oil.

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Total quits top U.S. oil lobby in climate split

Total quits top U.S. oil lobby in climate split

Total quits top U.S. oil lobby in climate split France's Total on Friday became the first major global energy company to quit the main U.S. oil and gas lobby due to disagreements over its climate policies and support for easing drilling regulations.

Scientists discover slimy microbes that may help keep coral reefs healthy

Defending our oceans

Scientists discover slimy microbes that may help keep coral reefs healthy Microbes living within the slimy biofilms of some coral species may help protect the coral against excess nitrogen levels, according to research from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), in collaboration with colleagues in Cuba.

Another record decline reported in US cancer death rate

...good news

Another record decline reported in US cancer death rate NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers on Tuesday reported another record one-year decline in the U.S. cancer death rate, a drop they attribute to success against lung cancer. The overall cancer death...

ECB's Lagarde calls for regulating Bitcoin's "funny business"

One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
ECB's Lagarde calls for regulating Bitcoin's "funny business"

reuters.com European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde called on Wednesday for global regulation of Bitcoin, saying the digital currency had been used for money laundering activities in some instances and that any loopholes needed to be closed.

Mexican farmers find rare female statue in citrus grove

Wonder Woman

apnews.com MEXICO CITY (AP) — Farmers digging in a citrus grove near Mexico’s Gulf coast have found a striking, six-foot-tall statue of a female figure who may represent an elite woman rather than a goddess,...

No One Should Have Sole Authority to Launch a Nuclear Attack

scientificamerican.com Leaving the decision to strike to the president alone is dangerous

Deutsche Bank to pay nearly $125 million to resolve U.S. bribery, metals charges

...Germany’s bad bank

reuters.com Deutsche Bank AG will pay nearly $125 million to avoid U.S. prosecution on charges it engaged in foreign bribery schemes and manipulated precious metals markets, the latest blow for the bank as it tries to rebound from a series of scandals.

Analysis: Trump's rage ignites mob assault on democracy

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Congress accepts Electoral College result, which clears the way for Biden to become president of the United States.

Former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said that while the Constitution and the nation will "overcome this stain," and the American people will unite, the president will "deservedly be left a man without a country."

https://apnews.com/article/287c0c48135eebf189e02c4df4286863

apnews.com NEW YORK (AP) — The riotous mob that laid siege to the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was the product of the destructive forces that President Donald Trump has been stirring for years, culminating in...

Iran plans 20% uranium enrichment 'as soon as possible'

...any questions?
https://apnews.com/article/384717b592f8a7012b02d8627f36763a

apnews.com DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran said Saturday it plans to enrich uranium up to 20% at its underground Fordo nuclear facility “as soon as possible,” pushing its program a technical step...

Breakthrough: UK and EU reach post-Brexit trade agreement

In my opinion this deal is the worst decision I have seen a Democratic country make since WWII.

https://apnews.com/article/e4fd21be6500c709caee8b376c3c3d00

apnews.com BRUSSELS (AP) — Britain and the European Union have struck a provisional free-trade agreement that should avert New Year chaos for cross-border traders and bring a measure of certainty for...

KFC has created a console that's more powerful than the PS5 and has a built-in 'chicken chamber' to keep your meal warm

...the pinnacle of human achievement
https://www.businessinsider.com/kfc-launches-games-console-that-keeps-your-fried-chicken-warm-2020-12

businessinsider.com KFC's new KFConsole comes with high-end components from Intel, Asus, and Seagate and a "chicken chamber" to keep your food warm.

World carbon dioxide emissions drop 7% in pandemic-hit 2020

...note to the world, “Yes it is possible to reverse Global Warming.”

https://apnews.com/article/f23f452b2d2cbe4598223023c4d47076

apnews.com A locked-down pandemic-struck world cut its carbon dioxide emissions this year by 7%, the biggest drop ever, new preliminary figures show. The Global Carbon Project, an authoritative group...

Texas asks U.S. Supreme Court to help Trump upend election

“There is no possible way that the state of Texas has standing to complain about how other states counted the votes and how they are about to cast their electoral votes,” Paul Smith, Law Professor, Georgetown University

https://reut.rs/2VUYqmx

reuters.com The state of Texas, aiming to help President Donald Trump upend the results of the U.S. election, said on Tuesday it has filed suit against the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin at the Supreme Court, calling changes they made to election procedures...

Chuck Yeager, 1st to break sound barrier, dies at 97

R.I.P. - An extraordinary man
https://apnews.com/article/f027e8960916cbd8094ab9f05ec2cbf2

apnews.com Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter pilot ace and quintessential test pilot who showed he had the “right stuff” when in 1947 he became the first person to...

Bob Dylan Sells His Songwriting Catalog in Blockbuster Deal

$300,000,000 - not bad for a fellow who can’t carry a tune...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/07/arts/music/bob-dylan-universal-music.html

nytimes.com Universal Music purchased his entire songwriting catalog of more than 600 songs in what may be the biggest acquisition ever of a single act’s publishing rights.

India's winter of discontent: Farmers rise up against Modi

...Modi awakens the giant
https://apnews.com/article/526d5dae772a03b8c3e57602795a60ac

apnews.com NEW DELHI (AP) — A chilly breeze whirls through New Delhi in the mornings and the sun is partly obscured by toxic haze, a marker of another winter in the Indian capital. But along the city's...

...humanity’s heart beat
https://www.instagram.com/p/CITgEWKnJsy/?igshid=m5jxsnbngcqc

UK authorizes Pfizer coronavirus vaccine for emergency use

...and so it begins
https://apnews.com/article/ea0170c978eb281a905866e5bd78bbdf

apnews.com Drugmakers Pfizer and BioNTech said Wednesday they've won permission for emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine in Britain, the world’s first coronavirus shot that’s backed by rigorous science —...

Artificial intelligence finds solution to one of biology’s biggest challenges — STAT

Revolutionary
https://apple.news/A5TOGOupdSRatNUXrxxUtew

apple.news "Systems like AlphaFold demonstrate the stunning potential for AI as a tool to aid fundamental discovery,” the @DeepMind research team says.

'Mercenary' donor sold access for millions in foreign money

“The Zuberi case explicitly verifies, through evidentiary proof, pervasive, corrupt foreign interference with our elections and policy-making processes,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Daniel J. O’Brien

https://apnews.com/article/5a6b71bd05ddf2c1655847bb064edcc9

apnews.com LOS ANGELES (AP) — As an elite political fundraiser, Imaad Zuberi had the ear of top Democrats and Republicans alike — a reach that included private meetings with then-Vice President Joe Biden and...