Second post today.
Remember when I said 1.5C is a pipe dream? "The world is on track for 2.4 degrees Celsius of warming above pre-industrial levels, if not more, according to a new analysis -- despite countries' new and updated climate pledges, including those made at the COP26 summit in Glasgow, Scotland." That's why.
"The concern among health officials like Fauci is that winter holidays and cold weather will soon bring about more travel and indoor gatherings — where a respiratory virus will transmit more easily… So at this stage of the pandemic, what is the goal? Fauci offered a qualitative assessment."
"In traditional prescription drug cases, these are all markers of trouble. But — as Njoku's lawyers argued and two judges later agreed — they can also reflect the difficulty of getting addiction treatment, which is sometimes more challenging than obtaining illicit drugs."
"Big Bird ruffled some conservatives' feathers this weekend by announcing that he had been vaccinated against COVID-19… The beloved Muppet tweeted on Saturday that he had gotten the shot, which is newly available for Americans between the ages of 5 and 11. Big Bird has been a fixture of children's television since 1969 but is officially 6 years old." You know, when you go to war with Big Bird your party has officially jumped the shark.
"Singapore will no longer cover the medical costs of COVID-19 patients who are eligible to get vaccinated against the virus but choose not to, the country’s Health Ministry says."
There was this meme on twitter about "how soon is too soon to teach about race." "A new study suggests that people who face discrimination at a young age are more likely to develop behavioral and mental health problems later in life… And the risks may be cumulative; those who faced more incidents of discrimination had an even higher risk of future problems, researchers found." It's never too soon to teach people to be tolerant.
"October’s producer price index, which is one measure of inflation that measures what companies get for the goods they produce, rose 0.6% from September, in line with Dow Jones estimates and an indicator that inflation pressures are continuing to pressure the U.S. economy… Stripping out food, trade and energy prices, the index increased 0.4% month over month, slightly below the 0.5% estimate but an elevated pace from September’s 0.1% gain. On a year-over-year basis, core producer prices increased 6.2%."
"The Justice Department says authorities have indicted two men in connection with a wave of ransomware attacks that, among other targets, shut down a meat processing company and an internet software provider earlier this year… Attorney General Merrick Garland says one of the men, Yaroslav Vasinskyi, 22, a Ukrainian, was arrested when he traveled to Poland. The second man was identified as Yevgeniy Polyanin, a 28-year-old Russian. Garland says the U.S. seized some $6.1 million from Polyanin."
"The storied American company General Electric will divide itself into three public companies focused on aviation, healthcare and energy… The company, founded in 1892, has refashioned itself in recent years from the sprawling conglomerate created by Jack Welch in the 1980s to a much smaller and focused entity. It was heavily damaged by the financial crisis." No, it was heavily damaged by Jack Welch. It just took longer for the fractures he created to appear. And if you ask those who retired in the 90s and 2000s about it, many of whom were solely invested in GE stock, they will tell you the same story.
How the uber rich do it… "Credit, mostly. Musk and other uber-wealthy folks borrow substantially from banks, using their stock or other assets as collateral… In August, a Tesla filing revealed that some 88 million of Musk's Tesla shares have been pledged as collateral "to secure certain personal indebtedness." At the time, those shares were worth $63 billion."
"President Biden welcomed the reigning NBA champions, the Milwaukee Bucks, to the White House on Monday, making them the first NBA champions to visit since 2016." What happened in 2016 (he bats his eyes innocently)?
"A memorial site dedicated to the victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Florida, was set on fire and damaged, launching an investigation… The onePULSE Foundation, which honors the 49 lives lost in the shooting and runs the memorial site, shared surveillance footage on Saturday showing an individual in a wheelchair light a fire on one of the memorial walls on Oct. 12 around 8:30 p.m. ET."
"A woman who was pushed out of the way as a car slammed into counterprotesters at a 2017 white nationalist rally in Charlottesville described a scene of "complete terror" as she testified Monday to seeing her fiancé bleeding on the sidewalk and later learning a friend was killed… Marissa Blair took the stand in the third week of a civil trial in a lawsuit that seeks to hold the white national organizers of the Unite the Right rally accountable for the violence that erupted." Just a reminder that Jan 6 was a continuation of right-wing paranoia and violence.
"Former President Donald Trump's latest procedural attempt to keep secret documents from his presidency about the January 6 insurrection quickly failed overnight… Trump late on Monday night had asked Judge Tanya Chutkan of the DC District Court to block the records from being handed over to the House Select Committee investigating January 6 while he continues to fight in court."
"The Democratic-led House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has issued a new round of subpoenas to several ex-Trump administration officials and allies, including former national security adviser Michael Flynn and attorney John Eastman, who wrote a memo outlining ways former Vice President Mike Pence could reject Joe Biden's electoral count victory."
"A US man who faces criminal charges for participating in the 6 January riot at the US Capitol is seeking asylum in Belarus, the country’s state TV has reported in a development likely to heighten tensions between the turbulent ex-Soviet nation and the United States."
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