Economy
Boeing fires embattled CEO Dennis Muilenburg (TS)
The unmanned spacecraft was forced to abort the mission after an “automation” error resulted in the Starliner not reaching its correct orbit, according to NASA officials, who said the spacecraft believed the time was “different than it actually was.”
The Starliner was just one of the recent setbacks for the company.
It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool. (TS)
ToTok amounts to the latest escalation in a digital arms race among wealthy authoritarian governments, interviews with current and former American foreign officials and a forensic investigation showed. The governments are pursuing more effective and convenient methods to spy on foreign adversaries, criminal and terrorist networks, journalists and critics — efforts that have ensnared people all over the world in their surveillance nets.
Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network (jdargis)
In just a few years, Amazon has built a delivery system that has disrupted a decades-old business dominated by FedEx and United Parcel Service. But in its relentless drive to get bigger while keeping costs low, Amazon’s logistics operation has repeatedly emphasized speed and cost over safety, a new investigation by ProPublica and BuzzFeed News has found.
How to Simultaneously Lower College Tuition and Solve the Homeless Crisis (thc0655)
According to the “science-based” policy of inclusionary zoning, “the role of inclusionary zoning is to encourage the development of affordable housing in low poverty neighborhoods, thereby helping foster greater social and economic mobility and integration.” If this is the policy being rolled out in America’s progressive towns and cities, certainly it can also be rolled out on the campuses from which these progressive concepts originated. College campuses are, almost by definition, “low-poverty neighborhoods.”
What We Learned in 2019: Health and Medicine (jdargis)
Since mid-August, 2,506 lung injury cases and 54 deaths linked to vaping have been reported. Most patients were otherwise healthy and in their late teens and 20s. But after using a vaping device to inhale nicotine, THC or a combination of the two, many ended up in an emergency room, gasping for breath.
The likely culprit: an additive made with vitamin E oil. Several states and cities have imposed bans, mainly on flavored e-cigarettes as a precaution.
Diminished Combustion (thc0655)
Which put the kibosh on the quest to kill the car in the name of reducing emissions, that having been accomplished. The car recovered from the Clubber Lang-like rain of body blows even more impressively than Sylvester Stallone did in Rocky III.
That was a movie. This was reality. Double or triple the power, a fraction of the emissions!
ACLU Defends Amish Community’s Religious Freedom Against Lenawee County’s Threat to Bulldoze Homes (thc0655)
After harassing the Amish community for years regarding its water supply and disposal, the county health department posted signs on the Amish families’ homes earlier this year condemning them as “unfit for human habitation” and filed lawsuits against 14 Amish families in November. If successful, the lawsuits would result in the demolition of the Amish families’ homes and would effectively banish an entire religious community from Lenawee County. The ACLU and Wright & Schulte filed answers to those lawsuits today in Lenawee County Circuit Court, which include counterclaims against the county for religious discrimination in violation of the federal and state constitutions and the federal Fair Housing Act.
Want a Bigger Say on Corporate Behavior? Move Your Money (jdargis)
What you won’t find in the Roundtable’s statement is this: For-profit companies exist to serve their owners, not their executives, yet most owners are relegated to an entirely passive role. And if there is to be any real hope of shareholder democracy and humane capitalism, millions of people need to be able to exercise the latent power that ownership implies.
Want to fight climate change effectively? Here’s where to donate your money. (tmn)
According to Founders Pledge’s cost-effectiveness model from 2018, a donation of just 12 cents to the Coalition for Rainforest Nations will avert approximately a metric ton of CO2 (or the equivalent in other greenhouse gases). This means that if you donate $100, you can avert around 857 metric tons of CO2.
These are definitely just estimates, but still, that’s pretty damn good! For comparison, the average American causes around 16 metric tons of emissions per year. And most organizations can’t avert a metric ton for less than $2.
Gold & Silver
Click to read the PM Daily Market Commentary
Provided daily by the Peak Prosperity Gold & Silver Group
Article suggestions for the Daily Digest can be sent to dd@peakprosperity.com. All suggestions are filtered by the Daily Digest team and preference is given to those that are in alignment with the message of the Crash Course and the "3 Es."
The post Daily Digest 12/24 – Boeing Fires Embattled CEO, Where To Donate To Fight Climate Change appeared first on Peak Prosperity.
from Peak Prosperity https://ift.tt/2QeWQbY
