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Agricultural experts say it would take 2 bumper harvests to restore stable food supplies in the world after the effects of drought on agriculture and the war in Ukraine.

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According to this report taking fewer airplane flights and eating less dairy or meat, driving less, using less space in homes, can have a large impact on each person's carbon footprint to prevent climate change. Upgrading insulation is also a cheap way to take action against climate change.

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The number of people employed in foreign firms in Hong Kong declined by 25,000 to 468,000 in 2023, according to Deallogic. Foreign advisory firms face crackdowns and are declining rapidly. Yet companies have not yet pulled up stakes in China.

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Jennifer Szalai of NYT writes about books on inequlity and how it is pervading the public consciousness. She writes about the work of English economist Angus Deaton who settled in the US and could not understand how bad inequality has become in the US.

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Republicans new strategy break the budget bills in half some budget parts expiring before the others- extend budgeting for some government agencies through early January and some through early February. This is what new Speaker Mike Johnson has done and what a more vocal group the ultra conservative Freedom Caucus in the Republican controlled Congress seeks. Democrat senators and some Republican senators oppose this kind of bifurcation of the budget and setting different dates. Chuck Schumer says the "hard right proposals, hard right slashing cuts have zero support among Democrats."

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The U.S. Congress is now taking a more active position particularly in the Senate which has a Republican majority. Republicans led by Lamar Alexander,  a senior senator since 2003, voted against Mr. Trump's emergency declaration to obtain funding for a border wall.

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With housing and education costs jumping 42% of all households in South Korea are one person households. Books that are popularizing a new trend "Two Women Talk Together" by Kim and Hwang is a book that is popularizing the idea of two women living together, combining the benefit of being single yet having someone to talk to in a cohabiting arrangement. 

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Software from Crowdstrike was supposed to prevent crashes instead it led to this crash.

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California has lots of water after record breaking rains in 2024 but this is not the situation in the Central Valley leading agricultural region of California and the nation. Farmers in the San Joaquin Valley in California say they are getting a reduced allottment of water because of concern about endangered fish species. Farmers in the Central Valley the fruit and vegetable basket of California will get just 40% of their usual alottment of water this year and will plant less crops. Some ranches planting only 60% instead of 80% of their land. In 2014, 2015 and 2022 droughts the farmers lost about $7 billion and it cost 40,000 jobs, say University of California researchers. This area is a top producer of almonds, pistachios, and tomatoes. Westland Water District, which covers this area and is largest irrigator in the US, has a study that shows correlation between water and poverty in this part of California. Just when it is recovering the water supply is being cut. ...

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Trend to remote work is cooling off. 80% of employers now say that over 3 years they see full time office work 5 days a week. The new trend is just beginning.