News Burst 28 November 2019 ~ November 28, 2019

News Burst 28 November 2019

• More than half of China’s banks fail Central Bank stress test.
• All toilets are out of order on the ISS, station commander Luca Parmitano @astro_luca told ground specialists at the NASA’s mission control center, and astronauts will be using space diapers in the near future.
• Russia creates killer drones to fight enemy UAVs. They are capable of tracking, intercepting and disabling the enemy’s unmanned aerial vehicles with the help of nets.
• Onion prices have hit the roof in India, a kg costing one-third of an average Indian’s daily income and with its’ billion-plus citizens that can’t do without, it’s threatening a political fallout.
• DNC Tweeted of a 2013 explosion that killed 12 in Texas blaming Trump for the scrapping of Obama safety rules, 14 hours later a Chemical Plant in Texas eplodes.

• European Central Banks are slowly preparing for Plan B: Gold.
• Police in Dresden have finally released the first images of the jewels stolen in a brazen robbery of the Green Vault valued at more than $1 billion. Img 2 – Img 2.
• Head of the Texas Access to Justice Commission: “It’s really a crisis. People aren’t able to get into the courts and they’re not able to navigate them once they’re there.” Money is the holdup in most cases.
• Audi has made arrangements to slash 9,500 of its 61,000 workers in Germany over the next five years to streamline its business ahead of a period where the global economy is expected to grow below trend.
• A former Deutsche Bank executive and head of the bank’s US private wealth-management division (i.e., the group catering to ultra wealthy clients), killed himself by hanging in his Malibu residence last Tuesday, November 19th.

• Monsanto will have to pay a hefty fine of $10 million for spraying a dangerous pesticide on “research crops” in Hawaii. Over 160 lbs if the pesticide used was stockpiled and sprayed even after it was banned by the US government.
• Amnesty International has said that the “surveillance-based” business models of tech giants like Google and Facebook threaten human rights.
• Iraqi security officials reported Wednesday evening that protesters in the Iraqi city of Najaf had set fire to the Iranian consulate.
• Yale astronomers released new, close-up photos of the Comet 2I/Borisov Tuesday, offering humankind a refreshing glimpse of the first confirmed interstellar comet to enter our solar system. Img.
• Damage done by a stress test for Boeing’s top notch 777X prototype is worse than earlier assumed, a recent media report claims, alleging this will still not hamper regulatory approval. A September test – meant to bring Boeing’s new 777X airframe to its limits – left the plane’s skin torn open beneath a wing and a passenger door blown off its hinges just before the trial reached the supposed stress target, according to the Seattle Times.

Active Weather

• Tropical Storm Kammuri 65 kts ↑ E of Philippines

Strongest EQ in Europe M6.0 Greece
Strongest EQ in US M3.2 Alaska
Strongest EQ on the Planet M6.0 Greece
Deepest EQ M5.6 570 km FijiNews Burst 28 November 2019