Notes Today: 

• Canadian Immigration

• Fed Chair Powell said he can see core inflation getting back down to 2% in 2025, but not earlier than that.

• Is rent disinflation forthcoming?

 

•  Summer in winter in South America: Today it was the 4th consecutive day 32C + in Northern Argentina and 34C + (93F) in Paraguay with temperatures at record levels.
• More summer in winter in this Australia: Queensland keeps beating records.
• Texas heatwave blamed for 13 deaths as scorching temperatures and smoke spread across US – as it happened
• Record heat in Siberia continues where hundreds of records have been falling nearly every day for 2 months.
• A cloud of smoke that was triggered by the forest fires in Canada has arrived in Europe -darkening the sky in Portugal.

George Monbiot

• Privatised utilities would do a better job, they said.
• They would invest more
• Improve services
• Cut bills

Lies

Lies

Lies 

Lies

• The privatisation of public services is legalised theft from the public domain.

• Refugee arrested during Istanbul (Turkey) LGBT pride march faces deportation and potential death penalty in Iran.
• Value of Turkish Lira - new low!

• AI Mentions

• 7 more cats in Poland have died of H5N1 bird flu, raising the total to 16. It's still unknown how they're getting infected..

Problem with these notes: some tend to run up against a deeply rooted feature of human cognition - the desire not to think about anything unpleasant…Sorry about that.