Important Takeaways:
- US Cattle Herd Shrinks to 73-Year-Low in Blow for Beef Lovers
- The US cattle herd shrank to the lowest level in more than seven decades as ranchers continue to send their cows to slaughter, threatening to keep beef prices at stubbornly high levels for consumers for at least another couple of years while eroding profits for meat processors.
- There were 87.2 million cattle as of January 1, down about 2% from a year ago and less than anticipated by analysts surveyed by Bloomberg, the US Department of Agriculture said Wednesday in its biannual cattle-inventory report. That’s the smallest animal count since 1951, according to USDA data.
- American ranchers have for the past four years been culling more cows than they were retaining for breeding because of persistent droughts, surging feed costs and elevated interest rates… herds aren’t expected to start rebounding before at least 2026, said Lane Broadbent, president of KIS Futures Inc. in Oklahoma City.
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Important Takeaways:
- A federal appeals panel ruled Tuesday that Donald Trump can face trial on charges that he plotted to overturn the results of the 2020 election, rejecting the former president’s claims that he is immune from prosecution.
- The decision marks the second time in as many months that judges have spurned Trump’s immunity arguments and held that he can be prosecuted for actions undertaken while in the White House and in the run-up to Jan. 6, 2021, when a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. But it also sets the stage for additional appeals from the Republican ex-president that could reach the U.S. Supreme Court. The trial was originally set for March, but it was postponed last week and the judge didn’t immediately set a new date.
- “We conclude that the interest in criminal accountability, held by both the public and the Executive Branch, outweighs the potential risks of chilling Presidential action and permitting vexatious litigation,” the judges wrote.
- The legally untested question before the court was whether former presidents can be prosecuted after they leave office for actions taken in the White House related to their official duties.
- The Supreme Court has held that presidents are immune from civil liability for official acts, and Trump’s lawyers have for months argued that that protection should be extended to criminal prosecution as well.
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Important Takeaways:
- Deadly storm pummeling California with more than a foot of rain threatens to burst banks of LA River after killing three across state – as flash floods rip through Malibu and cause more than 120 mudslides – putting A-listers homes on red alert
- A deadly Pacific storm, the second ‘Pineapple Express’ weather system to pummel the West Coast in less than a week, dumped torrential rain over Southern California on Monday, leading to streets being flooded and triggering more than 120 mudslides.
- On Monday afternoon, LA Mayor Karen Bass issued a state of emergency declaration because of the flooding.
- President Joe Biden spoke to California Governor Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Bass, pledging to provide federal aid to areas hit hard.
- The deluge raised concerns for the region’s large population of homeless people, many of whom set up encampments along the river and on small dirt outcroppings and brush-covered islands.
- Winds gusting to 75 miles per hour on Sunday downed trees and utility lines across the San Francisco Bay Area and California’s Central Coast, knocking out power to roughly 875,000 homes at the storm’s peak in that region.
- About 215,000 people statewide were without power late on Monday night.
- The greatest flash-flooding threat on Monday centered on Southern California, the NWS said, as the system slowly pivoted and pushed farther into the interior of California, but forecasters said ‘catastrophic’ impacts were unlikely.
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Important Takeaways:
- US Propaganda Machine Panicking Tucker Carlson Will Continue Objective Reporting in Russia
- The prominent American political commentator previously claimed his efforts to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin made him a target of US government surveillance, undermining ‘official’ narratives about the “boogeyman” leader.
- Maverick US journalist Tucker Carlson has raised eyebrows after being spotted in Moscow this week, with observers speculating Carlson has arrived to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin.
- “The fact that this targeting [of Carlson] is happening in the way it is happening now signifies a fear from the United States,” said Isabel. “They are fearful of a conversation that somebody like Tucker Carlson and Vladimir Putin could have because Tucker Carlson did leave Fox [News]. And since he did leave Fox, so much has happened in the world where, as you all were talking about before, there are major escalations, not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but also obviously with Iran via Israel-Palestine and via, of course, Ukraine.”
- “…So I think that’s why at this pivotal moment, the powers that be are extremely afraid of this interview, to the point where they’re saying that they’re going to go after Tucker Carlson in a legal way for simply being here and trying to attempt to do journalism.”
- “They have gone so far off from what journalism was supposed to be that they don’t recognize that this is actually what you’re supposed to do, talk to adversarial figures or people that you may disagree with,” noted the analyst.
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Important Takeaways:
- Hamas Manual Shows Bomb-Making From Medical Supplies; Ambassador Criticizes Kremlin For Being Too Friendly With Hamas
- Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip recently discovered a Hamas manual with detailed instructions on how to produce bombs from medical equipment.
- The huge number of files and documents specifically include instructions on using Hydrogen Peroxide, a regular hospital substance, as a key ingredient in producing explosives and rocket propellant material.
- The Iranian-backed terrorist organization has a long history of exploiting dual purpose materials as key components in its production of weapons and terror infrastructure. For instance, the vast tunnel network, dubbed “Gaza Metro,” was largely produced through the terrorists’ large-scale confiscation of cement that was officially earmarked for the construction of civilian structures, such as hospitals and schools.
- Hamas’ indigenous arms production capabilities have been boosted by individuals within its ranks with an engineering background and innovative skills. Due to the strict military blockade imposed by Israel and Egypt after the violent Hamas takeover in Gaza in 2007, much of the group’s rocket arsenal is produced from water pipes and streetlight poles.
- The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, an Israeli security think tank based in Jerusalem, assessed in 2021 that Hamas had already developed significant local weapons production capabilities inside the Gaza Strip:
- “The terrorist group (Hamas) was no longer a force fighting an asymmetrical war with asymmetrical tactics and weapons. Hamas is now manufacturing a large part of its own weapons, expanding its research, and developing drones and unmanned underwater vehicles, engaging in cyber warfare, and on the cusp of graduating from unguided rockets to precision GPS-guided drones and missiles.”
- Hamas’s local weapons production is further supplemented with external weapons deliveries, mainly from its patron, the Iranian regime.
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Important Takeaways:
- How the Houthis could get revenge on the U.S. for airstrikes by cutting a FIFTH of the world’s internet
- Iranian-backed Houthi militants in Yemen could try to sabotage internet cables in the Red Sea carrying nearly one fifth of the world’s web traffic, according to a spate of new warnings.
- Yemen’s government warned that the Red Sea is ‘one of the three most important meeting points for cables’ on the globe and the Houthis pose a ‘serious threat to one of the most important digital infrastructures in the world.’
- It came after a Houthi social media channel published a map showing the routes of various cables through the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea.
- The map was accompanied with the ominous message: ‘It seems that Yemen is in a strategic location, as internet lines that connect entire continents – not only countries – pass near it.’
- The average depth of the Red Sea is 450 meters but some are at depths of as little as 100 meters.
- There are 16 cables passing through including a sprawling 15,000-mile long one called Asia Africa Europe-1 (AAE-1) which supplies broadband to Asia and Europe.
- It connects a litany of countries including France, Italy and Greece, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia, India and Pakistan.
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Important Takeaways:
- Catastrophic flooding swamps Los Angeles area as deadly atmospheric river slams California
- NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center has placed about 14 million people in Southern California, including Los Angeles, under a rare “high risk” of flash flooding as the storm has already dumped several inches of rain, with much more to come.
- The “high risk” is the highest rung on NOAA’s flash flood threat scale and is only issued under the most dire of flooding forecasts. “Life-threatening flash and urban flash flooding possible in the high risk area,” the WPC said.
- Los Angeles picked up 4.10 inches of rain on Sunday, which far exceeded the daily rainfall record for that date set in 1927, which was 2.55 inches.
- California Gov. Gavin Newsom declared a State of Emergency for several counties in California to help support storm response and recovery efforts.
- The state had mobilized and prepositioned a record 8,500 emergency responders ready to respond to flooding, landslides and travel emergencies, according to the governor’s office.
- The State of Emergency included Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.
- The atmospheric river storm had also prompted emergency officials in several areas to order evacuations and open emergency shelters for residents.
- Several schools in the area were also closed because of the extreme weather event
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Important Takeaways:
- A winter storm brought intense downpours and strong winds to California on Sunday, leaving hundreds of thousands without power and flooding roadways across the state.
- According to Accuweather, up to 37 million people, or about 94% of the state’s population, were at risk for life-threatening floods from the storm.
- The National Weather Service issued a rare hurricane-force wind warning for the central coast on Sunday as wind gusts up to 92 mph were possible from the Monterey Peninsula to the northern section of San Luis Obispo County.
- The atmospheric river was the second to hit the state in just a few days, although forecasters said Sunday’s storm would be the season’s most potent, particularly in Southern California.
- Evacuation warnings and orders were in effect for Santa Barbara, Los Angeles, Ventura and Monterey counties
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Important Takeaways:
- Intellizence offers the latest Layoffs, Downsizing, Job Cuts, and Hiring Freeze data for market intelligence, customer intelligence, sales intelligence, and risk intelligence activities. We monitor public sources like news and WARN filings for the latest layoff and hiring freeze announcements. We aggregate, de-duplicate, normalize, and deliver the curated layoff data through API and Web dashboard.
- Major Layoffs and Hiring Freezes in 2023 & 2024
- Microsoft
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1900
- Lloyds Banking Group
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1600
- Valeo
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1150
- Industry: Automobile
- eBay
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Corning Inc.
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Salesforce
- of Employees to be Laid off: 700
- Industry: Technology
- Tata Steel
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2800
- Macy’s
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- Wayfair
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1650
- Bosch
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1200
- Citi Group
- of Employees to be Laid off: 20,000
- Google
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Industry: Technology
- Unity Software
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1800
- Industry: Technology
- GDI Integrated Facilities Services
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1867
- Industry: Consumer Services
- Twitch
- of Employees to be Laid off: 500
- Industry: Media
- Telefonica
- of Employees to be Laid off: 3421
- Industry: Telecommunication
- Enphase Energy
- of Employees to be Laid off: 340
- Industry: Energy & Utilities
- Johnsonville
- of Employees to be Laid off: 400
- Industry: Consumer Products
- Xerox
- of Employees to be Laid off: 15% of Workforce
- Industry: IT Services & Outsourcing
- Earth
- of Employees to be Laid off: 20% of Workforce
- Industry: Automobile
- Google
- of Employees to be Laid off: 30,000
- Telefonica
- of Employees to be Laid off: 3,400
- Industry: Telecommunication
- Paytm
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Industry: Technology
- PT Waskita Karya
- of Employees to be Laid off: 500
- Industry: Construction
- Agilent Technologies
- of Employees to be Laid off: 400
- ShareChat
- of Employees to be Laid off: 200
- Industry: Technology
- Hasbro
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1100
- Industry: Retail
- State Street Corp.
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1500
- Industry: Financial Services
- General Motors
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1300
- Alitalia
- of Employees to be Laid off: 3000
- Industry: Aviation
- Spotify
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1500
- Industry: Media & Entertainment
- Guangzhou Automobile Group Honda
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- Industry: Automobile
- CBC/ Radio Canada
- of Employees to be Laid off: 600
- Industry: Media & Entertainment
- Capita
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- Industry: IT Services & Outsourcing
- Nien Hsing Textile Co.
- of Employees to be Laid off: 700
- Industry: Textiles
- Surefox North America
- of Employees to be Laid off: 386
- Industry: Security
- Stellantis
- of Employees to be Laid off: 6400 (buyout)
- Industry: Automobile
- HannesBrands
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1592
- Alstom
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1500
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Embracer Group
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- Industry: Technology
- Maersk
- of Employees to be Laid off: 10,000
- Industry: Shipping & Ports
- Block
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Industry: Technology
- Pico Interactive
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- Industry: Technology
- Viasat
- of Employees to be Laid off: 800
- Industry: Telecommunication
- Charles Schwab
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- TVA Group
- of Employees to be Laid off: 500
- Splunk
- of Employees to be Laid off: 560
- Pfizer
- of Employees to be Laid off: 800
- VW Group
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- British Steel
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- AGCO
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900 (Furlough)
- Industry: Manufacturing
- Fox Fashion
- of Employees to be Laid off: 50% of Employees (Furlough)
- AMD
- of Employees to be Laid off: 450
- Nokia
- of Employees to be Laid off: 14000
- Rolls-Royce
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2500
- International Paper
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- LinkedIn
- of Employees to be Laid off: 668
- Qualcomm
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1260 (2.5% of the workforce)
- Sana Biotechnology
- of Employees to be Laid off: 29% of the workforce
- Industry: Healthcare
- Stellantis
- of Employees to be Laid off: 700
- Qualtrics
- of Employees to be Laid off: 780 (14% of the workforce)
- Hopper
- of Employees to be Laid off: 30% of Workforce
- General Motors and Ford Motor
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- Pushkin Industries
- of Employees to be Laid off: 30% of Workforce
- Byju’s
- of Employees to be Laid off: 5000
- Centene Corp.
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- Epic Games
- of Employees to be Laid off: 830
- Airtable
- of Employees to be Laid off: 27% of Employees
- Deloitte UK
- of Employees to be Laid off: 800 (3% of Employees)
- Ford
- of Employees to be Laid off: 600
- Goodyear
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1200
- Slalom Consulting
- of Employees to be Laid off: 900
- Roku
- of Employees to be Laid off: 10% of its Employees
- Wilko
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1300
- Tyson Foods
- of Employees to be Laid off: 4600
- Farmers Insurance
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2400 (11% of Employees)
- T-Mobile
- of Employees to be Laid off: 5000
- Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1800
- GM
- of Employees to be Laid off: 936
- Giant Foods
- of Employees to be Laid off: 400
- Matheson
- of Employees to be Laid off: 335
- Klaussner Furniture Industries
- of Employees to be Laid off: 800
- Cano Health
- of Employees to be Laid off: 700
- Credit Suisse
- of Employees to be Laid off: 80% of Employees
- Emergent BioSolutions
- of Employees to be Laid off: 400
- Yellow Corp
- of Employees to be Laid off: 30000
- Telus
- of Employees to be Laid off: 6000
- CVS Health
- of Employees to be Laid off: 5000
- BCE
- of Employees to be Laid off: 5000
- AT&T
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Accenture
- of Employees to be Laid off: 890
- Ericsson
- of Employees to be Laid off: 750
- Microsoft
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Lendlease
- of Employees to be Laid off: 750
- Regina Miracle
- of Employees to be Laid off: 8400
- Amdocs
- of Employees to be Laid off: 2000
- Viaplay
- of Employees to be Laid off: 1000
- Wall Green Boots
- of Employees to be Laid off: 393
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Important Takeaways:
- Putin’s threat to civilian airlines: Top secret Russian electronic weapon ‘based in Kaliningrad’ is jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence fears
- A top secret Russian electronic weapon allegedly based in Kaliningrad has been jamming GPS technology on flights and ships across the eastern flank of NATO, Western intelligence services fear.
- There has been disruption to the GPS guidance of air and sea traffic in Finland, the Baltic states and Poland, according to Estonia’s military chief.
- ‘What we have seen is a malfunctioning of GPS for ships and air traffic,’ General Martin Harem, commander of the Estonian Defense Forces, told the Telegraph.
- ‘And we really do not know if they [Russia] want to achieve something or just practice and test their equipment.’
- The suspected electronic weapon causing these disruptions is likely based in Russia’s military site in Kaliningrad, sitting between Lithuania and Poland, according to Western intelligence findings.
- Experts warned that if the same happens to ships, they could collide due to not being able to see each other on navigation systems.
- Gen Harem said: ‘Whatever they [Russia] do here, one aim is to degrade our stability, self-confidence, our trust to the West, unity and cohesion.’
- This comes as a shelling attack has today killed at least 28 people at a bakery in the Russian-occupied city of Lysychansk, Moscow-installed officials have said.
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