Last night was date night with the little lady, so if I have to suffer, so should the world. Drinking is like hitting your thumb with a hammer, it feels so good when you stop.

Why You Should Be Skeptical Of That $5.4 Billion Deutsche Settlement (CNBC)

A Deutsche Bank Settlement Rumor Overshadows US Equities (R.)

Deutsche Bank Takes a Lashing From the German Public (WSJ)

Global Trade Crashes Back To “Very Old Normal” (ZH)

Global Corporate Default Tally By Far Highest Since 2009 (Barron’s)

US Consumer Spending Drops, Clouds Fed Rate Hike Outlook (R.)

Bundesbank President Rejects Calls for German Stimulus (WSJ)

Record Numbers Left Homeless After Eviction By Private Landlords In UK (G.)

Elephants Have Learned To Avoid Poachers By Hanging Out With Rangers (Konbini)

France and Britain just beat Donald Trump to building a border wall

Neonicotinoid insecticides linked to wild bee decline across England

Canada approves $36 billion LNG ‘carbon bomb’ on B.C. coast

Niger killer-drone base to become ‘major hub’ ensuring US strategic grip on Africa

Danish Party distributes ‘anti-refugee’ spray to women, what could possibly go wrong?

Propaganda Hides Climate Change From the Public

Tensions Over Dakota Access Pipeline Intensify in Wake of Police Raid

President Obama: ‘Patron’ of the Israeli Occupation

‘I stopped Netanyahu from catastrophic attack on Iran’ – Peres’ statement concealed ‘til death

Aleppo Resident: ‘In A Few Days, We Will Run Out Of Everything’

50 asylum-seekers stage riot, attack guards at refugee center in Berlin

German mayor who wanted to accept more refugees beaten up ‘in xenophobic attack’

US and EU Sanctions Are Devastating Syrian Civilians

Strange Deaths of JPMorgan Workers Continue

Seven Popular Foods That Might Disappear Because of Climate Change

The Super-Rich Are Cruising the Arctic’s New Passageway as the World Burns

Reservoirs Account For 1.3% Of Emissions

A rift tearing across the Larsen C ice shelf could usher in a period of retreat and the shelf’s eventual demise

U.S. uses more gasoline than ever

Chelsea Clinton Takes Private Jet To Clean Energy Conference

Forget Paris, Scientists Say ‘Radical Change’ Only Way to Stay Below 2 Degrees