Police find a second sex video of Moms for Liberty co-founder

Police have reportedly obtained a second sex video involving Sarasota School Board member Bridget Ziegler and an unidentified woman. Ziegler is the co-founder of the far-right organization Moms for Liberty, and her husband, Christian Ziegler, is the chair of the Florida Republican Party. Police obtained the video as part of its ongoing investigation into allegations that Christian sexually assaulted a woman.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/12/22/2213236/-Police-find-a-second-sex-video-of-Moms-for-Liberty-co-founder

Global debt has hit $307 trillion in 2023. But why does it matter?

Global debt is borrowing by governments, businesses and people, and it’s at dangerously high levels.

The sudden rise in inflation has pushed global debt to new highs.

In the second quarter of 2023, global debt was recorded as $307 trillion, largely driven by developed countries like the US, Japan, the UK and France.

https://theprint.in/economy/global-debt-has-hit-307-trillion-in-2023-but-why-does-it-matter/1897989/

62% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, as holiday spending, credit card debt rise

As the holiday season kicks into high gear, 62% of adults said they are living paycheck to paycheck, according to a new LendingClub report.

Households that are stretched too thin are also more likely to have revolving credit card debt and feel financial distress, the report found.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/12/19/62percent-of-americans-are-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-as-holidays-approach.html

Worse than giving birth’: 700 fall sick after Airbus staff Christmas dinner

A gourmet Christmas dinner for 2,600 workers at the French aerospace group Airbus Atlantic left hundreds of staff sick.

The health authorities have launched an investigation to establish what caused a mass outbreak of gastroenteritis among a reported 700 employees.

The festive feast was organised and provided by the company’s own restaurant at its site at Montoir-de-Bretagne in the Loire-Atlantique region of western France.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/dec/23/airbus-atlantic-staff-christmas-dinner-gastroenteritis-outbreak

California town proposes ban on Pride, Black and women’s history celebrations

Far-right council members in Huntington Beach introduce agenda item to switch focus to US wars and America’s independence

The southern California city of Huntington Beach, a bastion of conservative voters, has made the move to block diverse monthlong celebrations of Black history, women’s history and Pride, in favor of observing the revolutionary and civil wars, California’s history and America’s independence.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/dec/22/california-huntington-beach-ban-diverse-celebrations

The Moon’s Far Side Is Inexplicably More Conductive, Korean Lunar Orbiter Reveals

It’s just one of the intriguing things the Danuri orbiter has revealed that previous missions missed.

here’s something odd about the far side of the Moon, scientists have concluded based on data from the Korean Pathfinder Lunor Orbiter. The results are yet to be published, but suggest a discrepancy between the conductivity of the near and far sides, which so far lacks a plausible explanation.

https://www.iflscience.com/the-moons-far-side-is-inexplicably-more-conductive-korean-lunar-orbiter-reveals-72056

The U.S. Has Returned 30 Artifacts to Greece—From Byzantine Silver to an Aphrodite Statue

Collectively, the pieces are valued at $3.7 million.

A Corinthian helmet and marble statue of Aphrodite are among 30 artifacts repatriated by the United States to Greece during a ceremony on December 15.

The antiquities—which also include breastplates, a Byzantine silver plate, and a bronze chariot attachment—were recovered by Homeland Security Investigations, the investigative arm of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, with the office of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-repatriates-30-artifacts-to-greece-2410036