Our 132nd Current Events
RoundTable Show
Zoom – Recorded on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, at 5 PM (UTC-8)
EVENTS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
Happy Thanksgiving
Irene Cara, ‘Fame’ Star and ‘Flashdance’ Singer, Dead at 63 80s hit, ‘Flashdance… What a Feeling,’ which earned her an Oscar and GRAMMY award. ‘Sparkle’ and ‘Fame.’
Fleetwood Mac’s Christine McVie Dies At 79
Marty Hom, Jake Berry, Charlie Hernandez and Stuart Ross on a Touring Conference at Rock Litiz on December 7 , 8 & 9 2022
World Cup 1-0
Ahead of remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell later, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard repeated his call for additional rate hikes to a level that will restrict economic growth. In an article posted online on Tuesday, Bullard said estimates show a rate of at least 4.9% would be needed. Fed officials have signaled they plan to raise their benchmark rate by 50 basis points at their final meeting of the year on Dec. 13-14, after four successive 75 basis-point hikes have lifted it to a 3.75% to 4% target range.
That was the final score of the highly anticipated World Cup match Tuesday between the US and Iran,
Taylor Swift – Justice Department Investigating Live Nation Entertainment Over Monopoly Concerns:
Senate Panel Plans Ticketmaster Probe The United States Senate’s Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy,
Metallica Unveils ‘M72 World
Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and fellow group member Kelly Meggs were found guilty of seditious conspiracy
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West reach a divorce settlement
West, who legally changed his name to Ye, is on the hook to pay Kardashian $200,000 per month in child support
The House will vote today on legislation to avert a potentially devastating freight rail strike.
Webb telescope finds two of the most distant galaxies ever observed – has spied one of the earliest galaxies formed after the big bang, about 350 million years after the universe began.
https://cnn.com/2022/11/17/world/webb-telescope-early-galaxies-scn/index.html
The experimental drug lecanemab appears to slow the progression of Alzheimer’s disease, according to new clinical trial results, but the findings have raised some safety concerns. The results of the trial data showed the drug appeared to slow the progression of cognitive decline by about 27% — but 14% of the trial participants who received lecanemab experienced certain serious adverse events, such as brain swelling and brain bleeding. The Alzheimer’s Association said in a statement that it welcomes and is further encouraged by the full Phase 3 data. The drugmakers aims to file for approval of lecanemab in the US by the end of March.
Tunnel discovered beneath Egyptian temple may lead to Cleopatra’s tomb, archaeologist says- athleen Martinez, an archaeologist at the University of Santo Domingo, has been searching for the lost tomb of Cleopatra for nearly 20 years. Now she believes she’s made a pivotal breakthrough.
Martinez and her team uncovered a 1,305-meter (4,281-foot) tunnel, located 13 meters (43 feet) underground, the Egyptian Ministry for Tourism and Antiquities recently announced — an architectural design experts called an “engineering miracle.”
“The excavation revealed a huge religious center with three sanctuaries, a sacred lake, more than 1,500 objects, busts, statues, golden pieces, a huge collection of coins portraying Alexander the Great, Queen Cleopatra and the Ptolemies,” Martinez told CNN.
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/egypt-temple-cleopatra-lost-tomb-scli-intl-scn/index.html
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