Interesting Reads for Monday, 16 January 2016: Big Ben Secrets, Trump™ in Russia, Primate Straws and More . . . .

How Does Big Ben Keep Accurate Time?   (youtube)

Primate tool-use: Chimpanzees make drinking sticks     (BBC)

California begins to emerge from its five-year drought      (PBS)

Common crop chemical leaves bees susceptible to deadly viruses   (Eureklert)

20 dividend stocks with yields up to 7.5% - and these companies are set for sales and earnings gains

(Marketwatch) 

America's 10 Most Favorite Liquors    
(24/7 Wall Street)

China threatens to "take off the gloves" if Trump continues to push them on Taiwan 
(TIME)  

For Trump™, 3 decades of chasing deals in Russia     (New York Times)

Motley Fool Poster Suggests "Trump: Kremlin Employee of the Month"     

(Motley Fool)

Scottish humour! A Scottish newspaper's TV listing of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration has caught people's attention both in the UK and the US    (BBC)

Tom Tomorrow Cartoon: The Unbelievable Baby-Man    (Daily Kos)

Willie Nelson's new Trump™-inspired song is titled "Delete and Fast Forward"    

(Rolling Stone)    

Berlin unloads on Trump™    (The Guardian)

Russia/Exxon strike oil in the vast Arctic

Rolling Stone Magazine: "Inside The Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire`

Occupy Central in Hong Kong has entered Day 2 and has now grown to 50,000 civil disobedient protesters

The Automatic Earth: The US has no banking regulation and it doesn't want any

Grant Williams' Latest

New York Times: "China's Rapid Growth Hits The Brakes" 

Euan Mearns (late of "The Oil Drum") breaks down energy production/exports in Russia

New York Times: "Low-Wage Workers Are Finding Poverty Harder to Escape"

Youtube Link for Documentary Film "Death By China" 

13 Years After Defects Were Known, New CEO of GM Says She Was Not Aware Of Them Until January 31, 2014 - Two Weeks After She'd Taken Over 

Canada finance minister resigns, natural resources minister set to take over

Chinese Central Bank denies it took part in emergency talks to save collapsed developer

Short Sellers Come Out Of The Dark To Target Chinese Developers

Charles Hugh Smith: "The Five Year Fantasy Is Ending" 

NASA: Bursting Cloud of Solar Material Measured at a Speed of 1800 Miles Per Second

Mississippi, The Poorest State, Will Spend Money Testing Welfare Recipients For Drugs

The Big Picture Blog Posts Photos Of The Search For Missing Flight MH370, Family Members, Concerned Civilians

Andrew Bailey: 'UK banks must brace themselves for euro break-up'

Eurogeddon: Death of a Currency

Record hoarding of gold after forced sales at MF probably mean the yellow metal will go up this week

Totally Corrupt America - A review of Gretchen Morgenson's new book "Reckless Endangerment" by Paul Craig Roberts

Jim Rogers says the recent hit to precious metals is due to the forced liquidation of commodities by the MF Global downfall

New website launches for OWS news, called owsnews.org

Brazil to become net importer of US Ethanol

Russia lends Vietnam $9 Billion for its first nuclear plant

Cheniere signs second 20 year export pact in the past three weeks for American natural gas

Adbusters: "The End Of The Consumerist Model"

Turkmenistan will boost natural gas deliveries to energy-hungry China by two-thirds

Barclays Capital says the IEA's prediction of Chinese oil use is grossly underweighted

Charles Hugh Smith: "Default Is Not The End Of The World"

The Next Crisis In Residential Mortgages

The Waste of War

Paul Krugman: We are firmly on track for a "Lost Decade"

While Molotov cocktails burn on Athens’ streets, more vitriolic battles yet are blazing over Greece’s debt crisis behind the scenes, as financial markets and eurozone politicians fight their ground

Too Big To Fail Part Whatever: A Greek default would raise "havoc" with banks which helped bail out Greece over a year ago

Big British Banks Are Abandoning The Eurozone

Why Greece should just go ahead and default using Russia as its model

Russia Holds Key Lessons for Greece on Default: Roland Nash

Business Week says Herman Cain did not do such a bang up turnaround job at Godfather Pizza